BOZEMAN — During fall camp, Montana State defensive coordinator Shawn Howe yelled out a nickname from across the field: "Big-play Tay!"

Tayden Gray, a defensive back from Arlington, Texas, had just made a great effort — just like the nickname implies.

"He’s a guy who is going to grind out a lot of football for us and do a lot of things that maybe go unseen or unheard," Howe explained. "But this is a guy who’s so dynamic he can make plays in that position where everybody should know he’s on the field all the time."

"The plays that come to me, I’ve got to make (them)," Gray said about what the nickname means to him. "Even if it’s a play away from me, if I’m hawking it down from the other side of the field, a pick or a (pass breakup) in a crunch time, like fourth down, just getting them of

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