Texas A&M Football: Ranking the Aggies’ position groups for 2022
player. Scouting Report. Pick Analysis. Grade. B. Defensive Line. 6. 873
Starters: C-
Bench: B
Young talent: A++
This defensive line is going to be fun to watch in 2022. There isn’t a whole lot of experience on the outside, with Fadil Diggs and Tunmise Adeleye set to start this season. It’s not necessarily that I don’t believe in Diggs and Adeleye, there’s just a small sample size that they offer, but their potential is high in terms of their impact this year.
Texas A&M DL Fadil Diggs on playing with Leal, Clemons, Johnson and other DL: "What I learned was to make practice harder than the games, and I'd like to pass that on to the younger guys. ... I'm trying to give the leadership to those guys that they gave to me."
— TexAgs (@TexAgs) August 18, 2022
The interior defensive line could be a force this season if they play to half of what they’re capable of. McKinnley Jackson and Isaiah Raikes are the likely starters this season, and they could offer some big-time run stopping ability. The rotation looks excellent as well with Shemar Turner and Walter Nolen in the fold.
The edge rotation is looking great as well, but it is filled with inexperience. The backups look to be made up of multiple freshmen in Gabriel Brownlow-Dindy, Shemar Stewart, and Anthony Lucas. They all could make immediate impacts this season.
The young talent in this group is eye-popping. In this whole group, for players with a freshman or redshirt freshman classification, the Aggies have five five-stars, two four-stars, and two three-stars involved. This group has insane potential to be a top corps in college for the foreseeable future.