Southeast Missouri State football star Paul McRoberts will don East jersey in East-West Shrine Game

Southeast Missouri State star wide receiver Paul McRoberts will step onto a football field as a collegiate athlete one final time when he plays in the East-West Shrine Game on Jan. 23. On Thursday it was announced that McRoberts will play on the East team.

McRoberts is the game's lone Ohio Valley Conference representative.

The wideout will wear jersey No. 80 and help fill out an East receiving corps that includes Notre Dame's Chris Brown, Mississippi's Cody Core, Miami's Rashawn Scott, UMass-Amherst's Tajae Sharpe and Temple's Robby Anderson.

There are 118 players combined between the two teams' rosters.

McRoberts adds this honor to a long list. He was also an All-OVC first-team selection for a second consecutive year and broke Southeast Missouri State's all-time career record for receiving touchdowns with 29.

The St. Louis native was ranked 13th in the Football Championship Subdivision in receiving TDs and 17th in receiving yards. He posted 76 catches for 940 yards and nine touchdowns in 2015. For his career, McRoberts had 2,435 receiving yards, third-most in school history.

The East-West Shrine game will be played at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. The event -- which began in 1925 as the nation's first college all-star football game -- raises proceeds for the Shriners Hospitals for Children. Kickoff is scheduled for 3 p.m. and will be broadcast on the NFL Network.

Some famous names that have graced the Shrine Game rosters include Gale Sayers, Tom Brady, John Elway, Dick Butkus, Brett Favre and Walter Payton, along with coaches Don Shula, former St. Louis Rams headman Dick Vermeil and Paul "Bear" Bryant.