Former cornerback at Boise State. Career stats, games and honors on CFB Zeitgeist.
6′1″ · 185 lb · Temple, TX
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CB recruit
No. 980 nationally · Signed with Temple
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His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
Former cornerback at Boise State. Career stats, games and honors on CFB Zeitgeist.
Markel Reed
Doesn't get beat deep and rarely gives up the big play. Markel Reed has been at Boise State through three head coaches in six seasons. One game to point at: 2 tackles against San José State — Week 12, 2024.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Six seasons at Boise State, 69 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 6 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2019–2024
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Bryan Harsin, Andy Avalos, and Spencer Danielson. Multi-era developmental context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: tackles (0th 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
2024 season · 4 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home2g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road2g | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-72g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Spencer Danielson
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2023
Tackle volume for the position at the early end of the ladder.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Boise State | 5 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Boise State | 12 | 9 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Boise State | 1 | -- | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Boise State | 21 | 16 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2020 | Boise State | 17 | 15 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 3 | -- | -- |
| 2019 | Boise State | 13 | 10 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| Career | 69 | 55 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 7 | -- | -- |
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 4 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 56-45@ Georgia Southern | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 56-14vs Portland State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 42-21@ San José State | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 2 tackles |
| Wk 15 | W 21-7vs UNLV | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 5 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 |
Play style
Steady in coverage; doesn't get beat deep and rarely gives up the big play.
CFB Index positional classification
Player DNA
Steady in coverage; doesn't get beat deep and rarely gives up the big play.
His 2023 production profile sits closest to Avery Helm’s 2021 season.
Matches Avery on
Differs from Avery on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Storm Duck's graduate season at Louisville (2023).
Matches Storm on
Player DNA