INDIANAPOLIS -- University of Washington defensive lineman Zion Tupuola-Fetui arrived at the sideline and posed a question to teammate Bralen Trice. "I was like, 'Bralen, you see that?'" Tupuola-Fetui recalled Wednesday at the NFL Scouting Combine.
This Monday night from Houston, the Michigan Wolverines will take on the Washington Huskies in a battle of the only two unbeaten teams in the final version of the four-team FBS playoff.
HEIGHT: 6'4" WEIGHT: 254 HAND: ARM: WINGSPAN: 40-YARD DASH: 3-CONE: SHUTTLE: VERTICAL: BROAD: POSITIVES — Good size and frame for an NFL edge. Also has decent…
In six years of University of Washington glory and agony, from terrorizing opposing quarterbacks to tearing an Achilles tendon, Zion Tupuola-Fetui must have thought he had seen all sides to college football.
The University of Washington football team has the added challenge of being properly motivated to face Washington State in Saturday's Apple Cup while knowing it has a Pac-12 championship game appearance already locked in place.
If everything had gone according to the plan he had coming out of his Hawaiian high school, Zion Tupuola-Fetui would be more than halfway through his rookie contract in the National Football League right now instead of chasing a college national championship.
When he's done with it all, Zion Tupuola-Fetui is a University of Washington football player the fans won't soon forget. Dominant. Hard luck. Personable.
The Washington Huskies' defense had a lot of trouble containing quarterback Caleb Williams and the USC offense, but it made a play when it was needed most. After the Huskies forced a 28-28 tie with 1:18 remaining in the first half, senior edge rusher Zion Tupuola-Fetui stepped up and created a much needed turnover.
Zion Tupuola-Fetui needed five years to get his first win over Oregon, a 37-34 victory at Autzen Stadium last season. The University of Washington edge
In 2021, Zion Tupuola-Fetui was recovering from a ruptured Achilles tendon and unable to travel to Michigan for a Washington football game held in front of crowd of 100,000-plus that didn't go well without him.
A lot of things didn't work out, countless people became ill and activities everywhere ceased abruptly when the pandemic unleashed its fury in 2020. Linebacker
Come kickoff time in less than a month, one University of Washington football player might be hard for fans to recognize on the sideline with his helmet off.
Zion Tupuola-Fetui became a national sensation during the COVID-shortened 2020 season when he recorded seven sacks over the four games Washington played that year.
Washington's defensive line has gotten a lot of hype throughout the offseason thanks to the combination of Bralen Trice and Zion Tupuola-Fetui. Trice was
Washington's coaching staff is pushing hard to upgrade its defensive line in the class of 2024. With the assumption that Bralen Trice and Zion Tupuola-Fetui are both going to be off to the NFL following the 2023 season, there will be a lot of snaps up for grabs in 2024.
For three games in 2020, Zion Tupuola-Fetui was as disruptive as any defensive college football player in the country. His personal bounty: 7 sacks, including
With the pandemic raging, Zion Tupuola-Fetui became a headliner for the University of Washington football team by coming up with an unstoppable seven sacks
Zion Tupuola-Fetui admittedly showed up for the dinner at the University of Washington football banquet, but didn't stick around for the dessert. Oh, did the Husky edge rusher miss out.
Zion Tupuola-Fetui at first felt inadequate. He'd been a first-team All-Pac-12 edge rusher, a third-team AP All-America selection, the national leader in sacks per game and a first-round pick in more than mock draft.
A conversation with Zion Tupuola-Fetui begins in typical fashion, with the weather fully cooperating and this University of Washington edge rusher always entertaining and accommodating to the people crowding around him, all wanting to know what he's thinking.
Zion Tupuola-Fetui was supposed to be back to his old self by now, which was an unblockable and highly disruptive edge rusher, someone who was a first-team, All-Pac-12 selection and a third-team AP All-America choice in 2020.
It took parts of three football seasons, an Achilles tendon rupture, a season-ending concussion, an in-season coaching change and a few shades of multi-hued hair, but the Zion Tupuola-Fetui everyone grew to know and run away from in 2020 finally reappeared against Stanford at Husky Stadium.
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