GREEN & WHITE FOOTBALL

Linemen Evans, Sweat leave MSU football team

Chris Solari

Lansing State Journal

Defensive linemen Craig Evans (72) practices his technique on Kyonta Stallworth (51) as the Spartan football team practices Tuesday, April 6, 2016, at the John and Becky Duffey Football Practice Fields on the campus of Michigan State University.

Michigan State sophomore defensive linemen Craig Evans and Montez Sweat have left the Spartans’ football team “for personal reasons,” the school said in a news release Monday night.

MSU gave no further details.

Evans, a 6-foot-2, 307-pound defensive tackle from Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, played in all 14 games for the Spartans last season and made 21 tackles, including 13 in MSU’s final six games. He had 3.5 stops for a loss and a sack. MSU coach Mark Dantonio said in July that Evans had been suspended for the Spartans' spring practices in 2015.

Sweat, a 6-6, 230-pound defensive end from Stone Mountain, Georgia, was suspended from the team in September for unspecified reasons. Dantonio said last Tuesday that Sweat remained “in limbo.”

Sweat was listed as a second-string defensive end on MSU’s spring depth chart, while Evans was third-string at tackle.