Junior quarterback for Northwestern. 2025: 720 passing yards, 2 TD, 2 INT.
6′2″ · 220 lb · Chandler, AZ · Hamilton
The numbers
passing yards · 2025
2 TD · 2 INT · 7.3 per attempt
The play that turned itSwung West Virginia from 21% to 57% to win.Pittsburgh at West Virginia · 31-24
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
3 quarterback for Northwestern. 2025: 720 passing yards, 2 TD, 2 INT.
How he plays
Keeps the offense on schedule and doesn't lose the game.
Explosive rate: 58th percentile.
The full scouting readNicco Marchiol
Keeps the offense on schedule and doesn't lose the game. Nicco Marchiol has been at Northwestern through three head coaches in four seasons. One game to point at: 224 pass yds, 56 rush yds against Robert Morris — Week 1, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
4 programs, one constant: he played.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2022–2025
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Pat Fitzgerald → David Braun. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Where He Ended Up · Transfer
Transferred to Northwestern
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: interceptions (92nd percentile). Strength: fumbles lost (91st percentile). Concern: sack rate (15th percentile).
Real play-by-play efficiency
Season trend
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season. Most bars are box-score rates; EPA / success-rate bars are computed from real play-by-play (offense only — no defensive EPA model exists yet).
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
5.91117 of 206 QBsSack rate
7.5%174 of 206 QBsSacked on 7.5% of dropbacks (174 of 206) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (117 of 206).
Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.
Short
0–9 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 66.0% completion on 94 attempts · 9 deep completions averaging 28.8 yds.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 4 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home2g | 208 | 1.0 | 9.4 | 0.0 |
| Road2g | 152 | 0.0 | 5.8 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 180 | 0.5 | 7.6 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
David Braun
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 1 game in so far.
Player standing · 2025
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | West Virginia | 66 | 98 | 67.3% | 720 | 7.3 | 2 | 2 | 131.7 | 42 | -- | -- |
| 2024 | West Virginia | 37 | 56 | 66.1% | 434 | 7.8 | 5 | 2 | 153.5 | 55 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | West Virginia | 30 | 53 | 56.6% | 247 | 4.7 | 2 | 3 | 96.9 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2022 | West Virginia | 4 | 13 | 30.8% | 61 | 4.7 | 1 | 0 | 95.6 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 137 | 220 | 62.3% | 1,462 | 6.6 | 10 | 7 | 126.7 | 46 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | West Virginia | 40 | 57 | 1.4 | 1 | -- |
| 2024 | West Virginia | 40 | 120 | 3.0 | 2 | -- |
| 2023 | West Virginia | 38 | 133 | 3.5 | 1 | -- |
| 2022 | West Virginia | 6 | 32 | 5.3 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 124 | 342 | 2.8 | 4 | -- |
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 4 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 45-3vs Robert Morris | 17/20 | 224 | 1 | 0 | 11.2 | 62.1 | Season-high 224 yds |
| Wk 2 | L 10-17@ Ohio | 15/26 | 178 | 0 | 1 | 6.8 | 27.4 | |
| Wk 3 | W 31-24vs Pittsburgh | 19/25 | 192 | 1 | 0 | 7.7 | 57.4 | |
| Wk 4 | L 10-41@ Kansas | 15/27 | 126 | 0 | 1 | 4.7 | 23.2 | |
| Total | 66/98 | 720 | 2 | 2 | 7.6 | 42.5 |
Play style
Consistent underneath passer who protects the lead. Rarely loses games; rarely wins them alone.
CFB Index positional classification
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
2 of the team's 26 inside-the-5 carries (7.7%).
Player DNA
Consistent underneath passer who protects the lead. Rarely loses games; rarely wins them alone.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Kyron Drones’s 2024 season.
Matches Kyron on
Differs from Kyron on
Through 3 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Jarret Doege’s path through Troy.
Matches Jarret on
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Hank Bachmeier's senior season at Louisiana Tech (2023).
Differs from Hank on