Player Dossier

2019-2023

Michigan State

Terry Roberts

DB • 5'11" • 180 lbs • Erie, PA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Terry Roberts shows a ball-hunting defender profile with partial disruption data.

Usage / Role

13%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

58

Solid production for a defensive back

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Reliability

45

Useful contributor with volatile peaks

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Star Power

62

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · Iowa

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Iowa • Michigan State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Maryland

Player Story

Terry Roberts built his college career from 2019 through 2023 as a defensive back from Erie, PA wearing No. 38, spending time with Iowa and Michigan State. The clearest part of Terry Roberts' career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2018 · Rating 0.8463

Cathedral Prep · Erie, PA

Committed To
Iowa
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2018

Terry Roberts, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · Iowa. Terry Roberts shows a ball-hunting defender profile with partial disruption data.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
47
Passes defended
5

Quick Answers

Terry Roberts quick answers

Latest team and position
Michigan State · DB
Career Tackles
47
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 24 games
Best season
2021 Regular Season · Iowa
Top game
Maryland
Recruit profile
3-star · Cathedral Prep · Iowa
High school pipeline
Cathedral Prep · 22 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 38 · Senior

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2019 Regular SeasonIowa711-0--039
2020 Regular SeasonIowa69-0--038.6
2021 Regular SeasonIowa714-0-3053.4
2022 Regular SeasonIowa413-0-2041.9
2023 Regular SeasonMichigan State00-0--0-

Related Context

Terry Roberts played DB for Iowa and Michigan State. Across 5 tracked seasons, Terry Roberts recorded 47 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2021 with Iowa.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2021 Regular Season

Iowa paired 4 primary output with 14.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

2022 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 21.1 efficiency.

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Career value cooled off

2023 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

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Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Iowa, Michigan State.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Iowa State

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 75th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2022 Regular Season · Iowa

Games

4

Havoc Plays / G

0.8

Efficiency

21.1

Usage

3.9

Consistency

38.9

Best Game by takeover score

Iowa State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. South Dakota State: 2. Iowa State: 1. Nevada: 0. Illinois: 0

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. South Dakota State: 4 by 36.7. Iowa State: 6 by 35. Nevada: 2 by 8.3. Illinois: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins1 · Games = 2 · +0.5 vs Losses
Losses0.5 · Games = 2 · -0.5 vs Wins

Game Log

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

4 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Iowa State

Best efficiency game

36.7 vs South Dakota State

Result
Sat 10/8@ IllinoisL 6-911000
Sat 9/17vs NevadaW 27-020000
Sat 9/10vs Iowa StateL 7-10650010
Sat 9/3vs South Dakota StateSplash gameW 7-343002

Player Story

Terry Roberts story

Terry Roberts built his college career from 2019 through 2023 as a defensive back from Erie, PA wearing No. 38, spending time with Iowa and Michigan State. The clearest part of Terry Roberts' career was his defensive production: 47 tackles, 2 interceptions, and 5 passes defended across 24 career games in the available record. That gives Terry Roberts' career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Iowa

    2019-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Michigan State

    2023

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20192020202120222023
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2019 Regular SeasonIowa06.51.3
2020 Regular SeasonIowa06.31.20
2021 Regular SeasonIowa414.15.14
2022 Regular SeasonIowa321.13.9-1
2023 Regular SeasonMichigan State0-3

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Maryland

Week 5 · W 51-14 · Conference game

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

74.2 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 74.2 takeover score.

#2

vs Iowa State

Week 2 · L 7-10

1

Havoc Plays

57.5 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 57.5 takeover score.

#3

vs South Dakota State

Week 1 · W 7-3

2

Havoc Plays

54.7 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 54.7 takeover score.

#4

vs Purdue

Week 7 · L 7-24 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

52.8 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 52.8 takeover score.

#5

vs Kent State

Week 3 · W 30-7

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Havoc Plays

46.4 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 46.4 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2021 Regular Season · Iowa

4 primary output · 14.1 efficiency · 5.1 usage

53.4

#2

2022 Regular Season · Iowa

41.9

3 primary · 21.1 efficiency · 3.9 usage

#3

2019 Regular Season · Iowa

39

0 primary · 6.5 efficiency · 1.3 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games