Class Autopsy

Texas A&M 2023 — what happened to every signee.

Texas A&M’s 2023 class brought in 20 signees, including 2 five-stars. 1 reached the NFL.

20
signees, National Signing Day 2023
2
five-star signees
1
reached the NFL.

The promise

2 five-star signees, ranked nationally — what the hype looked like before a single snap.

No.7National
No.29National

The journey stack

One row per signee, ranked by signing-day national rank. Each chit is a stop; the line between them is a transfer. Open a row for the season-by-season record.

DJ Hicks
No.7 national · DL
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StayedNever transferred
Texas A&M — 2023: 0.0, 2024: 32.0, 2025: 78.0
Rueben Owens II
No.29 national · RB
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StayedNever transferred
Texas A&M — 2023: 34.0, 2024: 31.0, 2025: 59.0
Chase Bisontis
No.47 national · IOL
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R2 · #34Arizona
Texas A&M — 2023: unscored
Entered the portal — destination not resolved in the source data; shown as unknown, not guessed.
Arizona · 2026 draft — No. 34 overall, round 2.
Dalton Brooks
No.97 national · ATH
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StayedNever transferred
Texas A&M — 2023: 26.0, 2024: 65.0, 2025: 72.0
Bravion Rogers
No.98 national · CB
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StayedNever transferred
Texas A&M — 2023: 6.0, 2024: 4.0, 2025: 6.0
Jayvon Thomas
No.131 national · CB
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StayedNever transferred
Texas A&M — 2023: 3.0, 2024: 25.0, 2025: 3.0
TJ Shanahan Jr.
No.162 national · IOL
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StayedNever transferred
Texas A&M — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
Micah Tease
No.210 national · ATH
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1 transferTulsa
Texas A&M — 2023: 19.0, 2024: unscored
Tulsa — 2025: 27.0
Raymond Cottrell Jr.
No.218 national · WR
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PortalDestination unresolved
Texas A&M — 2023: 20.0
Entered the portal — destination not resolved in the source data; shown as unknown, not guessed.
Jaden Platt
No.238 national · TE
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1 transferArkansas
Texas A&M — 2023: 23.0, 2024: unscored
Arkansas — 2025: 47.0
Marcel Reed
No.295 national · QB
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StayedNever transferred
Texas A&M — 2023: 26.0, 2024: 54.0, 2025: 80.0
Daymion Sanford
No.364 national · EDGE
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StayedNever transferred
Texas A&M — 2023: 0.0, 2024: 41.0, 2025: 78.0
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The receipts

No recruiting service wrote a word here. The national rank was the promise; what happened next is the whole story.

Never made the league

“The No. 7 player in America.”

signed Texas A&M → never drafted

Peak grade of 78 on our 0–100 scale.

The report card

Star power and cohesion are graded against all 297 qualifying classes, 2021–2023. NFL production and on-field value are graded against just the 107 other 2023 classes — a 2023 signee simply hasn’t had as many draft-eligible years as a 2021 signee, so those two dimensions compare like-for-like instead of penalizing recency. Overall GPA still ranks across all 297.

B
Star power
17 recruiting points
B
Cohesion
70% never transferred
A
NFL production
1 drafted, vs. 2023 peers
A
On-field value
mean peak grade 45.3, vs. 2023 peers

The class the draft ignored

NFL production, 2023 signing classes in Texas A&M’s conference

Texas A&M’s 1 draft picks against every other qualifying class its conference signed the same year.

drafted: 100%
3
drafted: 100%
3
drafted: 67%remaining: 33%
2
drafted: 33%remaining: 67%
1
Texas A&M
drafted: 33%remaining: 67%
1
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
Source CFB Index · player_recruiting_profiles + player_nfl_draft

The fine print

Other ways to read the same class.

Star-weighted retention
69%
Of the class’s combined star rating, this much stuck around.
Fed the conference
2
Transfers that landed at another program in Texas A&M’s current conference.
Dropped a level
0
Signees whose portal move landed below FBS.
The quiet middle
5
Never transferred, never drafted, 3-star or below. The class nobody writes about.