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Michigan State safety Mark Meyers (29) is transferring to Miami (Ohio).

(Mike Mulholland | MLive.com)

EAST LANSING - One night, two subtractions from the Michigan State football team.

Michigan State announced Wednesday night that senior safety Mark Meyers will move on to Miami (Ohio) as a graduate transfer for his final season. He graduated this year with a bachelor's degree in advertising.

"Mark Meyers has done everything we asked of him during this process," Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio said Thursday in a released statement. "He graduated this year and has done a good job in the classroom during his time here in East Lansing, earning Academic All-Big Ten honors (in 2014). He was looking for a new opportunity on the football field in his final season, and by earning his degree, he'll have that opportunity this year as a graduate transfer."

The news about Meyers came on the same night Michigan State announced that senior cornerback Jermaine Edmondson, who was allegedly slapped by former Spartan basketball player Draymond Green early Sunday morning, was granted a full release to transfer.

Meyers, 6-foot-0 and 185 pounds, played in 27 career games for Michigan State and made 17 tackles. He was a 2012 three-star recruit from Whitmer High School in Toledo, Ohio, and redshirted his freshman year. Meyers played in all 14 games, primarily on special teams, as a redshirt freshman and appeared in 13 games in 2014. Last season he was suspended for six games for an operating while intoxicated charge and made three tackles in six games.