Meet the Washington Huskies' 2016 recruiting class

Daniel Bridge-Gadd | Quarterback | Phoenix, AZ

Ratings:

247: 3 stars

Rivals: 3 stars

Scout: 3 stars



Notes: After passing for 4,268 yards and 47 touchdowns his senior season, the 6-foot-2, 200-pound Bridge-Gadd should get a chance to develop playing behind Jake Browning and K.J. Carta-Samuels.

less Daniel Bridge-Gadd | Quarterback | Phoenix, AZ

Ratings:

247: 3 stars

Rivals: 3 stars

Scout: 3 stars



Notes: After passing for 4,268 yards and 47 touchdowns his senior season, the 6-foot-2, 200-pound ... more Image 1 of / 27 Caption Close Meet the Washington Huskies' 2016 recruiting class 1 / 27 Back to Gallery

Washington Huskies head coach Chris Petersen added 18 players to the team's roster on National Signing Day, which Petersen called an "awesome, exciting, uneventful day."

There were very few surprises for Petersen and staff, as each of the 17 players verbally committed before Wednesday signed National Letters of Intent (NLI) to play football for the Huskies. UW also officially added a 2015 signee.

Petersen's third class at UW isn't as big as his first two (which numbered 23 players each), but the Dawgs made up for the size of the class with skill -- at least in the eyes of evaluators -- signing seven consensus four-star recruits as ranked by the major recruiting websites. That's one more than Petersen's first two Husky classes combined.

Petersen's program has relied on contributions from true freshmen like safety Budda Baker, quarterback Jake Browning and running back Myles Gaskin in each of his seasons on Montlake, and though the roster now features fewer glaring holes than the two previous campaigns, 2016 will likely be no different.

"If you are one of the best guys coming in, you're going to play," Petersen told reporters Wednesday.

The class of 2016 certainly has less of a local flavor than earlier classes, with just five players from the state of Washington signing with the Huskies. They made up for it by nabbing some of the best recruits from other Western states, inking seven players from California and two from Arizona.

The class included two early enrollees in Arizona quarterback Daniel Bridge-Gadd and Bellingham safety Taylor Rapp, as well as a 2015 delayed enrollee (or greyshirt) in Houston defensive end Myles Rice.

Check out the newest Huskies in the gallery above, and revisit Petersen's first two classes here and here.

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