Watch: Michigan State's Brian Wozniak Talks Spring Ball, More

Originally posted on Michigan State Spartans on SI
By Aidan Champion | Last updated Apr 19, 2025 12:50 PM ET

EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Michigan State is returning much of its tight end room from last year, which should help the unit, as a whole, take a leap.

With Jack Velling back and expected to hit his peak in his final year of college, and a rising Michael Masunas back from a season-ending injury, this room could prove to be one of the team's biggest strengths, especially paired with the re-stocked wideout room.

Michigan State tight ends coach Brian Wozniak discussed his group and more when he addressed the media following the Spartans' 14th spring practice on Thursday.

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Michigan State coach Jonathan Smith also spoke to reporters on Thursday. Below is a transcript of his opening statement:

Smith: "Well, let's start with wishing our gymnastics team good luck tonight, NCAA Championships. Wrapped up practice 14 today. We will get some work done on Saturday. Little bit of scrimmage in, little bit of practice in, but really, feel good about the work that we've gotten done over these last five weeks.

"Guys stayed into it, continued to work. So, will kind of wrap things up Saturday. We will turn it into family day, and so a bunch of families come back, watch it a little bit and breaking bread together after practice. So, I think it's a great way for us to at least finish it kind of as a program.

"Two scrimmages, I haven't talked to you since the last one. Got a lot of work done over the course of 95 snaps there last Saturday. Defensively, as a whole, I felt pretty good. The tackling, the effort, making it hard on the defense; the offense picked it up toward the end in the red zone. But I feel pleased with kind of that second scrimmage.

"Gives a bunch of work for a lot of guys and evaluation and guys getting better and feel good there. It's a critical part; you think about spring practice, critical part in kind of transitioning to the program, guys improving, diving into summer, we're going to have a big-time summer and all of that, getting ready for August camp already with that

"Do want to mention, speaking of August, that we were going to kind of bring back 'Meet the Spartans' event in August. Looking for August 21 to do that, leading into our first home game. I learned a little bit of some of the tradition of that in meeting our group. So, more to come on the exact details of that. But we were trying to bring that back in August on the 21st."

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