Aaron Hansford has made his announcement. The linebacker prospect will be playing his college football at Texas A&M. Landing the recruit is big for Kevin Sumlin and the Aggies who struggled defensively in 2015.
#Rivals100 prospect Aaron Hansford has committed to #TAMU
— Adam Friedman (@RivalsFriedman) February 3, 2016
Aaron Hansford has had a lot of familiar faces in changing places when it came to his recruiting. Hansford is a 4-star outside linebacker from St. John’s College High School in Washington D.C. He has had plenty of offers from the likes of Michigan State, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Oregon, UCLA and Texas A&M, among others.
It is the last two on the list that make the drama all the more intriguing. Noel Mazzone was heading up the recruiting of Hansford when he, Mazzone, was the offensive coordinator at UCLA. But Mazzone has since left and landed the same job at Texas A&M where he assumed the role of, “the guy who gets the recruit to forget everything I told him about my previous employer and only remember what I tell him about my new employer.”
The 6-2 208 pound linebacker runs a 4.5 40 and also played wide receiver for St. John’s College High. He also had Maryland and Penn State on his short list going into national signing day, but by all accounts had narrowed it down to UCLA and Texas A&M. The Aggies’ Kevin Sumlin and the Bruins’ Jim Mora even made in-home visits in D.C. on the same day last week. To make matters more intriguing. The season opener for the Aggies and the Bruins is against each other in College Station, Texas.
