Marcus Carroll

Former running back at Missouri. 2024: 595 rushing yards, 12 rushing TD, 9 catches.

RB · Missouri · Sr. · #9

5′10″ · 210 lb · Union City, GA

CFB Index 53 · #105 of 310 RBsHigh confidenceMissouri 2024 — college career complete

Recruiting

3★

RB recruit

No. 2038 nationally · Signed with Georgia State

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

Former running back at Missouri. 2024: 595 rushing yards, 12 rushing TD, 9 catches.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Georgia State in 2020.
Transferred from Georgia State to Missouri in 2024.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Five seasons at Missouri, 2,722 rushing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2023) — his college career is complete.

His career

Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.

20205 games

Signed with Georgia State3-star out of Hapeville Charter

202312 games

The role got bigger.

All-Sun Beltfirst

202413 games

Entered the portal

Career arc

Recruit

★★★

#2038 national

CFB

College

2 teams

2020–2024

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Trophy case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

2 honors · 1 category

🥈

ALL-SUN BELT · 1ST TEAM

All-Sun Belt 1st team (2023)

Coaching lineage · 2020–2024

1 coach

2020–2024

Eli Drinkwitz

Missouri

Played his entire career under Eli Drinkwitz.

2024 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2020Georgia State6-4HC: Shawn Elliott · Run-leaning, fast tempo

2021Georgia State8-5HC: Shawn Elliott · Run-heavy

2022Georgia State4-8HC: Shawn Elliott · Run-heavy

2023Georgia State7-6HC: Shawn Elliott · Run-leaning

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

Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

53Rotational starter #105 of 310?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: td rate (86th percentile). Strength: rush tds (91st percentile). Concern: yards / carry (15th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

TD rate#63 / 442 · 86th pct

8.0%

Success rate#131 / 442 · 70th pct

49.6%

EPA / carry#181 / 442 · 59th pct

0.21

Explosive rate#313 / 442 · 29th pct

5.1%

Yards / carry#377 / 442 · 15th pct

4.1

Box-score rates (8)

Rush TDs#26 / 335 · 91st pct

Fumbles lost#1 / 204 · 87th pct

Carries#94 / 335 · 72nd pct

140

Rush yards#131 / 335 · 61st pct

595

Rec yards#201 / 330 · 39th pct

Receptions#198 / 330 · 38th pct

Long run#223 / 335 · 33rd pct

Yards / carry#254 / 335 · 23rd pct

4.3

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / carry

35th → 59th percentile

Success rate

23rd → 70th percentile

Explosive rate

58th → 29th percentile

Yards / carry

35th → 15th percentile

TD rate

54th → 86th percentile

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season. Most bars are box-score rates; EPA / success-rate bars are computed from real play-by-play (offense only — no defensive EPA model exists yet).

Situational

Situational · Carry shape (PBP, full season)

Yardage DNA

137 carries

10%

Stuffed (≤0)

47%

Grind (1–3)

36%

Chunk (4–9)

Explosive (10+)

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2024 season · 13 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	YPC	TD/g
Home8g	42.0	3.9	0.6
Road5g	51.8	3.8	1.4

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	YPC	TD/g
Weeks 1-77g	42.6	4.3	0.7
Weeks 8+6g	49.5	3.4	1.2

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 · 2024

Starter

A locked-in starting job.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

53 · #105 of 310 RBs

Three-star recruit. Now #105 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2024	Missouri	140	595	4.2	12	--
2023	Georgia State	274	1,350	4.9	13	--
2022	Georgia State	126	616	4.9	5	--
2021	Georgia State	33	116	3.5	1	--
2020	Georgia State	15	45	3.0	2	--
Career		588	2,722	4.6	33	--

Season	Team
2024	Missouri	9	66	7.3	0	--
2023	Georgia State	23	234	10.2	0	--
2022	Georgia State	5	29	5.8	0	--
2021	Georgia State	1	-2	-2.0	0	--
2020	Georgia State	--	--	--	--	--
Career		38	327	8.6	0	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 18 · 2024

W 27–24

vs Iowa

17 rush yds (6 car)

A wire-to-wire battle — won by 3 at home.

