The New Orleans Saints on Sunday announced three former Michigan State players have been signed to their practice squad. Linebackers Joe Bachie and Andrew Dowell, as well as wide receiver Bennie Fowler, were retained as practice players after being cut Saturday as NFL teams trimmed their rosters to 53.
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Following the 2020 NFL Draft, the New Orleans Saints signed former Michigan State Spartans linebacker Joe Bachie as an undrafted free agent. Undrafted free agents have more difficult paths of making an active NFL roster, so what are Bachie’s chances of making a name for himself in the Big Easy?
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There are five stages of grief, and the way Joe Bachie describes the end of his college football career at Michigan State, it sounds like he went through all of them in pretty short order last fall. There was denial, of course. When Bachie got the news he’d tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug banned by the Big Ten Conference in October, the Spartans’ senior captain and defensive leader says he was dumbfounded.
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Bachie resurfaced at the NFL scouting combine, where he explained what led to his suspension in late October, five days after the Spartans played their eighth game of the season. “It was a pre-workout, over-the-counter,” he said. “It was just tainted a little bit. You can never really trust what’s in those over-the-counter things. I took it one time for just an extra lift on a Tuesday, tested six days later. I failed. I thought I was going to be perfectly clean. I had taken this product in the past when it was certified and I had passed five-to-six NCAA, Big Ten drug tests. It was heartbreaking. …Telling my dad, it was tough to spit words out of my mouth.”
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Michigan State plans to honor 21 seniors before Saturday’s regular-season and home finale against Maryland. Suspended star linebacker and two-time captain Joe Bachie will still be one of them. “I’m treating this just like an injury,” coach Mark Dantonio said Tuesday. “He went through the appeal process. On both sides of the fence in that process, I thought they did their due diligence. They took their time with it and the decision went against us.
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Joe Bachie’s status remains in limbo. The Michigan State football linebacker can’t practice and is “basically a student coach,” head coach Mark Dantonio revealed during Tuesday’s news conference.
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Joe Bachie’s suspension continued Michigan State’s bye week turmoil for the second time in three weeks, and it will define the Spartans’ final weeks.
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Michigan State has multiple options for replacing Bachie but none who have played a lot at the position because he rarely came off the field and the Spartans have not posted many lopsided wins during his tenure. Redshirt sophomore Noah Harvey was listed as Bachie’s backup on the latest depth chart but has not played extensively.
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Michigan State football senior linebacker and captain Joe Bachie has been declared ineligible by the Big Ten for a failed drug test. According to the university, Bachie tested positive “for a substance that is classified as a performance-enhancing substance banned by the league. MSU plans to file an immediate appeal with the Big Ten regarding the testing.
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ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr. listed Raequan Williams as the No. 8 defensive tackle and Joe Bachie as the No. 10 inside linebacker in updated rankings this week.
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Recap of Indiana, Preview of Ohio State. Player Guests, Senior QB Brian Lewerke and Senior LB Joe Bachie
Every time you think Michigan State football’s defense cannot make a bigger impression, it does something even more dominating. Same goes for Joe Bachie, in the heart of it.
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For the fourth time in his career, Michigan State senior linebacker Joe Bachie has been named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week. Bachie was all over the field in MSU’s 31-10 win at Northwestern last Saturday. He recorded a career-high 14 tackles (13 solo, one assist) to lead the Spartan defense, marking his 11th career game with double-figure tackles and second straight this season (12 vs. Arizona State on Sept. 14).
The senior middle linebacker finished with 53 production points after filling up the stat sheet. “That’s the highest one I’ve ever had,” Dantonio said during his weekly teleconference on Sunday night, “and I really started doing this when I was with Nick Saban in 1995, so that’s the highest production points I’ve ever seen.”
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Michigan State broke preseason camp Thursday, and before the Spartans headed for a couple of days off, they also named this season’s captains. Fifth-year senior quarterback Brian Lewerke and senior linebacker Joe Bachie were named Michigan State captains for the second straight season while fifth-year senior defensive tackle Raequan Williams and fifth-year senior defensive end Kenny Willekes were also named a captain. It’s the first time Michigan State has named four captains since 2009.
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Michigan State has been on a bit of a roller-coaster the past few years, with seasons that have been good, bad and ugly. The Spartans actually had a little bit of all three a year ago in posting a 7-6 record. The defense was good — really good, like No. 1 in the country good — but the season was bad because the offense was downright ugly.
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It’s highly unlikely they’re the only two players drafted from Michigan State’s defense next spring, but defensive end Kenny Willekes and linebacker Joe Bachie might be the Spartans’ two highest picks in the 2020 NFL Draft. That’s ESPN analyst Mel Kiper’s early read on it, at least.
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