Cal Bears land four-star quarterback Jaron Keawe Sagapolutele, a top prospect with NFL potential, filling the void left by Fernando Mendoza's transfer. Sagapolutele's arrival is seen as a crucial boost for the program aiming for success in the ACC.
The generational quarterbacks who played for Cal in the past quarter century followed disparate paths to Berkeley. Aaron Rodgers was discovered by accident while the coaching staff scouted his junior college teammate. Jared Goff seemed destined for Cal all along as the son of a former Bears baseball player.
He’s inarguably the solution to the void created last month when starting quarterback Fernando Mendoza entered the transfer portal. “It took until the eighth year of Justin Wilcox’s time in Berkeley to land easily his most significant recruit,” 247Sports recruiting analyst Brandon Huffman told the Hotline .
Everything happened in a blink, except for Cal’s relationship with Sagapolutele. That began years ago, when running backs coach Aristotle Thompson attended a 7-on-7 tournament in Las Vegas, spotted a young quarterback with a big arm and passed along the information to Marshall Cherrington, Cal’s director of player personnel.
The Bears were impressed with Sagapolutele’s development, but not to the exclusion of all other quarterbacks in the high school class of 2025. They pursued Robert McDaniel, a four-star prospect from Central California, as well. When McDaniel committed to Arizona in late May — he has since signed with UCLA — the Bears turned their full attention to Sagapolutele.All was well through the summer, then trouble surfaced for the Bears in the form of Sagapolutele’s senior season.
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