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"Ohio State has always been kind of a dream for me," Martinez told BuckeyeGrove.com. "I went to their football camps when I was a little kid, so it's just something that grew on me. Of course they have proven to have success every year and they always put guys in the league."
"Pretty much everyone was recruiting me at receiver but Ohio State was the one school that said athlete and that I could pick either side of the ball," Martinez explained. "Not a lot of schools have given me the opportunity to play both sides so to be able to go to a place that has so many great athletes and maybe have success on both sides of the ball, that's really big."
"The thing about maybe playing defense at Ohio State is that they don't have a guy yet for that bullet position," Martinez explained. "They're putting in a new defense and coach Hafley said that they need some guys to play that bullet position. But also with coach Hartline, the H position is a position that they've had a lot of success with. They have their outside guys and now they're looking for an inside guy. So I just fit the spots that they're looking to fill up. I fit the bill for both of them."
"Coach Hafley got there and he was only there for like two months so they offered me kind of late," he explained. "Our relationship has just gotten really strong, not just with him but also with coach Hartline and coach Day. But my relationship with coach Hafley got really strong really quick. Throughout this process he was a coach that I built one of the best relationships with. I'm a big relationship guy, it really does start there."
Martinez is one of the most versatile athletes that will commit to Ohio State in the 2020 class. He’s been named All-State every year he’s played Varsity at Muskegon High School because he works from the quarterback position and makes plays primarily on the ground.
He set several Muskegon records in 2018, when he carried the ball 254 times for 2,527 rushing yards and 38 rushing touchdowns. He won’t play quarterback at the collegiate level, but he is the smartest and most athletic player on his team. Much of his contribution to Muskegon is improvised running around the field making entire defenses chase him.
Cam Martinez is a guy teams want to have on their team. He’s a solid locker room guy and can fit into nearly any positional group he’s placed into. The quality that jumps out about Martinez is his natural ability to lead and the comfort he has in being himself on a football field.