BERKELEY – Cornerback Camryn Bynum announced Monday that he is returning to Cal for the 2020 season after previously announcing he intended to forego his fifth-year redshirt senior campaign at Cal in 2020 to focus on his preparation enter the 2021 NFL Draft. Bynum's previous announcement came Sept. 6 when at the time all 2020 Pac-12 games had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic until at least Jan. 1. The Pac-12 reversed course and announced a seven-game conference only season on Sept. 24. The Golden Bears will open their 2020 campaign by hosting Washington on Nov. 7.  

"I ended up declaring [originally] when the season was pushed into the springtime and I wouldn't be able to both play in a season and prepare for an NFL Combine, Senior Bowl and those things," Bynum said. "But now that the season was pushed up to November and December, I didn't see any reason not to play. I'll still have time to train for the Senior Bowl and the NFL Combine on the back end. The best thing for my development right now is to get the reps and be able to actually play football."

Below are notes on Bynum with an extended bio available by clicking on his name.
  
Camryn Bynum, CB, 6-0, 200, Corona, CA (Centennial HS)
– Racked up the preseason honors prior to the 2020 season highlighted by being selected to the Bednarik Award Watch List honoring the nation's top defensive player and Paycom Jim Thorpe Award Watch List recognizing the country's top defensive back, while he was also a first-team (BANG/Jon Wilner, Lindy's) and second-team (Athlon, Phil Steele, Pick Six Previews) All-Pac-12 choice, a SportsPac12 All-California Region pick and a member of the Reese's Senior Bowl Top 250
– Has started each of Cal's 38 games at cornerback for the last three seasons to equal Jake Curhan for the longest current streak of consecutive starts on the team
– Has career totals over the last three campaigns from 2017-19 of 169 tackles, 6.0 tackles for loss (-13 yards), 0.5 sacks (-5 yards), five interceptions, 27 pass breakups and 32 passes defended, with his 27 career pass breakups ranking fifth in school history after redshirting as a 2016 true freshman
– Earned second-team All-Pac-12 honors from the league's coaches as a 2019 junior when he was one of seven Cal players including five on the defensive side of the ball to start all 13 games and was third on the team with a career-high 63 tackles, while also picking up a career-high 3.0 tackles for loss, one interception, and team highs of nine pass breakups and 10 passes defended
– Served as one of Cal's three season captains voted on by his teammates along with Jake Curhan and Evan Weaver as a junior
– Led Cal in both pass breakups and passes defended each of the last three campaigns from 2017-19
– Had a career-high 10 pass breakups and 12 passes defended as a 2018 sophomore when he was an honorable mention All-Pac-12 selection of the league's coaches, while his two interceptions equaled the two he had as a 2017 redshirt freshman when he contributed 58 tackles to rank first on the team for all players other than linebackers and earned Cal's Bob Simmons Award as the squad's Most Valuable Freshman