Recruiting site makes subtle dig at Texas A&M even while delivering good news

Texas A&M football has been recruiting lights-out for the majority of this cycle, and all indications are that they will continue doing so into the next cycle as well. The Aggies have already landed a pair of high four-star talents in QB Jayce Johnson, who they're hoping will play a pied-piper role in this class, and OT Demarrion Johnson from Tyler, Texas.

The Aggies are looking to add even more to their haul along the offensive line, as position coach Adam Cushing is making a habit of getting things done quickly in each cycle. They have a plethora of targets in-state, as Texas is replete with OL talent in the upcoming cycle, including top-100 talent Kaeden Scott out of San Antonio.

Scott is a highly-prized and absolutely mammoth offensive tackle prospect, standing at 6'6.5" and 285 LBs already, even as he's just starting his junior year. Rivals reported today that the Aggies are the leaders for Scott's commitment at this point, which should normally be cause for rejoicing... but most fans couldn't help but notice the photo that was chosen to accompany this article.

Rivals tweets that Texas A&M is leading for highly-regarded recruit with picture in Longhorn shirt

Most fans who saw the following post on X today couldn't help but feel that the photo choice was all but unintentional:

It's not as visible in the truncated format, but expanding it makes it manifestly clear that Scott is wearing a Texas Longhorns shirt and lanyard. This makes sense, as this photo was probably taken while he was visiting campus in Austin, but it still rubbed some fans the wrong way.

Texas fans also took immediate notice:

Listen, at the end of the day, this is no big deal, of course. But I don't believe that fans of other schools would take it well if it was announced that they were leading for a recruit and a picture was tweeted of that recruit in another school's shirt. It just feels all too intentional at some point.