The NCAA transfer portal wasn’t closed for business on Christmas Eve. At least that was true in East Lansing, where there has been an exodus of Michigan State football players since the end of the regular season.Freshman defensive lineman Tyson Watson became the latest to leave the program when he entered the transfer marketplace Friday.
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Watson said he immediately connected with Tucker, a former grad assistant under Nick Saban at MSU, hired from Colorado in February. “He’s a really good guy, he’s really nice, he cares about his players,” Watson said. “He wants to win. Once they offered me, I committed two days after I talked to them. After I got off the phone, I just knew that’s where I wanted to be. He was really honest and I liked everything about what he said. I really wanted to go and talk with him before I made my decision.”
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Tyson Watson had several options to weigh as a college football recruit, but there was one that stood out. The Warren-Mott lineman, who received offers from multiple Big Ten teams plus the likes of Tennessee and Iowa State, saw himself first and foremost in the green and white of Michigan State. “It really wasn’t that tough (of a decision),” Watson said Wednesday. “I knew where I wanted to be.
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Michigan State now has five verbal commitments in its 2021 recruiting class, four of them in the state as Warren Mott defensive end Tyson Watson announced his decision to be a Spartan on Friday. Watson gives the Spartans a big body at 6-foot-6, 270 pounds. There is a possibility he will keep growing and play inside in college. He played varsity for the Marauders as a sophomore and junior. Watson chose Michigan State over offers from Minnesota, Kentucky, Iowa, Iowa State, Purdue, Tennessee and more.
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