Le'Veon Moss injury update: Mike Elko reveals Texas A&M RB's health status for Week 1

Texas A&M senior running back Le’Veon Moss was in the midst of a breakout junior season, leading the Aggies backfield with more than 700 rushing yards and 10 touchdowns before suffering a season-ending knee injury at South Carolina in early November 2024.

Now, as No. 19 Texas A&M is set to open the 2025 regular season Saturday evening (7 pm ET, ESPN) against in-state foe UTSA, the veteran Aggies running back has been given a clean bill of health, according to second-year head coach Mike Elko.

“Yeah, Le’Veon’s good to go,” Elko said during Tuesday’s media availability. “He’s had a really, really strong two weeks and we’re excited to get him back out there and see him perform.”

Moss is joined in a dynamic A&M backfield that also includes Rueben Owens II, who is also returning from an injury last season, Amari Daniels and EJ Smith, the son of Dallas Cowboys great Emmitt Smith.

The 6-foot, 210-pound Moss finished the 2024 season with 765 rushing yards and 10 scores to give him 1,363 rushing yards and 16 rushing touchdowns across his first three seasons in College Station. Prior to the injury, Moss had topped the 100-yard rushing mark three times through A&M’s first six games last season, averaging nearly 8.5 yards per carry in those three games.

Moss had an eventful offseason after being arrested July 13 on a since-dismissed disorderly conduct charge stemming from an early-morning incident in downtown College Station. The city of College Station later dismissed the disorderly conduct charge, a Class C misdemeanor, filed against Moss, his attorney told KBTX.

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.

“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.”

— On3’s Dan Morrison contributed to this report.