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Texas A&M has a solid class brewing for the 2016 cycle.
It’s another Lone Star State-heavy effort (as it should be) with 14 of the 18 current commits hailing from inside the state of Texas. A&M also reached into Louisiana for two prospects and has two committed from the state of Tennessee (Nashville area).
Down the stretch, Kevin Sumlin and his staff will continue to battle for many of the elite prospects in the state of Texas and beyond, including the No. 1 safety in the 2016 cycle, Brandon Jones of Nacogdoches, Texas.
Current rank: No. 7 SEC, No. 19 Nationally (247Sports Composite rankings)
Top commit: Justin Madubuike, DE, McKinney (Texas) North. Madubuike, a 6-foot-2.5, 250-pound nasty pass rushing Lone Star State defensive end is another excellent building block for Aggies defensive coordinator John Chavis and defensive line coach Terry Price along the all-important defensive front. Myles Garrett likely won’t be in College Station for but another year and neither will Daeshon Hall, so it’s wise in this class to start stocking up and Madubuike, a U.S. Army All-American, certainly fills that need.
Sleeper: Ryan McCollum, OT, Spring (Texas) Klein Oak. When you watch McCollum on film, you see a prospect with a lot of excellent offensive line “tools”. For example, he has good feet, good arm length and can play physical. The entire key here (as it is for most on the offensive line- a very, very developmental position) is adding the strength and bulk that it takes to play his position at a high level in a Power 5 league. If he can do that, then the Aggies got an absolute steal here and a guy that will contribute in a big way to the program during his years in College Station.
Quick take: This is a good class (not one of the ones full of headliners as has been the case in recent cycles) that can get even better should Texas A&M close on some key targets. While he’s not listed as an actual recruit (because he’s a transfer) Oklahoma quarterback Trevor Knight is probably as big as it can get in terms of immediate impact simply because of what happened to the Aggies at that position (the most important on the field) in the immediate offseason, as Kyler Murray and Kyle Allen both transferred. Texas A&M’s continued building of numbers in the secondary and along the defensive line (six combined) is paramount as well.
Recruiting writer for Saturday Down South
