All-State football team: Norman's Donovan Roberts played early and hurt in becoming school's career rushing and scoring leader
When Donovan Roberts was a freshman, Norman coach Greg Nation knew there was no reason to hold him back.
“There wasn't anybody else on our team better than he was that year,” Nation said. “So we moved him up. The way he accepted that role, though, as a 14-year-old, is when I knew I had a really special player.”
Roberts didn't disappoint.
As a senior this year, he ran for 1,595 yards and 23...
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