Tag: Michigan State Football

Michigan State Football offers 2023 OG Bradyn Joiner from Oxford, AL

Michigan State Football has made an offer to 2023 Offensive Guard Bradyn Joiner out of Oxford, AL. Read more details about him here.

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Michigan State Football has locked in on 2022 recruits and 2023 recruits this offseason, paving a path to the future. Now, 2023 Offensive Guard Bradyn Joiner announced he has received an offer from the Spartans.

Joiner stands at an impressive 6-foot-3 and weighs 305-pounds. He hails from Oxford, AL, where he currently plays for Oxford High School. While Joiner is not ranked right now on 247Sports, this will likely change with time.

The Spartans made an offer to Joiner on Aug 1 which is the latest offer made to the 2023 recruit according to the 247Sports timeline.

You can check out some of his highlights here.

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Locked On Spartans Podcast: College football players are fed up

Michigan State suggests students stay home this fall if they can.

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Wil and Matt talk about MSU suggesting that regular students stay home this fall if they can and how that contradicts with having the athletics teams on campus. Then they talk about the player movement in the PAC 12 and debate a fun solution for fall football if the season gets canceled.

You can find the episode on iTunes, Spotify and Google Podcasts.

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Michigan State Football offers 2021 3-star OT/DE Ru’Quan Buckley

Michigan State Football offers 2021 3-star OT/DE Ru’Quan Buckley out of Grand Rapids, MI. Read more details about this prospect here.

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Michigan State football’s recruiting staff and HC Mel Tucker put in work this recruiting season, despite Tucker coming on board late in the game. Recently, 2021 3-star Offensive Tackle Ru’Quan Buckley announced he received an offer from Spartan football. Note, this offer was actually made back in February.

Ru’Quan Buckley is 6-foot-6 and weighs 260-pounds. He hails from Grand Rapids, MI, where he currently plays for Godwin Heights Senior High School. He is ranked as the No. 14 recruit in Michigan in the 2021 class.

You can watch some of his highlights here.

Buckley currently has offers from Florida State, Nebraska, Central Michigan, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, and Oregon. 247Sports has given him two Crystal Ball predictions for Nebraska.

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Michigan State offers 2022 3-star New Jersey CB Avery Powell

The Spartans have offered a 2022 3-star cornerback out of St. Peters Prep School.

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Despite some recent recruiting setbacks, Michigan State Football head coach Mel Tucker is continuing to move forward. On Monday, it was announced that the Spartans have offered a scholarship to 2022 3-star cornerback Avery Powell out of Jersey City, New Jersey.

Powell is a 5’11” defensive back who currently plays for St. Peters Prep School. There is quite a bit of variance in his recruiting rankings as the 247Sports composite rankings have him as the No. 6 player in New Jersey for his class but their core rankings have him at No. 26.

Powell has offers out from Buffalo, Maryland, Nebraska, Ole Miss, Pitt, South Carolina, Wisconsin and many more.

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Report: Big Ten to release ten-game football schedule on Tuesday

The conference is expected to release an update 10-game conference-only schedule.

According to a report from AI’com’s John Talty the Big Ten is going to release an updated 2020 football schedule on Tuesday.

The Big Ten had previously announced the conference would move all fall sports–including football–to a ten-game conference-only schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently Big Ten teams have just nine games on their schedule. There is no word yet on how the conference will adjust the schedule. Expectation is a priority will be placed on division and rivalry games being played early in the season.

The ACC recently did the same as the Big Ten, but eliminated divisions for the season while adding Notre Dame to the conference for one year.

Thus far the PAC-12 and SEC have joined the Big Ten and ACC in eliminating non-conference games. The Big 12 is the only power five conference to not eliminate any potential football opponents.

On Monday afternoon Michigan State’s current week one opponent Northwestern announced they would be shutting down football workouts due to a positive COVID test. MSU’s football team is currently nearing the end of a 14-day quarantine resulting from a small outbreak amongst the team. That quarantine is scheduled to run through August 4.

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Updates on COVID-19 regarding a couple of Big Ten teams

Northwestern became the latest team to suspend football activities on Monday after a positive COVID-19 test found its way to their team.

Last week Notre Dame released news that in their most-recent testing, that no football players tested positive for COVID-19.  That hasn’t happened in many places as we’ve seen the likes of Clemson, LSU, Texas, Alabama, Ohio State and plenty of other programs suspend football activities because of the number of positive tests.

One school that had not yet been the case at was Northwestern, who hadn’t had a positive test at that time.

Key word in that last sentence:  had.

