Ryan Brennecke / The Bulletin flle photoJohn Bledsoe

Summit senior quarterback John Bledsoe, who led the Storm to the 2015 Class 5A football state championship and to this season’s quarterfinals, has committed to play at Washington State next season.

The 6-foot-3, 200-pound Bledsoe, the son of former WSU and NFL standout Drew Bledsoe, said he turned down a scholarship offer from FCS Northern Arizona to accept a preferred walk-on offer from the Pac-12 Cougars.

“I’m excited,” John Bledsoe told The Bulletin on Saturday. “The more I thought about it after they offered me the preferred walk-on, the more excited I got. With my dad, it was more, kind of, exposure, just because I got to go to the (campus) when I was 6 or 7. I’ve been there maybe five or six times overall. The first college campus I was really on, and I fell in love with it immediately.”

Bledsoe, who announced his commitment Friday, joins fellow Oregon high school senior Connor Neville, of Wilsonville High, as Washington State-bound quarterbacks. Neville reportedly has accepted a scholarship offer.

“The way I look at it, it’s Pac-12 football,” said Bledsoe, who passed for 6,908 yards and 82 touchdowns with 19 interceptions in three years as Summit’s starting QB. “There’s going to be great quarterbacks everywhere. If I want to see the field, I’m going to have to beat out someone no matter what. It doesn’t really matter who it is. I think we’re pretty similar players. … But I’m excited to compete. We’re from the same state, the same age, the same size. It’s going to be great competition.”

— Grant Lucas