Texas A&M’s 2025 season is officially over, and starting quarterback Marcel Reed, who is set to enter his redshirt junior season, is under fierce scrutiny after Saturday’s first round College Football Playoff loss to Miami, falling 10-3 behind Reed’s three turnovers, including two interceptions, and the first game in Kyle Field where the Aggies didn’t score a touchdown since 2002.
Yes, plenty of negatives to go around, but this was still a historic season for second-year head coach Mike Elko, who led Texas A&M to its first CFP appearance in program history, and despite being one-and-done, it’s time to forge on and fix the issues this offseason that plagued the Aggies late in the year.
Reed, who was a finalist for the Early Campbell Tyler Rose Award, unsurprisingly lost out to a former Aggie starting signal caller who has since thrived during his three year career at Georgia Tech, as Haynes King, who once looked like the future star quarterback during former head coach Jimbo Fisher’s third season at the helm, was in the wrong offense at the wrong time.
Since his first start with the Yellow Jackets, King transformed into a true dual-threat, throwing for 7,663 yards and 53. touchdowns, combined with 2,246 yards and 36 rushing touchdowns. Finishing his redshirt senior season as a top 10-ranked Heisman candidate, if Georgia Tech had finished undefeated, King might have been a Heisman finalist.
Off to the NFL after Georgia Tech’s bowl game, I’m proud to say I covered all but one season of Haynes’ career with Texas A&M, and have enjoyed watching him thrive with the Yellow Jackets.
Congratulations to our 2025 Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award WINNER: @GeorgiaTechFB QB Haynes King (Longview HS, TX) #StingEm@haynes_king10@ACCFootballpic.twitter.com/ziDSmpnLBk
— Earl Campbell Award (@CampbellAward) December 23, 2025
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