It looks as if Texas A&M could be losing a touted member of its 2018 football recruiting class. After it retrieved one from the portal earlier this offseason.
Leon O’Neal had announced on Twitter in late February that he had entered the transfer portal. By the next month, however, the safety was no longer in the NCAA database and was still enrolled in classes at TAMU. Four months later, it’s now being reported that Tank Jenkins is listed in the same database.
247Sports.com was the first to report the move.
Now, for what’s seemingly becoming a daily disclaimer when it comes to transfers.
As we’ve stated myriad times in the past, a player can remove his name from the portal and remain at the same school. At this point, though, other programs are permitted to contact a player without receiving permission from his current football program.
NCAA bylaws also permit schools to pull a portal entrant’s scholarship at the end of the semester in which he entered it.
Jenkins was a four-star member of the Texas A&M football Class of 2018. The Montgomery, Ala., product was rated as the No. 8 player regardless of position in the Yellowhammer State. He was also the No. 11 offensive guard in the country. Only one offensive lineman in that class for the Aggies was rated higher than Jenkins.
Despite that pedigree, Jenkins never saw the field for the Aggies. He took a redshirt as a true freshman, then didn’t play at all this past season.
It’s likely Jenkins will have to sit out the 2020 campaign. That would then leave him with two years of eligibility to use starting in 2021.
