Texas A&M football spring position preview: Quarterback could be huge for Aggies in 2025
Texas A&M football is entering a 2025 season that will be pretty decisive in many ways. The Aggies will have an extremely experienced team, returning loads of production on both offense and defense, and though they face several tough road tests, this is the profile of a team that should contend for a CFP berth.
Most of all, though, A&M fans are hoping for the cessation of what has been an unfortunate trend ever since Kellen Mond left campus. For each of the last four seasons, A&M has had to start more than one quarterback thanks to injury, and has never finished the season with the same QB that they started with.
Now, though, the Aggies seem to have their guy in Marcel Reed (of course, they thought they had their man in Weigman last year, but that obviously didn't pan out). The growth and potential that the Aggies saw in Reed last year was exciting for every fan— the dynamic signal caller showed just how deadly of an offensive weapon he could be.
Marcel Reed's play can continue to buoy Texas A&M football in 2025
Consistency and avoiding injury will be the two keys for Reed in 2025. Though he didn't miss any time due to injury in eight starts and a couple more appearances last year, he is slight of build and incorporates the run into his game to a considerable degree.
That's what makes him so dynamic, of course, so it can't be fully abandoned. But the revolving door at the position has made A&M fans all sorts of frustrated over these last years.
With the growth in his passing abilities, though, there may be less of a need for him to run the ball so much in the upcoming year. In his first three starts of the year, before Weigman returned from injury, Reed averaged only a 56% completion rate. In his starts after the LSU game, he averaged 64%.
His YPA took a big jump as well. If you compare the two numbers, they are almost identical in the raw stats: however, if you take out one play— a short pass to Cyrus Allen who took it 73 yards against Florida— you see the real difference in his quality of play: 6.58 YPA vs 7.60 YPA.
If he can continue on that trajectory, this could be a huge season for him. He's drawn comparisons to Lamar Jackson before, and with a little more polish to his pass game, that could ring even truer going forward.
Behind Reed, the Aggies have Miles O'Neill and Jacob Zeno, as well as two incoming freshmen in Eli Morcos and Brady Hart. O'Neill has excited Aggie fans in limited action, displaying a surprising level of passing acumen, and Zeno's experience and accuracy brings a much-needed presence to the room.
No offense to those guys, though, but the hope is that Aggie fans don't have to seem them except in relief work this upcoming season. Keeping Reed in the saddle needs to be priority number one this year— if for no other reason than the consistency that would provide.
There's a high ceiling for the Aggies at QB this year. If they can break this string of injury luck from the last few years, then I feel really good about where they stand at the position in 2025.