Cal football received its third commitment from the 2012 recruiting class when Bryce Treggs, a wide receiver from St. John Bosco High School in Bellflower, Calif., gave a verbal commitment to the Bears on Saturday, according to a number of sources.
Treggs is rated the 13th best wide receiver and No. 102 overall recruit in the class by Scout.com, although ESPN.com ranks him as only the 82nd best wide receiver in the class.
The 5-11, 170-pound Treggs is the son of Brian Treggs, who played for Cal from 1988 through 1991, and was a starting wide receiver for Cal for three seasons. Sports writers can only hope Bryce is as outspoken as his father, who regularly made outlandish predictions about what he was going to do on game day. It was much like the boasts Chad Ochocinco makes in the days leading up to a game. And, like Ochocinco, Treggs always made his boasts with a smile and twinkle in his eye. Brian Treggs provided great quotes for the media, and provided some enjoyment for opposing cornerbacks, who frequently engaged in running conversations with Treggs during the game.
Bryce Treggs sounds much like his father in style too.
Scout.com says Bryce may be the best pure route-runner in the class of 2012, although he does not have exceptional speed. He can catch the ball in traffic and has soft hands. All those things applied to Brian, who put up some big numbers for the Bears and was a member of the 1991 team that beat Clemson in the Citrus Bowl and wound up ranked No. 7 in the country.
You may also recall Treggs was the intended receiver on the final play of the 1991 game against Washington, a 24-17 home loss against a Husky team that would share a national championship that season. The Bears were inside the Huskies' 20-yard line on that final pass from Mike Pawlawski, but Treggs could not come close to making a play on it.
Treggs joins linebacker Michael Barton of De La Salle High School and quarterback Zach Kline of San Ramon Valley High School as the Bears only commited recruits for 2012.
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