Michigan State Football: 5 takeaways from first two weeks of 2017 by Connor Muldowney

Michigan State football is having some fun while winning games, just ask Darrell Stewart and Brian Lewerke.

Everything is more fun when you’re winning games, right? Just ask Michigan State football. Darrell Stewart Jr. is one of the guys having the most fun this season and it’s probably because he’s found a new role with the team.

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Instead of being mostly a punt return guy splitting time with Brandon Sowards, which he did in 2016, he’s a do-everything player for the Spartans. He takes end-arounds, catches passes, returns kicks and punts and comes up with awesome nicknames for his teammates.

OK, he’s only come out with one nickname thus far — that we know of — and it’s for his quarterback, Brian Lewerke.

Following Lewerke’s 61-yard touchdown run on Saturday against Western Michigan, everyone in Spartan Stadium seemed surprised. Everyone, that is, but Stewart Jr. The junior wide out claimed, “That’s Brian Lewerke, if you don’t know by now.”

And he had a pretty interesting, yet awesome, nickname for his quarterback. Just watch:

Darrell Stewart Jr. waxing poetic about Brian Lewerke is the best sound you’ll hear all day. #MSUvsWMU pic.twitter.com/WXeIYsqMhh — Jay Sarkar (@WLNSJaySarkar) September 10, 2017

“People don’t know, but Brian Lewerke is ‘White Lightning’,” Stewart Jr. said. He also said that he’d call Lewerke Goldie Locks if he wanted, too.

The chemistry between Lewerke and Stewart Jr. is clearly growing by the day, and that’s good news for the Spartans. These two are having fun and that’s good to see after what happened in 2016 as well as the offseason.

This is how nicknames get started, though. It starts as a joke, but White Lightning might just stick.