With B. Cook — 287 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 86.5 · 54 rush yds (14 car) · L. Bauer — 44 AVG · 1 IN 20 · 62 LONG

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 9 · Alabama · 4&1 · Q4 · EPA -4.21Marcus Carroll run for a loss of 1 yard to the ALA 2
Week 7 · Massachusetts · 2&10 · Q3 · EPA +3.66Marcus Carroll run for 35 yds for a TD (Blake Craig KICK)
Week 13 · Mississippi State · 1&10 · Q2 · EPA +2.60Marcus Carroll run for 19 yds for a TD (Blake Craig KICK)
Week 13 · Mississippi State · 3&2 · Q1 · EPA +2.54Marcus Carroll run for 2 yds for a TD (Blake Craig KICK)
Week 13 · Mississippi State · 3&1 · Q4 · EPA +2.45Marcus Carroll run for 1 yd for a TD (M. Carroll Run For Two-point Conversion)
Week 14 · Arkansas · 3&1 · Q4 · EPA +2.45Marcus Carroll run for 1 yd for a TD (Blake Craig KICK)
Week 3 · Boston College · 3&1 · Q2 · EPA +2.35Marcus Carroll run for 17 yds to the BC 47 for a 1ST down
Week 2 · Buffalo · 4&1 · Q4 · EPA +2.15Marcus Carroll run for 2 yds to the MIZ 47 for a 1ST down
Week 12 · South Carolina · 2&2 · Q3 · EPA +2.07Marcus Carroll run for 2 yds for a TD (Two-Point Conversion failed)
Week 6 · Texas A&M · 4&1 · Q4 · EPA +1.86Marcus Carroll run for 1 yd to the TA&M 1 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2024 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CAR	YDS	AVG	TD	LONG	Note
Wk 1	W 51-0vs Murray State	6	35	5.8	1	20
Wk 2	W 38-0vs Buffalo	12	62	5.2	0	16
Wk 3	W 27-21vs Boston College	12	57	4.8	0	17
Wk 4	W 30-27vs Vanderbilt	5	10	2.0	1	4
Wk 6	L 10-41@ Texas A&M	8	26	3.3	0	9
Wk 7	W 45-3@ Massachusetts	15	91	6.1	3	35	Season-high 91 yds
Wk 8	W 21-17vs Auburn	8	40	5.0	1	20
Wk 9	L 0-34@ Alabama	17	80	4.7	0	20
Wk 11	W 30-23vs Oklahoma	13	25	1.9	0	5
Wk 12	L 30-34@ South Carolina	2	1	0.5	1	2
Wk 13	W 39-20@ Mississippi State	14	61	4.4	3	19	3 rushing TDs
Wk 14	W 28-21vs Arkansas	22	90	4.1	2	16
Bowl	W 27-24vs Iowa	6	17	2.8	0	5
Total		140	595	3.9	12	35

How he plays

Play style

Plays within the scheme — consistent production without a dominant dimension.

CFB Index positional classification

Boom vs consistent · carry-yardage shape

Steady, not spectacular

~ our read

137Carries

568Yards

19.5%Top-5 share

10.2%Stuffed rate

Just 19.5% of his season rushing yards came on his 5 best carries — remarkably even — and he's stuffed on 10.2% of his carries. 2 carries for 1 yds vs South Carolina; 15 for 91 vs Massachusetts.

Closer · Q4-with-lead carry share

The closer

~ our read

28.2%Carry share

20.8%Q4-lead share

68.8%In competitive games

28.2% of carries overall (136/482) → 20.8% of Q4-with-lead carries (16/77) — 68.8% of those in competitive (≤16-pt) games.

Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration

Who gets the tough yard

fact

21/253rd/4th & short

18/38Inside-5 share