Player Dossier

2023-2025

Oklahoma

Markus Strong

DL • 6'3" • 297 lbs • Raiford, FL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Markus Strong shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.7 disruption score.

Usage / Role

11%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

47

Developing production for a defensive lineman

lowelite

Reliability

41

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

57

Useful peak profile

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Oklahoma

232425

Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Oklahoma
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Temple

Player Story

Markus Strong built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Raiford, FL wearing No. 99, spending time with Oklahoma. The clearest part of Markus Strong's career was his defensive...

Read the story

Markus Strong, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Oklahoma. Markus Strong shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.7 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
11
TFL
5
Sacks
3

Quick Answers

Markus Strong quick answers

Latest team and position
Oklahoma · DL
Career Tackles
11
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 7 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Oklahoma
Top game
Temple
High school pipeline
Union County · 7 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 99 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
8 tackles · DL 686th (top 64%) · SEC 388th (top 52%) · National 3,195th (top 52%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonOklahoma11-0--037.5
2024 Regular SeasonOklahoma1222--087.1
2025 Regular SeasonOklahoma5831--049.3

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Oklahoma to ClemsonP4 to P482.1Jan 8, 2026

Markus Strong played DL for Oklahoma. Across 3 tracked seasons, Markus Strong recorded 11 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Oklahoma.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Oklahoma paired 4 primary output with 48.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 14.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Kent State

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

Filter the strongest season sample, inspect game-level shape, and then drop into the full log without losing the story of the year.

Season Explorer

Understand the selected season before dropping into the full game log.

2025 Regular Season · Oklahoma

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

0.8

Efficiency

14.7

Usage

3.3

Consistency

55.5

Best Game by takeover score

Kent State

Hover a point or expand a game row to keep the active game context visible here.

Active game

Hover over a point

Hover or select a game to keep its context visible here without the page shifting around.

Game-by-Game Trend

Follow how the selected stat changes from one game to the next. Spikes mark standout outings, while dips show quieter weeks.

12345

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Kent State: 2. Texas: 1. South Carolina: 1. Alabama: 0. Missouri: 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.

Low volumeHigh quality

High volumeHigh quality

Low volumeLower quality

High volumeLower quality

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

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Kent State: 3 by 32.5. Texas: 1 by 14.2. South Carolina: 1 by 14.2. Alabama: 2 by 8.3. Missouri: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.8 · Games = 4 · -0.3 vs Losses
Losses1 · Games = 1 · +0.3 vs Wins

Game Log

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

5 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Kent State

Best efficiency game

32.5 vs Kent State

Result
Sat 11/22vs MissouriW 17-610000
Sat 11/15@ AlabamaW 23-2120000
Sat 10/18@ South CarolinaW 26-711100
Sat 10/11@ TexasL 6-2311100
Sat 10/4vs Kent StateSplash gameW 44-031110

Player Story

Markus Strong story

Markus Strong built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Raiford, FL wearing No. 99, spending time with Oklahoma. The clearest part of Markus Strong's career was his defensive production: 11 tackles, 5 tackles for loss, and 3 sacks across 7 career games in the available record. That gives Markus Strong'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

    Oklahoma

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonOklahoma04.21
2024 Regular SeasonOklahoma448.313.44
2025 Regular SeasonOklahoma414.73.30

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Temple

Week 1 · W 51-3

Win with backfield disruption leading the way.

4

Havoc Plays

82.8 takeover

4 disruption/tackle impact with 82.8 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 130 Kent State

Week 6 · W 44-0

2

Havoc Plays

65 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 65 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 17 Texas

Week 7 · L 6-23 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

1

Havoc Plays

33.1 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 33.1 takeover score.

#4

@ No. 49 South Carolina

Week 8 · W 26-7 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

28.9 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 28.9 takeover score.

#5

@ No. 20 Alabama

Week 12 · W 23-21 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

0

Havoc Plays

6.4 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.4 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Oklahoma

4 primary output · 48.3 efficiency · 13.4 usage

87.1

#2

2025 Regular Season · Oklahoma

49.3

4 primary · 14.7 efficiency · 3.3 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Oklahoma

37.5

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 1 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

2

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games