As Texas A&M's vaunted 2022 signing class vanished around him, Mark Nabou Jr.
Texas A&M · LSUNabou was the only position player in that class that was a three-star prospect in the Rivals Industry recruiting rankings. The rest were all four- or five-star prospects with nine of those players ranked among the top 3 prospects nationally at their respective positions.
I was the underdog, kind of brushed off by everybody. “All I did was put my head down and keep working.
Stars didn’t matter to me, and they still don’t.” Nabou, a fifth-year senior center, will make his 30 th start for Texas A&M on Saturday night against LSU at Tiger Stadium, a game that has a must-win feel to it for both teams, even this early in the season, if they want to stay at the forefront of the College Football Playoff chase.
He’s the last one standing at Texas A&M from that ballyhooed 2022 class, at least the only remaining starter. Of the 29 freshmen that arrived on campus in 2022, only five finished their careers as Aggies.
KEY POINTS
- Mark Nabou, the only three-star in Texas A&M's celebrated 2022 recruiting class, is the last remaining starter still with the program.
- COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Mark Nabou Jr. jokes that he was the forgotten one in Texas A&M’s 2022 signing class, at the time hailed as the most talented
- “My name wasn’t brought up much in that class, the only time it was is when people were wondering why they took this three-star prospect with all these four- and five-star prospects around me,” Nabou told On3.
- The rest of the class, featuring nine five-star prospects and 19 four-star prospects, vanished.