Marcus Mariota: QB · Oregon · #8.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Marcus Mariota
Extends plays on the move until something opens up. The first one came in 2014: Davey O'Brien. A game that shows it: 367 passing yards and 39 rushing yards against Oregon State — Week 14, 2014.
Play style
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
56.8% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 25.5% conversion-per-dropback — 42.9% of completions land short of the sticks.
Where completions land is fact — whether incompletions were aimed deep is intent, not recorded here, so this card counts completions only. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
7 of the team's 42 inside-the-5 carries (16.7%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Oregon | 304 | 445 | 68.3% | 4,454 | 10.0 | 42 | 4 | 181.7 | 88 |
| Career | 304 | 445 | 68.3% | 4,454 | 10.0 | 42 | 4 | 181.7 | 88 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Oregon | 135 | 770 | 5.7 | 15 | 61 |
| Career | 135 | 770 | 5.7 | 15 | 61 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2014 season · 15 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 62-13vs South Dakota | 14/20 | 267 | 3 | 0 | 13.4 | 98.2 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 46-27vs No. 7 Michigan State | 17/28 | 318 | 3 | 0 | 11.4 | 82.2 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | W 48-14vs Wyoming | 19/23 | 221 | 2 | 0 | 9.6 | 97.9 | |
| Wk 4 | W 38-31@ Washington State | 21/25 | 329 | 5 | 0 | 13.2 | 95.7 | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 6 | L 24-31vs Arizona | 20/32 | 276 | 2 | 0 | 8.6 | 53.3 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 7 | W 42-30@ No. 18 UCLA | 17/27 | 210 | 2 | 0 | 7.8 | 87.7 | |
| Wk 8 | W 45-20vs Washington | 24/33 | 336 | 2 | 0 | 10.2 | 88.3 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 9 | W 59-41@ California | 18/30 | 326 | 5 | 1 | 10.9 | 92.2 | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 10 | W 45-16vs Stanford | 19/30 | 258 | 2 | 1 | 8.6 | 95.1 | |
| Wk 11 | W 51-27@ No. 20 Utah | 17/29 | 239 | 3 | 0 | 8.2 | 80.8 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 13 | W 44-10vs Colorado | 24/32 | 323 | 3 | 0 | 10.1 | 97.4 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 14 | W 47-19@ Oregon State | 19/25 | 367 | 4 | 0 | 14.7 | 97.0 | Season-high 367 yds |
| Wk 15 | W 51-13vs No. 8 Arizona | 25/38 | 313 | 2 | 0 | 8.2 | 66.7 | Clean 2-TD game |
 Bowl | W 59-20vs No. 2 Florida State | 26/36 | 338 | 2 | 1 | 9.4 | 73.4 | |
 Bowl | L 20-42vs No. 5 Ohio State | 24/37 | 333 | 2 | 1 | 9.0 | 59.4 | |
| Total | 304/445 | 4454 | 42 | 4 | 10.0 | — |
Week 14 · 2014
W 47-19
at Oregon State
367 yds · 4 TD · 0 INT · QBR 97.0 · 39 rush yds (10 car) · 2 TD
Dominant 28-point win on the road against Oregon State.
With B. Marshall — 6 rec · 131 yds · 1 TD · 34 rush yds (2 car) · C. Nelson — 2 rec · 56 yds · 2 TD
The plays that mattered most
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 423 passing plays (283 completions) against the box score's 445 attempts (304 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
10.383 of 181 QBsSack rate
6.5%118 of 181 QBsSacked on 6.5% of dropbacks (118 of 181) — and still 3 of 181 in Adjusted ANY/A.
Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.
Short
0–9 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 68.3% completion on 445 attempts · 58 deep completions averaging 32.6 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2014 baseline
No situation moves him more than 41 percentile points from his baseline.
Deltas are vs. this player’s own season baseline, never a league average. League sack rate by down is shown as context because sack attribution isn’t incompletion-denominated.
Splits · Per-game
2014 season · 15 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 286 | 2.4 | 10.3 | 0.1 |
| Road5g | 294 | 3.8 | 11.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 286 | 2.6 | 10.3 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+7g | 309 | 3.0 | 10.1 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mark Helfrich
Pass share
42.7%
474 pass / 635 run
Plays / game
73.9
15 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2014
The trophy is in the case.
Career, closed
Gone at #2 overall.
How it ended
One season at Oregon, 4,454 passing yards, the Maxwell Award (2014) — drafted at #2 overall by the Tennessee Titans.
Honored in a first season.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
National awards
Maxwell, Walter Camp, Davey O'Brien +2 more
2014 season
ALL-PAC-12 · 1ST TEAM
All-Pac-12 1st team (2014)
Coaching lineage · 2011–2014
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Chip Kelly → Mark Helfrich. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Next stop · NFL
Tennessee TitansEntering 12th NFL season
Tennessee TitansEntering 12th NFL season
