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EAST LANSING — Even before Michigan State football’s spring practice started, new coach Jonathan Smith said it would be “an upset” if Aidan Chiles isn’t the Spartans’ starting quarterback this fall.
For some, that would amp up the pressure on their shoulders. For Chiles, who followed Smith from Corvallis, Oregon, to East Lansing for that opportunity, it is just a good example of the bond the two built in the recruiting process and their time together last season at Oregon State.
“I don’t really think about it too much,” Chiles, a second-year sophomore transfer, said Tuesday in his first public comments since joining the Spartans. “I came here to compete, I came here to play football.”
Chiles exudes a California cool as you watch him sway his way through practice to the music bumping from loudspeakers that got blown over during a windy outdoor session Tuesday morning. Or how he engages with and leads his teammates with the Spartans. Even down to how his 6-foot-3, 213-pound frame, in his No. 2 white jersey, seems to stand out, head and shoulders above his teammates with how he carries himself.
Michigan State football quarterback Aidan Chiles (2) goes through drills Tuesday, March 26, 2024, during spring practice on campus in East Lansing, Michigan.
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If there is pressure, Chiles said he learned to deal with it entering his true freshman season last year with the Beavers.
“I mean, I don’t feel it,” he said. “I felt it last year for no reason. Like, at all. Last year, I was in a slump during fall camp, just because I was trying to keep a job that I didn’t have. But this year is real different. I learned how to manage that. I mean, obviously there’s pressure. I know there’s pressure. But at the same time,…
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Author : Detroit Free Press
Publish date : 2024-03-26 22:14:56
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