Michigan State football trending for top-100 RB Jason Brown

Michigan State football looks to be trending with one of the top running backs in the nation, four-star top-100 rusher Jason Brown.

When Mel Tucker brought Kenneth Walker III in and watched him blossom into the Doak Walker Award winner, Michigan State football looked like an ideal destination for running backs.

The Spartans produced a Heisman-caliber back who split time at Wake Forest. What bigger draw is there?

Michigan State did land former blue-chip Wisconsin running back Jalen Berger and former Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year Jarek Broussard the following offseason. They wanted a taste of that running back magic in East Lansing. They wanted to be the next K9.

And then, Kedrick Reescano committed to the 2023 class. He was one of the fastest-rising backs in the cycle but he decided to reopen his recruitment and pick Ole Miss. It was a head-scratching move. He was the second four-star running back to decommit from Michigan State in three years (Audric Estime was the other).

But it seems like the 2024 class might just make up for those decommitments and the lackluster running back play in 2022.

Over the weekend, Michigan State picked up a commitment from four-star running back Anthony Carrie from Tampa, Fla. Two days later, the Spartans are trending for another four-star rusher.

In fact, on Monday evening, Michigan State insiders Justin Thind and Corey Robinson placed crystal balls for the Spartans to land Jason Brown. The four-star running back from Washington has some big-time offers, but he took his only planned official visit to East Lansing this past weekend and loved his trip. Enough so, in fact, to lead to a couple of crystal ball predictions.

Brown is ranked the No. 90 overall recruit and eighth-best running back in the 2024 class, according to the 247Sports Composite.

According to Thind, Brown would be the second-highest-ranked commit for Michigan State in the past five years.

And 247Sports’ national recruiting editor Brandon Huffman said that the Spartans “took a big step” with Brown this past weekend.

Seattle (Wash.) O'Dea running back Jason Brown took his first official visit, to Michigan State and the Spartans took a big step with the four-star back https://t.co/URuogcqYO5 pic.twitter.com/klqmeGeAp6

— Brandon Huffman (@BrandonHuffman) June 26, 2023

Folks, Michigan State is getting hot on the trail.