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Young offensive linemen key to Michigan State football rebuilding run game

EAST LANSING — It wasn’t that long ago that Spencer Brown was an up-and-coming offensive lineman, just like many of his teammates in the trenches for this year’s Michigan State football team.

And the fifth-year senior remembered what it took for him to go from young and unproven to starting the past 13 games at right tackle.

“It's being patient,” Brown said Wednesday. “Sometimes, we feel like we know it all, but we don't. It's just being able to take a deep breath, understanding yesterday is gone and tomorrow you got a shot. …

“You don't know until you're thrown out there in the fire.