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Texas A&M Recruiting: Post National Signing Day Reaction

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 9:35 p.m. ET

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The Texas A&M recruiting class was all but complete heading into National Signing Day. There weren’t any defections and the Aggies filled all 27 spots.

When the dust settled in College Station, the Aggies 2017 National Signing Day ended up being uneventful, for the most part. After Devodrick Johnson reaffirmed his decision to stick with the Ags on Tuesday night, the rest of the 2017 Texas A&M recruiting class followed suit.

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Is a quiet National Signing Day a bad thing? Perhaps. Just look to our neighbors in Austin who didn’t have the usual hoopla that surrounds the biggest day in college football recruiting. But no noise on the home front might have been the best thing that Texas A&M could have asked for.

The end of the 2016 season wasn’t exactly picture perfect. When programs like Clemson, USC, and Penn State were garnering national attention the Aggies were moving backwards. Remarkably, in the face of poor results on the football field the coaching staff won battles on the recruiting trail.

Texas A&M hasn’t had a true decommitment since August. #GigEmGang17 has stood the test of this fall and the offseason and come out the other side with more recruits and a strong family bond.

Let’s not forget that the Aggies entered signing day with a top 10 class. Recruiting services might not be exact sciences, but they aren’t known for being charitable either. The Aggies will finish 2017 somewhere in the No. 9 to No. 11 range, so essentially quite near to where they entered on Wednesday morning.

Ahead of the Competition

Better than the ranking, the Aggies already have a third of their class on campus – including arguably their three best recruits: Jhamon Ausbon, Anthony Hines, and Kellen Mond. Nine of the Aggies 27 signees enrolled early. That will give them, and the Aggies, a significant step up come September.

If any of these new guys earns a starting role against UCLA next fall more practice time can only help. Numbers aren’t everything, but these 27 guys look to be exactly what the Aggies needed during this recruiting cycle.

The staff addressed depth issues at wide receiver, offensive line, and defensive line. They also brought in arguably the best class of linebacker recruits in the Kevin Sumlin era. National Signing Day could have been better if Texas A&M had been able to land a guy like Levi Jones, but even without him, this class is going to be very very special.