Gilbert Perry kicker Christian Zendejas accepted a preferred walk-on offer from Arizona State, before the Sun Devils gave Gilbert Williams Field kicker Brandon Ruiz a scholarship to kick this winter. Ruiz committed to ASU the day after he decommitted from Alabama, then signed in February.
Did that make Zendejas rethink it?
"I talked to him and said, 'We're good, right?' '' said Luis Zendejas, Christian's father, who was one of the greatest kickers to come out of ASU, before kicking in the NFL for the Dallas Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles. "He said, 'I'm a man of my word.