5 Tight Ends A&M Can’t Afford to Miss in the Portal
Texas A&M enters the 2026 offseason with two tight ends gone—star Theo Melin Öhrström to the portal and Amari Niblack to the NFL draft—leaving Mike Elko’s Maroon and White thin at the position. This piece ranks five suitors who could fill the gap: Brody Foley from Tulsa (528 yards, seven TDs), USC’s Walker Lyons (259 yards, dual-threat blocker), Florida giant Hayden Hansen (611 yards, five TDs), Iowa State’s Benjamin Brahmer (446 yards, six TDs, plus strong blocking), and South Carolina’s Michael Smith (high potential, returning from injury). Each prospect offers a mix of receiving chops and trench work, promising A&M both immediate impact and H-back versatility.
Finally, we can only imagine the thought process: “Our tight ends are gone? To the portal? By all that is Maroon-and-White sacred, let’s raid every conference!” It’s like an Aggie-themed Black Friday, only instead of TVs, it’s a famine of pass-catching lumberjacks. Foley’s size? Check. Lyons’s grit? Double-check. Hansen’s height? Towering. Brahmer’s blocking? He’s practically a wrecking ball. And Smith? He’ll heal nicely in College Station’s medical tent, thank you very much. Sure, we risk creating a tight end family reunion more crowded than Thanksgiving dinner, but hey, if you’re gonna portal-hunt, do it in style—or at least until someone needs an actual running back again.
Aggies Brace for Gauntlet as SEC Hoops Heat Up
The Texas A&M men’s basketball team, under first-year coach Bucky McMillan, opens SEC play after a 9-3 nonconference start. The Aggies boast wins over Florida State and Pittsburgh but losses to Oklahoma State, UCF, and SMU. SEC matchups begin at home vs. LSU, then road tests at Auburn, Tennessee, and Texas, sandwiching marquee weekend clashes like Oklahoma and rivalry showdowns. A brutal early stretch gives way to home stands vs. Mississippi State and South Carolina, before hostile trips to Georgia and Alabama. Defending champion Florida visits Reed Arena, followed by Missouri at home. The regular season finishes with visits to Vanderbilt and Arkansas, home games against Ole Miss, and a season-ending road doubleheader at Oklahoma and Kentucky, then the SEC tournament in Nashville.
Nothing says “Welcome to the SEC” quite like five straight weeks of “You thought that was hard? Hold our Aggie rings.” We see three months of torture scheduled in neat little rows—LSU, Auburn, and then a road jaunt to campus no. 1, Auburn State Polytechnic Institute for Prominent Ducks. Oh, and that delicious grand finale, playing Texas and Kentucky back to back. One might ask if Coach McMillan accidentally downloaded the schedule for a military boot camp. But fear not: once the Aggies survive this weekend chain-saw massacre, they get to recover at home—until Florida shows up with another go-for-the-throat tactic. It’s the SEC, folks: where “quad” games sound like NASA missions, and the dance is more of a battlefield extraction.
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