The holy grail for a college football passing offense is two 1,000-yard receivers in the same season.

LSU is the most recent SEC team to manage the feat in 2013 with Odell Beckham Jr. and Jarvis Landry.

But what about three 1,000-yard receivers in the same year? It’s very unlikely, but there’s a chance that Texas A&M could give it a legitimate run in 2016.

Throwing for 4,000 yards in a season seems like the basement for a Kevin Sumlin-coached offense. The Aggies threw for 3,971 yards in ’14 despite a bad defense and quarterback play that should only get better.

With a strong defense, a run to the College Football Playoffs and improved play from Kyle Allen, who would be a junior by ’16, and the Aggies’ young talent at receiver and tight end, A&M could max out near 5,000 yards. That’s with a perfect season, but assuming 15 games, the team would only need to improve its passing average from 305 to 334 yards per game.

If he remains on the team in ’16, Josh Reynolds seems like a no-brainer to top 1,000 yards. A newcomer to the SEC last season, Reynolds managed 842 yards and 13 touchdowns. He’s a likely candidate to reach the mark this season as well.

By ’16, five-star Speedy Noil will be a true junior. He made some spectacular catches as a freshman and played through an injury, but came nowhere near his potential with 583 yards. By the start of the ’16 season, he should be progressing into one of the nation’s toughest threats at the position and in complete sync with Allen, should the latter remain the starter.

With Noil’s big after-the-catch ability, expect him to improve upon his meager 12.7 yards per catch in ’14. If he bumps that number to, say, 15.0 — below four of the team’s receivers this year — he’d need to catch 67 passes. That’s 21 more than he managed as a true freshman on an occasionally-bum hamstring. With more games, better play from the defense and the team’s quarterback and a progression at receiver, Noil has a great chance at reaching 1,000 yards as well.

No one would be all that surprised if the Aggies feature a pair of 1,000-yard receivers this season, much less in ’16. But the biggest obstacle to Texas A&M getting two or even three receivers to that benchmark is the team’s propensity to spread the ball to so many different players. Boone Niederhofer was one catch (or one vowel?) shy of giving the Aggies six 30-catch guys last season.

One of those, Ricky Seals-Jones, is a matchup disaster at an athletic 6-foot-5 and 235 pounds. He did catch 49 passes in his freshman redux season in ’14 after an injury cost him most of ’13, but averaged less than 10 yards per reception. At that rate he’d have to catch 100 passes in a season to reach 1,000 yards, an exorbitant amount even if he was the unquestioned No. 1 option, which seems unlikely. His yards per catch will go up, but it’s hard to imagine him nearly doubling it.

Seals-Jones ultimately could derail the chance at three 1,000-yard receivers in one season. He’s likely to see his production increase. There are only so many footballs to go around, and if he catches more than 50 passes as the team’s second or third option and doesn’t get to 1,000 yards, it’s difficult to imagine a fourth player getting enough targets to challenge the mark.

Perhaps incoming five-star receiver Christian Kirk, or one of the other young pass-catchers on the team, also will develop into a 1,000-yard threat. It’s difficult to imagine a true freshman getting there in 2016, but Reynolds was a junior college transfer, and maybe there’s another one of those lurking for ’16 that we’ve yet to discover is headed to College Station.

I’m not openly rooting for A&M to achieve this unusual feat, and I’m certainly not hoping for an injury. But in addition to Texas A&M fielding a College Football Playoff-level team in ’16, the feat becomes more likely if there are a few injuries within the Aggies’ receiving corps. If a couple of second-tier options get hurt and the team spreads out its pass attempts to fewer players, three or four guys could get the bulk of the yards.

If the team throws for 4,500 or more passing yards, plus Reynolds and Noil each barely top 1,000 yards, there’s a slim but real chance that another one of the team’s targets could muster enough catches to put them in range, and perhaps a huge game against a lesser non-conference opponent when the top two guys are resting could do the trick.

No matter what the Aggies’ numbers are on offense in ’15 and ’16, it’s going to be fun to watch a young group of skill players develop within a system that’s proven to produce some eye-popping production.