Michigan State football: Watch highlights from MSU’s Aug. 5 practice
Watch two minutes of highlights from Michigan State’s football practice on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025.
EAST LANSING – Aidan Chiles, Nick Marsh, Jordan Hall and Jalen Thompson are known commodities Jonathan Smith and his coaches hope can take the next step toward stardom.
But college football isn’t a two-on-two sport. And Michigan State’s second-year football staff knew, coming out of last season’s 5-7 debut, that more depth was needed to return to a bowl for the first time since 2021, let alone start competing for Big Ten championships again.
So the Spartans hit the portal. They worked from within to get younger players progressing toward becoming contributors. And they will find out more about who can make an impact when the first scrimmage of preseason camp arrives Saturday, Aug. 8, at Spartan Stadium.
“This is gonna be the closest we’re gonna get – these next two scrimmages – to the game day, getting ready for the season,” assistant head coach and running backs coach Keith Bhonapha said Thursday, Aug. 7. “So this is huge. … Who can collect that going into this first scrimmage and be able to operate at a high level?”
The Spartans will have another scrimmage the following week before going into full game-prep mode for the Aug. 29 season opener at home against Western Michigan (7 p.m., FS1). But Saturday will go a long way to determining position battles and depth charts, as well as identifying who took leaps from last season and spring practices.
Here are some younger players to keep an eye on coming out of the first scrimmage and heading toward next week’s midpoint of camp.
LB Brady Pretzlaff
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Publish date : 2025-08-09 10:03:00
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