Former Michigan State RB announces transfer school

After two months in the portal, Davion Primm found a new school.

The former redshirt junior running back from Michigan State announced his transfer to Morehead State on social media on Saturday.

Primm appeared in nine games for the Spartans over three seasons. Last year he had seven runs for 18 yards.

Primm, a former three-star recruit out of Oak Park High School, was part of former coach Mel Tucker’s first recruiting class to lead the Spartans. He did not play while redshirting as a true freshman in 2021 and alternated between the backfield and secondary the following year, playing on special teams in addition to his seven appearances in 15 offensive snaps last season.

Morehead State is an FCS program in Kentucky that competes in the Ohio Valley Conference. The Eagles finished 4-7 last season.

Primm stayed with the Spartans after coach Jonathan Smith was hired in November, but he was one of 17 scholarship players on the spring squad to enter the portal. Nathan Carter returns as the team’s starting running back and UMass transfer Kay’Ron Lynch-Adams was added in the offseason.

Michigan State will begin the fall with a reshuffled backfield that will be missing Primm and two other veteran running backs. Jaren Mangham, whose lone season with the Spartans was limited by injuries, transferred to Minnesota to spend his sixth and final season at his fourth different school. Jalen Berger, a former Wisconsin transfer who led Michigan State in rushing in 2022, is still in the portal and has not yet announced his next destination.