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Former Texas A&M TE Jaden Platt has found a new home with a familiar foe. Platt announced on Tuesday that he’s heading to Arkansas to continue his collegiate career.
The 6-foot-5, 260-pound Platt arrived in College Station in 2023. During his 2 seasons at Texas A&M, Platt played in 9 total games and had just 2 receptions for 52 yards and a touchdown. Both of those catches came during his freshman season, when he played in only 3 games and used a redshirt.
Platt has been a special teams player for the Aggies for the most part over the past 2 seasons. But now, he’s turning the page on that chapter of his collegiate career and heading to Fayetteville in hopes of being a bigger part of the Razorbacks’ offense than he ever was at Texas A&M.
Platt joins an Arkansas team that went 6-6 in the regular season this fall and is currently preparing to play Texas Tech in the Liberty Bowl on Dec. 27 in Memphis. Interestingly, he’s leaving a Texas A&M team that will be playing in its bowl game later that same night, with the Aggies facing USC in the Las Vegas Bowl.
So far in the 2025 cycle, Arkansas has lost 26 players to the transfer portal and added 5 players as transfers to its class.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
