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2025 NIU Football Roster

29 Romelo Walker

  • Height 6-1
  • Weight 195
  • Class Redshirt Freshman
  • Position Defensive Back
  • Hometown Orlando, Fla.
  • High School Olympia

Biography

2024

  • Did not see any game action during redshirt season.

HIGH SCHOOL 

Honors and Awards 

  • Three-year varsity letterwinner (2021, 2022, 2023) 

  • Two-time team captain (2022,2023) 

  • Earned Team MVP honors as a junior and senior (2022,2023) 

  • Received first team All-State honors as a senior (2023) 

  • Also named First Team All-Conference, All-County and All-Region (2023) 

  • Selected to Second Team All-Conference squad as a junior (2022) 

  • Invited to Cure Bowl and Shrine Bowl following his senior year (2023)  

  • Played in the East vs West Junior Classic (2022) 

Team Results/Record 

  • 2023: 8-2, District Champs with 4-0 record 

  • Best regular season record in school history. 

  • 2022: 6-4 Qualified for playoffs 

  • 2021: 5-5  

  • 2022: 5-5 Qualified for playoffs 

Academic and Club/Sport Involvement  

  • Was 1st in district and region for 4x1 in Track and Field  

  • Qualified for the AB Honor Roll 

  • Volunteered as a teen leader at Barnett Park Summer Camp 

Personal 

  • Plans to major in Business  

  • Came to NIU along with teammate Romelo Ware 

  • Sprinter on the top 4 x 100 team in the district and region, finished sixth at state meet  

  •  Originally from Tallahassee, Florida 

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 29

    2024Freshman

    Cornerback
    6'1" 185 lbs
    29
  • 29

    2025Redshirt Freshman

    Defensive Back
    6'1" 195 lbs
    29