On Friday night at Purdue, Elijah Brown replaced injured Demond Williams Jr. as the University of Washington starting quarterback, though early on it almost felt like Sam Darnold had pulled on a Husky jersey.
Yet unlike the Seahawks signal-caller and his well-documented careless play the night before in Denver, Brown survived a pair of first-quarter interceptions and a third one in the second half and guided the Huskies to a convincing 38-26 victory at Ross-Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Most off all, the fill-in signal-caller stepped up as the central figure for the UW (4-3 overall, 1-3 Big Ten) to stop the season-long bleeding, end a three-game losing streak and beat a Power 4 team for the first time this season…