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Jaden Mangham delivered the transfer equivalent of a Friday afternoon news dump bombshell.
The former Michigan State football safety is heading to Michigan football.
Mangham announced via x (formerly Twitter) that he has committed to the Wolverines to play for new head coach Sherrone Moore, adding fuel to a fire stoked in recent weeks by a social media feud between his oldest brother, Jalen, and former Spartans.
The 6-foot-2, 191-pound junior has two years of eligibility remaining. MSU, led by first-year coach Jonathan Smith, plays U-M on Oct. 26 in Ann Arbor.
Mangham sat out the Spartans’ open spring practice April 20 while his older brother, running back Jaren Mangham, dressed and went through drills but did not participate in the scrimmage phase.
Both entered the portal 10 days later. Jaren Mangham — who began his career at Colorado under Mel Tucker in 2019, transferred to South Florida in 2021 and arrived at MSU last fall as a graduate transfer — announced his transfer to Minnesota on May 7.
The next day, their oldest brother, Jalen, traded terse tweets with several former Spartan players, including Mark Dantonio-era greats Tony Lippett, R.J. Shelton and Felton Davis III.
MSU scrubbed both Jaden and Jaren Mangham’s bios from its website after they entered the portal.
On Friday evening, a number of current and former players started voicing their disgust on social media about Mangham’s transfer to the Spartans’ biggest rival.
What used to be unheard of, however, is part of a growing trend with the boom of the transfer portal, aided by the Big Ten eliminating its intraconference transfer policy.
Former U-M player Ben VanSumeren, now with the Philadelphia Eagles, began his collegiate career as a fullback with the Wolverines before transferring to MSU and moving to linebacker in 2021.
And linebacker Semaj Bridgeman, part of Michigan’s national championship roster last season, entered the portal in late April and recently took a visit to MSU per his social media.
