{"id":354123,"date":"2026-06-10T03:37:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T03:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/354123\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T03:37:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T03:37:24","slug":"minnesota-goes-to-silicon-valley-for-edge-cameron-saunders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/354123\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota goes to Silicon Valley for edge Cameron Saunders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Silicon Valley to the Twin Cities.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose (Calif.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/high-school\/valley-christian-san-jose-27558\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Valley Christian<\/a> edge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/cameron-saunders-281447\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Saunders<\/a> announced his commitment to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/minnesota-golden-gophers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona State had been the leader going in to his visit to Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>But the visit gave Saunders all he needed to know that his future would be in the Big Ten.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/pj-fleck-132460\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PJ Fleck<\/a> and assistant coach CJ Robbins were a big part of that decision as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see the vision in what coach Fleck is doing with the program,\u201d said Saunders. \u201cI love the relationship i have with coach C.J. and I can really see myself under him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saunders said the fit with the defense was also important to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like I fit very well around the defensive line and the team,\u201d said Saunders.<\/p>\n<p>Player development also helped him be confident in his pick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can see my self getting developed well there and them getting me to where I want to be, in the NFL,\u201d said Saunders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From the Silicon Valley to the Twin Cities. San Jose (Calif.) Valley Christian edge Cameron Saunders announced his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[144391,13630,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-354123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-cameron-saunders-27-valley-christian","tag-minnesota-golden-gophers","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}