Marcus Mariota
Washington CommandersMarcus Mariota has 340 passing yards, 4 touchdown passes, 0 interceptions and 49 rushing yards in 3 games for the Washington Commanders this season through Week 8, 11.5 PPR points a game (updated November 5, 2026).
Model Score by season
Down 0.6 from last season.
How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →
STM Take
A mobile backup with a scramble-game ceiling.
The case for
- Functional mobility still produces in scramble situations (Wk 13 2025 hit 23.26 PPR, Wk 10 hit 18.72). His 2,500+ career rushing yards is a meaningful floor any offense can deploy.
- Familiar with the Washington offense after a year in the system. His Atlanta 2022 starter run (13 starts) and 2016 Pro Bowl prove the ceiling has been real, even if it was a long time ago.
The worry
- The -2.1 Wk 14 and 3.7 Wk 16 games show his floor is genuinely bad when defenses prepare for him as a multi-week starter.
- An eight-game range from -2.1 to 23.26 PPR is the profile of a clear backup. Career touchdown-to-interception ratio of 1.6 is below the modern starter line.
What to watch: Whether Washington keeps the same backup arrangement behind Daniels or moves on for cheaper depth before final cuts.
Full take and bio
The #36 in 2025 matches his 2019 Tennessee floor, which was his last season as a full starter. Wk 13's 23.26 PPR shows the ceiling is still there in scramble-friendly game scripts, but the -2.1 Wk 14 and 3.7 Wk 16 outings show how bad the floor is when defenses prepare for him. Washington uses him exactly as a movement-skill backup behind Jayden Daniels.
Mariota came out of Oregon as the 2014 Heisman winner and #2 overall pick by Tennessee in 2015. He made the Pro Bowl in 2016 and authored one of the most famous postseason plays of the decade with a touchdown pass to himself in the 2017 wild-card win over Kansas City. He lost his job to Ryan Tannehill in 2019. Backup and starter stints in Las Vegas, Atlanta (13 starts in 2022), Philadelphia, and Washington have followed, with the Falcons run his only extended starter look since his Tennessee tenure ended.
Comps
The players whose size, testing and production looked most like his at the same point in their careers. The percent is how close.
Plays like: Steve Beuerlein, C.J. Beathard, Seneca Wallace. Built like: Desmond Ridder, Andrew Luck, Jeff Driskel. Coming out: Andrew Luck, Robert Griffin III.
Of his 20 closest coming out: 4 stars, 4 starters, 6 backups, 6 didn't stick.
Marcus Mariota Injury StatusNot listed
Marcus Mariota is not on the injury report as of Nov 4. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.
This season · 3 games
11.5 fantasy points a game, 34 PPR on the season. Every game on the Game Log, every season on Career. Advanced numbers are EPA and Next Gen Stats.
Contract2026 cap
Every year of the deal, the dead money and what a cut or trade saves on the Contract tab.
Draft & College
Round 1, pick 2 to the Tennessee Titans in 2015, out of Oregon (Pac-12). He went about where consensus had him.
In college, 2014, 15 games: 4,335 pass yds, 42 TD, 3 INT, 63.9% completions. (partial record) Coming out: 4.52s 40 yd, 36" vertical, 121" broad, 6.87s 3-cone, 4.11s shuttle.
Recruited
Class of 2011 · Quarterback · High school: St. Louis School, Honolulu, HI
His full list of offers is not on our record yet; offers for the 2011 class are still being added.