The SEC has announced the list of players who will accompany their head coaches to SEC Media days in Tampa next week, and texas A&M is sending three team leaders.

Quarterback Marcel Reed, safety Marcus Ratcliffe and linebacker Daymion Sanford — all team captains — will join coach Mike Elko as A&M’s delegation to media days. The Aggies will meet with the media on the afternoon of Wednesday, July 22.

Reed will be the headliner for the national media, as he returns for his second full season as the Aggies’ signal caller. In 2025, Reed passed for 3,169 yards, 25 touchdowns and 12 interceptions and added another 493 yards rushing with six more scores. He’ll have to face questions not only about this upcoming season but the end of the 2025 season, as he struggled in losses to Texas and Miami in the College Football Playoff.

Reed is the first quarterback to represent A&M at SEC Media Days since Kellen Mond in 2019.

Ratcliffe, who has become a team leader since his arrival from San Diego State three years ago, is part of a trio of safeties — with Dalton Brooks and Tawfiq Byard — that could be amongst the SEC’s best. Ratcliffe has gotten preseason All-American consideration after a 2025 season in which he tallied 65 tackles, three tackles for loss and 3 passes broken up.

The player who may draw the most attention from the Texas A&M media corps is Sanford, who was injured during the spring game and had surgery on his leg within a matter of days. The recovery time has never been officially announced, so there has been plenty of speculation about when he’ll be able to return this season. That question will likely be the first and most-asked question for Sanford, who tallied 57 tackles, 9.5 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks, two forced fumbles, a fumble recovery in an interception in 2025. Sanford didn’t even start for the first quarter of the season, taking over only when Scooby Williams was injured during A&M’s 41-40 victory at Notre Dame.