Editing Reggie Roby (section)

==Professional career==
As a professional, his 38.7 net average led the league in 1986, and his 45.7 average yards led the NFL in 1991, and he set a Pro Bowl record with 10 punts in the 1985 game.  His 58.5-yard single-game average on September 28, 1986, remains a Dolphin team record. At [[Rich Stadium]], Roby punted the ball a team record 77 yards. He completed the only pass attempt of his career, a 48-yarder to [[John Booty (defensive back)|John Booty]] in 1995.  Roby was selected as a punter for the NFL's 1980s All-Decade Team.  In the Dolphins 1992 divisional round 31–0 win over the [[San Diego Chargers]], he planted 4 of his 8 punts inside the Chargers 20-yard line, including 3 inside the 7.  Roby played in [[Super Bowl XIX]] with the Dolphins, though he had a below average day, averaging just 39.3 yards per kick and failing to put any of his 7 punts inside the 20.  "I was trying to kill the ball, and I kicked it bad", said Roby after the game. "I didn't hit one well. I was scared -- scared to make a mistake. It was the worst game of my life, counting high school, college, counting everything." Dolphins coach Don Shula said following the game "We're supposed to have the best punter in the football, but today, he didn't punt like he was the best."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/features/superbowl/archives/19/ |title=CNNSI.com - Super Bowl Archives |website=sportsillustrated.cnn.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030404194201/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/features/superbowl/archives/19/ |archive-date=2003-04-04}}</ref>  However, it is notable that despite Miami's #1 ranked offense during the 1984 season, which set numerous NFL records, he still made the [[Pro Bowl]] that year.

Roby played sixteen seasons in the NFL and had 992 punts for 42,951 yards.  His career yards per punt average was 43.3, with a net average of 34.0. He had 298 punts beyond the 20-yard line and 112 [[touchback]]s.  Roby helped popularize the now-standard two-step approach and often wore a watch to gauge his hangtime.<ref>[https://www.espn.com/nfl/news/story?id=1997214 Cause of death unknown - NFL - ESPN]</ref> He was one of a handful of [[African American]] kickers in National Football League history. He was one of the only kickers, to this day, to punt the ball without jumping.

In 1993, Roby's financial difficulties led to his filing for [[bankruptcy]]. The Miami Dolphins had cut him after the 1992 season largely because a corollary of this filing would have meant he could have become a free agent and left Miami at any point of the following season, but he continued to play professionally until 1998 and later became marketing and development director for Backfield in Motion, a non-profit group mixing athletics and academics to help inner city boys.

===Career statistics===
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;Regular season
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! style="text-align:center;"| [[1983 NFL season|1983]]
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1983 Miami Dolphins season|MIA]]
| 16 || 74 || 3,189 || 43.1 || 36.5 || '''26''' || 11
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1984 NFL season|1984]]
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1984 Miami Dolphins season|MIA]]
| 16 || 51 || 2,281 || 44.7 || style="background:#cfecec;"|38.1 || 15 || 10
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1985 NFL season|1985]]
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1985 Miami Dolphins season|MIA]]
| 16 || 59 || 2,576 || 43.7 || 34.7 || 19 || 8
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1986 NFL season|1986]]
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1986 Miami Dolphins season|MIA]]
| 15 || 56 || 2,476 || 44.2 || style="background:#cfecec;"|37.4 || 13 || 9
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1987 NFL season|1987]]
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1987 Miami Dolphins season|MIA]]
| 10 || 32 || 1,371 || 42.8 || '''38.2''' || 8 || 3
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1988 NFL season|1988]]
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1988 Miami Dolphins season|MIA]]
| 15 || 64 || 2,754 || 43.0 || 35.2 || 18 || 9
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1989 NFL season|1989]]
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1989 Miami Dolphins season|MIA]]
| 16 || 58 || 2,458 || 42.4 || 35.3 || 18 || 6
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1990 NFL season|1990]]
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1990 Miami Dolphins season|MIA]]
| 16 || 72 || 3,022 || 42.0 || 35.6 || 20 || 3
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1991 NFL season|1991]]
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1991 Miami Dolphins season|MIA]]
| 16 || 54 || 2,466 || style="background:#cfecec;"|'''45.7''' || 36.4 || 17 || 7
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1992 NFL season|1992]]
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1992 Miami Dolphins season|MIA]]
| 9 || 35 || 1,443 || 41.2 || 34.3 || 11 || 3
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1993 NFL season|1993]]
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1993 Washington Redskins season|WAS]]
| 15 || 78 || 3,447 || 44.2 || 37.2 || 25 || 10
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1994 NFL season|1994]]
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1994 Washington Redskins season|WAS]]
| 16 || '''82''' || '''3,639''' || 44.4 || 36.1 || 21 || '''12'''
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1995 NFL season|1995]]
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1995 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season|TB]]
| 16 || 77 || 3,296 || 42.8 || 36.2 || 23 || 7
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1996 NFL season|1996]]
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1996 Houston Oilers season|HOU]]
| 16 || 67 || 2,973 || 44.4 || 38.0 || 25 || 7
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1997 NFL season|1997]]
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1997 Tennessee Oilers season|TEN]]
| 16 || 73 || 3,049 || 41.8 || 35.6 || 25 || 1
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1998 NFL season|1998]]
! style="text-align:center;"| [[1998 San Francisco 49ers season|SF]]
| 14 || 60 || 2,511 || 41.9 || 34.3 || 14 || 6
|-
|- class="sortbottom" style="background:#eee;"
! style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|[https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/R/RobyRe20.htm Career]
! 238 || 992 || 42,951 || 43.3 || 36.2 || 298 || 112
|}