Michigan State football RB Jarek Broussard declares for NFL draft
Jarek Broussard’s stop with Michigan State football turned out to be a short one.
The running back on Tuesday announced his intention to enter the NFL draft after one season with the Spartans. He had one season of eligibility remaining.
The 5-foot-9, 195-pound Dallas native predominantly served as MSU’s No. 2 running back behind fellow transfer Jalen Berger this fall. Broussard finished third on the team with 298 rushing yards on 63 attempts and scored three touchdowns in 12 games, adding four catches for 48 yards. He posted season-highs of 81 rushing yards, 15 carries and two touchdowns in the Spartans’ Sept. 10 win over Akron, then remained mostly dormant until getting 11 carries for 80 yards in a Nov. 12 win over Rutgers.
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Broussard arrived during the offseason as a transfer from Colorado, where he suffered ACL injuries that kept him off the field in 2018 and 2019. In the six-game 2020 season, Broussard won Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year honors with 895 rushing yards, an average of 162.6 per game that ranked third in the Football Bowl Subdivision, and five touchdowns.
He finished with 661 rushing yards on 142 carries with two touchdowns in starting 10 of his 11 games in 2021, earning All-Pac-12 honorable mention, but he missed the season-finale against eventual league champion Utah due to a non-COVID illness.
Broussard joins wide receiver Jayden Reed and linebacker Ben VanSumeren as Spartans declaring for the NFL draft with eligibility remaining. A number of others who ran out of eligibility after MSU’s 5-7 season ended without a bowl invitation also have said they plan to train for the draft.
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This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Michigan State football RB Jarek Broussard declares for NFL draft
