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Michigan State football C Nick Samac is going to the Ravens at No. 7

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Nick Samac returned to Michigan State football last fall for his fifth year, but a broken leg ended his final season prematurely.

However, that didn't stop him from becoming the last Spartan selected in the NFL Draft.

Samac was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the seventh round, No. 228 overall, on Saturday at the event in downtown Detroit. He was MSU's first offensive lineman since AJ Arcuri went to the Chargers in the seventh round of the 2022 draft and the first MSU center selected since the Rams took Brian Allen in the fourth round in 2018.

FORMER SPARTAN: Buffalo Bills select WR Keon Coleman in Round 2 of the 2024 NFL Draft.

That means a Spartan was selected in 83 of the 84 NFL drafts. MSU's 80-year winning streak ended in 2021.

Samac suffered a fractured left fibula on the first drive of the Spartans' second-to-last game of the season on Nov. 18 at Indiana. He received invitations to the East-West Shrine Bowl and the NFL Scouting Combine, but was unable to take part in both games. Samac said during the Big Ten Network broadcast of MSU's final practice last Saturday that he is “going to be fine.”

The 6-foot-1, 307-pound native of Mentor, Ohio, started 32 of his 48 games at MSU after arriving as a 2019 recruit under Mark Dantonio. Samac played all 2,427 of his snaps at center during his five-year Spartan career, which was extended into 2023 with the NCAA's pandemic exclusion of the 2020 season.

Last year, wide receiver Jayden Reed went to Green Bay with the 50th overall pick in the second round. Punter Bryce Baringer and defensive back Ameer Speed ​​both went to New England in the sixth round.

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