Second-year running back Quaid Carr will be splitting reps with experienced running backs Jayden Limar and Trey Cooley.
SEATTLE — The Washington Huskies football team approached this offseason entered this offseason with several questions pertaining to starting roles on the offense this season.
Those questions were answered upon the team's release of its official depth chart for Sunday's season-opener in the Apple Cup against the Washington State Cougars.
One of the positions still in question entering the offseason was the starting running back position. According to the depth chart, second-year running back Quaid Carr will be getting the starting reps.
Carr was thrusted into the starting role in the spring after third-year running back Jordan Washington went down with a neck injury. Veteran transfer portal additions, fourth-year Jayden Limar (Oregon Ducks) and sixth-year Trey Cooley (Troy Trojans) were both out for the entirety of spring due to respective recoveries from injuries last season.
Limar and Cooley returned healthy for training camp and were listed as the second and third running backs on the depth chart, respectively, behind Carr.
Regardless of who won the starting job, there were questions over how the team would use them compared to their former starting running back, Jonah Coleman, who was selected in the fourth round of the 2026 NFL Draft by the Denver Broncos.
Coleman received 349 carries in his two seasons with the Huskies and, when healthy, was the bellcow of Washington's offense.
According to head coach Jedd Fisch in a weekly news conference Monday, Carr isn't expected to get that much of a workload, at least not right away.
"Quaid, Jayden and Trey will all get significant work," Fisch said Monday. "Quaid has certainly earned the starting role based on all of the reps he took in the spring, all the reps he took in training camp and really being the lead back. ... We're gonna have to figure out a rotation, probably much more a by-committee than we did with Jonah last year."
All three running backs bring different skillsets to the offense, which will likely help the team run a variety of packages until one running back stands out among the rest.
Limar came to Washington after three years as a backup at Oregon, where he finished with 95 carries for 442 yards and four touchdowns and caught 20 catches for 207 yards and another score.
Cooley, in four years with Georgia Tech and Louisville (he didn't take a snap last season with Troy due to a knee injury he suffered in preseason practice) totaled 215 carries for 1,009 yards and six touchdowns. He reeled in 33 passes for 355 yards and four touchdowns.
Carr, in his true freshman season last year, appeared in two games and ran four times for 14 yards and caught another pass for five yards.
