Education
Washington attended Roger Bacon High School in Saint Bernard, Ohio as a freshman, before transferring to Robert A. Taft Information Technology High School in Cincinnati, Ohio for his final three years.
Washington attended Roger Bacon High School in Saint Bernard, Ohio as a freshman, before transferring to Robert A. Taft Information Technology High School in Cincinnati, Ohio for his final three years.
He had 90 tackles and 23.5 sacks as a senior and 107 tackles and 19 sacks as a junior. Washington was a five-star recruit. He committed to Ohio State University to play college football.
Washington also played basketball in high school.
As a senior he averaged 23.1 points and 14.3 rebounds per game and was named the Gatorade Basketball Player of the Year for Ohio. As a freshman in 2012, Washington played in 10 games.
He recorded nine tackles and three sacks. As a sophomore in 2013, he played in 12 games with five starts and recorded 36 tackles and two sacks.
As a junior in 2014 he started all 14 games, recording 48 tackles and 4.5 sacks.
During the 2015 College Football Playoff National Championship against Oregon, he had three tackles and a sack.