East Lansing — It didn’t take La’Darius Jefferson long to realize he wasn’t in high school anymore.
The former high school quarterback from Muskegon is making the transition to running back as a freshman at Michigan State, and as soon as the Spartans had the pads on the reality of his first preseason camp hit him hard — thanks to a fellow freshman.
During an early drill, Jefferson met 330-pound defensive tackle Dashaun Mallory.
“He locks on to a guard, I run in the hole, I see it, I hit it as fast as I can, not being patient,” Jefferson explained this week.