Texas A&M signed 24 players Wednesday, assembling the ninth-ranked class in the nation. Here are five players from that group who could come in and contribute quickly.
1. TE Kiotti Armstrong
A&M's tight end room isn't bare, but it certainly has some question marks going into 2025. The team loses Tre Watson and Shane Calhoun, Jaden Platt intends to transfer and Donovan Green's status remains a question mark as he continues to recover from a torn ACL suffered in 2023. That leaves Theo Ohrstrom as your only player at the position who contributed this past season.
Enter Armstrong, who has shown freakish athleticism for his size and can be a real threat in the passing game. If he gets the offense quickly, he could be on the field fast. There are few players around with his combination of size and natural ability.
2. WR Jerome Myles
The only reasons Myles isn't number one on the list is are that he's not going to be in at the mid-term and he is rehabbing from an injury that cut his senior season short. But a guy who is 6-foot-5, 220 pounds, ran the 100-meter dash in 10.36 seconds and is joining a team starved for big play talent at receiver isn't going to sit long. Even if A&M totally revamps its receiver room through the transfer portal, it's hard to imagine Myles won't play as soon as he's physically ready.
3. DT DJ Sanders
The Aggies are, as it stands now, painfully thin at defensive tackle going into next year. They've got Albert Regis, DJ Hicks and Dealyn Evans, and that's about it. Enter Sanders, who will walk in the door at 6-foot-3 and 315 pounds and a track record of destroying opponents. If he'd played at a bigger school than Bellville, he probably would have gotten a lot more attention, but he's unquestionable force with freakish quickness and speed for his size. Getting him an extra six months in A&M's strength and conditioning program could be a major difference-maker.
4. CB Adonyss Currie
You could go with any of the three corners here, but Currie is the tallest and probably the most refined of the group. He's 6-foot-2, can turn and run with basically any receiver and joins a group that currently only has two trustworthy corners (Will Lee and Dezz Ricks). Unless the Aggies go big in the portal at the position again, at least one of Currie, Jamal Beal-Goines and Cobey Sellers will be on the field next year.
5. LB Noah Mikhail
The Aggies will have a pretty stout linebacker rotation next year with Taurean York and Scooby Williams leading the way, but Mikhail may be good enough to crack it as a true freshman. He's a finalist for the high school Butkus Award, given to the nation's top linebacker. He's got good size, is really fast and has a great nose for the ball.
