Brian Lewerke hadn’t been back to East Lansing for more than a year.
So much had changed. From the few students on Michigan State’s campus to the new coaches at the Duffy Daugherty Football Building.
Yet the quarterback and a few of his former teammates received an open-arms welcome to work out for NFL scouts as the Spartans’ pro day Wednesday, a year after having their own opportunity canceled due to the pandemic.
“It was good to meet everyone that I’ve seen on TV and on Twitter and Instagram the past year and not been able to meet,” said Lewerke, who went undrafted last April and was cut twice by the New England Patriots, the second and final time in September.