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Heisman / Players / Marquez Cooper /San Diego State

Marquez Cooper

RB · San Diego State · Sr · #15

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

ALUMNUSBall State 2023 alumnus

RB · SAN DIEGO STATE · MOUNTAIN WEST

Marquez Cooper

  • 4
  • #15
  • 5-8 | 200 lb
  • Gaithersburg, MD

CFB Zeitgeist RB Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#3785

<1% win probability

Fan Belief

Awaiting

Player-specific FI not yet ingested. Falls back to team mood below.

Respect Gap

Awaiting

Coming online with player-level FI.

Reality Gap

Awaiting

Coming online with player-level FI.

ACCOLADE PROBABILITY

Heisman

<1%

TOP RB AWARD

Doak Walker

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 0 · Not on team

R01 · Scout team / redshirt

Scout team / redshirt. Developing behind the depth chart.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career arc · Season-by-season Standing

3 seasons on the ladder

Peak: R09 All-Conference HM / 2nd team · 2021

2021

Kent State · RB

R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team

Recognized

2022

Kent State · RB

R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team

Recognized

2023

Ball State · RB

R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team

Recognized

Development Trajectory · rushing yards

2021–2023
1,2052021
1,3312022
1,0432023

-13%

Down 13% — context-dependent (injury / role change?).

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#2416 national
CFB
College
2 teams
2021–2023
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.

PositionRB
Class4
Jersey15
Measurements5-8 | 200 lb
HometownGaithersburg, MD
Primary teamSan Diego State

Recruiting Pedigree

How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.

Top pedigree 3-star No. 2416 recruit
Composite rating 0.8117 HighSchool
Signed with Kent State 2020
Origin Quince Orchard Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Class Profile Context
2020 3-star | 0.8117 No. 2416 recruit | HighSchool | Kent State

Transfer Arc

Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.

Portal moves 0 No portal entry on file
Latest destination -- --
Transfer stars -- CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility -- Transfer date TBD
Season Move Context
No transfer portal moves on file for this player.

Heisman Lens · 2024 Season · Final

Where the player landed at the end of the listed season — final nowcast rank, win/finalist/ballot probabilities, and the cleanest official Heisman placement on file.

HIGH CONFIDENCE· through week 16
Current nowcast#3785Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#4038Where the full season sim points
Win probability0.0%Chance to actually win the trophy
Finalist probability0.0%Chance to make the finalist tier
Ballot probability0.0%Chance to appear anywhere on a ballot
Best official finish--Best completed Heisman placement on file

Heisman Futures

Not yet listed on major futures markets.

No achievements unlocked yet this season.

Selector Grid · 2025

AP
FWAA
AFCA
WCFF
SN
SI

Selector recognition fills in once the major honors lists (AP, FWAA, AFCA, Walter Camp, Sporting News, SI) are scraped and ingested.

NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft

Market value, pedigree & pro outcome

Recruit stars

★★★☆☆

to Kent State

Composite

0.8117

#2416 national

Today’s Hot-Take

The Hot-Take engine fires when this player’s percentile profile crosses a defensible threshold (top 10% in a cohort, 100+ snap sample). When it’s quiet, the model is honoring its “must be defensible” rule.

Anti-Take

PENDING

The contrarian read fires when the rules-engine detects a stat that complicates the Hot-Take. Quiet here means the model hasn’t found a defensible counter yet — not that one doesn’t exist.

The Room on Marquez Cooper

Fan sentiment · Awaiting signal

The Room reads fan conversation around a player — who’s talking, what they believe, and how that shifts. It publishes once weekly volume rebuilds; for most players that’s in-season, when game-week chatter spikes.

Cohort divergence map

Cohort divergence reads how different fanbases talk about this player. Returns once weekly mentions clear the publish floor.

Rival Radar

How rival fanbases talk about Marquez Cooper

No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.

Signature Story

Awaiting candidate metric

He hasn't written his page yet — we'll start filling it in when there are enough snaps to rank against his peers.

Signature Moment

No signature moment on the ledger yet.

Returns once this player puts together a multi-game body of work — single-game flashes alone don't clear the bar.

A 3-act season arc returns once this player has six or more games on the ledger.

Scenario Explorer

Available for players with a qualifying signature metric (passing yards, rushing yards, receiving yards, sacks, etc.). The slider projects how a season finishes if the current pace holds.

Why the honors trail matters

The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.

The useful clue on this card is not just the Heisman rank, but the broader honors spine. Marquez Cooper already has 4 loaded recognition items, which helps distinguish a player who is merely productive from one who is already earning selector-level validation.

Current place #3785 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 23.9% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Transfer path 0 portal moves

2023 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

RB season snapshot

2023 season snapshot | final

2023 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Scrimmage yards 1,207 1,043 rush | 164 rec | #32/735 (96th pct)
Rush TD 4 227 carries | #154/739 (79th pct)
Yards/carry 4.6 Per-rush efficiency | #364/735 (51st pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Workhorse | Passing-game back against FBS RB peers.

WorkhorsePassing-game back

2023 Season · Final

2023 season snapshot | final

Rushing

CAR
227 98th
YDS
1,043 96th
YPC
4.6 51st
TD
4 79th

Receiving

REC
19 86th
YDS
164 85th
YPR
8.6 67th
TD
0 70th

Game Log

Week-by-week box

No per-game rows for this season yet — the table fills in as box scores arrive.

Season-by-season tables Career rows + per-season box score

Traditional history

Traditional Stats

Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.

