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Caminong Pulls Out on Husky QB Commitment

The Garfield High prospect changes his mind after Texas A&M visit.

Dan Raley

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EJ Caminong was going to be that hometown hero, that first high-profile Seattle recruit for Kalen DeBoer's program, that University of Washington starting quarterback, and then he wasn't.

The Garfield High School prospect — who never seemed solid on his Husky commitment and kept scheduling visits — on Monday night pulled out of his oral pledge five days before he was supposed to take his official trip to Montlake.

Caminong became the second high school signal-caller in six months to push away from the Huskies before signing a national letter of intent, joining South Dakota prospect Lincoln Kienholz, who flipped to Ohio State in December. 

DeBoer was none too pleased at that time over Kienholz' decision and likely wasn't any happier over this development, though the UW might have pulled back the offer as Caminong kept taking visits.

"When you're committed, you're committed," the coach said last winter.

The 6-foot-2, 195-pound Caminong, who cheered every Husky recruiting development on social media as they happened, made his change of heart public late at night, after visiting Texas A&M over the weekend.

He previously toured Oregon State and has future trips lined up to BYU and California.

Things seemed to change for him after Texas A&M offered him in late March. 

Caminong was a 3-star recruit who committed to the Huskies on Oct. 26 of last year while quarterbacking Garfield to a 5-3 season.

"I plan on recruiting everyone in the state," he said at the time. 

Yet he couldn't recruit himself to the UW.

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DAN RALEY

Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.

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