Quarterback Marcel Reed named SEC Offensive Player of the Week

Reed ‘em and weep.

After all, the play of Marcel Reed resulted in immeasurable Tiger tears.

For a four-touchdown performance in Texas A&M’s 49-25 demolition of LSU, the Aggie quarterback has been named the SEC’s Offensive Player of the Week.

"Obviously, we're going to celebrate all the things that we have accomplished,” Reed said postgame on Saturday. “Historic things. Us not being 8-0 since I don't know when. We're happy about it for sure, but there's definitely still a lot of things to be proven.”

One thing that has been proven is that #10 is a bona fide Heisman contender with his odds to win the coveted trophy at +600 and currently fourth-best behind Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza, Alabama’s Ty Simpson and Ohio State’s Julian Sayin.

With spooky season in full effect ahead of Oct. 31, the scariest thing is that Reed has yet to play his best game.

If this trip to Baton Rouge is his “Heisman moment,” he still has room to grow after throwing a pair of interceptions that kept LSU in the ballgame at halftime.

“We were really just kicking ourselves in the butt in the first half,” Reed said. “First interception was on me. … We were kind of giving it up to them. We knew coming out in the second half, we were the better team.”

Of course, the Ags scored 35 unanswered points in the second half, but Reed’s brilliance started on A&M’s first drive when he weaved 41 yards through the Tiger defense for the game’s opening score.

Later in the first half, he delivered a 15-yard strike to KC Concepcion to give A&M a 14-7 lead.

But LSU led by four at the break. There was work to do, and Reed was up to the task.

His five-yard scoring run put A&M up for good early in the third quarter. His 24-yard pass to running back Jamarion Morrow then put the cryin’ Tigers to bed by increasing the lead to 35-18.

Reed finished his Saturday night in Death Valley by completing 57 percent of his passes for 202 yards and running for a career-high 108 yards.

“They tried to put a quote out there that I said that Death Valley was underwhelming,” the signal-caller said. “Shoot, I guess it was. It didn’t do much to me. I love playing in environments like this, and I think my teammates do too.

“Being able to go out there and get a W and kind of shut the opponent’s crowd up is something that I look forward to doing whenever we play away games.”

Through eight games (and eight wins) this fall, Reed has thrown for 1,972 yards and 17 touchdowns, adding 349 yards and six additional scores as a runner. His 2,321 yards of offense rank third in the SEC and 18th nationally, ahead of Simpson (2,263), Mendoza (2,119) and Sayin (1,889).

This is the third SEC weekly honor of Reed’s career, to go along with a pair of SEC Freshman of the Week awards in 2024.