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Windsor: MSU's McDowell is a 'different kind of player'

Lansing State Journal sports columnist Graham Couch, Detroit Free Press / LSJ MSU beat writer Joe Rexrode and Free Press columnist Shawn Windsor discuss what was said during Sunday's interviews at the Cotton Bowl.

DALLAS – Malik McDowell is a new kind of player. At least for Michigan State he is, and that's all that really matters.

The MSU sophomore plays in an area of the field usually patrolled by the beefiest, widest dudes in football, girth-heavy guys who go 6-feet-3 and 300 pounds, or more.