Among the four freshmen cornerbacks for the University of Washington football team, Elijah Durr was the only one who wasn’t originally from California, and consequently he wasn’t as well advertised as the others in the recruiting rankings.
He was a Tacoma kid, from Mount Tahoma High School that stares up at Mount Rainier, making his way up Interstate 5 to Montlake.
“He’s still scratching the surface of what we can see,” Husky cornerbacks coach John Richardson said. “As we’ve seen, he was the Gatorade Player of the Year in the state last year and people didn’t expect that.”…