SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist football head coach Chris Jensen has announced the addition of Tyler Roberts to the OBU staff. Roberts will coach the safeties.
Roberts begins his tenure at OBU after spending last season at Oklahoma State as a football student assistant. In the spring of 2022, he was the defensive/offensive line and outside linebackers coach for the SoCal Coyotes, a developmental pro football program in California.
From 2018-2021, Roberts coached at the College of the Desert in Palm Desert, California. As the defensive line coach in 2019, Roberts' squad was the top-rated defensive line in the nation at the junior college level after leading the state in sacks (49). The following season, he was named the Defensive Coordinator and saw his D-line produce 27 sacks in 2021.
Roberts received a Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies in May of 2022 from Nicholls State University, where he played on the defensive line in 2014 after earning a scholarship. He amassed 15 tackles and 1.5 tackles-for-loss in eight games with the Colonels.
Prior to, he played two seasons at the College of the Desert and earned All-Conference honors as a sophomore. He is a 2012 graduate of Palm Desert High School where he was a three-year starter on the defensive line. Furthermore, Roberts garnered two All-Conference selections and was named one of the Desert Sun Top-10 Players in the Coachella Valley during his junior and senior seasons.
