Missouri transfer Shawn Robinson will finish college football career at Kansas State
The newest member of Kansas State’s football team will bring lots of college experience with him to the Wildcats next season.
Shawn Robinson, a graduate transfer who spent the past two seasons playing both quarterback and defensive back for Missouri, began the spring semester in Manhattan on Tuesday as a member of the K-State football roster, a team spokesman confirmed
The former four-star recruit will finish his college career at K-State after starting out at TCU and also playing for Mizzou.
Robinson has seen nearly all aspects of the game over the past four seasons.
At Missouri, he started the first two games of the Eli Drinkwitz era at quarterback before losing his job and then switching to the defensive side of the ball, where he began trying to knock down passes intended for receivers rather than trying to complete them.
As a defensive back, he recorded 31 tackles a sack and an interception last season with the Tigers.
Drinkwitz was complimentary of Robinson before he left the Tigers.
“A young man who’s got incredible work ethic,” Drinkwitz said of him last season, “who plays as hard as he possibly can from snap to whistle. Stays late. I don’t think there’s a day that practice goes by that he’s not the last person on the field.”
Robinson will add valuable depth to K-State’s secondary next season. The Wildcats are looking to replace several departing safeties, including Jahron McPherson and Russ Yeast.
In an unusual bit of scheduling, Robinson will get to play against his own team next season when K-State hosts Missouri on Sept. 10 at Bill Snyder Family Stadium for a nonconference game.
This story was originally published January 18, 2022 at 9:30 AM.