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Texas A&M Football: 2024 Recruits to Know

By Graham Harmon

Nov 26, 2022; College Station, Texas, USA; Texas A&M Aggies head coach Jimbo Fisher walks the sidelines during the second quarter against the LSU Tigers at Kyle Field. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 26, 2022; College Station, Texas, USA; Texas A&M Aggies head coach Jimbo Fisher walks the sidelines during the second quarter against the LSU Tigers at Kyle Field. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports /
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Nov 26, 2022; College Station, Texas, USA; Texas A&M Aggies head coach Jimbo Fisher yells to the referees during the second half against the LSU Tigers at Kyle Field. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 26, 2022; College Station, Texas, USA; Texas A&M Aggies head coach Jimbo Fisher yells to the referees during the second half against the LSU Tigers at Kyle Field. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports /

This should come as news to absolutely nobody, but the 2023 season will be instrumental in how this class shakes out for the Texas A&M football program.  Get back to winning ways, and you could see the Aggies win out in a majority of these recruitments.  Put up another mediocre—or even losing—record, and you could strike out across the board.  The lack of depth in the 2023 class and inability to bolster your roster in the first portal window is concerning in its own right, but it can easily be remedied by a huge 2024 class.

The guys listed here are done so for differing reasons—whether that’s the positional need, such as LB, or the outstanding talent each player possesses.  Often, that’s both.  These aren’t the top six needs for the Ags in this class, though it would be a huge coup to land all of them at once.

I’m not suggesting there’s a world where A&M signs all six of the uncommitted guys listed in this article.  If they did, they would be on track for another record-shattering class—and I just don’t foresee them recreating the magic of that 2022 cycle short of doing something like getting to (or winning) the CFP championship this year.  And I don’t think that’s something many people at all expect Texas A&M football to come near this year. But after last season, and last cycle, the Aggies desperately need to get back in the top 5 to remain a championship contender in the near future.

It’s tempting to think that high school recruiting matters less than ever in this NIL and Transfer Portal-fueled age in which we currently live.  But the back-to-back national champions have built what they have in Athens thanks not to the portal, but to their massively talented high school recruiting classes.  High school recruiting, however much the portal has diminished its importance, is still the way to build a championship contender.  The Aggies need to stay at the forefront in this regard in order to one day climb that mountain.  Time will tell if they can do just that.