Elijah Roberts holds the RDE · Backup spot in Tampa Bay Buccaneers’s edge room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

Elijah Roberts played 17 games in 2025 with a 48% snap share.

Elijah Roberts is a 6'4", 295-pound right defensive end for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Tampa Bay selected him in the fifth round (157th overall) of the 2025 NFL Draft. Roberts played college football at Southern Methodist University (2023-24) and the University of Miami (2020-22), appearing in 49 career games. Across both programs, he recorded 93 tackles, 26.0 tackles for loss, and 18.0 sacks. At SMU, he led the FBS in quarterback pressures during 2023-24 with 131, earned second-team All-AAC honors as a senior, and helped the team reach the College Football Playoff. In 2025, Roberts has 2.0 sacks and 3.0 passes defended.

Miamithrough 2022

SMU2023 – 2024

Buccaneers2025 — present

CollegeSMU; MiamiDraftRound 5 · No. 157 overall · 2025 · TBHometownMiami, FL