East Lansing — When Grady Kelly picked Michigan State to finish up his college football career back in January, he didn’t know he had also picked where he’d start a family.

Kelly and his wife, Eliana, welcomed their first child, Shiloh, last Saturday.

“It’s been the most amazing and surreal experience of my life,” Kelly said Wednesday on MSU coach Jonathan Smith’s weekly radio show.

It’s the reason why Kelly, a 22-year-old defensive lineman, wasn’t available in Michigan State’s Oct. 18 game at Indiana, though it’s about as good a reason as there can be to miss a game. And Kelly, his coaches say, came back with a new power.

“He officially has dad strength now,” defensive coordinator Joe Rossi said last Wednesday. “Those guys don’t know it’s a real thing until it happens, and then you ju

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