Player Dossier

2014-2018

Old Dominion

Marvin Branch Jr.

LB • 6'2" • 222 lbs • Suffolk, VA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Marvin Branch Jr. shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.5 disruption score.

Usage Score

2

Efficiency

12.5

Consistency

100

Season Value

38.2

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2017 Regular Season · Old Dominion

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Seasons Tracked
6
Program Path
Old Dominion
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Massachusetts

Scouting Read

Best season and peak-game context are pinned here so the rest of the page can stay analytical without losing the headline story.

Marvin Branch Jr., LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2017 Regular Season · Old Dominion. Marvin Branch Jr. shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.5 disruption score.

Marvin Branch Jr. played LB for Old Dominion. Across 5 tracked seasons, Marvin Branch Jr. recorded 111 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2017 with Old Dominion.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2017 Regular Season

Old Dominion paired 7.5 primary output with 35.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

2018 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 12.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2018 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Middle Tennessee

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2018 Regular Season · Old Dominion

Games

3

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

12.5

Usage

2

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Middle Tennessee

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Active game

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Marshall: 0. Western Kentucky: 0. Middle Tennessee: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.

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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Marshall: 3 by 12.5. Western Kentucky: 1 by 4.2. Middle Tennessee: 5 by 20.8

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

3 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Middle Tennessee

Best efficiency game

20.8 vs Middle Tennessee

Result
Sat 10/27vs Middle TennesseeL 17-5153000
Sat 10/20@ Western KentuckyW 37-3411000
Sat 10/13vs MarshallL 20-4232000

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

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    Old Dominion

    2014-2018

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

201420152016201620172018
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2014 Regular SeasonOld Dominion0
2015 Regular SeasonOld Dominion00
2016 PostseasonOld Dominion317.72.93
2016 Regular SeasonOld Dominion317.72.90
2017 Regular SeasonOld Dominion7.535.96.64.5
2018 Regular SeasonOld Dominion012.52-7.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Massachusetts

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Primary metric

2 disruption/tackle impact with 60.5 takeover score.

#2

Marshall

1.5

Primary metric

Loss with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 51.7 takeover score.

#3

Eastern Michigan

2

Primary metric

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 47.6 takeover score.

#4

Florida International

1

Primary metric

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 29.7 takeover score.

#5

Western Kentucky

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 29.2 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2017 Regular Season · Old Dominion

7.5 primary output · 35.9 efficiency · 6.6 usage

46.4

#2

2018 Regular Season · Old Dominion

38.2

0 primary · 12.5 efficiency · 2 usage

#3

2016 Postseason · Old Dominion

18.5

3 primary · 17.7 efficiency · 2.9 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

2

Splash games

2

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit context is not available for this player in the current dataset.

Career Facts

1

Career teams

6

Seasons tracked

111

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 6 tracked seasons, 20 games, and base opponent context only. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.

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