Washington moved from No. 27 to No. 21 in the 247Sports Recruiting Rankings with a Friday night commitment from the nation’s top-ranked athlete per 247Sports in Salvon Ahmed.

The 6-foot, 185-pound Ahmed chose to play for the in-state Huskies over an offer list that included Notre Dame, Oregon, Stanford and USC.

247Sports bills the Kirkland (Wash.) Juanita athlete as the No. 2 recruit in Washington state and the nation’s No. 64 player overall. The industry-generated 247Sports Composite also thinks highly of Ahmed ranking him at No. 98 nationally.

Washington secured one of the country’s most explosive and quickest players in Ahmed, who over the summer at The Opening Finals, a prestigious invite only event for the nation’s top football prospects held at the Nike World Headquarters in Oregon, ran a 4.32 laser-timed 40-yard dash with a 4.04 shuttle and a 35-7 inch vertical leap. That 40-time tied for first at the event.

Ahmed has traits to be a difference maker on both sides of the ball in college football.

Certainly on offense you can give Ahmed the ball as a running back who has the juice in the open field to pull away from defenders. He sees a crease and he’s gone. With his quickness he can Houdini defenders in space and once he makes a man miss he has a chance to go the distance. He can be a nightmare to corral. Washington can line him up in the backfield, in the slot, and be creative in getting him the football.

Defensively Ahmed has characteristics coveted in a corner with the fantastic speed and change of direction.

With Ahmed in the boat Washington is up to 13 commits, with five that rank inside the Top247.