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Michigan State football stock watch: Run game posts big day, continues late-season surge

EAST LANSING — Here are the Michigan State football players who helped or hurt their stock in the Spartans’ 39-31 double-overtime loss Saturday to Indiana:

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RB Elijah Collins: If it was Collins’ final home game as a Spartan, he did what he set out to achieve and left it all on the Spartan Stadium field. The 6-foot-1, 215-pound senior, who battled COVID and other injuries the past three seasons, turned the clock back to 2019, when he nearly ran for 1,000 yards as a redshirt freshman. Collins churned his legs through contact and produced a 31-yard touchdown run in the third quarter after a 1-yard score before halftime.