EAST LANSING — Sometime during Michigan State’s season opener against Florida Atlantic last year, starting right guard Kristian “Big Dooley” Phillips felt a pop. He played every snap that game, getting the all clear to play after a halftime check-in with the trainers.

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“I couldn’t walk,” Phillips said Thursday, standing inside the Duffy Daugherty Football Building after a year of recovery. “So I was like, yeah, there’s something wrong.”

That something was a torn ACL, one he spent the better part of a year coming back from. And it wasn’t the only serious injury the Spartans’ offensive line faced. A couple weeks later, Gavin Broscious — Phillips’ former roommate — dislocated his ankle and popped a ligament, which also revealed that his fibula was fractured.

After just thr

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