Prospect Profile: Austin Robison (2020)
Austin Robison has a difficult decision to make. At 6-foot-6, 230 pounds, and aggressive enough to impact the outcome of games, the football version of Robison is one of Colorado’s top prospects as a defensive end. The basketball version isn’t…
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Continue ReadingAustin Robison has a difficult decision to make.
At 6-foot-6, 230 pounds, and aggressive enough to impact the outcome of games, the football version of Robison is one of Colorado’s top prospects as a defensive end. The basketball version isn’t bad, either.
To muddy the waters even more, Robison missed several weeks of the Skyline football team’s run to the Class 4A state championship game with a broken hand. Not only did that hurt his exposure as a football prospect, it set the junior back in terms of his preparation for the winter basketball season.
But true to his form as a top-level athlete, Robison is making up for lost time early in the 2018-19 basketball season.
“My gut says he’ll get some major-level and Division-I football offers but I’m not sure if basketball is off the table,” Skyline boys basketball head coach Tyler Cerveny said. “The injury hurt him a little bit. He’s still getting back to his basketball weight and he’s of our guys who missed all of our preseason conditioning because the football team was in the championship game.”
Robison, who played club basketball last summer for the Colorado Anarchy, is averaging 14.9 points, 8.6 rebounds and 1.7 assist per game for the Falcons (5-5) this season. At 6-foot-6 and 230 pounds, he is a force in the paint at both ends of the floor. But the major differentiating factor in Robison’s game might be his ability to shoot the ball from the perimeter.
A natural and fluid shooter, Robison is making 47 percent (9 for 19) of his 3-point attempts so far in a season that got off to a late start because of the football team’s extended run.
“His advantage is that he’s an in-and-out guy,” Cerveny said. “He’s a tweener in the sense that he’s not tall enough to be a pure inside guy and not quite fast enough to be a pure outside guy. But where he has a chance to shine is his ability to do both and cause mismatches.”
On Tuesday night, Robison showed his ability to create mismatches by drawing talented Mead forward Jax Wilke (Chadron State) away from the paint. While doing so, Robison was 3 for 8 from 3-point range.
It’s fairly clear that Robison will play college sports somewhere. Which school he plays for and what sport he plays has yet to be determined.