UPDATED 2/4: Washington Recruiting News and Rumors Thread

• The top recruit in the state of Washington, Budda Baker, has committed to UW live on King 5 TV.

• Big news today, as the #2 prospect in the state - Kaleb McGary - has announced he'll be staying home to play for his childhood favorite Washington Huskies per Marshall Cherrington.

• Huge pickup as the Huskies and Chris Petersen have flipped Naijel Hale, a stud DB out of St. John Bosco, from Arizona.  Rumor has it that Rich Rodriguez threatened to pull Hale's offer if he took an OV.  Hale did take that visit and RichRod carried through on his threat.  Some feel that Hale may have already had his mind made up at that point and, in fact, has been lobbying fellow DB recruit Budda Baker to follow suit.
• Drew Lewis firmed up his commitment to Washington and Coach Petersen

• Washington responds by flipping DE Jaylen Johnson, arguably the Broncos' most impressive recruit.
• Boise State gets some revenge against Washington as they flip TE Chase Blakely tonight according to Justin Hopkins of 247Sports.

• In what could be the first of multiple commits tonight, Greg Biggins is reporting that ATH Sidney Jones has switched his commitment from Utah to Washington.  Jones will most likely play CB.

• The first commit of the weekend is in, and it's Will Dissly, an athletic DE/TE prospect previously committed to Boise State.  He's considered the top prospect this year out of Montana:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Officially committed to the University of Washington <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23GoDawgs&amp;src=hash">#GoDawgs</a></p>&mdash; Will Dissly (@WDissly) <a href="https://twitter.com/WDissly/statuses/427601907519987712">January 27, 2014</a></blockquote>
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• On the eve of another big recruiting weekend, Washington got more good news when WR Dante Pettiscommitted via Twitter
• Chris Petersen and staff, fresh off getting the Pettis commit, is calling on another WR right now:
  

  UW in Sidney Jones living room right now trying to change his mind

  — Joe Torosian (@Joet13b) January 22, 2014

• This weekend's Official Visitors (seek Kirk's more eloquent update right here):
  
  Kalen Ballage, ATH (committed to ASU)
  Kaleb McGary, ATH 
  Tre Watson, RB (committed to Cal)
  Aisea Tongilava, LB (committed to SJSU)
  Will Dissley, DE (committed to BSU)
  Chase Blakely, TE (committed to UW)
  Matt James, OT (committed to UW)
  Drew Lewis, LB (committed to UW)
  Brandon Lewis, DB (committed to UW)

Edit:  Scout.com is now reporting two more visitors for this weekend:

Sidney Jones, CB (committed to Utah)
Jamire Jordan, WR

• In the biggest news of the day, 4-star QB K.J. Carta-Samuels has committed to Washington; he had been a long-time commit to Vanderbilt under Head Coach James Franklin left for Penn State

UW Verbal Commits

• Budda Baker, ATH, 4 Stars (Verbal - 2/4/14)
• Kaleb McGary, OL, 4 Stars (Verbal - 2/3/14)
• Naijiel Hale, DB, 4 Stars (Verbal - 2/1/14)
• Jaylen Johnson, DE, 3 Stars (Verbal - 1/28/14)
• Sidney Jones, CB, 3 Stars (Verbal - 1/27/14)
• Will Dissly, DE, 3 Stars (Verbal - 1/26/14)
• Dante Pettis, WR, 3 Stars (Verbal - 1/23/14)
• K.J. Carta-Samuels, QB, 4 Stars (Verbal - 1/21/14)
• Jomon Dotson, RB, 3 Stars(Verbal - 1/21/14)
• Aaron Chapman, RB, Walk-on (Verbal - 1/21/14)
• Jesse Sosebee,OL, 3 Stars(Verbal - 1/21/14)
• Shane Bowman, DE, 3 Stars (Verbal - 1/20/14)
• Tristan Vizcaino, K, 3 Stars (Verbal - 1/20/14)
  
• Greg Gaines, DT, 3 Stars (Verbal - 1/19/14)
• Brandon Lewis, S, 3 Stars (Verbal - 1/8/14)
• John Turner, OL, 2 Stars (Verbal - 12/27/13)
• Drew Sample, TE, 3 Stars (Verbal - 12/21/13)
• JoJo McIntosh, S, 3 stars (Verbal- 12/17/13)
• Darren Gardenhire, DB, 3 stars (Verbal- 12/16/13)
• Matt James, OT, 3 stars (Verbal- 7/30/13)
• Drew Lewis, S, 3 stars (Verbal- 6/29/13)
• Lavon Washington, S, 3 stars (Verbal- 6/29/13)
• After taking a few days to think about it following his official visit to Seattle, former Colorado commit Jomon Dotson - a RB/DB prospect - decided to instead commit to Washington per Adam Gorney and Marshall Cherrington
• Aaron Chapman, a Bellarmine RB, confirmed today that he has commited to UW as a preferred walk-on per multiple sources.

• As expected, former Boise State commit OL Jesse Sosebee has switched his commitment to the Huskiesper Greg Biggins (and others); he committed to the coaches over the weekend on his visit but wanted to wait a couple of days to be sure of his decision before going public

• Add Dominguez 6'2" WR Donyeh Patterson (3*) to the list of official visitors on Jan 31st per Greg Biggins.
• And on the heels of the Vizcaino news, Shane Bowman has officially flipped to Washington from Oregon State per his Twitter account
• That didn't take long - as Brandon Huffman is reporting, K Tristan Vizcaino has flipped from WSU to Washington; I would expect more good news in the next few days
• And there is this re a classicly molded Petersen OKG. Chapman is a Bellarmine RB who has endured a couple of knee surgeries:
  

  Aaron Chapman has informed me that he will not be Attending #BoiseStateFootball as planned and will be attending at UW. #WalkOnRunningBack

  — Rivals/Blue-Turf.com (@Bleed_BlueTurf) January 20, 2014