Michigan State football needs Maliq Carr to be star of replenished TE room

EAST LANSING — Maliq Carr flanked out like a wide receiver, used his sturdy hips to box out the smaller Penn State linebacker like a basketball player. He spun through contact and cradled Payton Thorne’s lob between his big left hand and bulging bicep. One of the final images last season of Michigan State football’s tight end proved be the kind of mismatch the Spartans hoped to get all season from a player nicknamed “Maliq the Freak” — and need more of this fall. MSU loses most of its production from the position with the graduation departures of Daniel Barker…