Player Dossier

2020-2025

Nebraska

Marques Watson-Trent

LB • 5'11" • 225 lbs • Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Marques Watson-Trent shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 18.4 disruption score.

Usage / Role

29%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

35

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

70

Reliable weekly contributor

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Star Power

34

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2023 Postseason · Georgia Southern

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
Georgia Southern • Nebraska
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: UL Monroe

Player Story

Marques Watson-Trent built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a linebacker from Pittsburgh, PA wearing No. 26, spending time with Georgia Southern and Nebraska. The clearest part of Marques Watson-Trent's...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2020 · Rating 0.8

Blackhawk · Beaver Falls, PA

Committed To
Georgia Southern
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2020

Marques Watson-Trent, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Postseason · Georgia Southern. Marques Watson-Trent shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 18.4 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
387
TFL
27.5
Sacks
7.5
QB hurries
9
Passes defended
4
Touchdowns
2

Quick Answers

Marques Watson-Trent quick answers

Latest team and position
Nebraska · LB
Career Tackles
387
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 10 entries · 54 games
Best season
2023 Postseason · Georgia Southern
Top game
UL Monroe
Recruit profile
3-star · Blackhawk · Georgia Southern
High school pipeline
Blackhawk · 6 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 26 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
39 tackles · LB 379th (top 30%) · Big Ten 118th (top 16%) · National 961st (top 16%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2020 Regular SeasonGeorgia Southern46-0--038.8
2021 Regular SeasonGeorgia Southern13-02-054.6
2022 PostseasonGeorgia Southern1310.50.5--061.5
2022 Regular SeasonGeorgia Southern131044.50.531061.5
2023 PostseasonGeorgia Southern135-0--077.4
2023 Regular SeasonGeorgia Southern1311112.53.522277.4
2024 PostseasonGeorgia Southern1210-0--058.5
2024 Regular SeasonGeorgia Southern121087.51.521058.5
2025 PostseasonNebraska114-0--022.4
2025 Regular SeasonNebraska11352.51.5--022.4

Related Context

Marques Watson-Trent played LB for Georgia Southern and Nebraska. Across 6 tracked seasons, Marques Watson-Trent recorded 387 tackles and 2 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Georgia Southern.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Postseason

Georgia Southern paired 22 primary output with 51.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2023 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 51.5 efficiency.

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Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to 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 Georgia Southern, Nebraska.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: UL Monroe

Win with 5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

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Season Explorer

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2023 Postseason · Georgia Southern

Games

13

Havoc Plays / G

1.7

Efficiency

51.5

Usage

13.4

Consistency

58.1

Best Game by takeover score

UL Monroe

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Ohio: 0. The Citadel: 2. UAB: 1.5. Wisconsin: 0. Ball State: 2. Coastal Carolina: 2. James Madison: 2. UL Monroe: 5. Georgia State: 1. Texas State: 3. Marshall: 0. Old Dominion: 3.5. App State: 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. Ohio: 5 by 20.8. The Citadel: 4 by 36.7. UAB: 14 by 65. Wisconsin: 8 by 33.3. Ball State: 5 by 40.8. Coastal Carolina: 14 by 70. James Madison: 7 by 49.2. UL Monroe: 14 by 100. Georgia State: 8 by 43.3. Texas State: 14 by 80. Marshall: 8 by 33.3. Old Dominion: 12 by 85. App State: 3 by 12.5

Split Comparison

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

Wins2.3 · Games = 6 · +1.0 vs Losses
Losses1.2 · Games = 7 · -1.0 vs Wins

Game Log

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

13 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

UL Monroe

Best efficiency game

100 vs UL Monroe

Result
Sat 12/16@ OhioL 21-4152000
Sat 11/25@ App StateL 27-5533000
Sat 11/18vs Old Dominion10+ tackles · Splash gameL 17-201252.5001
Sun 11/12@ MarshallL 33-3882000
Sat 11/4@ Texas State10+ tackles · Splash gameL 24-45147210
Thu 10/26vs Georgia StateW 44-27850010
Sat 10/21vs UL Monroe10+ tackles · Splash gameW 38-28146311
Sat 10/14@ James MadisonSplash gameL 13-4173110
Sat 9/30vs Coastal Carolina10+ tackles · Splash gameW 38-281460010
Sat 9/23@ Ball StateSplash gameW 40-3521.500.500
Sat 9/16@ WisconsinL 14-3587000
Sat 9/9vs UAB10+ tacklesW 49-351481.5000
Sat 9/2vs The CitadelSplash gameW 34-042100

Player Story

Marques Watson-Trent story

Marques Watson-Trent built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a linebacker from Pittsburgh, PA wearing No. 26, spending time with Georgia Southern and Nebraska. The clearest part of Marques Watson-Trent's career was his defensive production: 387 tackles, 27.5 tackles for loss, 7.5 sacks, and 2 interceptions across 54 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2023 with Georgia Southern. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Marques Watson-Trent's production has multiple signals. His career also includes 1 return yard, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 54 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Georgia Southern and Nebraska.

The arc is straightforward: Marques Watson-Trent 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

    Georgia Southern

    2020-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Nebraska

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2020202120222022202320232024202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonGeorgia Southern06.31.2
2021 Regular SeasonGeorgia Southern232.59.22
2022 PostseasonGeorgia Southern1039.712.18
2022 Regular SeasonGeorgia Southern1039.712.10
2023 PostseasonGeorgia Southern2251.513.412
2023 Regular SeasonGeorgia Southern2251.513.40
2024 PostseasonGeorgia Southern1248.813.1-10
2024 Regular SeasonGeorgia Southern1248.813.10
2025 PostseasonNebraska418.45.3-8
2025 Regular SeasonNebraska418.45.30

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs UL Monroe

Week 8 · W 38-28 · Conference game

Win with 5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

5

Havoc Plays

100 takeover

5 disruption/tackle impact with 100 takeover score.

#2

vs James Madison

Week 8 · W 28-14 · Conference game

5.5

Havoc Plays

100 takeover

Win with 5.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

5.5 disruption/tackle impact with 100 takeover score.

#3

vs Marshall

Week 12 · L 10-23 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

90 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 90 takeover score.

#4

vs Old Dominion

Week 12 · L 17-20 · Conference game

3.5

Havoc Plays

85 takeover

Loss with 3.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3.5 disruption/tackle impact with 85 takeover score.

#5

@ Texas State

Week 10 · L 24-45 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

80 takeover

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 80 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Postseason · Georgia Southern

22 primary output · 51.5 efficiency · 13.4 usage

77.4

#2

2023 Regular Season · Georgia Southern

77.4

22 primary · 51.5 efficiency · 13.4 usage

#3

2022 Postseason · Georgia Southern

61.5

10 primary · 39.7 efficiency · 12.1 usage

Milestones

16

Impact games

12

Splash games

17

10+ tackle games