Texas A&M football's top portal pickup stepping away from football; Could he return?

Texas A&M's Micah Hudson reportedly stepping away from football; Aggies hope for him to return

Texas A&M fans know well that college football can be a wild sport to follow. Things change at the drop of a hat, especially in the new transfer portal era.

As players come and go, however, it can be all too easy to think of the individual in terms of their performance on the field or what they can bring to the team while failing to consider some of the more human aspects. The variance in performance that is a result of different states of mind among players is something that doesn't often come up in these discussions.

Especially in adjusting to a new regimen or milieu, though, changes in college football can be significant for players. Where one guy is able to jump right in, another may take a while.

It doesn't have anything to do with toughness, either— one of the toughest guys on this Texas A&M football team, Le'Veon Moss, was reportedly having such a hard time adjusting to Moffitt's workouts last offseason that he nearly quit the team.

Whether it's adjustment to school, workouts, or anything else, according to reports, Micah Hudson— one of Texas A&M football's premier pickups in the portal— has stepped away from football activities.

The wording is vague, but it appears that Hudson is still in school at A&M— simply not with the team at the moment. It's unclear whether this is precipitated by a hard time adjusting to the program, as discussed above, or if it's personal circumstances/life events impacting the football side of things.

The reports from insiders have uniformly been that Hudson has been adjusting well to workouts and is well-liked among the team, so I would be extremely surprised if this is anything disciplinary. Indeed, Liucci's comment that the Aggies have a spot for Micah if he returns to football would suggest that this is not, in fact, something punitive.

AggiesToday, in reporting on the story, said the following: "The priority should be on making sure that this kid is surrounded by the right people and getting what he needs. Hope he knows we're all behind him." Once more, this lends itself far more to the idea that Hudson is working through something difficult on a personal level rather than having done something meriting a punishment.

He was also bullish on Hudson's chances of returning to the team:

Whatever is going on, all Aggies are hoping that Micah himself is okay and that things can return to normalcy soon.