What a healthy Conner Weigman could mean for Texas A&M, Year 1 under Mike Elko

One of the more underrated quarterbacks in college football is Texas A&M’s Conner Weigman, but don’t tell Andy Staples that.

On the latest episode of Andy Staples On3, Billy Liucci of TexAgs joined the show. Staples wanted his opinion on a guy he believes has NFL potential in Weigman, as the 2025 NFL Draft is wide-open quarterback-wise at the moment.

“There is one guy who I think, if he lives up to his potential, has an NFL future, and that’s Conner Weigman, the quarterback,” Staples prefaced. “And we haven’t seen him since he got hurt last year. Obviously he was there in the spring. He’s still recovering.

“I heard [Mike] Elko say the other day that he feels like he’ll be fully ready for camp. But how different can his offense be with a healthy Connor Weigman?”

According to Liucci, Weigman’s health coupled with some improved offensive line play will have experts singing his praises in no time.

“Slash solid offensive line play, right? With that combination. I think people have forgotten what Conner Weigman was putting on tape before he got hurt against Auburn last year. I think people forget that,” Liucci stated. “The SEC Nation came in that weekend, and if you heard those things, that group includes a couple of guys that really, you know, put a lot into studying the quarterback position, what they thought of Weigman and his trajectory and his arc already, you know, four games into that season.

“The way he ended his freshman year that game against LSU. The way he played in his first career start that season, the year before against Ole Miss, and then to carry it through even in that loss to Miami. People were looking at that tape that I respect, that have nothing to do with A&M, going, ‘Go look at some of those throws and where he placed the ball and the pressure he was under, and how many hits he took and the guts he had standing in there.’ So there’s a ton to work with. The key is yeah, he has to be healthy.”

Continuing, Liucci added that he believes the Aggies staff is doing a tremendous job of working Weigman back to the Aggies, and setting him up for some serious success.

“I think what Mike Elko and Collin Klein did this spring was really significant,” Liucci added. “Conner wasn’t 100%. A lot of times in college football, you go not 100%, just sit him. We always think that right? No reason to risk making it worse. Well, they determined that there wasn’t the risk of making it worse, it’s just that he was not yet full speed. Those muscles around that injury, he had not been able to, you know, fully strengthen them, and so and that’s kind of, from talking to Connor, what happened while practicing. He wasn’t gonna get hit, but I watched him in the first spring practice and I watched him in the last and it was night and day how far he came, in terms of his agility, mobility. And still, people that came to the spring game went, and I’m going, ‘No, no, no.’ If you didn’t see him 15 practices ago, you just said, ‘I thought that was really good,’ and more importantly, he fit the mental side, for Connor to practice with the ones with this football team, with his teammates and also to learn the offense, while actually executing the offense and not working, watching from the sidelines.

“I thought that if he has that breakout season this year and you know if that line can protect him, where he can stay healthy and he has one of those breakout years, I think you could look back on that decision to kind of you know, force the issue and say, ‘Now you need to practice,’ you can and you need to and he was all about it. He was ready to get back out there, but they also could have erred on the side of caution and I’m looking at it right now going on, I think it was pretty smart that they didn’t.”

Conner Weigman certainly has the talent. If he can continue to cultivate that, Texas A&M will be in a tremendous spot in 2024, and his NFL future will expand over the next season with the Aggies.