EAST LANSING — Two days after entering the transfer portal, Simeon Barrow has withdrawn his name.

A program spokesman Thursday evening confirmed the Michigan State football defensive tackle no longer is in the portal.

The redshirt junior defensive tackle will travel with the team to Minneapolis, per interim head coach Harlon Barnett on his weekly radio show, as the Spartans take on Minnesota at Huntington Bank Stadium (3:30 p.m., Big Ten Network).

"He came back in my office this morning after rethinking it, and he's gonna be with us," Barnett said Thursday. "That's a good thing. A lot of times, people will say, 'Well, he quit on the team initially,' and all that kind of stuff. But you gotta understand what these guys are going through in this day and age of social media and people contacting them, saying we'll give you this amoutn of money if you jump in the portal and this kind of stuff. But once he came to himself and was able to get away and talk with his family a little bit, he said, 'I need to stay here where I started.'"

Barnett said he made sure his other players were OK with Barrow returning from his brief hiatus. He added that Barrow will no longer be one of MSU's captains.

"He always said he loves Michigan State, and so he will be back," Barnett said. "We're glad that he's back. We welcome him with open arms."

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The oft-injured Barrow left Saturday’s 49-0 loss to No. 2 Michigan in the first quarter, but he returned and finished with two tackles. The 6-foot-3, 290-pound native of Grovetown, Georgia, has 19 stops and 1½ sacks in seven games this season, six of them starts. He has started 25 of his 28 games as a Spartan since 2021, with 93 tackles and 8½ sacks, after sitting out his true freshman season in 2020 out of precaution during the coronavirus pandemic.

MSU has four players who left the team for the transfer portal: offensive lineman Keyshawn Blackstock, running back Jordon Simmons, long snapper Hank Pepper and defensive back Justin White.

Every Spartan player received an immediate option to enter the transfer portal for 30 days after Mel Tucker’s firing Sept. 27, per NCAA rules. They also could decide to return to MSU at any point or once a new coach is hired.

Barnett on his radio show said he said one player "won't be traveling with us this weekend, because he was late a couple times," but did not say who it is.

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This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Michigan State football gets Simeon Barrow back from transfer portal