Former defensive end at Mississippi State. 2020: 3 sacks, 8.5 tackles for loss, 34 tackles.
6′4″ · 300 lb · Greenwood, MS
Recruiting
WDE recruit
No. 261 nationally · Signed with Mississippi State
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
Former defensive end at Mississippi State. 2020: 3 sacks, 8.5 tackles for loss, 34 tackles.
Marquiss Spencer
Marquiss Spencer has been at Mississippi State through three head coaches in five seasons. His first career honor landed in 2020: SEC Defensive Line Player of the Week. The receipt on tape: 6 tackles, 1.5 TFL against Vanderbilt, Week 10, 2020.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Five seasons at Mississippi State, 7 sacks — drafted at #253 overall by Denver.
His career
He arrived as a blue-chip recruit and played like one.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2016–2020
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Dan Mullen, Joe Moorhead, and Mike Leach. Multi-era developmental context.
Where He Ended Up · NFL
DenverEntering 6th NFL season
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: tackles for loss (95th percentile). Strength: sacks (90th percentile). Concern: passes defended (21st 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 · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 4.8 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 3.0 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 4.0 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 3.6 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 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
Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Mississippi State | 34 | 17 | 8.5 | 3.0 | -- | 1 | -- |
| 2019 | Mississippi State | 37 | 22 | 6.5 | 2.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2018 | Mississippi State | 3 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2017 | Mississippi State | 19 | 5 | 4.5 | 1.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
| 2016 | Mississippi State | 17 | 9 | 3.0 | 1.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 110 | 54 | 23.0 | 7.0 | 3 | 1 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 4 · 2020
W 44–34
at LSU
3 TOT · 3 SOLO · 2 SACKS
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 · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 4 | W 44-34@ LSU | 3 | 3 | 2.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 5 | L 14-21vs Arkansas | 5 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 2-24@ Kentucky | 4 | 2 | 2.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | 2.5 TFL |
| Wk 7 | L 14-28vs Texas A&M | 4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 0-41@ Alabama | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 24-17vs Vanderbilt | 6 | 2 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | Season-high 6 tackles |
| Wk 12 | L 24-31@ Georgia | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 24-31@ Ole Miss | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 15 | L 10-24vs Auburn | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 34 | 17 | 8.5 | 3.0 | 1 | 0 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
34 tackles. 0 passes defended. 1 interceptions. 8.5 TFL.
Counts only, never a rate — splash-event sample sizes this small (interceptions, pass breakups, TFL) are noise as a rate and signal only as a tally.