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With 11 days left until the Virginia Tech Hokies face the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, we turn our attention to #11 on roster Mr. Dyrell Roberts. To be honest, we haven’t seen much of Dyrell since his sophomore season. His last two years have been cut short due to injuries on kickoffs. Still, last year’s injury was a bit of a blessing in disguise. Roberts wasn’t developed enough as a receiver to get drafted in April’s NFL draft. Plus, he was playing behind Tech’s top two career receivers in Jarrett Boykin and Danny Coale. This year, Roberts should develop into one of Logan Thomas's top targets, which should allow him to finally have that breakout season we've been waiting for.
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The Scoop
Height: 6’2”
Weight: 195 lbs
Position: Wide Receiver
Year: R-Senior
High School: Smithfield High School
How Did He Get Here?
Roberts was a four star recruit coming out of high school and chose the Hokies over offers from UVA, Penn State, UCONN, UNC, NC State, and a handful of others. He committed to Tech on July 31st 2007.
2011 Season Rewind
After starting the year off strong with three catches for 45 yards against Appalachian State, Roberts ended up suffering a season ending arm injury on the opening kickoff against Arkansas State. Thankfully, the injury occurred early enough in the season to allow Roberts to take a redshirt. That allowed him to return for this season without having the petition the NCAA for an extra year.
2012 Prediction
Without knowing the true health of DJ Coles, it’s tough to really make a prediction for any of our receivers. Any one of our three primary senior wideouts could blow up this season and become our first 1000 yard receiver. Davis has that potential, Roberts has that potential, and if Coles is healthy enough he has that potential. In fact, this receiver corps is a little more athletic than the group we had last season. Boykin and Coale were great players but they each had their limitations.
Roberts needs to put together a fantastic senior season if he wants to make it to the NFL. This is virtually a contract year for him with a lot of money at stake. With a great year, he could be a 2nd or 3rd round pick. A down year will likely leave him undrafted at the end of Saturday’s portion of the draft. However, I think by the end of the Georgia Tech game we’ll be able to make a good prediction on how productive we’ll be at wide receiver.
Completely Made Up Fact
After being demoted to 2nd on the depth chart at flanker, Dyrell decided to take a page out of his favorite receiver’s playbook and do 1000 sit-ups in Coach Sherman’s driveway. The next day he was back on top of the depth chart.
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Hokiesports.com continues the love-fest of walk-on Greg Jones. Any chance this guy can get some playing time this year?
“The freshman led everyone with six tackles (five solo) and forced a fumble. But what stood out was that he played with emotion and passion.”
Hes a true freshman and he seems to be getting more press than most of our highly-ranked recruits. Obviously he’s a smart dude and has a lot of drive. With rover being thin, maybe he can give us some depth.
He’s getting a look although like most walk-ons, he’s a tad limited athletically. But he plays with a lot of passion and he definitely stood out yesterday when he was in there with the 3rd team. If our coaches like him enough he’ll play but it would surprise me if he didn’t redshirt.
Was watching the ACC preview on ESPN. It is literally the same thing for Virginia Tech every year. Well, they’ve got Frank Beamer he’ll pull them through. And that’s pretty much all Virginia Tech gets. Are we just not as interesting as FSU or Clemson to talk about? People forget we dominated Clemson for the past decade besides the victories they got this year. And they get all the attention! I’m fine with not getting as muchh hype as them because I feel our players react to it better. But I feel we deserve more respect.
ESPN doesn’t know anything about Tech. They think that even though their offense was terrible last year that FSU is gonna score 40 points a game. Clemson doesn’t even have a defense this year. I think it’s funny how they just asume that we’re gonna get shredded by Clemson again and how the ‘Noles are just gonna walk in here in a primetime thursday night and beat our asses. I’d be surprised if FSU made the ACC title game because i guarantee that their offense will be inconsistent and they’ll be upset at least once. I also expect for us to beat them as long as we’re healthy. We have a tough schedule but the times at which we play certain teams is good. We have all camp to prepare for GT, we get Clemson in the middle of our season when we could maybe afford a slip up, and we get FSU on a thursday night in the cold. I’m pretty optimistic about this season because of it.
Reality check…How soon we forget. Our offence was sooooo inconsistent last year it was sometimes painful to watch. 17 points against ECU who gave up 56, 56, 38, 35, 34 and 31 in their other games. 3 & 10 points against Clemson and 14 against Duke! Part of the problem has always been play calling from upstairs and being conservative at the wrong time and when we did take a risk half of the time it blew up in our face. I think LT will have a great year and I think he will prove to be one of the best QB’s in the country. But the Offensive coaching staff has only talked about opening up the play book, going firmly against 25 years of Beamer ball – that would prefer winning games on defense and special teams. I am still not convinced we will open it up and even though our D will be the focal point I am looking forward to some innovative play calling because I am not sure I want to sit through games like ECU/Duke & Clemson. Open it up & play to win not lose and we may have a chance to be special.
I am a little tired of people blaming the play calling for our lack of offense. Play calling is only a small part of the problem. Lack of execution (turnovers/dropped passes/missed blocking assignments) is the real problem!
Against ECU…..
*Settled for FG at ECU 13 (False start pushed us back from the 8 setting up 3rd and 8 instead of 3rd and 3)
*INT at the ECU 6
*Wilson fumble at ECU 22 which was the first play of the drive!
Against Duke….
*INT at Duke 15
*INT at Duke 25 (first play of the drive)
*Missed FG at Duke 15
Dropped passes, poor OL play and turnovers (5) was the problem against Clemson.