Le’Veon Moss is one of the biggest pieces that Texas A&M is losing from last year’s team, despite the fact that he was unable to play for most of the season after suffering an injury in the Florida game— a sadly similar storyline to what we saw from Moss in the 2024 season. The formerly highly-rated running back was a beast when he was able to get rolling for the Aggies in College Station, but injury derailed his time in the Maroon and White far too often.
However, when the recent ruling was announced that allows players from the high school class of 2022 to return to college (as long as they have not signed an NFL contract), Moss is the player that Aggie fans’ minds immediately went to. He’s one of three Aggies that would fit this bill, after all, and has been a key part of the Aggie offense when he’s been available.
With an uncertain depth chart at running back right now (though many expect this to be a breakout year for Rueben Owens), you can understand the impulse. However, Moss’s return to the Aggies is not only impractical, but when you consider everything about his situation right now, it’s a notion that Texas A&M fans need to move on from expeditiously.
Texas A&M fans need to disregard potential Le’Veon Moss return for both their sake and his
There’s an obvious first factor that should be considered here: Moss’s return to the running back room would upset a balance that the coaching staff has done yeoman’s work to craft. Making sure the right guys get the right number of touches is something staffs have to consider now more than ever in college football, and adding a guy like Moss back into the mix would make that difficult.
That’s not to mention that it’s possible that Moss may not even truly be in game shape right now. He participated briefly in some football activities following the NFL Draft, but has not really been playing since that point.
Moss went undrafted this past year, something that was a big disappointment at the time for many Aggie fans, who believed that he could have gone as high as the third or fourth round had he been fully healthy all of last year. Not long after that, it was announced that he was retiring from football, a status that has not changed since that announcement came out.
Though the reason was never released, it likely has to do with his history of injuries meaning that the prognosis for a long-term career is not great— or perhaps that his own long-term health if another injury were to occur could be severely compromised. That would be another reason that Moss’s return to Aggieland would be unrealistic.
And then, you have the elephant in the room of Moss’s personal situation right now. You can read more about the incident at this link, but suffice it to say, Moss needs to focus on himself and his family right now with a strong support system around him, not giving the long and hard hours to football that membership on the Aggie team would require.
In short, though it’s an appealing idea for many reasons to Aggie fans that Moss might return and give the running back position a little extra punch, it’s not realistic— nor is it best for the team or for him. It’s a fun thought experiment, but nothing more at this point— and Aggie fans would be better served to just move on.
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