Texas A&M fans everywhere had a real scare in the middle of last Saturday's huge win over the Notre Dame Fighting Irish up in South Bend when senior safety Bryce Anderson went down with injury befoer the half.
Anderson remained on the ground for quite some time before eventually being stretchered off the field. He was capture on the TV cameras giving a thumbs-up as he was being driven off of the field, which is a good sign, but it was still a frightening moment.
Since then, all the news has been positive for Bryce and his injury. The NBC broadcast reported that he had movement in his extremities but had been transported to a local hospital out of an abundance of caution. Elko in the postgame mentioned that things had been positive for Bryce since then as well, but the statement just released by Texas A&M football will give fans the biggest sigh of relief yet.
Texas A&M issues statement to give extremely positive Bryce Anderson injury update
You can see the full statement from Texas A&M in the post below:
— Texas A&M Football (@AggieFootball) September 17, 2025
This is great news for the Aggies. Catastrophic injury is exactly what every fan was worried about when Bryce went down the way he did, so to hear that he evaded that is hugely relieving.
While Bryce's health obviously comes first, and he needs to focus on recovery more than anything, this evaluation from Mike Elko during the SEC Coach's Teleconference today should get some A&M fans excited as well:
Mike Elko on the SEC Teleconference: "It was great that we kind of skated through what could have been a really, really bad situation. (Anderson is) still in the process of recovering, so it's hard to gauge at some point right now, but we do expect to have him back at sometime… https://t.co/2HRrNUDHro
— TexAgs (@TexAgs) September 17, 2025
No one would have imagined that, while Bryce was being carted off the field, he would have stood a chance to return this year— the injury seemed that serious. Now, though, it looks like Elko expects that his safety will have the chance to contribute on the field again in 2025, which seemed like such a remote scenario very recently.