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Jordan Kitna, son of former Detroit Lions QB, will walk on to MSU football in the fall

It’s been an interesting few years in the recruitment process for Jordan Kitna, son of former 16-year NFL veteran quarterback Jon Kitna.

But on national signing day on Feb. 3, it all came to an end, as the senior quarterback from Waxahachie, Texas chose to go the preferred walk-on route at MSU.

Jordan Kitna didn’t receive a ton of recruiting attention in high school. Even after a junior year of throwing for 3,722 yards and 55 touchdowns and leadwing his team to an 11-1 record at Lincoln High School in Tacoma, Wash. — where his father was the head football coach and a part-time math teacher — schools were too fixated on size.