AggieYell.com's series on the key members of the 2021 Texas A&M football team continues with safety Leon O'Neal.
Class: Senior
Spring Height/Weight: 6-foot-1, 203 pounds
2020 stats: 48 tackles, 3 passes defensed, 2 INT in 10 games
Projected 2021 role: starting safety
O'Neal has been a consistent presence and high quality smack talker since he arrived at A&M, but he's matured on and off the field. He had lapses of immaturity last season, but 2020 was largely a season of vast improvement for the safety. Now, he's looking for a big final year at A&M and has taken on a leadership role. He's become one of the team's hardest workers and seems to be taking all the right steps to ready himself for a breakout in 2021.