GRAMBLING — While Grambling State’s search for a quarterback continues, the Tigers found a couple of players willing to answer coach Doug Williams’ call for playmakers.
No one answered it more than running back Dawrence Roberts.
Roberts ran for 198 yards and a touchdown in the Tigers’ 20-14 loss to Alabama A&M on Saturday night, helping solve — at least for one night — a running game that was stuck in neutral for the first three weeks of the season.
“That sent a message to me,” said Roberts, who had tallied all of five yards in the Tigers’ first three games. “It made me want to be the best, made me want to be the playmaker that he was looking for. He was telling us all week, ‘We need a rusher. We need to run the ball.’ That, to me, made me want to work even harder. That made me want to be the man that he was looking for.”
Like several Tigers, Roberts was bitten by the turnover bug Saturday night. Roberts fumbled in the third quarter, and the turnover was returned 53 yards for a touchdown that put Alabama A&M up 14-0 at that point.
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