{"id":745572,"date":"2026-02-11T20:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/745572\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T20:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:31:14","slug":"texas-am-draws-13-invites-tops-among-all-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/745572\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&#038;M draws 13 invites, tops among all schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLLEGE STATION \u2014 It could be argued that no one had more potential NFL talent than the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/tamu\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Texas A&amp;M football<\/a> team.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Aggies are expected to have 13 players, the most in the nation,\u00a0at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/nfl-combine-full-list-of-draft-prospects-invited-to-2026-scouting-event\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">2026 NFL Scouting Combine<\/a>. It&#8217;s also the most\u00a0Aggies ever selected for the combine, topping the previous high of nine (1992, 2017, 2022), per the A&amp;M athletics department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The baker&#8217;s dozen invited to the event on Wednesday represents a dramatic increase from last season. Just three Aggies were invited in 2025, and all three were selected in the draft.<\/p>\n<p>Concepcion, Bisontis and York\u00a0all declared early for the draft. Cornerback Tyreek Chappell, who participated in the East-West Shrine Bowl last month, is the notable A&amp;M senior from this past season\u2019s squad not invited to the combine. Chappell was a three-year starter for the Aggies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MM_onlineOnly\" title=\"CCI Online Only\">An NFL committee of scouts and other league personnel decides who gets the opportunity to appear at the event; all 32 teams provide input on draft-eligible players. That information is used by the NFL\u2019s player selection committee to select the combine participants. All eligible players are voted on by the committee members. Invitations are extended to the athletes who receive the necessary number of votes. Typically, about 300 players are welcomed.<\/p>\n<p>This year 319 players were invited to the combine, scheduled for Feb. 26-March 1 in Indianapolis. The NFL\u00a0draft will take place April 23-25 in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama (12) and Ohio State (11) had the second and third-most invitees, behind A&amp;M.<\/p>\n<p>Reach Texas A&amp;M beat reporter Tony Catalina via email at Anthony.Catalina@statesman.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE STATION \u2014 It could be argued that no one had more potential NFL talent than the 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,6,927,15,8307,26930,3260],"class_list":{"0":"post-745572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-nfl-combine","11":"tag-nfl-draft","12":"tag-sec-football","13":"tag-texas-am-aggies-football","14":"tag-texas-am-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116053900623679365","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}