New faces, new places: Cal 2021 roster update
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Last Updated January 14, 2021
Cal’s 2020 season is nearly two months in the rearview mirror now, and while the on-field action (or what little of it there was) is now behind the blue and gold, the team is still busy.
The new year is here, the rains have come and the offseason has arrived, bringing with it a series of difficult questions for fans, players and coaches to answer. Put simply, Cal’s roster has changed plenty since the team last ran out onto a football field.
Three Bears are forging ahead with their futures and have declared for the NFL Draft. Star cornerback Camryn Bynum leads that charge. The talented defender and first-team All-Pac-12 selection opted out of the season and declared for the draft before returning at the announcement of a shortened fall campaign. Bynum is a near-lock to hear his name called out during the third or fourth round. He is rated as a top 150 prospect by both ESPN and C
Jan 12, 2021
BERKELEY – Head coach Justin Wilcox announced Tuesday that defensive back Raymond Woodie III has signed a financial aid agreement to join the Cal football program. Woodie has spent the last two seasons at Florida State after graduating from Florida State University High School in Tallahassee in 2019.
Woodie will join the Cal program this January and be a sophomore in 2021 with three seasons of collegiate eligibility remaining, which includes the additional year of eligibility granted by the NCAA to all fall sports athletes due to the effect of COVID-19 on the 2020 campaign. We are excited to have Raymond join our program, Wilcox said. He is a talented football player and adds significant experience to our defensive backfield. I expect him to have an opportunity to make an immediate impact on our team.