If you missed the big news out of College Station on Monday, Texas A&M was forced to shut down team activities to start Tennessee Week after two members of the program tested positive for COVID following the team’s trip to South Carolina last weekend.

While Jimbo Fisher did not provide any names for those that tested positive, the Aggie coach did reveal it was one player and one support staffer.

“We suspended things for the safety protocols to make sure we do our quarantine tracing and all the things,” Fisher said on Monday. “If there is more there, if there is a spread, we’re trying to prevent that. Do everything from a safety issue from our players and our staff to keep them as safe as possible.

“So we’ll do everything by Zoom today and then we’ll make accordances based off the test results we get back and the things that are going on and the quarantine tracing in which we’re presently still pursuing and finalizing.”

Due to the fact the A&M player that tested positive made the trip to Columbia, the Aggies are in a difficult spot when it comes to contact tracing.

While no other players may test positive for COVID, several A&M players are expected to be out for up to 14 days after coming into close contact with the members of the program that have already tested positive.

According to Texas A&M AD Ross Bjork, “over a dozen” players will be out for 14 days because of contact tracing protocols, with “no way out of it,” reports Heather Dinich of ESPN.

“It’s not like an outbreak, it’s just contact tracing,” Bjork said to ESPN. “The level of concern is not that we have a bunch of positive cases, you just don’t have the players because of your contact tracing.”

Fisher noted on Monday that the current plan remains for Texas A&M to make the trip to Knoxville to take on Tennessee this Saturday but the fate of that game rests in the hands of the testing that will be done in College Station this week.

If you are unaware, the SEC has mandated that all teams have 53 available scholarship players ready to play in order to compete on game day.

In addition to needing to have 53 players available, the SEC mandated that each team have one quarterback, seven offensive linemen and four defensive linemen ready to play in order for a game to be played.