Tag: Texas A&M 2024 football season

Here are the Top 5 Texas A&M defensive players that need to make an impact this spring

Ahead of spring football, here are five Texas A&M defensive players who need to improve, starting next month.

It may be early in the offseason, but Texas A&M’s spring football season is less than a month away, and all eyes will be on how new head coach Mike Elko and his impressive coaching staff will help what should be an elite defensive unit, led incoming senior defensive lineman Shemar Turner, former Purdue Edge Nic Scourton, who led the Big 10 in sacks (10) last season.

Not to ignore the 22 transfers that are due to make an immediate impact, but looking at the current roster members that need to take the next step in their collective development will help dictate what Aggie fans should look forward to during spring football, which is now less than a month away.

While Turner’s return basically solidifies A&M’s defensive line, younger members in trenches, including DJ Hicks and Gabriel Brownlow-Dindy, showed flashes during their extended snaps in the Aggies bowl loss to Oklahoma State and are both deemed to play much larger roles in 2024.

Including several players in the secondary and a linebacker competing for a starting job, here are the five Aggies on defense that need to step up during spring football, heading into the 2024 season.

Here are the Top 5 Texas A&M offensive players that need to show out this spring

Ahead of spring football, here are five Texas A&M offensive players who need to improve, starting next month.

It may be early in the offseason, but Texas A&M’s spring football season is less than a month away, and all eyes will be on how new head coach Mike Elko and his impressive coaching staff will help the offense, especially quarterback Conner Weigman, take the next step in their development.

After adding 22 veteran players from the transfer portal, the Aggies’ roster looks better by the day. Still, until the newcomers prove themselves on the field, the returning players from last season will define the 2024 campaign.

Focusing on the offense, Weigman’s return from the lower body injury that resulted in him missing the Aggies’ final nine games will take center stage as soon as spring practices begin, but due to consistent poor play on the offensive line, how new O-line coach Adam Cushing will fix said issues will be telling, and likely result in the offense’s success, or failure starting in September.

Here are the top 5 Texas A&M players on offense who need to show up and show out this spring, heading into the 2024 season.

Texas A&M is ranked as a Top 18 team in ESPN’s returning production rankings for the 2024 CFB season

Ahead of HC Mike Elko’s first season at the helm, Texas A&M is ranked in the Top 18 in Bill Connelly’s (ESPN) returning production rankings.

Texas A&M Football is entering a new era under head coach Mike Elko, as his inaugural 2024 season is now just seven months away, and Aggie fans couldn’t be more excited to see what he can bring to the job.

While A&M’s 2024 schedule avoids the likes of Alabama and Ole Miss for the first time since entering the SEC more than a decade ago, it’s the wealth of returning production, including gaining 22 players through the transfer portal over the last two months.

On Monday, ESPN’s Bill Connelly released his annual SP+ ratings rankings (subscription required) for the 2024 college football season, as the creator of one of the more accurate returning production models has the Aggies ranked 18th out of 134 FBS teams. According to Connelly, A&M leads the SEC with a returning production rate of 72% and an offensive (77%) and defensive (67%) return rating ranked 22nd and 35th in the country.

As noted in the article, the Aggies’ incoming transfers count in the returning production rating, led by former Purdue Edge Nic Scourton, who led the Big 10 in sacks (10) during the 2023 season.

To clarify things, here is how each position group will potentially look ahead of the spring football season starting next month.

Ranking the Top 5 QBs Texas A&M will face during the 2024 season

After Wednesday’s 2024 SEC schedule release, Texas A&M now knows how things line up and what quarterbacks they’ll face.

Texas A&M’s 2024 college football schedule has been released in its entirety, and outside of knowing the times for each matchup, Aggie fans can start to make their plans ahead of the first division-less SEC slate.

Even more important, this will be the inaugural season for the 12-team College Football Playoffs, as the field has finally expanded, providing the Aggies a legitimate shot at reaching the tournament for the first time in program history.

Amid new head coach Mike Elko’s first season at the helm, the ever-growing transfer portal, coupled with several de-commits in the 2024 cycle, have hampered the Aggie’s offseason momentum, but this is expected amid a regime change, and Elko is already beginning to add productive players from the portal this month.

Looking ahead to the position matchups next season, Texas A&M quarterback Conner Weigman should have the advantage over most of the defenses the Aggies face. After the news that Arkansas signal-caller K.J Jefferson will enter the transfer portal, the list of elite QB competition on the schedule shrinks, especially with LSU Heisman-winning QB Jayden Daniels departing for the 2024 NFL Draft.

Still, with Texas and Oklahoma entered into the conference, Longhorns quarterback Quinn Ewers, who will return next season, will definitely be a problem to end the year in the Lone Star Showdown. Oh, and for the first time since entering the SEC in 2012, Texas A&M will avoid Alabama and Ole Miss, which includes quarterback Jalen Milroe and Jaxson Dart.

Here are the Top 5 quarterbacks Texas A&M will face during the 2024 college football season.