Mel Tucker spent 2019 as head coach at Colorado, where he went 5-7, after three seasons as Georgia defensive coordinator. Detroit Free Press
The fallout from Michigan State football’s decline in recent years settled approximately 260 miles southwest in Indianapolis late last month.
It was at the NFL scouting combine where former Spartans quarterback Brian Lewerke expressed guarded optimism about his future.
“I am looking just to get drafted,” he confessed.
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It was in that vicinity, two days later, where defensive tackle Raequan Williams agreed that Michigan State’s pedestrian 27-24 record the past four years would factor into scouts’ evaluations of the seven Spartans invited to this stop along the path to the pros.