Player
Amik Robertson
DB · Lions
Amik Robertson: facts drawn from the play-by-play.
From special-teams role on the Raiders to starting nickel on a contender — Robertson's 35-PD jump since 2022 is the slow-build profile.
TrendRobertson by season (regular season)
| Season | Team | G | Solo T | PD | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | LV | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | LV | 5 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | LV | 12 | 25 | 9 | 1 |
| 2023 | LV | 13 | 35 | 6 | 1 |
| 2024 | DET | 17 | 41 | 8 | 3 |
| 2025 | DET | 17 | 42 | 12 | 2 |
Robertson was a 4th-round pick from Louisiana Tech in 2020 and barely played his first two seasons (8 games combined). Years 3 and 4 in Las Vegas built him into a real rotational nickel (25 and 35 solo tackles).
The 2024 free-agent move to Detroit unlocked the full-time role: 17 games, 41 solo tackles, 3 FFs. The 2025 follow-up is louder still — 42 solo, 12 PDs, 17 games — and Detroit got a 2-year, $9.5M starter on a value contract.
Pass deflections by season
| Season | PDs |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | 9 |
| 2023 | 6 |
| 2024 | 8 |
| 2025 | 12 |
12 PDs in 2025 — a career best in his 6th season, at age 27.
RareCareer-high PDs in year 6 is the anti-prospect arc. Most corners post their PD peak in years 2–4 and decline from there. Robertson is going the other way — 12 PDs in 17 games (0.71/game) is the best per-game coverage rate of his career.
The trend across his last four seasons: 9 → 6 → 8 → 12 PDs. The 2024 dip was the only year that didn't push the line forward, and the context is he was learning a new defense in his first year with Detroit.
Raiders era (4 years, 33 games): 9 PDs/yr peak. Lions era (2 years, 34 games): 20 PDs combined.
SplitLV vs. DET by raw production
| Stint | G | Solo T | PD | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV (2020–23) | 33 | 74 | 15 | 2 |
| DET (2024–25) | 34 | 83 | 20 | 5 |
Across the same number of games (33 vs. 34), Robertson has produced more solo tackles (83 vs. 74), more PDs (20 vs. 15), and more forced fumbles (5 vs. 2) in Detroit than he did across all four Raiders years.
The defensive scheme and the snap-share guarantee are doing real work — Detroit has used him as a true starting nickel from week 1 of the 2024 season, where Vegas treated him as the 4th or 5th DB.
Solo tackles per season
| Season | Solo tackles |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 3 |
| 2021 | 11 |
| 2022 | 25 |
| 2023 | 35 |
| 2024 | 41 |
| 2025 | 42 |
7 career forced fumbles — quietly one of the league's better ball-stripping DBs.
Milestone7 career FFs across 67 games (0.10/game) is a top-quarter rate at the DB position. Robertson's strip-tackle technique is part of what got him a real free-agent deal from Detroit in 2024.
The 3 FFs in 2024 was his career best, and 2 more in 2025 sustained the rate. That's 5 in his two Detroit seasons combined — more than he had in his entire Raiders tenure.
157 career solo tackles + 35 PDs — quietly built a 6-year resume that resembles top-half nickels.
ComparisonCareer-to-date (regular season): 157 solo tackles, 47 assists, 2.0 sacks, 35 PDs, 7 FFs, 1 FR across 67 games.
That's a 4th-round value pick that came through — most 4th-rounders never see 30 career starts, and Robertson is past that on coverage volume alone. Detroit got the back half of his arc at a fraction of the franchise-tag-tier nickel market.
Listed at 5-9 — among the shortest starting DBs in the league, and his career PD rate is going up not down.
AnomalyRobertson is 5-9, 183 lbs from Louisiana Tech — the size profile that puts a ceiling on most DB careers around year 3 or 4. He's pushed past it by living in the slot, where his quickness and tackle production matter more than length.
The 2025 season — career-high PDs at age 27, on a contender, in year 6 — is the kind of late-career validation small-school small-DBs rarely get.
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