{"id":272629,"date":"2026-04-30T07:31:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/272629\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T07:31:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:31:22","slug":"texas-am-sets-draft-record-has-6-more-aggies-invited-to-nfl-camps-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/272629\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&M sets draft record, has 6 more Aggies invited to NFL camps"},"content":{"rendered":"

But there were more Aggies<\/a> with an opportunity to make an NFL roster and didn’t hear their name called Thursday through Saturday. The Aggies had five players sign with teams as undrafted free agents and one got an invite to rookie minicamps.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Defensive back and linebacker Tyreek Chappell<\/a> and linebacker Scooby Williams<\/a> signed with the Minnesota Vikings. Chappell played five seasons with the Aggies posting 143 tackles and two interceptions. Williams was with A&M for two seasons after transferring from Florida and had 63 tackles.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Another\u00a0Aggies running back, EJ Smith<\/a>, will join the Kansas City Chiefs. The son of Dallas Cowboy running back Emmitt Smith, the younger played for four years at Stanford and two years at A&M. He rushed for 969 yards and nine touchdowns over his six-year college career.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Linebacker\u00a0Taurean York<\/a> signed with the Denver Broncos and he will join his former teammate, defensive tackle Tyler Onyedim<\/a>. York, who started all his games in an Aggies uniform, had 228 total tackles and led the defense is sophomore and junior year with 82 and 72, respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jacob Graham, an Aggies long snapper, was invited to rookie minicamps for the Dallas Cowboys<\/a> and Houston Texans<\/a>. Graham appeared in 42 career games and was a three-year starter.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But there were more Aggies with an opportunity to make an NFL roster and didn’t hear their name…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[21872,132,134,133,113,79,260,259],"class_list":["post-272629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-2026-nfl-draft","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-houston-texans","tag-texas-am-aggies","tag-texas-am-aggies-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}