It was a fairly quiet NFL Combine media day for Washington cornerbacks Ephesians Prysock and Tacario Davis on Thursday. However, Prysock turned some heads with an endorsement of incoming transfer cornerback Emmanuel ‘Manny’ Karnley. According to Alex Katson of UW Huskies Wire, Prysock predicted Karnley to be in attendance at next year’s combine:
Washington CB Ephesians Prysock said Virginia transfer Emmanuel Karnley is the Husky we'll be talking to at the Combine next year. so I asked him what the Huskies are getting from Karnley: "They're getting a dawg, man" pic.twitter.com/g3vhYqNniD
— alex katson 🇯🇵 (@alexkatson) February 26, 2026
Karnley and Prysock became teammates when the former committed to Fisch’s Arizona Wildcats back in Dec. 2022. The 6-foot-3, 184-pound cornerback redshirted under current Huskies head coach Jedd Fisch in 2023 and started six games as a freshman in 2024.
Karnley then transferred to Virginia for the 2025 season, where he started every game for the 11-3 Cavaliers. Prysock, who started every game for the Wildcats as a sophomore in 2023, transferred to Washington in 2024, where he’d start every game across his junior and senior seasons.
Karnley has two years of eligibility remaining, which adds some significance to Prysock’s prediction. If the fates align and Karnley is invited to next year’s combine, he’ll need to forgo his remaining year of eligibility, and he’d only do that if he played well enough as a junior to ensure a spot in the NFL Draft.
Emmanuel Karnley was the final piece in the puzzle for UW's secondary
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Prysock is clearly a big believer in his former teammate, but he’s not the only one excited about Karnley’s presence on Montlake. When Washington head coach Jedd Fisch was asked about his incoming transfer portal class during a January 14 press conference, Karnley was the first player he spoke about.
“We felt really good about most position groups we had,” Fisch said. “We felt we needed to bring in one more corner that was a starting FBS corner, so we brought in Manny Karnley for that.”
Fisch had been forced to rebuild defensively after losing Prysock and Davis to the draft and cornerback Leroy Bryant to Stanford via the transfer portal. However, following his reunion with Karnley, he appeared to be extremely confident in his 2026 squad.
“[Rylon Dillard-Allen] and Alex McLaughlin will be two of the best safeties in the Big Ten. [With] Dylan Robinson, Manny Karnley, Rahshawn Clark, that’s going to be an outstanding secondary, with a lot of guys trying to get playing time there,” Fisch said.