The Michigan State Spartans landed blue-chip safety Dillon Tatum during the Mel Tucker era. Tatum could have left with the coach, but now he is sticking around for Jonathan Smith.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- Dillon Tatum was one of the recruiting gems Mel Tucker was able to land toward the end of his stint with the Michigan State Spartans. A former four-star prospect, Tatum was an in-state standout at West Bloomfield, where he helped the Lakers win their first-ever state title in 2021. One of his teammates was Donovan Edwards, now the starting running back for Michigan and possibly the country's best.
In the age of the transfer portal and player mobility, Tatum had every chance to leave East Lansing behind for a team that had a seemingly more stable future. It could have been easy to abandon sentimentality. The man who made him a Spartan was gone, Jonathan Smith was in."The support, family, and friends and basically the program," Tatum said at Big Ten Football Media Days. "I grew up a State fan.
As for Tatum, time has flown by. He is not the blue-chip freshman he was in 2022. Now, he's an upperclassman. There is still so much left to do -- and for Tatum, that's not limited to the football field.
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