Former safety at USC. 2018: 1 interception, 4 pass breakups, 41 tackles.
6′2″ · 195 lb · Pasadena, CA
Recruiting
S recruit
No. 59 nationally · Signed with USC
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
Former safety at USC. 2018: 1 interception, 4 pass breakups, 41 tackles.
Marvell Tell III
He has spent three seasons in the USC secondary. The receipt on tape: 9 tackles against Utah, Week 8, 2018.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at USC, 169 tackles — drafted at #144 overall by Indianapolis.
His career
He was on the field for 3 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2016–2018
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Clay Helton.
Where He Ended Up · NFL
IndianapolisEntering 8th NFL season
Season context · Team result + system
3 seasons under Clay Helton, all balanced offenses — 26-13 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: passes defended (83rd percentile). Concern: sacks (24th 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
2018 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 3.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| Road5g | 6.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 4.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 8.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Lincoln Riley
Pass share
46.0%
97 pass / 114 run
Plays / game
70.3
3 games
Team sack rate
2.0%
102 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2018
Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 4 · 2018
W 39–36
3 TOT · 1 SOLO · 1 PD
Edged out Washington State at home in a shootout.
With R. Budrovich — 39 AVG · 50 LONG · 5 NO · V. Jones Jr. — 2 rec · 48 yds
Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 43-21vs UNLV | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 3-17@ Stanford | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 14-37@ Texas | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 4 | W 39-36vs Washington State | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 5 | W 24-20@ Arizona | 4 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 31-20vs Colorado | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 8 | L 28-41@ Utah | 9 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 9 tackles |
| Wk 12 | L 27-34@ UCLA | 8 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 41 | 29 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 4 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
41 tackles. 4 passes defended. 1 interceptions. 1 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.