Marcus Mariota

Washington Commanders·#8

Pos QBHt 6'4"Wt 222 lbExp 11 yrCollege Oregon

Updated September 21, 2026

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Model Score

78.2 MODEL

2016

89.8

2017

84.5

2018

81.9

2019

82.6

2022

80.8

2025

78.2

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 →

Season Stats

Pass Yds

Pass TD

INT

Rush Yds

Rush TD

0.0

Fantasy PPG

Advanced Metrics EPA & Next Gen Stats

0.0

Total EPA

0.000

EPA / dropback

0.00s

Time to throw

0.0

Avg air yards

0.0%

Aggressiveness

0 yd

Longest comp (air)

Draft & College

Round 1, pick 2 · Tennessee Titans · 2015

Oregon (Pac-12)

Taken

where he actually went

Consensus board

2nd

average of the public big boards that spring

Our college model

#29

among QB in our college data

He went about where consensus had him.

In college · 2014 · 15 games · partial record

4,338 pass yds, 22 TD, 3 INT, 63.9% completions

Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.

Coming out

4.52s

40 yd

36"

Vertical

121"

Broad

6.87s

3-cone

4.11s

Shuttle

Comps

College career

his college career vs theirs

Justin Fields78%Kellen Moore76%Omar Jacobs74%

STM Take

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.

Strengths

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.

Concerns

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.