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Name: Nakia Watson (Transfer from Wisconsin)
College: Washington State
Number: 25
School Bio/Stats Link: HERE
Height: 5-11 Weight: 216
Position: Pos2: FB/ST
Class/Draft Year: rSr/2024
40 Low: 4.88 40 Time: 4.96 40 High: 4.98
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Data Scout Notes: X-Down to Tryout Tier/Way Slower/89-321-3.6-4 in 23...144-769-5.3-9TD in 22 2023: NAC...2022: HMC...2021: NAC...2020: Transfer from Wisconsin...NAC...PDoak
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Weight: 216
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Dates: 03/27/24
Hand: 09 Arm: 31 3/8
Wingspan: 74 3/4
Height: 5112
Weight: 216
40 Yrd Dash: 4.96
20 Yrd Dash: 2.85
10 Yrd Dash: 1.71
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225 Lb. Bench Reps: 21
Vertical Jump: 30 1/2
Broad Jump: 09'02"
20 Yrd Shuttle: 4.39
3-Cone Drill: 7.35
40 Time Range: 4.94-4.97/Projected: 4.64/**+.32
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Nakia Watson, Washington State, Player News
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2022 ALL-PAC-12 CONFERENCE HONORABLE MENTION: RB Nakia Watson, R-Jr.,...Watson earns his first career all-conference honor after finishing the regular season fifth in the Pac-12 with 12 total touchdowns and 102.6 all-purpose yards-per-game, seventh with 73.6 rushing yards-per-game and tied for ninth with eight rushing touchdowns. The redshirt-junior from Austin, Texas had three 100-yard rushing games (Idaho, at Stanford, Arizona State), forced 36 missed tackles on runs and was third in the Pac-12 with t en runs of 20+yards. - Washington State Football
(DS#84 RB) rSr/2024  RB Nakia Watson, Washington State
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Nakia Watson scored two touchdowns and Washington State intercepted former quarterback Jayden de Laura four times in a 31-20 Pac-12 road victory over Arizona on Saturday. Watson scored on a 4-yard pass from Cameron Ward in the first quarter and on a 2-ya rd run in the second, giving him six scores in the past three games. He finished with 86 all-purpose yards for the Cougars (7-4, 4-4 Pac-12). De Laura, who transferred from WSU in January, was 28 of 46 for 357 yards with a rushing and passing TD. He was the 2021 Pac-12 Offensive Freshman of the Year with the Cougars and threw four TD passes against Arizona (4-7, 2-6) last November. Ward was 25 of 36 for 193 yards and a TD and ran for a season-high 59 yards including a 17-yard TD. He entered the game wit h eight rushing yards all season.WSU led 21-6 at the half and extended that lead by picking off de Laura on three consecutive possessions. Sam Lockett III returned an interception to the Arizona 19, setting up Dean Janikowski's 23-yard field goal with 4:45 left in the third quarter, and Derrick Langford Jr. picked off de Laura and returned it 35 yards for the TD and a 31-6 lead 36 seconds later. Lockett got his second pick with 1:13 left in the third, diving for an overthrow at the WSU 4. The Cou gars went up 7-0 less than four minutes into the game on Watson's TD catch, then made it 14-0 midway through the second quarter on a 17-yard Ward keeper. After Arizona cut the deficit to 18 on a 38-yard Tyler Loop field goal, WSU made it 21-3 on a 2-yard Watson TD run. The Wildcats made it a two-score game at the break with a 47-yard Loop field goal. Arizona failed to score in the first quarter for the first time in 2022, going without a TD in the first half for the first time since last season's finale . Both its TDs came in the fourth quarter, including a 47-yard scoring catch by Dorian Singer, who had nine receptions for 176 yards. - Washington State/AP College Football
(DS#84 RB) rSr/2024 RB Nakia Watson, Washington State
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Nakia Watson ran for 116 yards and three touchdowns as Washington State beat Arizona State 28-18 on Saturday to qualify for a bowl game for the seventh time in the past eight seasons. Cameron Ward completed 22 of 37 passes for 219 yards for Washington St ate (6-4, 3-4 Pac-12), whose defense came in leading the conference in fewest points allowed per game at 20 and managed to stifle the Sun Devils until late in the contest. Watson rushed for a career-high 166 yards last weekend in WSU's 52-14 win at Stanf ord. Emory Jones relieved Trenton Bourguet at quarterback in the first half and completed 15 of 23 passes for 186 yards and two touchdowns for Arizona State (3-7, 2-5), which was playing in chilly and foggy Pullman for the first time since 2015. Xazavian Valladay rushed for 134 yards and a touchdown for the Sun Devils. Washington State scored first, on a 2-yard run up the middle by Watson, midway through the first quarter.Washington State's Leyton Smithson caught a 2-yard touchdown pass from Ward on their next series, but the conversion kick was blocked and the Cougars led 13-0. Watson had a 20-yard run and a 35-yard pass reception on the drive. Washington State drove to the ASU 2 on its next possession, but Ward's pass on fourth down was broken up by Ed Woods and the Cougars turned the ball over on downs. Arizona State punted on its first four drives. Arizona State's fifth drive ended when Bourguet was intercepted by Chau Smith-Wade, who returned the ball to the 4-yard line. Watson bulled over for a touchdown and Smithson caught the conversion pass to give Washington State a 21-0 lead. Jones replaced Bourguet on the next drive, but the Sun Devils punted again. Watson scored his third touchdown of the first half on a 2-yard run on Washington S tate's next drive, and the Cougars led 28-0 at halftime. The Cougars did not score in the second half. - Washington State/AP College Football
