Texas A&M lands top WR in ’24 class Coleman

5-star large receiver Cameron Colemanthe highest wideout within the 2024 class, dedicated to Jimbo Fisher and the Texas A&M Aggies on Tuesday.

Coleman (No. 8 total within the 2024 ESPN 300), from Central Excessive Faculty in Phenix Metropolis, Alabama, is the sixth ESPN 300 prospect for the 2024 cycle for Texas A&M. Alongside along with his official go to to School Station in June, he additionally took official visits to Auburn and LSU final month.

“I might wish to play in an offense the place they’re utilizing my talent set,” Coleman informed ESPN in April. “I do not actually care what I do, so long as I do what’s greatest for the workforce.”

In changing into the second ESPN 300 large receiver to pledge to the Aggies in lower than per week after Silsbee Excessive Faculty (Texas) product Dre’lon Miller (No. 89 total) did so on June 29, Coleman’s presence jump-starts Fisher’s efforts to get this system again to the highest of the recruiting rankings.

Coleman is the primary five-star wideout to decide to this system since Evan Stewart (No. 13 total, No. 2 WR) in 2022. This system’s 2024 class is sixteenth in ESPN’s rankings.

In 2022, the Aggies’ offense completed tenth within the SEC in passing (219.4 yards per sport), and their high two receivers from a season in the past — Stewart (53 catches for 649 receiving yards and two touchdowns) and Muhsin Muhammad III (38 receptions for 610 yards and 4 TDs) — return this fall.

“I really feel like I am good at taking teaching,” Coleman mentioned. “Making big-time performs in big-time moments. Creating separation from my defender. Excessive pointing the ball, blocking and simply being an excellent teammate total.”

A highschool teammate of present Michigan freshman large receiver Karmello Englishthe 6-foot-4, 185-pound Coleman caught 31 passes for 542 yards and 6 touchdowns. Central Excessive Faculty coach Patrick Nix, who was Calvin Johnson‘s offensive coordinator at Georgia Techbelieves the ceiling for Coleman is sort of excessive.

“I had the fortune of recruiting after which teaching Calvin at Georgia Tech, and there are similarities,” Nix informed ESPN in Might. “I feel Cam undoubtedly has that sort of pace, that sort of vary and the ball abilities that Calvin had — so far as whether or not or not it’s observe a ball or no matter it could be. However [Coleman] has these freaky ball abilities that Calvin had and that pace that Calvin had.

“He is not fairly as massive as Calvin, sizewise, so far as energy and all. Tremendous lengthy, nice catch radius, that sort of factor that Calvin had. I feel these are going to be the comparisons due to the size and I feel the distinction that each of these guys have is simply their pace.”

“I feel you’ve got a number of massive receivers,” Nix continued, “however you do not have a number of massive receivers which have legit, true pace that each of these guys have. I feel that is the place a number of the similarities will come from.”

Final yr, Texas A&M’s class was thirteenth in ESPN’s rankings, a yr after ending No. 1 total in 2022.