Texas A&M tight end Theo Ohrstrom shocked Aggieland yesterday when he declared his intention to enter the transfer portal when it opens on January 2. Ohstrom spent four years with the Aggies, coming to College Station as part of the much-vaunted 2022 class after reclassifying up a year following high school in Sweden.
Ohrstrom leaves the Aggies with a career marked by untapped potential. He consistently featured as a player who had all the physical gifts you could ever ask for in a prospect— size and high-end speed— yet he never quite leveraged them to big numbers in College Station, notching 29 receptions for 352 total yards in two years of play.
While it will be interesting to follow where Theo ends up without a doubt, it also leaves the Aggies in a bit of a tough spot. Ohstrom's departure adds to the thinning of a room that all of a sudden is without hardly any returning yards: Nate Boerkircher and Amari Niblack have both exhausted eligibility. Where do the Aggies go from here?
Texas A&M will have to hit portal for tight end help unexpectedly
The Aggies will be bringing up some young pups in the program that have a lot of promise in Kiotti Armstrong and Evan Jacobson (though the latter won't be on campus until summer), but neither of them have had much in-game experience, obviously. They also may still have some snaps left from Micah Riley, but he was more of a feature as a blocker than a pass-catcher.
UTSA's Houston Thomas, a College Station native, recently declared for the portal, and so with that sort of familiarity, you have to assume the Aggies will take a look his way as well. But the Aggies need to add at least two more playable options before the season begins in 2026, so look for this to be a position they hit quickly.
The Aggies lost their tight end coach Christian Ellsworth to Kansas State, but hired Derek Shay from Kentucky to coach the position in College Station. He'll have to be ready to hit the ground running in this upcoming window.