Mike Elko elevates Bryant Gross-Armiento to A&M's cornerbacks coach

Texas A&M head coach Mike Elko has elevated Bryant Gross-Armiento to be the Aggies’ new cornerbacks coach.

TexAgs co-owner and executive editor Billy Liucci was first to report the move.

Gross-Armiento has been on Elko’s staff as a defensive analyst and assistant since 2021.

A&M’s cornerback coaching position became open following Jordan Peterson’s departure to become the defensive coordinator at Kansas State.

Gross-Armiento’s elevation follows a precedent of promotion from within, similar to that of Lyle Hemphill as defensive coordinator, Holmon Wiggins as offensive coordinator and both Joey Lynch and John Perry as offensive assistants.

A defensive back by trade, “BGA” began his collegiate playing career at Rutgers before transferring to Wake Forest in 2014, but a series of injuries kept him from seeing the field with the Demon Deacons.

Following his playing career, Gross-Armiento began his coaching career at Wake in 2017 as a recruiting assistant and later became a graduate assistant with his alma mater from 2018-19.

After spending 2020 as an analyst at Georgia, he made the move to Aggieland, where he served as a defensive analyst on Jimbo Fisher’s staff from 2021-22 and was elevated to secondary coach for the 2023 campaign.

When Elko returned to A&M as the head man in the winter of 2023, he retained Gross-Armiento as a senior defensive analyst for the 2024 season and was then promoted to nickels coach for 2025.

Earlier this offseason, Elko added Elijah Robinson and Travis Williams to the defensive staff in addition to promoting Hemphill.

Now, Gross-Armiento will round out Elko’s 10-member staff and is part of a group tasked with elevating an Aggie defense that ranked in the nation’s top 20 in 2025.