Connor Heyward’s father, the late Craig “Ironhead” Heyward was a bruising NFL fullback. His older brother Cameron is a defensive end for the Pittsburgh Steelers. His other brother Corey is a guard on the Georgia Tech basketball team.
With a family as diversely talented and athletically gifted as that, it should come as little surprise that Connor, a senior at Peachtree Ridge High in Suwanee, Georgia, has many talents on the football field. So much so that colleges recruiting him had many options as to where to potentially play him.
Michigan State will be the staff who will ultimately decide where he ends up as Heyward committed to the Spartans on Thursday night, becoming their 17th commitment in the 2017 class.