Texas A&M football has had a pretty good first year under coach Mike Elko. The Aggies have overachieved relative to preseason expectations, and have a solid proof of concept moving forward for the Elko Era.
Maybe the most impressive part of this is that the Aggies have accomplished this with some pretty obvious holes on the roster (not to mention another unfortunate spate of injuries). Even with those issues, the Aggies have been a really tough team to beat.
One of those issues is most definitely at the receiver spot. The Aggies have had some solid contributors there, but they lack a true game changer—which has led many A&M fans to believe that the Ags will go hard after a top-flight WR in the portal this upcoming year.
Texas A&M football may just have faced off against a guy who ends up being their top receiver next year
Any list of portal targets at receiver for the Aggies has to include a guy that the Aggies just faced off against on the field: Cam Coleman. The emerging top receiver for Auburn was committed to A&M for quite some time before flipping at the end of the cycle to Auburn.
As the Tigers appear that they are going to miss a bowl in Hugh Freeze's second year, and the Aggies are playing for an SEC championship berth, you have to think that a guy like Coleman is thinking twice about where he ended up—even despite last week's result.
There's a clear need for the position that he plays so well at A&M, who is much more of a contending program at the moment than Freeze's Auburn. With an exciting young QB in Marcel Reed in College Station rather than what the Tigers have been rolling out on the Plains, you have to think that Coleman would get a lot more numbers with the Aggies as well.
To be clear, there is no indication yet that Coleman plans on entering the portal. But in this world, you have to be anticipating these kinds of things—and while there aren't a lot of guys who skip town after one year in a program, it's not out of the question.
There are a lot of things that would make sense about Coleman ending up in College Station. Here's hoping we see that come to fruition.