Game log · Week-by-week
2026 season · 2 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 0-45@ Penn State | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 28-26vs Middle Tennessee | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Total | 8 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 |
#8
Eddie Pleasant III
Junior cornerback on Marshall's 2026 roster.
5′11″ · 185 lb · Tampa, FL
Transferred Buffalo → Marshall for 2026
Recruiting
3★
CB recruit
No. 890 nationally · Signed with Michigan State
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
3 cornerback on Marshall's 2026 roster.
- Signed as a 3-star recruit to Michigan State in 2023.
- Transferred from Buffalo to Marshall in 2026.
Eddie Pleasant III
Reads the quarterback's eyes and takes the ball away. Eddie Pleasant III has played for three head coaches across three seasons and two programs. The receipt on tape: 5 tackles against Middle Tennessee, Week 2, 2026.
8 TACKLES · 0 SACKS
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
- season totals
- positional archetype classification
- head-coach lineage
- game log
His career
2023
- Signed with Michigan State3-star out of Carrollwood Day
20246 games
- Entered the portal
2026
- Entered the portal
- Entered the portal
- Entered the portal
Career arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
2 teams
NFL
NFL Draft
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Coaching lineage · 2024–2026
2 coaches2024
Marshall
2025–2026era →
Tony Gibson
Marshall
Coaching transition mid-career: Charles Huff → Tony Gibson. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Where He Ended Up · Transfer
Transferred to Marshall
2025Buffalo
2026Marshall
2026 snapshot
Season context · Team result + system
2024Buffalo9-4HC: Maurice Linguist · Run-heavy
2025Buffalo5-7HC: Pete Lembo · Balanced
2026Marshall1-1HC: Tony Gibson · Run-leaning, slow tempo
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: passes defended (94th percentile). Concern: tackles (0th percentile).
Box-score production (6)
Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.
Splits & context
Splits
Per-game splits
Through 2 games: 4.0 TKL/g, 0.0 TFL/g, 0.0 SACK/g, 1.0 PD/g — splits start at 3 games.
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Tony Gibson
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Awards
Player standing · 2024
Backup
Tackle volume for the position at the early end of the ladder.
Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career stats
Signature game
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2026
W 28–26
5 TOT · 4 SOLO · 2 PD
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 2 at home.
With C. Heimbach — 48 AVG · 1 IN 20 · 54 LONG · C. Del Rio-Wilson — 92 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 44.2 · 43 rush yds (10 car) · 1 TD
Game log
How he plays
Play style
Reads the quarterback's eyes and takes the ball away.
CFB Index positional classification
DNA match
Player DNA
Ball Hawk
Reads the quarterback's eyes and takes the ball away.
CB
His 2024 production profile sits closest to Nic Jones’s 2022 season.
79%match
All-MACNFL Rd 7
Matches Nic on
Height
Weight
Class year
Differs from Nic on
Tackle volume (lower)
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a freshman, his production profile tracks closest to Jay Crawford's freshman season at Auburn (2024).
Matches Jay on
Class year
Weight
PD rate
Player DNA
Players who play like Eddie Pleasant III
Background
HERD FILE: Pleasant joins fellow Buffalo secondary teammate Charles McCartherens in transferring to the Herd for the 2026 season. After transferring to Buffalo from Michigan State in 2023, Pleasant appeared in 19 games with one start in two seasons with the Bulls. Has 12 tackles and five pass bre...
The secondary · Marshall
- #1Boogie Trotter73 tackles · 2025
- Cameron Smith66 tackles · 2025
- #17Daytione Smith50 tackles · 2025
- #11Joshua Pierre-Louis33 tackles · 2025
- #8Eddie Pleasant III1 tackle · 2025
25 more on the roster · Marshall team page
Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology