{"id":692613,"date":"2026-06-09T01:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/692613\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T01:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:25:08","slug":"two-way-ath-dillon-sykes-committed-to-utah-and-broke-down-why-he-chose-the-utes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/692613\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-way ATH Dillon Sykes committed to Utah and broke down why he chose the Utes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rancho Cucamonga<\/a> (Calif.) athlete Dillon Sykes<\/a> has committed to Utah<\/a> and broke down why he chose the Utes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sykes is a talented two-way player who can line up at receiver or safety. He prefers the offensive side of the ball and that\u2019s where he was primarily being recruited at.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cUtah recruited me harder than anyone,\u201d Sykes said. \u201cThey have been on me for a long time and I love the coaching staff.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe staff is amazing and the culture they\u2019re building is amazing as well. I have a ton of respect for coach Scalley, he\u2019s big on education and that means a lot to me. I have a lot of great relationships in place so I\u2019m very excited about my decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of those, \u2018great relationships\u2019 was with Ute WR coach Chad Bumphis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cCoach Bump is great,\u201d Sykes said. \u201cWe have been building a relationship for months now and it just keeps getting stronger every time I\u2019m around him. He\u2019s a great coach as well and I can\u2019t wait to play for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sykes took his official visit to Utah over the weekend. He was already a strong lean and the trip pushed the Utes over the top.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really love it at Utah,\u201d Sykes said. \u201cIt feels like home for sure. I like the area a lot and have a strong comfort level on campus and in the city. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe players on the team have always been great with me too. I was treated like family and that\u2019s part of the great culture they have there.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to the Utes, Sykes also officially visited Harvard and Washington State and was set to visit Purdue this coming weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He\u2019s coming off a junior season where he caught 25 passes for 381 yards and five touchdowns. We liked what we saw of Sykes at the Under Armour Next Camp in Los Angeles a few months back and he looks poised for a big breakout senior year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At 6-foot-4, 185 pounds, Sykes is that long, rangy pass catcher quarterbacks love to go because of the huge catch radius. He ran a very solid 4.65-40 and jumped 31\u2033 at the UA Camp and looked very good in the drills and one on ones as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rancho Cucamonga (Calif.) athlete Dillon Sykes has committed to Utah and broke down why he chose the Utes.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[4647,300344,399,398,396,397,300345,99],"class_list":["post-692613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-ca","tag-dillon-sykes-27-rancho-cucamonga","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-rancho-cucamonga-cougars-rancho-cucamonga","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}