Jaxson Kirkland Begins to Reclaim Individual Accolades

Since the Apple Cup, Jaxson Kirkland entered the NFL draft, pulled out of it, had ankle surgery, asked for a waiver to play a sixth season for the University of Washington and received clearance.

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After missing all of spring practice while awaiting an NCAA rubber stamp on his personal situation and recovering from his medical procedure, Kirkland is finally settling in for a last college football hooray.

This week, it became abundantly clear that those in and around the game know that the 6-foot-7, 310-pound Kirkland is back.

The website Conference Commandos ranked Kirkland fourth among the college game’s top 53 offensive tackles, trailing only, in this order, Northwestern’s Peter Skoronski, Baylor’s Connor Galvin and Miami’s Zion Nelson.

Also, Phil Steele’s college football preview released four teams of All-America selections for the coming season and Kirkland is the only UW player involved, turning up on the second-unit offensive line.