Texas A&M's Moose Muhammad claims benching for wearing sleeves, Jimbo Fisher keeps it 'internal'

Moose Muhammed III didn’t play a single snap in Saturday’s 13-10 loss to Auburn. The Texas A&M wide receiver was healthy, and came into the game as the Aggies’ second-leading receiver.

Muhammed took to Twitter in the early hours of Sunday morning following the Texas A&M loss to express his disappointment in the decision not to play him.

“I want to clear the air,” Muhammed’s tweet read. “I was benched for wearing arm sleeves—something that my teammates and opponents wear frequently for protection. I apologize to my teammates and fans and looking forward to getting back on the field. Much love!”

Aggies head coach Jimbo Fisher declined to comment further on the matter postgame. “It was just an internal issue,” Fisher said.

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According to Gigem 247, Fisher has a rule that does not permit position players to wear sleeves, and was ultimately the reason why he was kept out of the game.

Texas A&M, who will not be bowl eligible this season, dropped to 3-7 (1-6, SEC) on the season heading into the final two weeks of the year.

Jimbo Fisher shares changes Auburn has made under Cadillac Williams

While Auburn hasn’t undertaken wholesale schematic or personnel changes since the firing of Bryan Harsin, there have been some tweaks noticed by the Tigers upcoming opponent. Texas A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher highlighted on his weekly radio show some of what he’s seen Auburn tweak since Cadillac Williams took over.

Namely, Fisher has noticed some new wrinkles on the offense from the Tigers — specifically a run look with frontside pullers. But beyond some tweaks like that, there isn’t a whole lot different.

“A few little calls here there. Defensively, stayed very similar. There’s going to be some wrinkles offensively, a little more pin-pull and some things they’re doing,” Fisher said. “Will Friend, who’s been around a long time, is a really good football coach. He’s calling the plays along with another guy — another guy is calling the pass plays but he’s calling the runs. And they’re still very similar.”

Fisher went on to explain how you can’t easily make fundamental changes midseason. Limitations on personnel — rosters are fairly locked-in and there’s no waiver wire — and time means that the underpinnings often stay the same while minor adjustments are made.

Basically, the real changes aren’t to what the Tigers are doing, but how they’re doing those things and how much they’re doing those things.

“You can’t change drastically. You say change, well, we’ve got three practices, four practices a week. How much you really going to change?” Fisher said. “You could put some new schemes in like you do for a game, but you can’t change, overall.”