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 The 6-foot, 203-pound redshirt junior enrolled in summer courses
at ISU, will have two years of eligibility remaining and will be
eligible to play in 2014 due to NCAA transfer rules. In 23 career
games with the Hoosiers, Roberson completed 197-of-330 pass attempts
(59.7 percent) for 2,433 yards and 20 touchdowns with 11
interceptions. Also a threat with his feet, Roberson rushed for 982
yards on 206 carries and scored 10 touchdowns over the past three
seasons.
“We know a lot about Tre and his abilities as a quarterback,” Spack
stated. “We have had a lot of success recruiting Indianapolis and
the surrounding areas and knew about Tre coming out of high school,
his success and the high-level coaching he received. He continued
that with his experience at Indiana and Tre is a very different
option for us in that he can really run and throw on the run well.
He certainly will add a different dimension to our quarterback
position with his skill set alongside Blake (Winkler), Adam (Pittser),
Jake (Kolbe) and Trevor (Rea).”
Last season, Roberson appeared in all 12 games and started four
times. The Indianapolis, Ind., native completed 83-of-138 pass
attempts (60.1 percent) for 1,128 yards with 15 touchdowns. His best
performance of the season came in win a over Purdue, when he went
25-for-37 (67.6 percent) for 273 yards and matched an IU single-game
record with a career-high six scores en route to being named the Big
Ten Offensive Player of the Week. He added a career-best 151 rushing
yards on 22 carries against the Boilermakers to finish the game with
a career-high 427 total yards, which ranks sixth on IU's single-game
list.
He saw limited action in his second season at IU, after he suffered
a broken leg in the second game of the 2012 season and received a
medical redshirt. As a freshman in 2011, Roberson became the first
true freshman quarterback in IU history to start a game and was just
the second to play for the Hoosiers at the position. As one of just
12 true freshman quarterbacks to start nationally in 2011, Roberson
started five games, played in nine and threw for 937 yards, three
touchdowns and six interceptions to go along with 426 rushing yards
on 109 carries with two scores.
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“Like anyone else, he will need to get situated here, learn the
playbook, get to know his teammates and coaches, and get a head
start academically,” Spack stated. “That is the first test for
transfers and by no stretch of the imagination does he think he is
going to be the guy. Tre knows that he will have to compete with
good players to earn the job this fall.”
Coming out of Lawrence Central High School, Roberson was rated the
No. 11 prospect in Indiana and the No. 28 dual-threat quarterback
nationally by Rivals.com. Following his senior season, Roberson was
selected as Indiana Mr. Football and was named a 2010 Indiana
Football Coaches Association Top 50 and Indiana Associated Press
Class 5A All-States selection. He also earned the Indianapolis Star
Super Team Player of the Year award and Indianapolis Star All-Marion
County Player of the Year award.
In his final prep campaign, Roberson passed for 2,611 yards with 24
touchdowns and just four interceptions, rushed for 1,992 yards and
21 scores and led Lawrence Central to a 13-2 record and its first 5A
state championship game appearance.
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