(DS#84 RB) rSr/2024 RB Nakia Watson, Washington State
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Nakia Watson scored two touchdowns against his former team as Washington State beat No. 19 Wisconsin 17-14 on Saturday. Watson scored on a 2-yard run in the second quarter and put the Cougars (2-0) ahead for good by turning a short completion into a 31-y ard score with 5:12 left in the third quarter. Watson rushed for 522 yards and five touchdowns at Wisconsin from 2019-20 before transferring. "He represented himself and all the work he's put in," Washington State coach Jake Dickert said. "I'm proud of h im." A game that featured three turnovers by each team and multiple bizarre plays produced a happy homecoming for Dickert.Dickert was born in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, Wisconsin, about 65 miles east of Camp Randall Stadium. Dickert played for Wisconsin-Stevens Point from 2002-06, and about 200 friends and relatives gathered for a pregame tailgate Saturday. "My grandma told me something today, your grandpa would be so proud if my grandpa was still here," Dickert said. "That's a special mom ent. Special people that just know me as Jake Dickert. That's always what we've been. I'm just proud to be able to win this game with all of them here cheering us on." This game featured two separate plays in which one team intercepted a pass and then fu mbled the ball away, creating a first down for the team that threw the pick. Wisconsin (1-1) trailed 17-14 and faced third-and-6 from the Washington State 9 midway through the fourth quarter when defensive tackle Christian Mejia picked off a Graham Mertz pass before losing the football. Wisconsin recovered at the Washington State 20, but a personal foul on Badgers tight end Clay Cundiff after the play pushed them back to the 35. Cundiff then caught a 24-yard pass, but Quinn Roff forced a fumble that Sam Lockett III recovered at the 12 with 5:14 left. Washington State never gave up possession the rest of the way. - Washington State/AP College Football
(DS#84 RB) rSr/2024 RB Nakia Watson, Washington State
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Running back Nakia Watson's time with the University of Wisconsin football program is over. The redshirt sophomore from Austin, Texas, has entered the NCAA transfer portal, a UW official confirmed Friday. 247Sports first reported the news. Watson was a f our-star recruit coming out of Westlake High School in 2018 and redshirted his first season in Madison. He was the backup to Jonathan Taylor in 2019 and gained 331 yards and two touchdowns on 74 carries. He was expected to be one of the lead tailbacks fo r the Badgers this season. But the emergence of Jalen Berger, a four-star freshman running back, cut into Watson's snaps and he was listed as unavailable the last two games of the year. - Journal Sentinel
(DS#84 RB) rSr/2024 RB Nakia Watson, Washington State
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No. 13 Wisconsin was ready, not rusty, in its first game in three weeks. Michigan, meanwhile, looked lost and lifeless in a third straight loss. Nakia Watson and Mason Stokke each scored two touchdowns in the first half, helping the Badgers build a big l ead in a 49-11 rout of the Wolverines on Saturday night. Wisconsin (2-0) returned to competition after canceling two games of its all-Big Ten schedule due to a COVID-19 breakout within the program and rolled past a hapless team. "I'm really proud of the way that everyone kind of worked through what we've gone through," coach Paul Chryst said.The Wolverines (1-3) fell behind 28-0 at halftime, their largest deficit at home since the Big House opened in 1927, and finished with their most lopsided lo ss at home since a 1935 loss to Ohio State. "We were thoroughly beaten in every phase," coach Jim Harbaugh acknowledged after the latest loss dropped Michigan to its worst start since 1967. "We didn't do anything well. We did not play good. We did not co ach good." Early on, it appeared Michigan might put up a fight before getting knocked out in front of friends and family in its mostly empty stadium. - AP College Football
(DS#84 RB) rSr/2024 RB Nakia Watson, Washington State
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