SEATTLE — It was one run, one carry from 30 yards out on a field next to the Space Needle that made Washington running backs coach Keith Bhonapha raise his eyebrows at Myles Gaskin and think to himself, OK, then, this kid isn’t too small to play at Washington.



It was nine months into the Chris Petersen era at Washington and the second week of the high school football season.



Gaskin already had held a scholarship offer extended to him by Steve Sarkisian, but like every other new coaching staff across the country, the new UW staff needed to re-evaluate the talent and put it through its own lens.



The first impression on paper? Gaskin wasn’t big enough. He was 5 feet 10, 180 pounds (maybe). His growth spurt had stopped in eighth grade.



“I had coached guys that weren’t very big,” Bhonapha said. “I just thought coming to the University of Washington and the Pac-12, I was going to recruit a guy who was going to be a...