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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Miami (Ohio) defensive lineman Kameron Butler (Florence, Ky.) has signed a grant-in-aid with the Virginia football program and will join the Cavalier program for the 2022 season. Butler will be a graduate transfer and has one year of eligibility at UVA.
As a RedHawk, Butler earned All-Mid-American Conference honors the past three seasons and was a first-team selection in 2021 when he totaled 53 tackles and a team-high 14 tackles for loss. Butler also had eight sacks as a senior, forced three fumbles and had one interception. He helped Miami to a 27-14 victory against North Texas in the Frisco Football Classic. The RedHawks’ defense held the Mean Green to 89 rushing yards, well below the team’s pre-bowl average of 246 rushing yards per game.
A sport leadership and management major at Miami, Butler was named to the Academic All-MAC team for the 2021 season.
During the 2020 season, Butler started in all three of Miami’s games and finished the abbreviated season with 16 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss and 2.5 sacks to earn second-team All-MAC honors. In 2019, Butler started all 14 games for the RedHawks and compiled 45 tackles, 14.5 tackles for loss and five sacks. That season he was awarded the team’s Defensive Power Player of the Year honor and named a MAC Distinguished Scholar Athlete and Academic All-MAC in addition be being second-team All-MAC.
As a freshman in 2018, he appeared in 10 games and finished the season with six tackles.
While attending Covington Catholic High School in Park Hills, Ky., he led his team to the 5A state championship, was a 5A all-state selection and the District 5 Player of the Year. He completed his prep career with 210 tackles, 30 tackles for loss, 10 sacks and eight interceptions.
