Marlon Williams

Senior wide receiver for UCF. 2020: 69 catches, 1,017 receiving yards, 10 TD.

WR · UCF · Sr. · #6

6′0″ · 215 lb · Mobile, AL

All-Conf 1st teamUCF 2020 alumnus

Recruiting

3★

WR recruit

No. 590 nationally · Signed with UCF

Career night9 rec · 174 yds · 3 TDvs Tulane (FBS) · W 51-34

Top 1% receiving yards game since 2021.

Wide open! That's 3 for Marlon Williamsr/CFB game thread · ▲ 6His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 wide receiver for UCF. 2020: 69 catches, 1,017 receiving yards, 10 TD.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to UCF in 2017.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Four seasons at UCF, 2,238 receiving yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2020) — his college career is complete.

His career

Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.

The week the volume broke through — put up 169 yds at Memphis.Memphis · L 49-502020

201711 games

Signed with UCF3-star out of McGill Toolen

20208 games

All-AACfirst

Career arc

Recruit

★★★

#590 national

CFB

College

UCF

2017–2020

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Trophy case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

2 honors · 1 category

🥈

ALL-AAC · 1ST TEAM

All-AAC 1st team (2020)

Coaching lineage · 2017–2020

2 coaches

2017

Scott Frost

UCF

2018–2020

Josh Heupel

UCF

era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Scott Frost → Josh Heupel. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

2020 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2017UCF13-0HC: Scott Frost · Run-leaning

2018UCF12-1HC: Josh Heupel · Run-leaning, fast tempo

2019UCF10-3HC: Josh Heupel · Run-leaning, fast tempo

2020UCF6-4HC: Josh Heupel · Balanced, fast tempo

Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort

Box-score percentiles

5 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: rec tds (98th percentile). Strength: receptions (98th percentile).

Box-score rates (5)

Rec TDs#5 / 421 · 98th pct

Receptions#8 / 421 · 98th pct

Rec yards#10 / 421 · 98th pct

1017

Long catch#12 / 421 · 97th pct

Yards / catch#138 / 421 · 67th pct

14.7

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2020 season · 8 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	REC/g	YDS/g	YPR	TD/g
Home4g	7.5	118	16.9	1.8
Road4g	9.8	136	14.7	0.8

First half vs Second half

	REC/g	YDS/g	YPR	TD/g
Weeks 1-74g	10.8	139	13.1	0.8
Weeks 8+4g	6.5	115	18.6	1.8

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Scott Frost

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

Awards

Player standing · 2020

All-Conference 1st team

First team in his league at the position.

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career stats

Season	Team
2020	UCF	69	1,017	14.7	10	--
2019	UCF	51	717	14.1	6	--
2018	UCF	18	234	13.0	1	--
2017	UCF	17	270	15.9	2	--
Career		155	2,238	14.4	19	--

Season	Team
2020	UCF	--	--	--	6	--
2019	UCF	--	--	42	19	--
2018	UCF	5	25	93	--	--
2017	UCF	2	54	--	--	--
Career		7	79	135	25	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 8 · 2020

W 51–34

vs Tulane

9 rec · 174 yds · 3 TD

Edged out Tulane at home in a shootout.

With D. Gabriel — 422 yds · 5 TD · 0 INT · 19 rush yds (12 car) · G. McCrae — 162 rush yds (25 car) · 1 TD

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 7 · Memphis · 2&10 · Q2 · EPA +7.06Dillon Gabriel pass complete to Marlon Williams for 85 yds for a TD (Daniel Obarski PAT BLOCKED)
Week 8 · Tulane · 4&12 · Q3 · EPA +5.82Dillon Gabriel pass complete to Marlon Williams for 35 yds for a TD (Daniel Obarski KICK)
Week 8 · Tulane · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA +4.18Dillon Gabriel pass complete to Marlon Williams for 54 yds for a TD (Daniel Obarski KICK)
Week 9 · Houston · 3&8 · Q1 · EPA +4.14Dillon Gabriel pass complete to Marlon Williams for 42 yds to the Houst 34 for a 1ST down
Week 3 · Georgia Tech · 2&10 · Q4 · EPA +3.56Dillon Gabriel pass complete to Marlon Williams for 40 yds to the GTech 25 for a 1ST down
Week 11 · Temple · 3&9 · Q3 · EPA +3.55Dillon Gabriel pass complete to Marlon Williams for 23 yds for a TD (Daniel Obarski KICK)
Week 12 · Cincinnati · 3&10 · Q3 · EPA +3.41Dillon Gabriel pass complete to Marlon Williams for 19 yds for a TD (Dillon Gabriel pass to Marlon Williams for Two-Point Conversion)
Week 3 · Georgia Tech · 3&6 · Q3 · EPA +3.22Dillon Gabriel pass complete to Marlon Williams for 25 yds to the GTech 48 for a 1ST down
Week 9 · Houston · 1&10 · Q2 · EPA +3.00Dillon Gabriel pass complete to Marlon Williams for 38 yds to the Houst 36 for a 1ST down
Week 12 · Cincinnati · 3&7 · Q1 · EPA +2.92Dillon Gabriel pass complete to Marlon Williams for 15 yds to the Cincy 44 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week