Last confirmed: Fresno State, 2018. No 2026 box-score games on record.
6′2″ · 203 lb · Dinuba, CA
Marcus McMaryion: QB · Fresno State · #6.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Marcus McMaryion
Extends plays with his feet until something opens up. Two head coaches in four seasons, at two different programs. One game to point at: 368 passing yards and 15 rushing yards against Toledo — Week 5, 2018.
Play style
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
54.3% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 26.5% conversion-per-dropback — 48.0% of completions land short of the sticks.
Where completions land is fact — whether incompletions were aimed deep is intent, not recorded here, so this card counts completions only. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
14 of 17 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (82.4%). 8 of the team's 40 inside-the-5 carries (20.0%).
No outlet on our list has written about him by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Fresno State | 293 | 427 | 68.6% | 3,628 | 8.5 | 25 | 5 | 157.0 | 75 |
| 2017 | Fresno State | 218 | 351 | 62.1% | 2,726 | 7.8 | 14 | 5 | 137.7 | 66 |
| 2016 | Oregon State | 101 | 170 | 59.4% | 1,286 | 7.6 | 10 | 5 | 136.5 | 56 |
| 2015 | Oregon State | 27 | 67 | 40.3% | 403 | 6.0 | 1 | 3 | 86.8 | 37 |
| Career | 639 | 1,015 | 63.0% | 8,043 | 7.9 | 50 | 18 | 142.2 | 67 |
| Season | Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Fresno State | 71 | 296 | 4.2 | 8 |
| 2017 | Fresno State | 57 | 302 | 5.3 | 4 |
| 2016 | Oregon State | 29 | 75 | 2.6 | 1 |
| 2015 | Oregon State | 16 | 18 | 1.1 | 1 |
| Career | 173 | 691 | 4.0 | 14 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 14 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 79-13vs Idaho | 19/26 | 207 | 0 | 0 | 8.0 | — | |
| Wk 2 | L 14-21@ Minnesota | 23/32 | 205 | 2 | 1 | 6.4 | — | |
| Wk 3 | W 38-14@ UCLA | 22/33 | 270 | 1 | 0 | 8.2 | — | |
| Wk 5 | W 49-27vs Toledo | 24/31 | 368 | 4 | 1 | 11.9 | — | Season-high 368 yds |
| Wk 6 | W 21-3@ Nevada | 20/28 | 241 | 2 | 0 | 8.6 | — | |
| Wk 7 | W 27-3vs Wyoming | 22/32 | 287 | 2 | 0 | 9.0 | — | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 8 | W 38-7@ New Mexico | 20/30 | 280 | 3 | 0 | 9.3 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 9 | W 50-20vs Hawai'i | 21/31 | 284 | 4 | 0 | 9.2 | — | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 10 | W 48-3@ UNLV | 26/35 | 274 | 2 | 1 | 7.8 | — | |
| Wk 11 | L 17-24@ Boise State | 24/35 | 283 | 1 | 0 | 8.1 | — | |
| Wk 12 | W 23-14vs San Diego State | 17/24 | 267 | 1 | 0 | 11.1 | — | |
| Wk 13 | W 31-13vs San José State | 20/29 | 317 | 2 | 0 | 10.9 | — | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 14 | W 19-16@ No. 19 Boise State | 20/32 | 170 | 1 | 0 | 5.3 | — | |
 Bowl | W 31-20vs Arizona State | 15/29 | 175 | 0 | 2 | 6.0 | — | |
| Total | 293/427 | 3628 | 25 | 5 | 8.5 | — |
Week 5 · 2018
W 49-27
vs Toledo
The plays that mattered most
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 426 passing plays (292 completions) against the box score's 427 attempts (293 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
8.7919 of 207 QBsSack rate
3.0%20 of 207 QBsRarely sacked (20 of 207 QBs) and still 19 of 207 in Adjusted ANY/A.
Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.
Short
0–9 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 68.6% completion on 427 attempts · 54 deep completions averaging 32.3 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2018 baseline
No situation moves him more than 16 percentile points from his baseline.
Deltas are vs. this player’s own season baseline, never a league average. League sack rate by down is shown as context because sack attribution isn’t incompletion-denominated.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 14 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 288 | 2.2 | 10.0 | 0.2 |
| Road7g | 246 | 1.7 | 7.7 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 250 | 1.6 | 8.3 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+7g | 268 | 2.0 | 8.8 | 0.1 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jeff Tedford
Pass share
47.5%
441 pass / 488 run
Plays / game
66.4
14 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2018
Our Heisman model had this player inside its top 25 in 2018.
How it ended
Four seasons, at Oregon State and Fresno State, 8,043 passing yards — his college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2018
3 coachesPlayed for 3 head coaches at 2 schools: Mike Riley, Gary Andersen and Jeff Tedford.
