INDIANAPOLIS — The best thing to happen to Montez Sweat’s football career might have been getting kicked out of Michigan State. One of the best pass…
INDIANAPOLIS — The best thing to happen to Montez Sweat’s football career might have been getting kicked out of Michigan State.
One of the best pass rushers in the 2019 NFL draft, Sweat was suspended indefinitely two games into the 2015 season for what the school said at the time was a violation of team rules.
He was dismissed the following spring, spent one season at Copiah-Lincoln Community College, and said the whole episode was a humbling experience that ultimately helped him develop into the player he is today.
„My time at Michigan State, I started off kind of young and immature,“ Sweat said. „Obviously, I was dismissed, but I’ve grown from that so much and I just want to keep on building on that and show teams I’ve matured a lot.“
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Sweat wouldn’t discuss the incidents that led to his dismissal Saturday at the NFL combine, but his former MSU teammate, Craig Evans, who was kicked out of school at the same time, said in an interview last February that, „Me and Tez, we fell short end on the weed situation.
