{"id":40506,"date":"2025-11-08T02:53:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T02:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/40506\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T02:53:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T02:53:05","slug":"four-players-ruled-out-for-texas-am-before-facing-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/40506\/","title":{"rendered":"Four players ruled out for Texas A&#038;M before facing Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Ahead of No. 3 <a href=\"http:\/\/aggieswire.usatoday.com\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas A&amp;M&#8217;s<\/a> (8-0, 5-0 SEC) road test vs. No. 22 Missouri (6-2, 2-2 SEC) on Saturday afternoon, the Aggies will look to adjust their linebacker rotation once again, knowing that senior LB Scooby Williams will miss Saturday&#8217;s game due to an undisclosed injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Combined with senior running back Le&#8217;Veon Moss, who will continue to be sidelined until his ankle injury is fully healed, safeties Bryce Anderson and Rashad &#8220;Tom Tom&#8221; Johnson Jr. will also be out. Anderson suffered a head injury during the first half of Texas A&amp;M&#8217;s 41-40 road win over Notre Dame and has only appeared in one game since without recording a tackle in limited snaps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Thanks to the elite play from junior linebacker <a href=\"http:\/\/aggieswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/aggies\/football\/2025\/10\/06\/cashius-howell-daymion-sanford-sec-player-of-the-week-texas-aggies-football\/86556665007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daymion Sanford<\/a>, who has recorded 33 tackles, 2.5 sacks, a forced fumble, and his first career interception, losing Williams isn&#8217;t the end of the world, but take away another consistent tackler to stop Missouri star running back Ahmad Hardy, who leads the SEC in rushing with 937 yards and 11 touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">For the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/missouri-tigers\/3428\/\" data-autotag=\"d6522db1-627b-4f61-a464-251646bc2d96\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Tigers<\/a>, junior tight end <a href=\"http:\/\/aggieswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/aggies\/football\/2025\/11\/07\/brett-norfleet-injury-texas-aggies-football-missouri-week-11\/87155151007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brett Norfleet<\/a> will officially miss the game due to a shoulder injury, which will likely affect Missouri&#8217;s passing game unless freshman quarterback Matt Zollers gains rhythm in the pocket, which is only possible if the offensive line holds up against Texas A&amp;M&#8217;s pass rush.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Contact\/Follow us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aggieswire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">@AggiesWire<\/a>\u00a0on X\u00a0(formerly Twitter) and like our page on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AggiesWire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of Texas A&amp;M news, notes and opinions.\u00a0Follow Cameron on X:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CameronOhnysty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">@CameronOhnysty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:7|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of No. 3 Texas A&amp;M&#8217;s (8-0, 5-0 SEC) road test vs. No. 22 Missouri (6-2, 2-2 SEC)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33,34,35,18796,19032,37,27,29,28,36],"class_list":["post-40506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-accessfree","tag-sstssportscollegeaggiesfootball","tag-sstsnfootball","tag-tagbreaking-news-social","tag-tagmissouri-tigers-football","tag-tagtexas-am-aggies-football","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40506","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=40506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}