Class of 2025 La Cueva High School (New Mexico) quarterback Cameron Dyer is the New Mexico Gatorade Player of the Year and accounted for 46 touchdowns his junior season according to MaxPreps.
But his new home is looking for him to make that play-making ability at another position. He announced hs commitment to Arizona State on Tuesday as a wide receiver, a few days after a visit to Tempe.
“(ASU coaches) made me feel like I’m a jack of all trades,” Dyer said. “I had every position coach talking to me. I’m sure that’s normal for recruits, but the amount of time that they had pretty much every other coach invest in me, it seemed like special.”
Dyer said Utah and Texas Tech were also recruiting him as a safety, but most of the schools that were recruiting him were doing so as a quarterback.
It’s a big change to move from quarterback to wide receiver. ASU receivers coach Hines Ward knows the exact journey Dyer is about to take because he did the same thing when going from high school to college.
“It just made that decision easier,” Dyer said. “It made me more comfortable with it because he’s been in my shoes, and he’s played at a high level. And he’s done with all the things that I’m trying to do.”
Dyer said Ward made him a priority once he was hired to ASU, but Kenny Dillingham was the one leading the charge since they offered him. It took some time to find the exact position he would play, but Dillingham wanted Dyer a part of the program.
“He knew that he told me that he knew that I was just a game changer. ”
Dyer, who stands at 6-foot-4, 200 pounds is also a high-level basketball player and long-jumper. He feels his time away from the gridiron has helped him thrive as a football player.
“The best thing my parents could have done was put me in other sports because I feel like those skills and lessons I learned from those other sports will forever carry with me on the football field.”
Dyer wants to pursue a degree in sports administration and potentially attend Barrett, The Honors College. He wants to stay around the game after he is done playing.
