2025 four-star Spanaway (Wash.) Bethel linebacker Zaydrius Rainey-Sale speaks after a recent Under Armour Next camp about his interest in the Huskies.
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00:00 >> So, how do you feel you did today?
00:02 So you get the MVP award for linebacker, just another solid day at the office.
00:06 >> Yeah, man, just here to be great for me.
00:09 Another day to get better as a person, as a student athlete,
00:13 just another day to push and get better.
00:15 And I liked it, it came out good.
00:17 >> So what was your well known linebacker set in Washington on the West Coast?
00:21 Is there one part of the game that you still want to improve on going into your
00:24 senior year?
00:25 >> Probably rushing the passer, like against all line.
00:28 That's my biggest focus right now.
00:30 >> So you kind of want to be an all around linebacker, not just an inside guy?
00:33 >> Yeah, I want to be an athlete.
00:34 I want to be where I'm most, I'm used everywhere.
00:37 I want to be like, yeah, that guy on my team that couldn't be a coach put me
00:41 anywhere and I'm dominated.
00:43 Yeah.
00:44 >> Absolutely, man.
00:44 So I know you got a chance to visit Washington earlier in April.
00:47 What was the mindset going in?
00:49 Cuz obviously I know you were coaching the last staff.
00:51 How's it been getting to know Jen Fish and the new staff?
00:53 >> It's been good, man.
00:53 I love the energy.
00:54 It's always funny.
00:55 It's funny.
00:55 I love the feel over here.
00:56 They be making me laugh.
00:58 It's great vibes over there, though.
01:00 >> Which coaches on the new staff have you gotten to build a relationship with?
01:03 I imagine Coach Ball, all of them?
01:04 >> All of them, yeah.
01:05 They're all great coaches.
01:06 >> So how, obviously, adding Steve Belichick as a Belichick name,
01:09 how much, when you saw that, it was like, okay, this new staff is for real?
01:12 >> Yeah, when I seen him and I said, what's up?
01:14 I seen Coach Belichick, I dapped him up in slow motion, it felt like.
01:18 I ain't gonna lie.
01:18 And then he called Bill Belichick, and I didn't know how to, I was kind of scared.
01:22 I was frozen up, you see what I mean?
01:24 >> Were you at that Saturday practice when Bill came up?
01:26 >> Nah, I was the day before, actually.
01:29 [LAUGH] >> Nice.
01:30 >> So I was gonna go the Saturday, but I was like a coaching clinic.
01:34 I'm not even a coach, so I was like, put no point for me to go, so.
01:38 >> Not to go there.
01:39 So where's that general interest out of Washington,
01:41 cuz now you have the official visits there.
01:43 >> It's there.
01:44 My guy's dog, man.
01:46 I might go back, too.
01:47 I might go back.
01:48 >> I was gonna say, cuz you got all five visits set right so far.
01:51 What's your game plan going into these visits?
01:54 Is it these are the five schools you're focused on, or
01:55 these are just kind of the first wave of visits?
01:57 >> Just first wave for me, just something new.
01:59 And I got it all planned out, too.
02:01 I got my pros and cons all written down, too, so yeah.
02:05 >> So if you could, maybe what's some pros and cons of Washington?
02:08 >> I don't know, I don't feel like, I mean, I don't really know.
02:11 >> I got you, I got you.
02:12 >> Yeah. >> So do you have a timeline in terms of
02:14 when you wanna make a decision, or is it- >> July.
02:17 >> July.
02:18 Awesome.