As you've likely heard, we don't have any live-action contests to cover at LetsGoPeay.com right now. What we do have is free time; oodles and oodles of free time. Enough free time to swap oodles of emails with various people who would know to create a snapshot of the 10 best players in Austin Peay football history. The top dog: a receiver truly ahead of his time.

Here's a really good stat to quantify what Harold "Red" Roberts meant to Austin Peay football during his day, how truly other-wordly he was for his era: from 1967-69, Austin Peay quarterbacks threw for 39 touchdowns… 28 of which were caught by Roberts.

Roberts finished his Austin Peay career with 31 touchdown receptions. Not only is it a number that's yet to be equaled or eclipsed in program history—standing for 50 years unless DeAngelo Wilson catches him this fall—but it stood as the top mark in the Ohio Valley Conference until 2014, when Erik Lora (who caught passes from current San Francisco 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo) finally passed the Austin Peay great.

Bear in mind, this was an era when rushing numbers and receiving numbers were usually pretty even—if anything, the emphasis was on the ground game, as evidenced by the Govs not breaking 1,000 yards passing in Roberts' freshman or senior season. But when the ball went up, it usually went to Roberts. And he usually came down with it.

Roberts took particular delight in torturing rival Murray State. Twice, he equaled the program record with four touchdown receptions, both times against the Racers in 1967 and 1969. The latter contest was Roberts' piece de resistance—a 20-catch, 252-yard performance that set program records in both categories, with the reception mark standing as the standard-bearer in the OVC until it was eclipsed by Lora in 2012. The spread has yet to dampen Roberts' accomplishments, and that is possibly the greatest indication of his timelessness—it's tough to think of receiving records last for 50 years.

If you go to the OVC record-book, the receiving numbers are what you'd expect in an era that has become increasingly pass-happy. Most of the career top-10 marks belong to guys who played this century, with a couple of outliers from the late 1990s when certain programs started flinging the pigskin around.

Also included: Roberts, an icon whose work has stood the test of time. Roberts, the APSU Hall of Famer whose number 84 will never be worn by a Governor again. Roberts, the only four-time All-OVC choice in program history.