Michigan State Football: 3 burning questions for the 2022 season

Every team has question marks heading into the 2022 season, but what are the three that all Michigan State football fans are wondering about?

Mel Tucker is building Michigan State football back into a winner, brick-by-brick.

Two years ago, he took over a program that was in shambles after a sudden Mark Dantonio retirement and he’s done so rather quickly thanks to the transfer portal and solid recruiting.

He now heads into the 2022 season after his best year yet, going 11-2 with a New Year’s Six win in 2021 and his team is still facing some burning questions.

Here are my biggest questions for the Spartans heading into the season.

3. Will the secondary be serviceable?

If you didn’t see this one coming, you probably didn’t watch a single game a season ago.

Michigan State was No. 130 out of 130 teams in passing yards allowed per game and while that number may have been a bit skewed due to the number of attempts they saw, the Spartans still struggled to cover. Will that change in 2022 with Mel Tucker coaching the cornerbacks?

I think we’ll see the secondary take a step forward because, well, it can’t exactly take a step back or get any worse. The addition of Ameer Speed will be huge and the returns of Charles Brantley, Ronald Williams, Angelo Grose, Xavier Henderson, Chester Kimbrough, and Marqui Lowery should help quite a bit. Plus, there are some really good freshmen defensive backs coming in.

The Spartans will see some really good quarterbacks this year like CJ Stroud, Cade McNamara/JJ McCarthy, Sean Clifford, and Taulia Tagovailoa but I think they come out on top of more than half of those matchups.

Yes, the secondary should be serviceable if it can remain healthy.