Malik Hornsby

TexAgs Recruiting analyst Ryan Brauninger joined this morning for another edition of Recruiting Country, highlighting the latest news and notes from the recruiting trail as Texas A&M has picked up plenty of momentum on the trail despite not adding to its 2022 class.

- Spoke to a well respected source out west who believes the Aggies have a stranglehold on the recruitment of Surprise (AZ) RB Darvon Hubbard. He felt like barring something unforeseen happening between now and next Wednesday, A&M was in prime position to add one of the best players out of the desert to their 2020 class.- Add another big name to the watchlist for next weekend's junior day. I've been told Miami (FL) WR Romello Brinson is likely to head to College Station on Saturday. Brinson is a 6-2, 185 pounder out of Miami Northwestern HS. He was once committed to the hometown Hurricanes but backed away from his pledge around Thanksgiving.- I checked in one more time on Ft Bend Marshall QB/ATH Malik Hornsby today, and I just don't see this one happening with A&M. I think he likely ends up at Arkansas or Baylor. Too bad as I really like Malik as a kid and consider him one of the best pure athletes I've ever watched since covering this stuff. It really just came down to numbers and fit on both sides of the aisle here.

- I mentioned in the thread yesterday that new LB coach Tyler Santucci made a few stops in southeast Texas. After checking with my sources down there, it sounds like A&M is becoming more and more interested in a completely off the radar prospect in 2021.Jacorey Hyder is a 6-3, 225 pound linebacker from Woodville, and his tape shows flashes of high end athleticism and explosion. There's no doubt he's raw, but the physical traits of an SEC LB are there. I'd say he's definitely a kid to continue to track/monitor. Here's his junior tape which also has clips of him dunking on the basketball floor.https://www.hudl.com/video/3/8467035/5dd40b4cb53f36168c7b3789- A Houston source text me early this morning to inform me that Darrell Dickey would be going through Ft Bend Marshall to see RB signee Devon Achane as well as continue talks with Malik Hornsby. Given the current landscape, I still expect Hornsby to end up elsewhere, but it is noteworthy that the Aggies haven't stopped recruiting him. Again, there's that mutual respect between Hornsby and the A&M staff that has been built over the course of a couple of years now. I'd venture to say that no staff recruiting Hornsby has the kind of relationship with him that Dickey and Fisher do.