Player Dossier

2019-2024

Kansas

Marvin Grant

S • 6'2" • 210 lbs • Detroit, MI, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Marvin Grant shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 32.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

70%

Major defensive role

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Impact Production

80

High-end production for a safety

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Reliability

70

Reliable weekly contributor

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Star Power

85

High-upside career profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Kansas

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
Purdue • Kansas
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Kansas State

Player Story

Marvin Grant built his college career from 2019 through 2024 as a safety from Detroit, MI wearing No. 4, spending time with Kansas and Purdue. The clearest part of Marvin Grant's career was his defensive production:...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2019 · Rating 0.9083

Martin Luther King · Detroit, MI

Committed To
Purdue
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2019

Marvin Grant, S. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Kansas. Marvin Grant shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 32.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
246
TFL
14
Sacks
3
QB hurries
1
Passes defended
11

Quick Answers

Marvin Grant quick answers

Latest team and position
Kansas · S
Career Tackles
246
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 8 entries · 55 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Kansas
Top game
Kansas State
Recruit profile
4-star · Martin Luther King · Purdue
High school pipeline
Martin Luther King · 40 FBS recruits · 5 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 4 · Senior
2024 Tackles rank
59 tackles · S 78th (top 15%) · Big 12 50th (top 7%) · National 410th (top 7%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2019 Regular SeasonPurdue22-0--036.7
2020 Regular SeasonPurdue41430--044.2
2021 PostseasonPurdue137-0--032.9
2021 Regular SeasonPurdue13692.50-3032.9
2022 Regular SeasonKansas12471.50-1020.5
2023 PostseasonKansas126-0--023.9
2023 Regular SeasonKansas124230-1023.9
2024 Regular SeasonKansas12594316061.3

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2022Purdue to KansasP4 to P478May 1, 2022

Marvin Grant played S for Purdue and Kansas. Across 6 tracked seasons, Marvin Grant recorded 246 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2021 with Purdue.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Kansas paired 14 primary output with 32.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 32.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2024 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Purdue, Kansas.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Kansas State

Loss with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2024 Regular Season · Kansas

Games

12

Havoc Plays / G

1.2

Efficiency

32.2

Usage

7.8

Consistency

48

Best Game by takeover score

Kansas State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Lindenwood: 0. Illinois: 3. UNLV: 1. West Virginia: 0. TCU: 0. Arizona State: 1.5. Houston: 2. Kansas State: 4. Iowa State: 1. BYU: 1. Colorado: 0.5. Baylor: 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 versus efficiency scatter chart. Lindenwood: 2 by 8.3. Illinois: 9 by 67.5. UNLV: 1 by 14.2. West Virginia: 6 by 25. TCU: 5 by 20.8. Arizona State: 4 by 31.7. Houston: 5 by 40.8. Kansas State: 2 by 48.3. Iowa State: 2 by 18.3. BYU: 10 by 51.7. Colorado: 6 by 30. Baylor: 7 by 29.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.9 · Games = 5 · -0.5 vs Losses
Losses1.4 · Games = 7 · +0.5 vs Wins

Game Log

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

12 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Kansas State

Best efficiency game

67.5 vs Illinois

Result
Sat 11/30@ BaylorL 17-4577000
Sat 11/23vs ColoradoW 37-21620.5000
Sun 11/17@ BYU10+ tacklesW 17-13107001
Sat 11/9vs Iowa StateW 45-3620001
Sun 10/27@ Kansas StateSplash gameL 27-2922111
Sat 10/19vs HoustonSplash gameW 42-1454110
Sun 10/6@ Arizona StateL 31-35410.5001
Sat 9/28vs TCUL 27-3854000
Sat 9/21@ West VirginiaL 28-3264000
Fri 9/13vs UNLVL 20-2310001
Sat 9/7@ IllinoisSplash gameL 17-2397111
Fri 8/30vs LindenwoodW 48-322000

Player Story

Marvin Grant story

Marvin Grant built his college career from 2019 through 2024 as a safety from Detroit, MI wearing No. 4, spending time with Kansas and Purdue. The clearest part of Marvin Grant's career was his defensive production: 246 tackles, 14 tackles for loss, 3 sacks, and 11 passes defended across 55 career games in the available record. That gives Marvin Grant's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Purdue

    2019-2021

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Kansas

    2022-2024

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20192020202120212022202320232024
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2019 Regular SeasonPurdue04.20.7
2020 Regular SeasonPurdue322.17.33
2021 PostseasonPurdue5.528.65.82.5
2021 Regular SeasonPurdue5.528.65.80
2022 Regular SeasonKansas2.518.44.5-3
2023 PostseasonKansas4204.71.5
2023 Regular SeasonKansas4204.70
2024 Regular SeasonKansas1432.27.810

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Kansas State

Week 9 · L 27-29 · Conference game

Loss with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

82.8 takeover

4 disruption/tackle impact with 82.8 takeover score.

#2

@ Notre Dame

Week 3 · L 13-27

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Havoc Plays

81.1 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 81.1 takeover score.

#3

@ Illinois

Week 2 · L 17-23

3

Havoc Plays

80.8 takeover

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 80.8 takeover score.

#4

vs Missouri State

Week 1 · W 48-17

2

Havoc Plays

78.9 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 78.9 takeover score.

#5

vs Texas

Week 12 · L 14-55 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

78.3 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 78.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Kansas

14 primary output · 32.2 efficiency · 7.8 usage

61.3

#2

2020 Regular Season · Purdue

44.2

3 primary · 22.1 efficiency · 7.3 usage

#3

2019 Regular Season · Purdue

36.7

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.7 usage

Milestones

11

Impact games

4

Splash games

2

10+ tackle games