COLLEGE STATION – Texas A&M receiver Ricky Seals-Jones has broken the news college football fans all over the country have anticipated, and he did it from the Columbus High basketball gym: star teammate Johnny Manziel is headed to the NFL.

“Johnny’s gone,” Seals-Jones told the Sealy High boys basketball broadcast team on Friday night. “He’s gone.”

Seals-Jones, a former Sealy star, had stopped by to visit with the Sealy broadcasters when dropping the bomb that everyone’s expected – but has not been made public by Manziel, his coaches or teammates. Until now.

Seals-Jones was discussing A&M’s future quarterbacks starting in 2014, but didn’t mention Manziel. An acute observer chimed in, “Do we have a scoop? Did I just hear Johnny Manziel not being mentioned for next year?”

A chuckling Seals-Jones responded that Manziel was “gone.” The Sealy broadcast can be found here, and Seals-Jones offers up his Manziel scoop starting at about the 53:30 mark. And a tip of the lid to “FTABAGG” on TexAgs.com for first mentioning the Sealy broadcast on a forum thread.

Manziel, the 2012 Heisman Trophy winner, is expected to make his NFL declaration official in coming days – perhaps Saturday – especially now that Seals-Jones has let the (scat) cat out of the bag. Manziel wrapped up his spectacular college career in stunning fashion, in leading the 9-4 Aggies to their largest comeback in history. A&M overcame a 21-point second-half deficit to defeat Duke 52-48 in the Chick-fil-A Bowl on New Year’s Eve in Atlanta.

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