Oakland Tribune: Morrah's switch fits like glove

Defensive star in high school converts to speedy tight end

By Dave Newhouse, STAFF WRITER

BERKELEY — Cameron Morrah isn't living a masquerade. He can't help how people perceive him as a football player. He knows who he is on the gridiron, even if others projected him differently.  His biography in the Cal media guide reads like a misprint. Morrah, it says, was rated the No.13 strong-side defensive end in the country by Rivals.com when he attended Claremont High.  Defensive end? Then why is Cal playing him at tight end, and talking about him as if he's the Second Coming of John Mackey, not Lawrence Taylor?  "My first (recruiting) tapes from my junior year were all on defense," he said, "because we didn't really throw the ball a lot, and I was playing wide receiver then."

Then Morrah's coach told him if he played tight end, he would be the leading receiver on the team. So Morrah made the switch, began turning heads, and found that catching the ball thrilled him more than sacking quarterbacks.  "I just like running past people and making big plays," he said.  Cal foresees Morrah, a 6-foot-41/2, 245-pound redshirt freshman, becoming its best deep threat at tight end since David Lewis in the early 1980s. Only Morrah is bigger and faster than Lewis, a No.1 pick of the Detroit Lions.

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