Player Dossier

2021-2025

Coastal Carolina

Samari Collier

QB • 6'3" • 225 lbs • Desoto, TX, USA

Balanced quarterback profileVolume operator

Samari Collier is a balanced quarterback profile with 20.1 usage in the latest tracked season.

Usage / Role

25%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

43

Developing production for a quarterback

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Reliability

40

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

55

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Coastal Carolina

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Illinois • Coastal Carolina
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Marshall

Player Story

Samari Collier built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a quarterback from Desoto, TX wearing No. 10, spending time with Coastal Carolina and Illinois. The clearest part of Samari Collier's career was his...

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Samari Collier, QB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Coastal Carolina. Samari Collier is a balanced quarterback profile with 20.1 usage in the latest tracked season.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Total offense
918
Passing yards
489
Rushing yards
429
Touchdowns
14

Quick Answers

Samari Collier quick answers

Latest team and position
Coastal Carolina · QB
Career Total Offense
918
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 8 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Coastal Carolina
Top game
Marshall
High school pipeline
Folsom · 38 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 10 · Senior
2025 Total offense rank
918 total offense · QB 157th (top 38%) · Sun Belt 22nd (top 15%) · National 206th (top 13%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTotal OffensePass YdsRush YdsTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonIllinois00000-
2025 Regular SeasonCoastal Carolina89184894291459.2

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Coastal Carolina to UnlistedG5/FCS to Unlisted25.2Jan 8, 2026

Samari Collier played QB for Illinois and Coastal Carolina. Across 2 tracked seasons, Samari Collier recorded 489 passing yards, 429 rushing yards, and 7 receiving yards. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Coastal Carolina.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Coastal Carolina paired 918 primary output with 41.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

pass-led usage with 41.9 efficiency.

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Career value is trending up

2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

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Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Illinois, Coastal Carolina.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Marshall

Win with balanced pass-rush production and strong creator value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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Season Explorer

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2025 Regular Season · Coastal Carolina

Games

8

Primary Metric / G

114.8

Efficiency

41.9

Usage

20.1

Consistency

50.3

Best Game by takeover score

Marshall

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Charleston Southern: 1. East Carolina: 0. Old Dominion: 1. UL Monroe: 123. App State: 192. Marshall: 271. Georgia State: 243. Georgia Southern: 87

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. Charleston Southern: 1 by 10. East Carolina: 1 by 0. Old Dominion: 2 by 5. UL Monroe: 26 by 58. App State: 36 by 59.3. Marshall: 42 by 58.9. Georgia State: 28 by 79.2. Georgia Southern: 12 by 64.6

Split Comparison

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

Wins166 · Games = 5 · +136.7 vs Losses
Losses29.3 · Games = 3 · -136.7 vs Wins

Game Log

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

8 games

Featured metric

Total Offense

Top game by takeover score

Marshall

Best efficiency game

79.2 vs Georgia State

Result
Sat 11/15@ Georgia SouthernDual-threatL 40-45261833.30064.666911.50147
Sat 11/8vs Georgia State3+ TD · Dual-threatW 40-27111812061.13079.21012312.30185
Thu 10/30vs Marshall3+ TD · Dual-threatW 44-2782019640.02158.922753.40212
Sat 10/18@ App State3+ TD · Dual-threatW 45-37121911863.21159.317744.40213
Sat 10/11vs UL MonroeDual-threatW 23-85153733.3105811867.80139
Sat 10/4@ Old DominionL 7-475210.5002
Sat 9/13vs East CarolinaL 0-38010000
Sat 9/6vs Charleston SouthernW 13-01011101

Player Story

Samari Collier story

Samari Collier built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a quarterback from Desoto, TX wearing No. 10, spending time with Coastal Carolina and Illinois. The clearest part of Samari Collier's career was his backfield work: 429 rushing yards, 70 carries, 7 rushing touchdowns, and 7 receiving yards across 8 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2025 with Coastal Carolina. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

The value of the career arc is that it connects production to role, not just a name on a roster. His career also includes 489 passing yards and 7 receiving yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 8 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Coastal Carolina and Illinois.

The arc is straightforward: Samari Collier moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Illinois

    2021

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Coastal Carolina

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20212025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonIllinois0
2025 Regular SeasonCoastal Carolina91841.920.1918

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 86 Marshall

Week 10 · W 44-27 · Conference game

Win with balanced pass-rush production and strong creator value.

271

Total Offense

86.3 takeover

271 total offense with 58.9 efficiency.

#2

@ No. 111 App State

Week 8 · W 45-37 · Conference game

192

Total Offense

74.1 takeover

Win with balanced pass-rush production and strong creator value.

192 total offense with 59.3 efficiency.

#3

vs No. 133 Georgia State

Week 11 · W 40-27 · Conference game

243

Total Offense

72.1 takeover

Win with balanced pass-rush production and strong creator value.

243 total offense with 79.2 efficiency.

#4

vs No. 131 UL Monroe

Week 7 · W 23-8 · Conference game

123

Total Offense

50.8 takeover

Win with balanced pass-rush production and strong creator value.

123 total offense with 58 efficiency.

#5

@ No. 103 Georgia Southern

Week 12 · L 40-45 · Conference game

87

Total Offense

43.9 takeover

Loss with balanced pass-rush production and strong creator value.

87 total offense with 64.6 efficiency.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Coastal Carolina

918 primary output · 41.9 efficiency · 20.1 usage

59.2

#2

2021 Regular Season · Illinois

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

250+ passing yards

0

300+ total offense

3

3+ TD games

2

Above avg efficiency