The 2021 season's largest margin: Marshall 49, Navy 7. A 42-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2021 — The 2021 Season
Marshall's 2021 season (7-5) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Grant WellsQB3,532 passing yards
- Rasheen AliRB1,401 rushing yards
- Sheldon EvansRB303 rushing yards
- Corey GammageWR878 receiving yards
- Willie JohnsonWR625 receiving yards
- Xavier GainesTE483 receiving yards
- Abraham BeauplanLB110 tackles
- Eli NealLB97 tackles
- Brandon DraytonS70 tackles
- TJ JohnsonDL5 sacks
- Koby CumberlanderDL4.5 sacks
- Owen PorterDL4 sacks
Season leaders, 2021.
The season's deepest loss: Marshall 21, Western Kentucky 53. A 32-point margin the season is remembered by.
The season's last act: Marshall fell to Louisiana 21-36 in the postseason.
"We Are Marshall"
2021 is a middle chapter for Marshall — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.