Former quarterback at New Mexico State. 2024: 519 passing yards, 3 TD, 5 INT.
6′1″ · 215 lb · Jacksonville, FL
Recruiting
QB recruit
No. 861 nationally · Signed with Wake Forest
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
Former quarterback at New Mexico State. 2024: 519 passing yards, 3 TD, 5 INT.
Santino Marucci
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Two head coaches in three seasons, at two different programs. The receipt: 189 pass yds, 42 rush yds against New Mexico — Week 5, 2024.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at New Mexico State, 670 passing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
The role got bigger.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2021–2024
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Doug Martin, Jerry Kill, and Tony Sanchez. Multi-era developmental context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Concern: success rate (4th 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
2.66199 of 205 QBsSack rate
5.9%106 of 205 QBsSacked on 5.9% of dropbacks (106 of 205) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (199 of 205).
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 40.4% completion on 114 attempts · 50% of completions gained 0–9 yds.
Splits · Per-game
2024 season · 7 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home2g | 159 | 1.0 | 6.5 | 1.0 |
| Road5g | 40.2 | 0.2 | 3.7 | 0.6 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 73.0 | 0.5 | 4.1 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 75.7 | 0.3 | 5.1 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Tony Sanchez
Pass share
52.3%
101 pass / 92 run
Plays / game
64.3
3 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2024
Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.
| Season | Team | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | New Mexico State | 49 | 112 | 43.8% | 519 | 4.6 | 3 | 5 | 82.6 | 25 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Wake Forest | 12 | 21 | 57.1% | 151 | 7.2 | 1 | 2 | 114.2 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Wake Forest | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 61 | 133 | 45.9% | 670 | 5.0 | 4 | 7 | 87.6 | 25 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | New Mexico State | 37 | 131 | 3.5 | 1 | -- |
| 2023 | Wake Forest | 8 | 4 | 0.5 | 0 | -- |
| 2021 | Wake Forest | 1 | -3 | -3.0 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 46 | 132 | 2.9 | 1 | -- |
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 7 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 3 | L 0-48@ Fresno State | 1/1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5.0 | 58.8 | |
| Wk 4 | L 11-31@ Sam Houston | 14/29 | 74 | 1 | 2 | 2.6 | 11.7 | |
| Wk 5 | L 40-50vs New Mexico | 13/29 | 189 | 1 | 0 | 6.5 | 38.3 | Season-high 189 yds |
| Wk 7 | L 13-54@ Jacksonville State | 3/10 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 2.4 | 25.6 | |
| Wk 10 | L 13-34@ Florida International | 2/4 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 4.5 | 62.0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 28-41vs Western Kentucky | 10/20 | 129 | 1 | 2 | 6.5 | 12.4 | |
| Wk 12 | L 3-38@ Texas A&M | 6/19 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 4.2 | 12.4 | |
| Total | 49/112 | 519 | 3 | 5 | 4.5 | 31.6 |
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
CFB Index positional classification
Player DNA
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
His 2024 production profile sits closest to Brock Glenn’s 2024 season.
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Through 2 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Keon Howard’s path through UT Martin.
Matches Keon on
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Andrew Peasley's junior season at Wyoming (2022).
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Differs from Andrew on
Player DNA