Player Dossier

2024-2025

Miami

Marquise Lightfoot

DL • 6'5" • 230 lbs • Chicago, IL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Marquise Lightfoot shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 21.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

46%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

66

Solid production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

35

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

75

High-upside career profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Miami

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Miami
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Ohio State

Player Story

Marquise Lightfoot built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Chicago, IL wearing No. 12, spending time with Miami. The clearest part of Marquise Lightfoot's career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.9855

Kenwood Academy · Chicago, IL

Committed To
Miami
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Marquise Lightfoot, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Miami. Marquise Lightfoot shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 21.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
25
TFL
5.5
Sacks
2.5
QB hurries
7
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Marquise Lightfoot quick answers

Latest team and position
Miami · DL
Career Tackles
25
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 3 entries · 13 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Miami
Top game
Ohio State
Recruit profile
5-star · Kenwood Academy · Miami
High school pipeline
Kenwood Academy · 13 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 12 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
25 tackles · DL 260th (top 25%) · ACC 233rd (top 30%) · National 1,720th (top 28%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonMiami10-01-035.2
2025 PostseasonMiami127213-058.7
2025 Regular SeasonMiami12183.51.531058.7

Related Context

Marquise Lightfoot played DL for Miami. Across 2 tracked seasons, Marquise Lightfoot recorded 25 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Miami.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Miami paired 15 primary output with 21.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 21.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Ohio State

Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2025 Postseason · Miami

Games

12

Havoc Plays / G

1.3

Efficiency

21.2

Usage

6.9

Consistency

55.9

Best Game by takeover score

Ohio State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Indiana: 1. Ole Miss: 1. Ohio State: 4. Texas A&M: 0. Notre Dame: 1. Bethune-Cookman: 1. South Florida: 0. Florida: 2. Stanford: 2. SMU: 2. NC State: 1. Pittsburgh: 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. Indiana: 2 by 18.3. Ole Miss: 1 by 14.2. Ohio State: 2 by 48.3. Texas A&M: 2 by 8.3. Notre Dame: 0 by 10. Bethune-Cookman: 4 by 26.7. South Florida: 1 by 4.2. Florida: 2 by 28.3. Stanford: 4 by 36.7. SMU: 3 by 32.5. NC State: 2 by 18.3. Pittsburgh: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins1.2 · Games = 10 · -0.3 vs Losses
Losses1.5 · Games = 2 · +0.3 vs Wins

Game Log

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

12 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Ohio State

Best efficiency game

48.3 vs Ohio State

Result
Tue 1/20@ IndianaL 21-2721000
Fri 1/9@ Ole MissW 31-2710000
Thu 1/1@ Ohio StateSplash gameW 24-1422210
Sat 12/20@ Texas A&MW 10-322000
Sat 11/29@ PittsburghW 38-722000
Sat 11/15vs NC StateW 41-722100
Sat 11/1@ SMUSplash gameL 20-26320.500.501
Sat 10/25vs StanfordSplash gameW 42-742000
Sat 9/20vs FloridaSplash gameW 26-721110
Sat 9/13vs South FloridaW 49-1210000
Sat 9/6vs Bethune-CookmanW 45-342100
Sun 8/31vs Notre DameW 27-2400000

Player Story

Marquise Lightfoot story

Marquise Lightfoot built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Chicago, IL wearing No. 12, spending time with Miami. The clearest part of Marquise Lightfoot's career was his defensive production: 25 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks, and 1 pass defended across 13 career games in the available record. That gives Marquise Lightfoot'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.

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    Miami

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonMiami1102.9
2025 PostseasonMiami1521.26.914
2025 Regular SeasonMiami1521.26.90

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 2 Ohio State

Week 1 · W 24-14 · Postseason · Ranked opponent

Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4

Havoc Plays

82.8 takeover

4 disruption/tackle impact with 82.8 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 112 Stanford

Week 9 · W 42-7 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

62.2 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 62.2 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 63 Florida

Week 4 · W 26-7

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Havoc Plays

49.7 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 49.7 takeover score.

#4

@ No. 23 SMU

Week 10 · L 20-26 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

2

Havoc Plays

48.3 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 48.3 takeover score.

#5

vs Florida A&M

Week 2 · W 56-9

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Havoc Plays

44.7 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 44.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · Miami

15 primary output · 21.2 efficiency · 6.9 usage

58.7

#2

2025 Regular Season · Miami

58.7

15 primary · 21.2 efficiency · 6.9 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Miami

35.2

1 primary · 10 efficiency · 2.9 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

4

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games