NATCHITOCHES – A combination of the expanded redshirt rule and the delay of the football season because of the COVID-19 pandemic witnessed Scotty Roblow start his Northwestern State career as a kicker in 2019 and end his redshirt freshman season as a punter in 2021.
 
Roblow also ended his freshman season with the label "All-American" attached to his name.
 
The punter was picked to the HERO Sports 2020-21 Freshman All-American team, the organization announced Wednesday.
 
Roblow pinned 11 of his 29 punts inside the 20-yard line with eight of those punts traveling at least 50 yards.
 
The All-Southland Conference Third Team selection averaged 41.7 yards per punt in his first collegiate season as a punter.
 
He was named Southland Conference Special Teams Player of the Week for Week 6 when he averaged 50.5 yards per attempt on four punts against Sam Houston.
 
The C.E. Byrd product played four games as a kicker in 2019 before an injury allowed him to regain that year of eligibility.
 
Roblow is NSU's first Freshman All-American pick since Jemarcus Marshall earned those honors from the College Sports Journal in 2014. Returner Myles Ward was an honorable mention All-American in 2018 and 2019 from HERO Sports with safety Hayden Bourgeois making the Sophomore All-American team in 2018.
 
Junior linebacker Jomard Valsin was named a member of the FCS Coaches All-America Second Team this past week.

Offense

QB Mark Gronowski, South Dakota State

QB Cameron Ward, Incarnate Word

QB Tony Muskett, Monmouth

RB Isaiah Davis, South Dakota State

RB Devon Starling, Tennessee State

RB Dontae McMillan, Weber State

RB Lan Larison, UC Davis

RB Damonta Witherspoon, Murray State

OL Evan Roussel, Nicholls

OL Grey Zabel, North Dakota State

OL Justice Guillory, Stephen F. Austin

OL Michael Dorundo, Duquesne

OL Clayton Frady, Gardner-Webb

WR Antwane Wells Jr., James Madison

WR Bo Belquist, North Dakota

WR Yogi Flager, Butler

WR Ty James, Mercer

WR Josh Sterns, Houston Baptist

TE Ethan Howard, Southern

Defense

DL Jared Verse, Albany

DL Ty French, Gardner-Webb

DL Carson Hatchett, The Citadel

DL Eli Mostaert, North Dakota State

DL Jonathan Hammond, Davidson

DL Caleb Fox, Stephen F. Austin

LB Isaac Dowling, Mercer

LB Adam Bock, South Dakota State

LB Jaylen Swain, Jacksonville State

LB Jamar Shegog, Robert Morris

DB Myles Harden, South Dakota

DB Keyon Turner, Valparaiso

DB Pig Cage, Nicholls

DB Alijah Huzzie, ETSU

DB Braiden Clopton, Sam Houston

DB Dorian Davis, Western Carolina

Special Teams

P Zach Haynes, SEMO

P Scotty Roblow, Northwestern State

K Seth Morgan, Sam Houston

K Tyler Larco, UT Martin

LS Micah Torres-Whitmer, Grambling State

PR Alijah Huzzie, ETSU

KR Charlie Maxwell, Valparaiso