{"id":64877,"date":"2022-09-03T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/michigan-state-football-post-game-grades-western-michigan\/"},"modified":"2022-09-03T14:31:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T14:31:00","slug":"michigan-state-football-post-game-grades-western-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/michigan-state-football-post-game-grades-western-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State football post-game grades: Western Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>The Spartans are back, folks, and you better have your rosters handy as we embark on the 2022 season.  Michigan State&#8217;s opener, a 35-13 triumph over Western Michigan, was a night dominated by newcomers.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Freshman wideout Germie Bernard set the stage with a 44-yard catch-and-run touchdown on his first career reception.  Transfer defensive end Jacoby Windmon was the MVP of the evening, recording four sacks.  Transfer tight end Daniel Barker had a touchdown grab.  The transfer running back tandem of Jalen Berger and Jarek Broussard looks like it can be fruitful.  A few true freshmen even got in the mix, including kicker Jack Stone, safety Jaden Mangham, receiver Tyrell Henry and defensive end Zion Young.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for MSU, it lost some well-known names to injury in safety Xavier Henderson and linebacker Darius Snow.  Head coach Mel Tucker did not have any update on their status in the immediate aftermath.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Below are first-reaction position-by-position grades from the start of Year 3 of the Tucker era in East Lansing:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n    <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-4\">\n    if(typeof fbq === 'undefined') {\n        !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n        n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.defer=1;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n        document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n        fbq('init', '320233411816140');\n        fbq('init', '1575186632756631');\n        fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    }\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; The Spartans are back, folks, and you better have your rosters handy as we embark on the 2022 season. Michigan State&#8217;s opener, a 35-13 triumph over Western Michigan, was a night dominated by newcomers. &#13; Freshman wideout Germie Bernard set the stage with a 44-yard catch-and-run touchdown on his first career reception. Transfer &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/michigan-state-football-post-game-grades-western-michigan\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Michigan State football post-game grades: Western Michigan<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":64563,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/michigan-state-football-survives-late-scare-handles-western-michigan\/","url_meta":{"origin":64877,"position":0},"title":"Michigan State football survives late scare, handles Western Michigan","date":"September 3, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"EAST LANSING \u2013 Nothing came as easy as it did a year ago for Michigan State football.The run game without Kenneth Walker III looked pedestrian until the end.Payton Thorne and the passing offense sputtered back and forth from struggling to sterling multiple times.Injuries came early, often and to key players.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/09\/03\/PDTF\/9f24d831-86bf-45a2-ba83-d7b22ea34fcc-09022022_msu2h-8.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":72698,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/michigan-football-clobbers-hawaii-in-jj-mccarthys-first-start\/","url_meta":{"origin":64877,"position":1},"title":"Michigan football clobbers Hawaii in JJ McCarthy&#8217;s first start","date":"September 11, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"ANN ARBOR, Mich. \u2014 The dirty little secret about Saturday?This story could have been written pregame, before the pounding even began. 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