Player Dossier

2023-2025

Ball State

Ben Marsh

DE • 6'2" • 257 lbs • Hilliard, OH, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Ben Marsh shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

10%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

35

Developing production for an edge defender

lowelite

Reliability

35

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

39

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Ball State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Ball State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Eastern Michigan
3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8137

Hilliard Darby · Hilliard, OH

Committed To
Ball State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Ben Marsh, DE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Ball State. Ben Marsh shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
15
TFL
2
Sacks
0.5

Quick Answers

Ben Marsh quick answers

Latest team and position
Ball State · DE
Career Tackles
15
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 9 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Ball State
Top game
Eastern Michigan
Recruit profile
3-star · Hilliard Darby · Ball State
High school pipeline
Hilliard Darby · 8 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 41 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
7 tackles · DE 180th (top 64%) · Mid-American 301st (top 52%) · National 3,245th (top 53%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonBall State00-0--0-
2024 Regular SeasonBall State580.50--013.6
2025 Regular SeasonBall State471.50.5--050.7

Related Context

Ben Marsh played DE for Ball State. Across 3 tracked seasons, Ben Marsh recorded 15 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Ball State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Ball State paired 2 primary output with 12.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 12.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

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

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Eastern Michigan

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2025 Regular Season · Ball State

Games

4

Havoc Plays / G

0.5

Efficiency

12.3

Usage

4.9

Consistency

50

Best Game by takeover score

Eastern Michigan

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Western Michigan: 0. Akron: 1. Eastern Michigan: 1. Toledo: 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. Western Michigan: 3 by 12.5. Akron: 1 by 14.2. Eastern Michigan: 1 by 14.2. Toledo: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins1 · Games = 1 · +0.7 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 3 · -0.7 vs Wins

Game Log

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

4 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Eastern Michigan

Best efficiency game

14.2 vs Eastern Michigan

Result
Sat 11/22@ ToledoL 9-3820000
Sat 11/15vs Eastern MichiganL 9-2411100
Sat 10/18vs AkronW 42-28100.500.500
Sat 10/11@ Western MichiganL 0-4232000

Career Arc

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

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    Ball State

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonBall State0
2024 Regular SeasonBall State0.57.71.80.5
2025 Regular SeasonBall State212.34.91.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 119 Eastern Michigan

Week 12 · L 9-24 · Conference game

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

68.3 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 68.3 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 117 Akron

Week 8 · W 42-28 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

50.8 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 50.8 takeover score.

#3

vs Missouri State

Week 2 · W 42-34

0.5

Havoc Plays

32.5 takeover

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 32.5 takeover score.

#4

@ No. 78 Western Michigan

Week 7 · L 0-42 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

10 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 10 takeover score.

#5

@ No. 48 Toledo

Week 13 · L 9-38 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

8 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 8 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Ball State

2 primary output · 12.3 efficiency · 4.9 usage

50.7

#2

2024 Regular Season · Ball State

13.6

0.5 primary · 7.7 efficiency · 1.8 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Ball State

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games