EAST LANSING – Elijah Tau-Tolliver has 275 carries and almost 3,000 all-purpose yards over four seasons in college.

All those snaps, however, came running a completely different offense at Sacramento State, an FCS program.

After transferring to Michigan State in the winter, it wasn’t the smoothest transition taking a new playbook to the field.

“I’d be telling the quarterback, ‘hold on a second, let me think real quick,’” Tau-Tolliver recalled after practice on Thursday.

That was then and the fifth-year senior feels a lot more comfortable with Spartans heading into their first scrimmage of fall camp on Saturday. They’ll need Tau-Tolliver to be up to speed as the most-experienced running back on the roster, by far, in an open backfield competition filled with youth.

“These guys are kind

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