Coach Mike Elko has confirmed that star junior running back Le’Veon Moss will be out for the remainder of the 2024 season, in Monday’s weekly press conference.
The A&M running back room has stretched even thinner, having lost sophomore RB Rueben Owens for the year in preseason camp.. With Moss now out of the mix, the Aggies are down two scholarship backs in junior RB Amari Daniels and graduate RB E.J Smith IV. With limited options of walk-ons to tote the rock, A&M finds itself without the luxury of depth in a new era of College Football Playoff.
Therefore, the task of filling Moss’s 765-yard, 10-touchdown shoes will be a tall order going forward with conference contests at Auburn and home against rival Texas looming in the near future. A tune-up game against an ailing New Mexico State team on Nov. 16, however, may present an opportunity for the Aggies to assess which players can step up.
The run game had become a staple under first-year offensive coordinator Collin Klein, with Moss spearheading the charge as one of the top backs in the conference. A next-man-up mentality is the only way to go forward for A&M, who will have to leave no stone unturned to address this dire situation.
