EAST LANSING – Michigan State football opened camp Thursday with plenty of job openings on both sides of the ball.
Mel Tucker and his staff continued to spend the offseason searching the portal for players, even as the Spartans lost some of their own big names to transfer, with Payton Thorne and Keon Coleman being the most obvious. But other departures such as Elijah Collins, Jeff Pietrowski, Jalen Hunt and Dashaun Mallory — holdover contributors during Tucker’s first three seasons who were part of Mark Dantonio’s final few recruiting classes — also open room for more new faces to become household names for MSU fans this fall.