Over the past month, the Michigan State football program was able to participate in a series of 15 spring practices, which culminated in Saturday’s annual spring game at Spartan Stadium.
The event was televised on the Big Ten Network and viewed in person by roughly 15,000 to 20,000 fans who braved the surprisingly chilly and windy mid-April Michigan weather. The event was not structured as a game, but rather as a series of drills and individual position work, followed by a controlled 11-on-11 situational scrimmage.
Following the spring game, fifth-year senior safety Xavier Henderson, junior linebacker/nickelback Darius Snow, redshirt junior quarterback Payton Thorne and redshirt senior wide receiver Jayden Reed talked to the media about their experiences during the spring, how the Michigan State program is evolving and what to expect when the Green and White takes to the field again this fall.