Michigan State Spartans Quarterback Aidan Chiles is Expected To Have a Big 2025 Season With All Offensive Pieces Falling in Place
Michigan State Spartans Quarterback Aidan Chiles is Expected To Have a Big 2025 Season With All Offensive Pieces Falling in Place originally appeared on Athlon Sports.
Michigan State football head coach Jonathan Smith is in his second year of revamping the Spartans' program. Looking ahead into the upcoming season, it seems as though the offense is finally taking shape.
Starting quarterback Aidan Chiles is expecting to prove fans and critics wrong in 2025-26. He won't be a head-turning star, but there's more potential that will be unlocked.
Chiles, like Smith, is also entering his second year at Michigan State. As a sophomore, he threw for 2,415 yards and 13 touchdowns on 192 completions. His passing rate came to 59.4 percent by the end of the season. The rising junior also tallied 97 rushing attempts for 225 yards and three touchdowns.
The biggest issue in Chiles' game is refinement and consistency. He threw 11 interceptions last season, leading the Big Ten. However, entering the second half of the season, the improvement started to show as he only threw three.
His overall skill, though, has often been overlooked. After not making Josh Pate's Top 10 Big Ten Preseason Quarterback Rankings, it's clear Chiles will have something to prove.
The other pieces of Michigan State's offense are ready to help him too.
The first: quarterbacks coach Jon Boyer.
Boyer worked with Chiles when they were both at Oregon State, and he joined the Spartans' staff for the spring. The quarterback's development already started, and it was noticeable.
"It's just amazing to see the growth that I gained and everything I've learned just being with him, just learning from the past few weeks being with him," Chiles said in late April.
The second: Chiles' offensive line.
Adding transfers — Oregon State's Luka Vincic, Wake Forest's Matt Gublin and Montana State's Conner Moore — will help stabilize the starting five. Chiles should have more time to make decisions in the pocket and also put together a solid run game of his own.
Aidan Chiles will be a Top 20 quarterback in college football this season. Having a much healthier and deep offensive line helps, and his receiver unit will be lethal. It's a make or break year for Chiles, and I think he makes it! pic.twitter.com/UlBgcVt1Ig
— College Football with Sam (@CFBwSam) June 21, 2025
The last piece of the offensive puzzle Chiles will have to work with: wide receivers.
Returner Nick Marsh had 41 receptions last season for 649 yards and three touchdowns. He also led the Spartans in receiving yards. Smith added Middle Tennessee State's Omari Kelly, Akron's Chrishon McCray, Valdosta State's Rodney Bullard, and Central Michigan's Evan Boyd from the transfer portal to boost the position's depth.
As Marsh enters his second season with Michigan State and Boyd will start his Spartan career as a redshirt sophomore, the other three transfers are bringing veteran experience to the group. Kelly is entering is senior year, Bullard will be a redshirt junior, and Boyd is a rising redshirt senior.
The offense starts with the offensive line, and Michigan State's is already cleaner than last season. Chiles himself has become more consistent in the offseason, and now he has stronger wide receivers to target. As said before, he sophomore quarterback won't be turning heads, but he'll definitely has all the right things going for him next season.
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This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 22, 2025, where it first appeared.
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