Season rows Career row

Season context · Team result + system

2021Kent State7-6HC: Sean Lewis · Run-heavy, fast tempo
2022Kent State5-7HC: Sean Lewis · Run-leaning
2023Ball State4-8HC: Mike Neu · Run-heavy
SeasonTeam
2023Ball State2271,0434.64--
2022Kent State2851,3314.713--
2021Kent State2411,2055.011--
Career3 loaded seasons7533,5794.828--
SeasonTeam
2023Ball State191648.60--
2022Kent State89411.80--
2021Kent State10959.50--
Career3 loaded seasons373539.50--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Rushing WEPA

Opponent-adjusted rushing value. It helps separate empty volume from carries that actually move the scoreboard.

Role share

How much of the team's offense flows through this back once rushing work and receiving work are combined.

Peer percentile

Every percentile is compared against players at the same position and level, so an FBS quarterback is judged against FBS quarterbacks, not the whole sport.

Traditional first

The top tables stick to the stats fans already know from broadcasts and box scores. Advanced context is pushed underneath instead of replacing the basics.

Receiving work 19 164 rec yds | #78/552 (86th pct)
Usage 23.9% 39.2% rush share | #59/738 (92nd pct)
Rushing WEPA +0.21 Opponent-adjusted rush value | #52/362 (86th pct)
Open full stat explorer
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Rushing Rushing yards 1,043 #32/735 96th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rush TD 4 #154/739 79th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Rushing Yards / carry 4.6 #364/735 51st pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receptions 19 #78/552 86th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving yards 164 #84/548 85th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Value Rushing WEPA +0.21 #52/362 86th pct Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 233 weighted playsvs FBS RB
Usage Role share 23.9% #59/738 92nd pct Share of team offensevs FBS RB
Rushing Carries 227 #14/739 98th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rushing LONG 39 #240/733 67th pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving LONG 26 #157/540 71st pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Yards / catch 8.6 #181/548 67th pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving TD 0 #169/552 70th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Usage Rush share 39.2% #66/738 91st pct Ground-game usagevs FBS RB
Usage Standard-down usage 26.4% #68/738 91st pct Base-situation sharevs FBS RB
Usage 1st-down usage 26.1% #71/738 91st pct Early-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage 3rd-down usage 23.3% #10/738 99th pct Money-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage 2nd-down usage 22.7% #71/738 91st pct Middle-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Passing-down usage 17.6% #34/738 96th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS RB
Usage Pass share 3.2% #287/738 61st pct Air-game usagevs FBS RB
Ball Security Fumbles lost 1 #78/256 70th pct Turnoversvs FBS RB

Player Standing

Universal 17-step ladder. Tier pills below; accolade streams nested.

AWAITING CLASSIFICATION

On-team2-deepStartingRecognizedEliteApex

AWAITING CLASSIFICATION · Rung None of 16

Why he’s here

Standing classification populates when honors, Heisman, and roster signals all align.

What moves him up

What moves him down

Accolade streams

StatusAwaiting tracker

Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.

Splits

Per-game splits

Splits fill in once box scores from at least three games land for this season.

Box-score Savant card waits for a season-stat snapshot above the cohort floor. Returns once enough box-score volume lands.

Advanced Savant · RB · 2024

Percentile Card

Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.

P4G5All FBS
EPA / dropback
awaiting
CPOE
awaiting
Success rate
awaiting
Explosive rate (20+)
awaiting
aDOT
awaiting
Deep-ball accuracy
awaiting
Pressure-to-sack
awaiting
3rd-down EPA
awaiting
Red-zone TD rate
awaiting
Play-action EPA
awaiting
Scramble EPA
awaiting
Turnover-worthy play rate
awaiting

Advanced Savant

Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.

Advanced opponent-adjusted metrics are coming soon for this player. Selected cohort: P4.
Peer Comparator returns once this player clears the Savant metric floor (4+ scored bars).
DNA Match awaiting data — similarity scores compute once season stats clear the volume gate for this position cohort.

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Sean Lewis

Pass share

35.3%

290 pass / 532 run

Plays / game

63.2

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

7.6%

224 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-heavy.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2023

1 coach
2021
Brady Hoke
San Diego State
2022
Brady Hoke
San Diego State
2023
Brady Hoke
San Diego State

Played his entire career under Brady Hoke.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.

HometownGaithersburg, MD
Height5'8"
Weight200 lb
Class4
PositionRB
Jersey15

Trophy Case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

4 entries
🎖

ALL-CONFERENCE

All-Conf mention (2024)

All-Mountain West

Trophy Case · Detail

Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.

All-Conference

4 all-conference honors

Conference-level recognition helps anchor whether a player is merely statistically loud or actually viewed as elite within his competitive lane.

Honors Timeline

Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.

Season Honor Scope Team / Selector Context
2024 All-Mountain West all_conference San Diego State | Mountain West RB
2023 All-MAC all_conference Ball State | MAC RB
2022 All-MAC all_conference Kent State | MAC RB
2021 All-MAC all_conference Kent State | MAC RB

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2024 San Diego State RB4 #3785 #4038 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Mountain West
2023 Ball State RB4 #843 #1136 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Mid-American
2022 Kent State RB4 #578 #835 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Mid-American
2021 Kent State RB4 #355 #539 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Mid-American

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2024 San Diego State Mountain West RB 4 No. 15 | 5-8 | 200 lb | Gaithersburg, MD
2023 Ball State Mid-American RB 4 No. 15 | 5-8 | 200 lb | Gaithersburg, MD
2022 Kent State Mid-American RB 4 No. 15 | 5-8 | 200 lb | Gaithersburg, MD
2021 Kent State Mid-American RB 4 No. 15 | 5-8 | 200 lb | Gaithersburg, MD