The SEC has been good to Texas A&M from a recruiting standpoint. With two top-10 classes in their first three full years in the conference, plus a finish right below that mark in 2015, the Aggies are set up for success long-term.

This last class was filled with players who could make an impact early on, like Christian Kirk, Daylon Mack and Justin Evans, and it also got a late boost when Kyler Murray decided opt out of the Major League Baseball draft and junior college star Jake Hubernak committed to play quarterback at A&M as well.

Are the Aggies on track for another big recruiting year? Let’s check in on how they’re addressing their biggest needs.

Running back

Losing after 2015: Tra Carson, Brandon Williams

While Texas A&M is always going to be a pass-first team under Sumlin, having a running game to complement all the talent at receiver is going to be a focus. New offensive line coach and run game coordinator Dave Christensen is implementing some changes to their approach.

Carson is back for his senior year, and he’ll likely be the main guy with Williams playing some defensive back as well. The Aggies brought in two running backs in 2015, Kendall Bussey and Jay Bradford. Texas A&M could look for more power backs like Carson, or find a few players to serve as a change-of-pace type who can catch out of the backfield — someone like four-star target Trayveon Williams.

Cornerback

Losing after 2015: De’Vante Harris

The Aggies missed on several highly rated in-state corners in 2015, and new DC John Chavis will have them out looking for players who fit his mold of long, athletic players.

Texas A&M returns a couple of key players in Harris and Victor Davis, but neither has the size that Chavis favors. Nick Harvey was touted coming out of high school last year, and he’ll get more of a chance to play in 2015 thanks to his physical nature.

Several top Texas prospects play the position, and the Aggies may be looking at a few safeties that they’d like to convert to cornerback. Having Chavis in town should help open a few doors for Texas A&M, especially for a player like Kristian Fulton from Louisiana, Chavis’ old stomping grounds.

Defensive end

Losing after 2015: Julien Obioha

Defensive end is another position where there is a Chavis archetype, again a long, athletic type of player. The Aggies already have several of them on hand, including budding superstar Myles Garrett and younger players like Daeshon Hall and Qualen Cunningham.

Obioha will depart after 2015, and he could be the last type of player in his mold — a run-stopping end — to come through Texas A&M for some time. Chavis defenses get pressure from the ends, and like cornerback the Aggies will be looking for those longer, athletic players to get after the quarterback, especially after signing just one defensive end in 2015.

Aggies still have needs to fill

Some of Texas A&M’s more pressing issues, such as linebacker, were addressed last year and could be left alone, or at least be just a secondary concern, for 2016. Others, like wide receiver and quarterback, will also be areas of interest for a Sumlin-coached team, but are currently well stocked.

The Aggies have two cornerback commits already, one a four-star and the other a three-star. The rest of the commits so far are three offensive linemen, a kicker and a tight end.

However, Texas A&M has to start filling the other slots at immediate positions of need for 2016. They have offers out to several big-name prospects at running back and defensive end, but no commitments yet. Players like four-star defensive ends McTelvin Agim and Justin Madubuike and blue-chip outside linebacker Michael Divinity hold offers from Texas A&M at the moment, but the Aggies will have to win them over in the coming months.

Outlook

Texas A&M has been winning on a national scale for the last three years, and that should continue into 2016 and the future. The Aggies already have their next cornerstone offensive lineman in the fold, with Allen, Texas offensive tackle Greg Little already committed, as well as two other offensive tackles to supplement the strong class brought aboard for 2015.

Of course, in the SEC West, a recruiting class ranked just outside the top 10 — A&M was 11th in 2015, per the 247sports industry composite rankings — could only be good for third or fourth in the division. If the Aggies can hold onto their elite commit in Little and bring in a few more at key positions, they could vault up into the very upper echelon.