Player Dossier

2021-2025

UCF

Marcus Burke

WR • 6'3" • 197 lbs • Jacksonville, FL, USA

Vertical playmakerExplosive finisher

Marcus Burke reads as a vertical playmaker based on recent role and receiving efficiency.

Usage / Role

7%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

25

Developing production for a receiver

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Reliability

19

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

33

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · UCF

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Florida • UCF
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Kansas State

Player Story

Marcus Burke built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a wide receiver from Jacksonville, FL wearing No. 3, spending time with Florida and UCF. The clearest part of Marcus Burke's career was his receiving...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2021 · Rating 0.9245

Trinity Christian Academy · Jacksonville, FL

Committed To
Florida
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

Marcus Burke, WR. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · UCF. Marcus Burke reads as a vertical playmaker based on recent role and receiving efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Receiving yards
451
Receptions
33
Touchdowns
2

Quick Answers

Marcus Burke quick answers

Latest team and position
UCF · WR
Career Receiving Yards
451
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 6 entries · 19 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · UCF
Top game
Kansas State
Recruit profile
4-star · Trinity Christian Academy · Florida
High school pipeline
Trinity Christian Academy · 46 FBS recruits · 7 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 3 · Senior
2025 Receiving yards rank
181 receiving yards · WR 496th (top 46%) · Big 12 81st (top 32%) · National 697th (top 32%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesRecRec YdsTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonFlorida1273069.9
2022 Regular SeasonFlorida4430040.2
2023 Regular SeasonFlorida4698047.4
2024 PostseasonFlorida4-0044.9
2024 Regular SeasonFlorida4869244.9
2025 Regular SeasonUCF613181073.6

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2025Florida to UCFP4 to P480.5Jan 16, 2025

Marcus Burke played WR for Florida and UCF. Across 5 tracked seasons, Marcus Burke recorded 451 receiving yards and 2 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2025 with UCF.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

UCF paired 181 primary output with 85.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

target-driven usage with 85.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2025 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 Florida, UCF.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Kansas State

Loss with an explosive receiving profile. It landed in the 83.3th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

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Season Explorer

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2025 Regular Season · UCF

Games

6

Receiving Yards / G

30.2

Efficiency

85.4

Usage

9.8

Consistency

76.4

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. Jacksonville State: 43. North Carolina: 35. Kansas State: 40. Cincinnati: 33. West Virginia: 17. Texas Tech: 13

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. Jacksonville State: 3 by 95.6. North Carolina: 2 by 100. Kansas State: 2 by 100. Cincinnati: 3 by 73.3. West Virginia: 1 by 100. Texas Tech: 2 by 43.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins31.7 · Games = 3 · +3 vs Losses
Losses28.7 · Games = 3 · -3 vs Wins

Game Log

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

6 games

Featured metric

Receiving Yards

Top game by takeover score

Kansas State

Best efficiency game

100 vs West Virginia

Result
Sat 11/15@ Texas TechL 9-482136.56.5007
Sat 10/18vs West VirginiaW 45-131171717017
Sat 10/11@ CincinnatiL 11-203331111021
Sat 9/27@ Kansas StateL 20-3424011.720030
Sat 9/20vs North CarolinaW 34-923517.517.50020
Thu 8/28vs Jacksonville StateW 17-1034314.314.30027

Player Story

Marcus Burke story

Marcus Burke built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a wide receiver from Jacksonville, FL wearing No. 3, spending time with Florida and UCF. The clearest part of Marcus Burke's career was his receiving role: 33 catches, 451 receiving yards, and 2 touchdowns across 19 career games in the available record. That gives Marcus Burke'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

    Florida

    2021-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    UCF

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

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SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonFlorida7310011.8
2022 Regular SeasonFlorida30507.5-43
2023 Regular SeasonFlorida9875.84.968
2024 PostseasonFlorida6951.715-29
2024 Regular SeasonFlorida6951.7150
2025 Regular SeasonUCF18185.49.8112

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 42 Kansas State

Week 5 · L 20-34 · Conference game

Loss with an explosive receiving profile.

40

Receiving Yards

81.4 takeover

40 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

#2

vs No. 92 Jacksonville State

Week 1 · W 17-10

43

Receiving Yards

80.3 takeover

Win with an explosive receiving profile.

43 receiving yards with a 95.6 efficiency score.

#3

@ South Carolina

Week 10 · L 17-40 · Conference game

73

Receiving Yards

79.8 takeover

Loss with an explosive receiving profile.

73 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

#4

@ Mississippi State

Week 4 · W 45-28 · Conference game

45

Receiving Yards

75.4 takeover

Win with an explosive receiving profile.

45 receiving yards with a 75 efficiency score.

#5

@ Utah

Week 1 · L 11-24

61

Receiving Yards

73.9 takeover

Loss with an explosive receiving profile.

61 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · UCF

181 primary output · 85.4 efficiency · 9.8 usage

73.6

#2

2021 Regular Season · Florida

69.9

73 primary · 100 efficiency · 11.8 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Florida

47.4

98 primary · 75.8 efficiency · 4.9 usage

Milestones

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100+ receiving yards

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8+ catch outings

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2+ TD games