After recording 61 tackles, 6.5 sacks and 18 tackles for loss Roberts was a first-team AFCA and DCCA All-American, second-team AP All-American; National Region 3 Defensive Player of the Year and the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) Defensive Player of the Year. That catapulted him to being the recipient of the 2021 Cliff Harris Award, which annually goes to the nation’s small-college defensive player of the year representing NCAA D-II, D-III and NAIA college and universities.
In addition, Roberts was selected to the MIAA Academic Honor Roll multiple times.