Player Dossier

2021-2025

Wake Forest

Alec Marenco

LB • 6'2" • 234 lbs • El Paso, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Alec Marenco shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 5.6 disruption score.

Usage / Role

2%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

9

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

10

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

19

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · New Mexico

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Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
New Mexico • Kansas State • Wake Forest
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: San José State

Player Story

Alec Marenco built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a linebacker from El Paso, TX, spending time with Kansas State, New Mexico, and Wake Forest. The clearest part of Alec Marenco's career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2021 · Rating 0.8148

Burges · El Paso, TX

Committed To
New Mexico
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

Alec Marenco, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · New Mexico. Alec Marenco shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 5.6 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
98
TFL
4
Sacks
0.5
QB hurries
3
Passes defended
3

Quick Answers

Alec Marenco quick answers

Latest team and position
Wake Forest · LB
Career Tackles
98
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 26 games
Best season
2023 Regular Season · New Mexico
Top game
San José State
Recruit profile
3-star · Burges · New Mexico
High school pipeline
Burges · 5 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
Senior
2025 Tackles rank
4 tackles · LB 950th (top 75%) · ACC 476th (top 60%) · National 3,747th (top 61%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonNew Mexico44-0--036.7
2022 Regular SeasonNew Mexico7260.501-019.2
2023 Regular SeasonNew Mexico12643.50.523061.8
2024 Regular SeasonKansas State00-0--0-
2025 Regular SeasonWake Forest34-0--037.6

Related Context

Alec Marenco played LB for New Mexico, Kansas State, and Wake Forest. Across 5 tracked seasons, Alec Marenco recorded 98 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2023 with New Mexico.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season

New Mexico paired 9 primary output with 29.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 5.6 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 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across New Mexico, Kansas State, Wake Forest.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Western Carolina

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Wake Forest

Games

3

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

5.6

Usage

0.9

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Western Carolina

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Western Carolina: 0. Oregon State: 0. Delaware: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Western Carolina: 2 by 8.3. Oregon State: 1 by 4.2. Delaware: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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First Half0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs First Half

Game Log

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

3 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Western Carolina

Best efficiency game

8.3 vs Western Carolina

Result
Sat 11/22vs DelawareW 52-1411000
Sat 10/11@ Oregon StateW 39-1410000
Sat 9/6vs Western CarolinaW 42-1021000

Player Story

Alec Marenco story

Alec Marenco built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a linebacker from El Paso, TX, spending time with Kansas State, New Mexico, and Wake Forest. The clearest part of Alec Marenco's career was his defensive production: 98 tackles, 4 tackles for loss, 0.5 sacks, and 3 passes defended across 26 career games in the available record. That gives Alec Marenco'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

    New Mexico

    2021-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Kansas State

    2024

    Transition stop

  3. 3

    Wake Forest

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20212022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonNew Mexico04.20.7
2022 Regular SeasonNew Mexico1.517.641.5
2023 Regular SeasonNew Mexico929.78.17.5
2024 Regular SeasonKansas State0-9
2025 Regular SeasonWake Forest05.60.90

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs San José State

Week 7 · L 24-52 · Conference game

Loss with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5

Havoc Plays

81.9 takeover

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 81.9 takeover score.

#2

vs New Mexico State

Week 3 · L 17-27

2

Havoc Plays

73.6 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 73.6 takeover score.

#3

vs UTEP

Week 3 · W 27-10

1

Havoc Plays

64.7 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 64.7 takeover score.

#4

vs Utah State

Week 13 · L 41-44 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

63.9 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 63.9 takeover score.

#5

@ Nevada

Week 9 · L 24-34 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

40.8 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 40.8 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Regular Season · New Mexico

9 primary output · 29.7 efficiency · 8.1 usage

61.8

#2

2025 Regular Season · Wake Forest

37.6

0 primary · 5.6 efficiency · 0.9 usage

#3

2021 Regular Season · New Mexico

36.7

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.7 usage

Milestones

4

Impact games

2

Splash games

2

10+ tackle games