A knee injury that kept Andrew Maxwell out of Michigan State’s spring game should have no impact on his availability in the coming months, Spartans offensive coordinator Dan Roushar said Wednesday.
Roushar said the Spartans will begin “full-blown workouts around the first of June, and he’s expecting to go 100% at that time.”
Maxwell suffered a sprained knee in the Spartans’ first scrimmage of the spring last month and the redshirt junior was sidelined for the remainder of the sessions, including the annual spring game. Connor Cook stepped in and took the majority of reps for the offense the rest of the way, and Roushar said that was a positive development for the redshirt freshman.
“Connor got a ton of work,” Roushar said. “There’s no substitute for live repetitions, diagnosing the fronts and coverages, going through a progression and delivering the ball on time and accurately.”
While Maxwell, given his experience in the system, is expected to replace Kirk Cousins under center for the Spartans, Cook at least made the competition interest in Maxwell’s absence and may still have a shot at supplanting the projected starter in summer camp. A slim shot, but a shot nonetheless.