EAST LANSING — Ted Gilmore delivered high praise for his newest understudy, Daniel Barker.
Even though he feels the Michigan State football tight end transfer does have one thing he needs to work on.
“Once he learns it all, once it slows down for him, this young man has some skills. And I'm glad we have him,” Gilmore said Monday. “My biggest challenge with him is to get him to be quiet.”
Barker’s opinion?
“I mean, I got a great personality,” he said with a grin.
And talented, enough so that Barker explored entering the NFL draft before deciding to leave Illinois and play a fifth college season as a graduate transfer with the Spartans.