EAST LANSING — Jayden Reed leaped for the pass from Payton Thorne, crashed hard to the Spartan Stadium turf and kept sliding.
Right into the corner of a metal bench. The result: a cut that was “pretty deep,” one of the more freak injuries in a year full of them for the Michigan State football wide receiver.
“At first, I couldn't do anything,” Reed recalled Tuesday, recounting the laceration he suffered Sept. 10 against Akron. “Like, literally, I couldn't sweat with my stitches and stuff like. The cut was pretty deep. So I really just had to rest and let that thing heal up on his own.