Player Dossier

2016-2021

Oregon State

Avery Roberts

LB • 6'1" • 234 lbs • Wilmington, DE, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Avery Roberts shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 57.1 disruption score.

Usage / Role

74%

Major defensive role

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Impact Production

98

Top-tier box-score impact for a linebacker

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Reliability

70

Reliable weekly contributor

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Star Power

89

Elite ceiling indicators

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · Oregon State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Nebraska • Oregon State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Hawai'i

Player Story

Avery Roberts built his college career from 2016 through 2021 as a linebacker from Wilmington, DE wearing No. 34, spending time with Nebraska and Oregon State. The clearest part of Avery Roberts' career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2017 · Rating 0.9279

Concord · Wilmington, DE

Committed To
Nebraska
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2017

Avery Roberts, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · Oregon State. Avery Roberts shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 57.1 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
280
TFL
18.5
Sacks
5
QB hurries
9
Passes defended
4

Quick Answers

Avery Roberts quick answers

Latest team and position
Oregon State · LB
Career Tackles
280
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 33 games
Best season
2021 Regular Season · Oregon State
Top game
Hawai'i
Recruit profile
4-star · Concord · Nebraska
High school pipeline
Concord · 2 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 34 · Junior
2021 Tackles rank
123 tackles · LB 13th (top 2%) · Pac-12 1st (top 1%) · National 13th (top 1%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2016 Regular SeasonNebraska00-0--0-
2017 Regular SeasonNebraska44-0--037
2019 Regular SeasonOregon State11846232055.5
2020 Regular SeasonOregon State66930.5--043.3
2021 Regular SeasonOregon State121239.52.562078.7

Related Context

Avery Roberts played LB for Nebraska and Oregon State. Across 5 tracked seasons, Avery Roberts recorded 280 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2021 with Oregon State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2021 Regular Season

Oregon State paired 21 primary output with 57.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

2019 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 42.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2021 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Nebraska, Oregon State.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: UCLA

Win with 6 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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2019 Regular Season · Oregon State

Games

11

Havoc Plays / G

1.2

Efficiency

42.3

Usage

10.6

Consistency

29.3

Best Game by takeover score

UCLA

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Oklahoma State: 0. Hawai'i: 2. Cal Poly: 0. Stanford: 0. UCLA: 6. California: 0.5. Arizona: 0. Washington: 2. Arizona State: 1. Washington State: 1. Oregon: 0.5

Volume vs Efficiency

Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.

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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Oklahoma State: 5 by 20.8. Hawai'i: 9 by 57.5. Cal Poly: 3 by 12.5. Stanford: 5 by 20.8. UCLA: 8 by 83.3. California: 13 by 55. Arizona: 8 by 33.3. Washington: 11 by 65.8. Arizona State: 7 by 39.2. Washington State: 10 by 51.7. Oregon: 5 by 25.8

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins1.5 · Games = 5 · +0.6 vs Losses
Losses0.9 · Games = 6 · -0.6 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

11 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

UCLA

Best efficiency game

83.3 vs UCLA

Result
Sat 11/30@ OregonL 10-24520.5000
Sun 11/24@ Washington State10+ tacklesL 53-54108001
Sun 11/17vs Arizona StateW 35-3474100
Sat 11/9vs Washington10+ tackles · Splash gameL 7-19115000
Sat 11/2@ ArizonaW 56-3886000
Sat 10/19@ California10+ tacklesW 21-171380.5000
Sun 10/6@ UCLASplash gameW 48-3185311
Sat 9/28vs StanfordL 28-3153000
Sat 9/14vs Cal PolyW 45-732000
Sun 9/8@ Hawai'iSplash gameL 28-3197110
Sat 8/31vs Oklahoma StateL 36-5253000

Player Story

Avery Roberts story

Avery Roberts built his college career from 2016 through 2021 as a linebacker from Wilmington, DE wearing No. 34, spending time with Nebraska and Oregon State. The clearest part of Avery Roberts' career was his defensive production: 280 tackles, 18.5 tackles for loss, 5 sacks, and 1 interception across 33 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2021 with Oregon State. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Avery Roberts' production has multiple signals. With 33 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Nebraska and Oregon State.

The arc is straightforward: Avery Roberts moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    Nebraska

    2016-2017

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Oregon State

    2019-2021

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20162017201920202021
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2016 Regular SeasonNebraska0
2017 Regular SeasonNebraska04.20.80
2019 Regular SeasonOregon State1342.310.613
2020 Regular SeasonOregon State3.545.412.3-9.5
2021 Regular SeasonOregon State2157.115.217.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Hawai'i

Week 2 · W 45-27

Win with 5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

5

Havoc Plays

100 takeover

5 disruption/tackle impact with 100 takeover score.

#2

@ UCLA

Week 6 · W 48-31 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

94.4 takeover

Win with 6 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

6 disruption/tackle impact with 94.4 takeover score.

#3

vs California

Week 12 · W 31-27 · Conference game

2.5

Havoc Plays

88.9 takeover

Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 88.9 takeover score.

#4

vs Utah

Week 8 · W 42-34 · Conference game

3

Havoc Plays

80 takeover

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 80 takeover score.

#5

vs Washington

Week 5 · W 27-24 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

70 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 70 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2021 Regular Season · Oregon State

21 primary output · 57.1 efficiency · 15.2 usage

78.7

#2

2019 Regular Season · Oregon State

55.5

13 primary · 42.3 efficiency · 10.6 usage

#3

2020 Regular Season · Oregon State

43.3

3.5 primary · 45.4 efficiency · 12.3 usage

Milestones

10

Impact games

10

Splash games

15

10+ tackle games