Danny Scudero, the previous Archbishop Mitty Excessive star who returned house to San Jose State this season and led the nation in receiving yards, is headed to Deion Sanders’ Colorado Buffaloes, in keeping with a number of stories Sunday morning.
Scudero introduced his plans to enter the switch portal final month after a breakout debut season with the Spartans that noticed him catch 88 passes for a nation-leading 1,291 yards. Ten of his catches went for touchdowns.
The departure just isn’t a shock to the Spartans, who added Scudero to their roster final 12 months through the portal in hopes he may assist offset the departure of Nick Nash, who led the nation in receiving yards in 2024. In his season-ending information convention, Spartans head coach Ken Niumatalolo famous how a lot demand there could be for Scudero, and that his program couldn’t compete with Energy 4 colleges similar to Colorado in a bidding struggle.
“When folks throw out the numbers that they do, it’s staggering,” Niumatalolo mentioned. “It gained’t be comparable, however I hope we will put collectively a adequate bundle to not less than make him assume.”
Gamers may start to formally use the portal beginning Friday. ESPN.com was the primary to report on the a Biletnikoff Award semifinalist’s dedication to hitch the Buffaloes. Sanders is trying to reload the Buffaloes following a disappointing 3-9 season, and this system is shedding its high receiver — Omarion Miller — to the switch portal.
Though the portal solely opened two days in the past, as of Sunday morning, Scudero was already the fifth switch to hitch Colorado.
Sanders, the previous two-sport star who gained a Tremendous Bowl with the 49ers, after all, isn’t any stranger to the switch portal. Earlier than the 2024 season, his first in Boulder, Sanders had 86 new gamers, together with a report 53 transfers. That crew went 9–3 and was the Massive 12 convention co-champion.
Scudero transferred to San Jose State earlier than from Sacramento State earlier than final season. The dynamic 5-foot-9, 174-pound broad receiver nonetheless has two seasons of eligibility with the Buffaloes.
He’ll be a part of a Colorado offense that shall be breaking in a brand new quarterback and offensive coordinator. Kaidon Salter, who began 9 video games at quarterback final season, introduced final week he’s leaving school. Julian “JuJu” Lewis, a former five-star recruit, began three video games as a freshman and figures to be the main candidate to run the offense this season. Sanders final month employed former Sacramento State head coach Brennan Marion to run his offense. Marion was an assistant at UNLV when Scudero performed for the Hornets.
Scudero helped Mitty attain the 2022 Division I CCS championship recreation as a senior, catching 19 TD passes with greater than 1,900 receiving yards. He started his school profession at Sacramento State, the place he had 52 receptions for 664 yards and 5 touchdowns as a freshman.
Within the remaining seconds of the primary half to tie the sport 7-7 (after the additional level) in opposition to Serra within the Central Coast Part Division I championship soccer recreation, Friday, Nov. 25, 2022, at San Jose Metropolis School. (Karl Mondon/Bay Space Information Group)
Scudero returned to San Jose with a bang, catching 9 passes for 189 yards and a landing within the opener in opposition to Central Michigan, then had 11 catches for 135 yards and two TDs in a 30-29 loss to Stanford a number of weeks later. He caught 4 touchdowns in opposition to Wyoming — ending the sport with 10 catches for 180 yards — and caught a season-high 12 passes within the Spartans’ penultimate recreation in opposition to San Diego State.
“That was our promote final 12 months to him right now as a result of we had Nick Nash. We informed him ‘come right here and that’s you,’” Niumatalolo informed reporters on the season-ending information convention. “The one good factor this 12 months is not less than we will inform him we have been true to our phrase.”
