Player Dossier

2020-2025

UConn

Marquis Black

DL • 6'5" • 313 lbs • Stockbridge, GA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Marquis Black shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.1 disruption score.

Usage / Role

100%

Featured defensive role

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Impact Production

100

Top-tier box-score impact for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

79

High-upside career profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · UConn

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Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Nebraska • Western Kentucky • UConn
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Army

Player Story

Marquis Black built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Stockbridge, GA wearing No. 96, spending time with Nebraska, UConn, and Western Kentucky. The clearest part of Marquis Black's...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2020 · Rating 0.8652

Eagle's Landing Christian Academy · McDonough, GA

Committed To
Nebraska
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2020

Marquis Black, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · UConn. Marquis Black shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.1 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
12
TFL
3.5
Sacks
2

Quick Answers

Marquis Black quick answers

Latest team and position
UConn · DL
Career Tackles
12
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 6 entries · 9 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · UConn
Top game
Army
Recruit profile
3-star · Eagle's Landing Christian Academy · Nebraska
High school pipeline
Eagle's Landing Christian Academy · 11 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 96 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
12 tackles · DL 588th (top 55%) · FBS Independents 45th (top 49%) · National 2,731st (top 44%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2020 Regular SeasonNebraska00-0--0-
2021 Regular SeasonNebraska00-0--0-
2022 Regular SeasonNebraska00-0--0-
2023 Regular SeasonWestern Kentucky00-0--0-
2025 PostseasonUConn8211--045.1
2025 Regular SeasonUConn8102.51--045.1

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2025Unlisted to UConnUnlisted to G5/FCS77.2May 11, 2025
2024Western Kentucky to UnlistedG5/FCS to Unlisted21.2Apr 26, 2024
2023Nebraska to Western KentuckyP4 to G5/FCS21.2Dec 5, 2022

Marquis Black played DL for Nebraska, Western Kentucky, and UConn. Across 5 tracked seasons, Marquis Black recorded 12 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with UConn.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

UConn paired 5.5 primary output with 13.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 13.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across Nebraska, Western Kentucky, UConn.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Army

Loss with 2 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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2025 Postseason · UConn

Games

8

Havoc Plays / G

0.7

Efficiency

13.1

Usage

5.1

Consistency

24.6

Best Game by takeover score

Army

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Army: 2. Central Connecticut: 1. Syracuse: 0. Ball State: 0. Florida International: 2. Rice: 0.5. Air Force: 0. Florida Atlantic: 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. Army: 2 by 28.3. Central Connecticut: 3 by 22.5. Syracuse: 1 by 4.2. Ball State: 1 by 4.2. Florida International: 1 by 24.2. Rice: 1 by 9.2. Air Force: 2 by 8.3. Florida Atlantic: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.6 · Games = 5 · -0.2 vs Losses
Losses0.8 · Games = 3 · +0.2 vs Wins

Game Log

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

8 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Army

Best efficiency game

28.3 vs Army

Result
Sat 12/27@ ArmySplash gameL 16-4122110
Sat 11/22@ Florida AtlanticW 48-4510000
Sat 11/15vs Air ForceW 26-1621000
Sat 10/25@ RiceL 34-37100.5000
Sat 10/4vs Florida InternationalSplash gameW 51-1011110
Sat 9/20vs Ball StateW 31-2511000
Sat 9/6@ SyracuseL 20-2711000
Sat 8/30vs Central ConnecticutW 59-1331100

Player Story

Marquis Black story

Marquis Black built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Stockbridge, GA wearing No. 96, spending time with Nebraska, UConn, and Western Kentucky. The clearest part of Marquis Black's career was his defensive production: 12 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss, and 2 sacks across 9 career games in the available record. That gives Marquis Black'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

    Nebraska

    2020-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Western Kentucky

    2023

    Transition stop

  3. 3

    UConn

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

202020212022202320252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonNebraska0
2021 Regular SeasonNebraska00
2022 Regular SeasonNebraska00
2023 Regular SeasonWestern Kentucky00
2025 PostseasonUConn5.513.15.15.5
2025 Regular SeasonUConn5.513.15.10

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 74 Army

Week 1 · L 16-41 · Postseason

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

76.1 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 76.1 takeover score.

#2

@ Charlotte

Week 3

2

Havoc Plays

64.2 takeover

Game with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 64.2 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 107 Florida International

Week 6 · W 51-10

2

Havoc Plays

62 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 62 takeover score.

#4

vs Central Connecticut

Week 1 · W 59-13

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Havoc Plays

41.9 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 41.9 takeover score.

#5

@ No. 120 Rice

Week 9 · L 34-37

0.5

Havoc Plays

18.3 takeover

Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 18.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · UConn

5.5 primary output · 13.1 efficiency · 5.1 usage

45.1

#2

2025 Regular Season · UConn

45.1

5.5 primary · 13.1 efficiency · 5.1 usage

#3

2020 Regular Season · Nebraska

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

3

Impact games

3

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games