Pat Fitzgerald held a team vote this week to determine who “The Spartan” on the 2026 Michigan State football team would be. The team voted a first-year transfer as the first-ever wearer of the No. It’s a cool new tradition that the first-year head coach has implemented and carried over from his Northwestern days. Who is the first-year transfer that earned the team vote? The NC State transfer has already surprised us once, so why not again by delivering with the first effective pass rush in East Lansing in years?