The Washington Huskies football team has been hard at-work this offseason at fine-tuning the coaching staff and roster going into 2026.

The Huskies already made the decision to not have a designated offensive coordinator going into this upcoming season. Jedd Fisch will continue as the primary offensive play-caller, as he has since his first season as a head coach with Arizona in 2021.

Washington made another coaching move Tuesday, this time pertaining to the special teams.

According to a report on "X" from Huskies Wire reporter and Locked On Huskies podcast host Lars Hanson, the Huskies hired Utah State special teams analyst Brett Arkelian to serve as an assistant special teams coach.

Arkelian will take over for former assistant special teams coach Greg Froelich, who left the program to take the special team coordinator job at Bowling Green.

Arkelian will enter his eighth year of coaching in his new role with Washington.

Arkelian began his coaching career as an assistant safeties coach at his alma mater, Tennessee, in 2018.

Since then, Arkelian was a quality assurance specialist at Marshall (2020), director of recruiting at Virginia Tech (2021), an assistant special teams and tight end coach at Rice (2021), two years at UC Davis as special teams and offensive assistant and director of player personnel (2022-23), and had stints at Fresno State (2023-24) and New Mexico (2024) as a special teams coach. 

After Arkelian's hiring, the Huskies' coaching staff is currently comprised of:

Fisch (head coach), Michael Switzer (offensive line), Jordan Paopao (tight end), Kevin Cummings (wide receiver), Scottie Graham (running backs), Matt Cavanaugh (senior offensive assistant), JP Losman (quarterbacks/offensive quality control), Mike Brewster (offensive quality control), Dom Caldwell (offensive quality control), Luke Del Rio (offensive quality control), Jacob Smith (offensive graduate assistant), Kekoa Crawford (offensive graduate assistant), Ryan Walters (defensive coordinator), Jason Kaufusi (run game coordinator and defensive line coach), Brian Odom (inside linebackers coach), John Richardson (secondary coach), Taylor Mays (safeties coach), Aaron Van Horn (outside linebackers coach), Martell Irby (defensive quality control), Ben Ford (defensive quality control), Austin Karr (defensive quality control), Korey Rush (defensive quality control), Chris Petrilli (special teams coordinator), Arkelian (special teams analyst), Tyler Owens (head strength and conditioning coach), Lance Ancar (assistant strength and conditioning coach), Aaron Brosz (assistant strength and conditioning coach), Morris Henry Jr. (assistant strength and conditioning coach) and Cadillac Mitchell (assistant strength and conditioning coach).

Arkelian and the rest of Washington's coaching staff and team will begin the regular season against Washington State at a to-be-determined time on Sept. 5 at Husky Stadium.

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