The 2025 season has been one to forget for Jonathan Smith and Michigan State football, but there may be some good news on the horizon in the form of a three-star Wisconsin decommit.
Michigan State has gotten plenty of bad recruiting news over the past couple of weeks, starting with a decommitment from four-star wide receiver Tyren Wortham. The Spartans had originally flipped him from UCF, but with more interest coming in, he has decided to reopen his recruitment and weigh his options.
Following Wortham was four-star linebacker Braylon Hodge from Colorado. He was one of the Spartans’ fastest-rising commits, but he took a visit to Michigan and decommitted.
On top of that, four-star wideout Samson Gash has announced he’ll be taking an official visit to Alabama. He was offered by the Tide before committing to Michigan State, and now it looks like Kalen DeBoer is making another run at the talented receiver from Detroit Catholic Central.
However, the Spartans got some good news this week. Three-star Wisconsin wide receiver decommit Tayshon Bardo will reportedly take an official visit to East Lansing.
Elkhart (Ind.) WR Tayshon Bardo has decommitted from Wisconsin.
— Allen Trieu (@AllenTrieu) October 13, 2025
A Michigan State official is planned.
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Bardo, a three-star from Indiana, was on Michigan State’s radar before he committed to Wisconsin, and now Smith and Courtney Hawkins are taking another look at him now that he’s back on the market. It also helps that the Spartans have lost a receiver commit and could lose another soon.
According to 247Sports, he’ll be on campus in November for a visit.
Bardo is ranked the No. 842 recruit in the 2026 class and he’s Indiana’s 11th-best prospect.