A former Fossil Ridge football player has become a star in one of college football’s premier conferences.
Texas A&M offensive lineman Trey Zuhn III was named to the 2025 All-SEC football first-team, the league announced Dec. 9.
The redshirt senior and fourth-year starter had his best season yet for the Aggies, which are bound for the College Football Playoff after an 11-1 regular season.
According to Pro Football Focus, Zuhn had the country’s highest pass blocking grade (96.9) and allowed just one sack in 382 pass snaps during the 2025 season.
The left tackle and Aggies team captain helped pave the way for an explosive Texas A&M offense that averaged 454.4 yards and 36.3 points per game this fall. Texas A&M was the only team in the top 35 nationally in total offense, scoring, rushing, passing, passing efficiency and time of possession this season.
The 6-foot-6, 320-pound Zuhn has made 49 career starts and played over 3,000 snaps for the Aggies since joining the program in 2021.
The former SaberCat left Fossil as one of the most highly-touted players in Fort Collins history as Colorado’s No. 3 recruit and a top-25 offensive tackle nationally in the Class of 2021, per 247Sports.
Zuhn did not play in the 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic affecting the Colorado high school season.
He had already committed to Texas A&M in early 2020, though, following several Aggies in his family lineage.
Zuhn, who was born in Round Rock, Texas told the Coloradoan in 2020 that his grandparents taught at Texas A&M and his parents both graduated from there.
Zuhn made the All-SEC third-team last season but improved his game considerably in his fifth year.
That should pay dividends come NFL Draft time.
ESPN’s Mel Kiper has Zuhn projected as an interior lineman at the next level, sliding to guard or center instead of playing tackle. Kiper had Zuhn rated No. 7 among 2026 interior linemen in his latest NFL Draft “Big Board.”
Other mock drafts have Zuhn going anywhere from the third round to the sixth round in the April draft.
Texas A&M is the No. 7 seed in the College Football Playoff and will host No. 10 Miami in the first round (Dec. 20, 10 a.m. Mountain). With a win, the Aggies would face No. 2 Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl (Dec. 31, 5:30 p.m. MT).
Zuhn was on the early wave of Fort Collins-area offensive lineman power-conference signees that has only crested higher throughout the 2020s.
Some other notable recent linemen from the Fort Collins area include Rocky Mountain’s Ethan Thomason (BYU, Class of 2023), Fossil Ridge’s Gage Ginther (Tennessee, 2024), Windsor’s Deacon Schmitt (Oklahoma, 2026) and Fort Collins’ Mason Bandhaeur (Iowa State, 2026).
Chris Abshire covers high school and community sports for the Coloradoan.