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Michigan State football set to add pass-rush guru to coaching staff

Michigan State football is in the process of finalizing a deal to hire a private trainer to fill one of two vacancies on its coaching staff

The Free Press has learned Brandon Jordan, who has tutored TJ Watt, Von Miller and other prominent NFL sack artists, is set to join the Spartans as a defensive ends coach/pass rush specialist.

The unorthodox move comes after MSU tallied 43 sacks, the sixth-highest total in the nation.

Despite that high level of production, head coach Mel Tucker is looking to bolster that sector to relieve the pressure placed on a secondary burned repeatedly in 2021.