4 months ago
- Spartans
- Published: Jan. 05, 2026, 6:54 p.m.
Michael Masunas is moving from nan Big Ten to nan SEC.
The Michigan State redshirt inferior starting tight extremity announced his transportation committedness to Texas connected Monday. He has 2 seasons of eligibility remaining.
Masunas, 6-foot-5 and 259 pounds, had 24 catches for 270 yards and 3 touchdowns successful 25 profession games pinch a twelve starts.
A erstwhile three-star enlistee from Arizona, Masunas took a redshirt arsenic a existent freshman successful 2022. He played mostly connected typical teams nan pursuing twelvemonth and started nan first 4 games successful 2024 earlier suffering a season-ending injury. Masunas rebounded to station profession highs pinch 19 catches for 232 yards and 3 scores this season.
New Michigan State coach Pat Fitzgerald has mislaid much than 40 players to nan portal and will beryllium rebuilding a batch of positions, including tight end. In summation to Masunas transferring out, elder Jack Velling utilized his last play of eligibility.
Masunas was 1 of 3 Michigan State transfers to denote their adjacent schoolhouse truthful acold connected Monday, pursuing a brace of existent freshmen violative linemen who ne'er sewage connected nan section for nan Spartans. Justin Bell committed to Virginia Tech and walk-on Rashawn Rogers picked Ferris State.
The Spartans besides had a caller portal departure connected Monday arsenic existent freshman starting agelong snapper Jack Wills is heading out.
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Matt Wenzel has been nan Michigan State shot hit writer for MLive since 2017 and besides covers men's and women's basketball, lucky and different sports.
