#95

Jalen Marshall

Senior defensive tackle for Missouri. 2025: 0.5 sacks, 1.5 tackles for loss, 18 tackles.

DT · Missouri · Sr. · #95

6′4″ · 335 lb · Overland Park, KS · Saint Thomas Aquinas

CFB Index 33 · #244 of 330 interior linemenLow confidenceReturning to Missouri for 2026

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The numbers

0.5

sacks · 2025

1.5 TFL · 18 tackles · 1 hurries

Best game: 0.5 sacks, 1.5 TFL, 3 tackles, vs Mississippi State

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 defensive tackle for Missouri. 2025: 0.5 sacks, 1.5 tackles for loss, 18 tackles.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Missouri in 2022.

His career, year by year

How he plays

Controls the point of attack and doesn't move.

QB hurries: 55th percentile.

The full scouting read

Jalen Marshall

DT · Missouri · Sr · #95

Controls the point of attack and doesn't move. He has spent three seasons in the Missouri defensive front. The receipt: 5 tackles against Virginia — Bowl, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
seasons on the roster
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

3 seasons under Eli Drinkwitz — 24-15 over that span.

2022Missouri6-7HC: Eli Drinkwitz · Run-leaning

2024Missouri10-3HC: Eli Drinkwitz · Run-leaning

2025Missouri8-5HC: Eli Drinkwitz · Run-heavy

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

33Below cohort / limited sample #244 of 330?

Low confidence6 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: solo tackles (4th percentile).

Box-score production (6)

QB hurries#1007 / 2975 · 55th pct

Sacks#1367 / 2975 · 51st pct

0.5

Tackles for loss#1711 / 2975 · 39th pct

1.5

Tackles#2161 / 2975 · 26th pct

Passes defended#1916 / 2975 · 18th pct

Solo tackles#2803 / 2975 · 4th pct

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

2025 season · 10 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home8g	2.0	0.2	0.1	0.0
Road2g	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-76g	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Weeks 8+4g	1.5	0.4	0.1	0.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Eli Drinkwitz

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Rotational

Tackle volume for the position in rotation-piece range.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

33 · #244 of 330 interior linemen

Three-star recruit. Now #244 at the position.

2026 outlook

Outside shot for All-SEC

Based on 2025: #12 of 13 SEC DTs

How the All-SEC estimate is computed

22% estimated, 95% confidence interval 19–25%. Base rate measured from players who finished at a comparable rank in their conference and came back the next season. It is an estimate from a small sample, not a forecast of this player.

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Missouri	18	4	1.5	0.5	--	--	--
2024	Missouri	5	2	1.0	0.0	--	--	--
2022	Missouri	1	--	0.0	0.0	--	--	--
Career		24	6	2.5	0.5	--	--	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 8 · 2025

W 23–17

at Auburn

1 TOT · 1 SOLO

A wire-to-wire battle — won by 6 on the road.

With B. Pribula — 252 yds · 0 TD · 2 INT · QBR 76.4 · 28 rush yds (16 car) · 1 TD · C. Weselman — 46 AVG · 1 IN 20 · 52 LONG

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 10 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	TKL	SOLO	TFL	SACK	INT	Note
Wk 1	W 61-6vs Central Arkansas	3	2	0.0	0.0	—	Season-high 5 tackles
Wk 2	W 42-31vs Kansas	1	0	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 4	W 29-20vs South Carolina	1	0	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 5	W 42-6vs Massachusetts	0	0	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 7	L 24-27vs Alabama	2	0	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 8	W 23-17@ Auburn	1	1	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 11	L 17-38vs Texas A&M	1	0	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 12	W 49-27vs Mississippi State	3	0	1.5	0.5	—
Wk 13	L 6-17@ Oklahoma	1	0	0.0	0.0	—
Bowl	L 7-13vs Virginia	5	1	0.0	0.0	—
Total		18	4	1.5	0.5	—

How he plays

Play style

The heaviest frame on the interior. Sack production is intentionally not the point of this profile.

CFB Index positional classification

Activity vs finishing · season enumeration

What the box score actually says

10 games

18Tackles

4Solo

1.5TFL

0.5Sacks

0Pass def.

0INT

18 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 1.5 TFL.

Week 120.5 sacks

Counts only, never a rate — splash-event sample sizes this small (interceptions, pass breakups, TFL) are noise as a rate and signal only as a tally.

2026 Outlook

Missouri

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Defensive tackle · Missouri

Returning around him

6 Missouri players drafted to NFL
Transfer portal: +3 net (30 in / 27 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

Missouri · Last season: 8-5 (AP #25) · Talent rank #19 · 2026 recruiting class #34

DNA match

Player DNA

Nose Anchor

The heaviest frame on the interior. Sack production is intentionally not the point of this profile.

IDL

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Mazi Smith’s 2022 season.

Mazi Smith

85%match

Michigan · 2022

All-Big Ten

Alton Tarber

Colorado State · 2025

84%

Tyas Martin

Colorado · 2022

82%

Jarrod Clark

Coastal Carolina · 2021

81%

Taki Taimani

Oregon · 2022

81%

Matches Mazi on

Weight

TFL rate

Hurry rate

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Derrick Harmon's junior season at Michigan State (2023).

Derrick Harmon

82%match

Michigan State · 2023

All-Big TenNFL Rd 1 · Pk 21

Jaquelin Roy

LSU · 2022

NFL Rd 5

74%

Jordon Riley

Oregon · 2022

NFL Rd 7

74%

Mazi Smith

Michigan · 2022

All-Big Ten

74%

Ricky Correia

California · 2023

74%

Matches Derrick on

TFL rate

Hurry rate

Sack rate

Player DNA

Players who play like Jalen Marshall

Alton Tarber

Colorado State · 2025

84%

Background

2025: Saw action in all 13 games this season, earning a start in the SEC matchup at No. 10 Vanderbilt … Made 17 tackles (four solo), a sack, 1.0 TFL and hurried the quarterback once on the year. Central Arkansas: Recorded three tackles (two solo) against the Bears. Kansas: Recorded one assisted t...

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The defensive line · Missouri

#19Darris SmithEDGE · Sr.6 tackles for loss · 2025
#57Mark HensleyDT · Sr.5 tackles for loss · 2025
#90Sterling WebbDT · Sr.4.5 tackles for loss · 2025
#3Marquis GracialDT · Sr.2 tackles for loss · 2025
#95Jalen MarshallDT · Sr.1.5 tackles for loss · 2025

16 more on the roster · Missouri team page

Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology