Le'Veon Moss injury cited for Greg McElroy keeping Texas A&M RB off Top 10 list

The Texas A&M Aggies are looking to take a step forward and compete for the College Football Playoff in 2025. A major part of that jump is going to fall on the success of running back Le’Veon Moss.

Moss was one of the best running backs in the country in 2024. Now, he’s looking to improve on that effort. Still, as analyst Greg McElroy explained on Always College Football, he’s not a Top 10 player because of the injury that cut his season short.

“Now, if not for the injury that he sustained against South Carolina last year,” Greg McElroy said. “Le’Veon Moss would have without one doubt whatsoever, he would have 100 percent been in our top 10. He was well on his way to rushing for over 1,000 yards. He had already, at that point, accumulated 760 and 10 touchdowns, averaged six and a half a carry in the SEC.”

Moss went down in the South Carolina game. That was the ninth game of the season, and their loss in that game snapped a seven-game winning streak. It turned out to be a season-ending injury. However, it’s unclear what the exact injury he suffered was.

In those nine games, Moss rushed for 765 yards on 121 attempts. That’s 6.3 yards per attempt. He also rushed for 10 touchdowns. On top of that, he had 10 receptions for another 141 yards.

“But what I love most when watching Le’Veon Moss, there is nobody that I saw last year that runs as hard. There is nobody that runs as physical and then finishes runs with as much intensity as Le’Veon Moss. You watch him, he’s running through the hole, and defenders are just bouncing off of him. He runs with good pad level too, but he’s one of those guys that likes to initiate the contact, that likes to create violence, and as a result, defenders think twice when they go and try to make contact with Le’Veon Moss,” McElroy said.

“So, I think he, of course, was benefited last year by an injury in the preseason to Rueben Owens, which gave Le’Veon Moss plenty of opportunities to come out to the forefront and have a great first eight or nine games of the year, but when he was lost with that knee injury, that obviously slowed down any momentum for him to be a top five back coming into 2025.”

Le’Veon Moss was limited this spring in practice as he continues his recovery. To this point, though, that recovery seems to be going as well as possible.

“However, it sounds like the prognosis is good. He’s been openly tweeting about, ‘Hey, I’m going to be back. I’m going to be at 100 percent. Don’t you worry about me,'” McElroy said. “I believe Le’Veon Moss by season’s end if he looks anything like he did last year, A&M’s rushing attack has a chance to be in great shape.”