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STARKVILLE — Cortez McCraney and Jessie Bowman will get starts Thursday night for Mississippi State at defensive tackle, MSU coach Sylvester Croom said Tuesday.

McCraney, a junior transfer from Memphis, and Bowman, a junior transfer from Copiah-Lincoln Community College, are the latest to step into the starting role in what has been a challenging preseason camp in terms of finding a rotation at defensive tackle.

Croom said sophomores Kyle Love and Quinton Wesley will back up the pair and form a regularly used four-man rotation.

Freshmen LaMarcus Williams and Rodney Prince will be the Bulldogs’ third-team backups.

MSU d-line set for opener -The Clarion-Ledger- Real Mississippi