Five in Five: Stock-rising defenders as 2025 campaign approaches

This is the fifth and final piece in a five-part series taking a look at Texas A&M football as the Aggies opened fall camp on July 30.

Find Liucci’s entire Five in Five series HERE.

Dezz Ricks

A “shining star” of fall camp is how Jay Bateman described Ricks on Tuesday. If you've been reading or listening to me at all this summer, his rise comes as no shock. The Alabama transfer was thrown into action last fall and had some ups and downs.