Hall of Fame
Grigsby is a four-year letterwinner for the Redbirds while playing for Illinois State football from 2001-04. A three-time Missouri Valley Football Conference Defensive Player of the Year (2002-03-04), he remains the only player in league history to accomplish the feat.
He was a three-time Buck Buchanan Award finalist (2002-03-04), an award given to the nation’s top NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) defensive player; he finished second in the Buchanan voting in 2003 and third in both 2002 and 2004, as the only player in the history of the award to finish in the top-three for three-consecutive years.
Grigsby owns the NCAA FCS, Missouri Valley Football Conference, and the Illinois State career tackles records with 580.
A consensus FCS All-American in both 2003 and 2004, he was voted an All-American by the Sports Network for three-straight years (2002, 2003 and 2004).
Following his playing days at ISU, Grigsby played three seasons in the NFL, after being drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2005 NFL Draft, and he also played for the Miami Dolphins and Houston Texans.
Grigsby was named to both the MVFC All-Select NFL Team and Silver Anniversary Team. For all his accomplishments, the National Defensive Player of the Year Award presented by College Sporting News was named in honor of Grigsby.
A member of the Canton High School Hall of Fame, he was inducted into the Illinois State Athletics Percy Family Hall of Fame in 2010, and he became a member of the 2022 College Football Hall of Fame Class -- he’s the only football player in Gateway/MVFC history to earn the honor.