Seven years ago, Mark Dantonio was recruiting four-star then-defensive back Darius Snow to join his 2020 Michigan State recruiting class and he was able to land the Texas product before retiring suddenly ahead of signing day.
Snow had enrolled early in 2020, so he was already on the roster when Dantonio retired and Mel Tucker was able to convince him to stick around.
Since then, he's suffered major injuries and from 2020-2023, he played more than five games just one time. After medically redshirting and receiving some waivers, Snow decided to return for another year in 2026, but he entered the transfer portal.
All was quiet with Snow in the portal until Wednesday afternoon when On3's Pete Nakos reported that the Michigan State linebacker transfer would be headed down south to take a visit to a top SEC program with national title aspirations.
Update: Texas will host Transfer LB Darius Snow this week, @PeteNakos reports
— Orangebloods.com (@orangebloods_) April 15, 2026
Snow had 34 Tackles and 1 Sack for Michigan State Last Season. He would bring six years of college football experience to a young Texas LB group.
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Steve Sarkisian has Texas in that national title conversation darn near every year now and the veteran head coach is going to have himself a squad in 2026. It seems as if Snow wants to join a Longhorn squad led by Arch Manning back where he played high school ball.
It's good to see Snow land on his feet and he'll be playing for his fourth head coach in 2026.
Michigan State should be just fine at linebacker
Michigan State's linebacker position is thankfully going to be just fine in the first year of Pat Fitzgerald, even after losing a veteran like Snow who played in 24 games over the past two seasons after coming back from injury.
The Spartans are led by Jordan Hall, Caleb Wheatland, and Brady Pretzlaff with guys like DiMari Malone, DeJae White, Leonard Ah You, Dion Crawford, Adam Shaw, and Cam Stodghill there for depth. There aren't many positions more equipped to handle attrition than linebacker which has taken some hits this offseason.
It's also not very difficult to believe in Max Bullough's vision as the team's linebackers coach along with Fitzgerald who was an All-American linebacker in his own right at Northwestern while helping produce some other really good All-Big Ten-caliber linebackers during his time as head coach there.
No one should be worried about the position this spring.
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