Five-star 2020 linebacker Sav'ell Smalls committed to Washington on Friday during the Under Armor game jersey presentation at his school.

Smalls, a product of Kennedy (Burien, Wa.) chose the Huskies over Alabama, Florida State, Tennessee, Oregon and Washington State, his other favorites, as well as offers from Auburn, Cal, Clemson, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Louisville, LSU, Miami, Michigan, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oregon State, Penn State, Stanford, TCU, Texas, Texas A&M, Florida, USC and Utah.

The industry-generated 247Sports Composite considers Smalls to be the No. 9 player in the country. At 6'3", 230, Smalls already has outstanding size and his athleticism is off the charts.

He spent his freshman season with Kennedy before transferring to Garfield where he helped lead the Bulldogs to the state semi-finals as a sophomore in 2017.

After an injury-shortened junior campaign, Smalls decided to transfer back to Kennedy where his high school career began and while he missed the second game of the season due to being in the concussion protocol, he's helped to reshape the Lancers' defense as teams have had to focus on his ability to get pressure off the edge.

It's been a bit of a roller-coaster ride for Husky fans when it comes to Smalls.

As the process got started for Smalls, back when he was a freshman, Washington appeared to be one of the favorites to land the local standout, but as time progressed he seemed to turn his focus to other schools and earlier this year, he actually eliminated the Huskies, choosing to list six other schools as his favorites.

That began an interesting summer that saw him go back and forth with the decision-making process, but then in July, he added Washington back to his list of favorites and things have been trending in the Huskies' favor ever since.

Smalls is one of the top athletes to ever come out of the state of Washington, on par with such recent players as Foster Sarell, Joshua Garnett, Max Browne, Austin Seferian-Jenkins and Jacob Eason.

Of that group, Seferian-Jenkins was the only player to sign with Washington out of high school.

Eason signed with Georgia, but after a year as the starter and then losing his starting gig after falling to injury, he transferred to Washington and now is the starter for the 3-1 Huskies.

Garnett signed with Stanford and went on to become one of the top linemen in the country and was awarded the Outland Trophy, awarded to the best college football interior lineman, as a senior in 2015.

Sarrell also signed with Stanford and has struggled with injuries while Browne signed with USC, but transferred to Pittsburgh for his senior season in 2017.

Smalls is now the 20th commitment in Washington's 2020 recruiting class and is currently the highest-rated player on the Husky commit list.

We'll have more on Smalls after we get his thoughts on this momentous decision.