Junior safety on Mississippi State's 2020 roster.
6′1″ · 200 lb · West Point, MS
Recruiting
ATH recruit
No. 396 nationally · Signed with Mississippi State
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
3 safety on Mississippi State's roster.
Marcus Murphy
Marcus Murphy has been at Mississippi State through two head coaches in three seasons. The receipt on tape: 10 tackles against Vanderbilt, Week 10, 2020.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at Mississippi State, 67 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2018–2020
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Joe Moorhead → Mike Leach. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: sacks (27th percentile).
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 · Per-game
2020 season · 6 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 6.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road3g | 5.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 5.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 7.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jeff Lebby
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2020
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Mississippi State | 34 | 11 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2019 | Mississippi State | 26 | 18 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 2 | -- |
| 2018 | Mississippi State | 7 | 5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| Career | 67 | 34 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 3 | 2 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 4 · 2020
W 44–34
at LSU
5 TOT · 2 SOLO
Edged out LSU on the road in a shootout.
With K. Costello — 623 yds · 5 TD · 2 INT · -38 rush yds (5 car) · K. Hill — 34 rush yds (7 car)
Game log · Week-by-week
2020 season · 6 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 4 | W 44-34@ LSU | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 14-21vs Arkansas | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 2-24@ Kentucky | 6 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 7 | L 14-28vs Texas A&M | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 0-41@ Alabama | 4 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 24-17vs Vanderbilt | 10 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 10 tackles |
| Total | 34 | 11 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 |