Teddy Greenstein covers the Big Ten and college football like a glove for the Chicago Tribune.  Greenstein reports today that Northwestern is pressing pause on football for at least a couple of days after their first player has tested positive for COVID-19.

Also in the Big Ten numbers have come out in regards to the University of Illinois and their COVID-19 test results.  This from Shannon Ryan, also of the Chicago Tribune:

As Greenstein pointed out in his article, four Big Ten teams have already suspended football activities at different times this summer as Ohio State, Indiana, Michigan State and Rutgers have all had to hit pause at different times.

Northwestern’s decision to pause football activities now puts that number at five.

Michigan State Football offers 2021 3-star OC Michael Myslinski

Michigan State Football has made an offer to 2021 3-star Offensive Center Michael Myslinski hailing from Jacksonville, Florida.

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Mel Tucker and Michigan State Football have wrapped up the recruiting season with a few final offers. Now, 3-star 2021 Offensive Center Michael Myslinski has announced he received an offer from the Spartans.

Myslinski hails from Jacksonville, FL, where he currently plays for Bishop Kenny High School. He stands at 6-foot-2 and weighs 285-pounds. According to 247Sports Composite Rankings, he is the No. 12 OC in the 2021 recruiting class.

You can check out some of his highlights here.

Right now, Myslinski currently has offers from Iowa, Texas, Florida State, Missouri, Oregon, and Wake Forest. Recently, Michigan State picked up a high-confidence Crystal Ball prediction from Maryland Insider Jeff Ermann.

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Michigan State picked to finish fifth in East Division by Big Ten media

Ohio State is the runaway favorite in the Big Ten.

There is a consensus favorite in the Big Ten and it isn’t Michigan State.

The Spartans under first-year coach Mel Tucker have been picked to finish fifth in the East Division by Big Ten Media. Cleveland.com has been running the unofficial Big Ten preseason media polling for the last ten years.

Ohio State received 33 of 34 first-place votes in the division. Penn State got the other and finished in second. The Nittany Lions were followed by Michigan, Indiana, MSU, Maryland, and Rutgers.

Out west Wisconsin and Minnesota came close to an even split in first-place votes, but the Badgers took the top spot with 19 selections. Minnesota got 14 first-place picks to finish second. They were followed by Iowa, Nebraska, Purdue, Northwestern (who got a first-place vote), and Illinois.

Ohio State was predicted to win the league in all but one scenario which had Penn State winning the league.

Ohio State’s Justin Fields was picked as the player of the year on offense and Penn State’s Micah Parsons took home that honor on defense.

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Former Michigan State WR Bennie Fowler to sign with the New Orleans Saints

Former Michigan State wide receiver Bennie Fowler will reportedly sign with the New Orleans Saints.

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In terms of former Michigan State Football players who are currently playing in the NFL, I think, for whatever reason, that Bennie Fowler gets slept on a little bit. He hasn’t set the league on fire, but he has proven to be a reliable wide receiver and he has parlayed that into a nice career, and it looks like that career will continue moving forward. On Thursday, it was reported that Bennie Fowler will be signing with the New Orleans Saints.

This was first reported by Nick Underhill of NewOrleans.Football.

Fowler last played for the New York Giants and was released back in November. He has played six seasons in the NFL, 4 with the Denver Broncos and then 2 with the Giants, and has accumulated 1,090 yards and 6 touchdowns over his career. Fowler gets the chance to play with former Purdue Boilermaker Drew Brees.

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Report: Former Michigan State cornerback Darqueze Dennard agrees to terms with the Atlanta Falcons

Dennard will sign with his hometown Falcons after his initial free agency deal with Jacksonville fell through in March.

After his initial free agency deal with the Jacksonville Jaguars fell through, it appears as though former Michigan State cornerback Darqueze Dennard has found his next NFL home.

Dennard, recently named to the Big Ten All-Decade team, has agreed to terms with the Atlanta Falcons according to NFL Network reporter Tom Pelissero.

Terms of the deal have not yet been disclosed. Dennard’s agreement with Jacksonville was for three-years and $13.5 million with $6 million guaranteed.

It was reported Thursday afternoon that Dennard, who was taken by the Cincinnati Bengals in the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft, was in Atlanta visiting the Falcons. If the deal is finalized and signed it will be a homecoming of sorts for Dennard, who was born and raised in rural Georgia.

Dennard played from 2010-2013 at Michigan State, winning two Big Ten Championships and a Rose Bowl Championship. He won the Thorpe Award as the nation’s top defensive back and was a unanimous All-American in 2013. He was named to the All-Big Ten first team in 2012 & 2013 while winning Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year in 2013.

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