At 5-foot-9 and 170 pounds, Kam Perry certainly isn’t one of the biggest receivers around.
His impact on the Colorado Buffaloes could be huge, however.
Miami (OH) wide receiver Kam Perry (10) in action during an NCAA football game against Notre Dame on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024, in South Bend, Ind. Notre Dame won 28-3. (AP Photo/Mike Buscher)
“I describe my game as pretty much all-around,” Perry said last week after a spring practice. “I know I’m a bit smaller guy, but I feel like I play like 6-foot, 6-1, I like to say.”
One of four incoming transfers to the receiver room, Perry had a breakout season in 2025 at Miami-Ohio, catching 43 passes for 976 yards and six touchdowns, averaging 22.7 yards per catch. Of the 214 players in the FBS with at least 40 catches, he was the only one to average at least 20 yards per catch.
“You can just expect a lot of big plays, lot of great catches,” he said. “I don’t plan on dropping the ball at all, so you all can quote me on that. If I do drop a ball, you all can run back to this interview. But yeah, we’re gonna expect a lot of big plays from not just myself, but everybody in the receiver room.”
Perry began his career at Indiana in 2023, long before the Hoosiers became the best team in the country. Indiana went 3-9 that season, while Perry caught three passes for 22 yards.
In 2024, he transferred to Miami-Ohio and he caught 10 passes for 166 yards.
Following his breakout with the Redhawks last year, Perry comes to CU with one season of eligibility remaining and he joins a receiver room loaded with talent.
The four transfers – Perry, Danny Scudero (San Jose State), DeAndre Moore (Texas) and Ernest Campbell – along with returning Buffs star Joseph Williams combined for 243 catches for 4,049 yards and 32 touchdowns during the 2025 season.
“Expect a lot of big plays,” Perry said. “We’ve got a lot of leaders in the room, not just one, two; like the whole room is a leader. Even the young guys coming up is being leaders as well. So you can expect a lot of big things out of the receiver room.”
Last season, as the Buffs struggled on offense, they were led in the receiver room by Omarion Miller, who had a strong season with 44 catches for 807 yards and eight touchdowns; Williams; and Sincere Brown, with others chipping in.
Williams is back, while Miller is now at Arizona State and Brown has graduated.
Head coach Deion Sanders has no doubt the Buffs have upgraded, however.
“It’s a much better room,” he said. “It’s a room that has accomplished a lot more. It’s a room that’s very unselfish. I love these young men, they blend together, but they got that thing about them, man, that they got it — like they got that thing.
“They’re not jealous of one another, they love to practice, they love to work. … That room to me is tremendously explosive. When we talk about what we lost, make sure you talk about what we gained because we gained a heck of a lot more, I think three times more, than what we may have lost in the process.”
Perry is one of the main reasons for Sanders’ optimism, because the speedster from Atlanta should fit right in with new offensive coordinator Brennan Marion’s Go-Go offense.
With talent and experience, Perry is hoping for a big year.
“I went to Miami and got a couple reps under my belt,” he said. “So now I just bring to Colorado this explosiveness, confidence, the ability to just get open anytime (quarterback JuJu Lewis) needs me or any other quarterback need me.”