Second-year TE Jayden Savoury on the rise at Michigan State after leaving basketball life behind

To a well-trained eye, high school basketball courts can be fertile hunting grounds for prospective tight ends.  Speed, agility, acceleration, leaping ability, flexibility, conditioning – all valuable data points that can come from competitive hoops. Yet perhaps the most important trait in a successful basketball-to-football transition is buried beneath the flashy tools, an intangible that is only fully revealed with a helmet.

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