East Lansing — Michigan State doesn’t need to find a No. 1 running back.
Redshirt freshman Elijah Collins put a stranglehold on that spot after running for 192 yards in Week 2 and nothing has happened since that would change the pecking order on the depth chart.
But after sophomore La’Darius Jefferson entered the NCAA transfer portal on Tuesday, just two weeks after junior Connor Heyward first made the same move, the Spartans are starting to get thin in the backfield, leaving the coaching staff suddenly looking to fill holes just six games into the season.