Mel Tucker used the transfer portal again, this time to orchestrate a reunion he hopes will bolster his backfield.
Running back Jarek Broussard announced via Twitter on Sunday afternoon he will transfer to Michigan State’s football program. It brings the 2020 Pac-12 offensive player of the year back together with Tucker, his former head coach at Colorado in 2019.
The 5-foot-9, 185-pound spent his first four years with the Buffaloes and would have two seasons of eligibility remaining with the NCAA’s COVID waiver year. Tucker inherited Broussard when he got to Colorado in 2019. However, the Dallas native suffered ACL injuries in both 2018 and 2019, redshirting as a true freshman and then sitting out Tucker’s only season in Boulder after Broussard’s second knee surgery.