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Heisman / Players / Chris Marable Jr. /Boston College

Chris Marable Jr.

DL · Boston College · So · #52

Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.

22 TACKLES · 0.5 SACKS

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Boston College for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Boston College for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Defensive line · Boston College

Returning around him

  • 62% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
  • 4 Boston College players drafted to NFL
  • Transfer portal: -4 net (26 in / 30 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

Boston College · Last season: 2-10 · Talent rank #69 · 2026 recruiting class #59

DL · BOSTON COLLEGE · ACC

Chris Marable Jr.

  • 2
  • #52
  • 6-2 | 305 lb
  • Hilton Head Island, SC

CFB Zeitgeist Score

43

Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by sacks at the 51st percentile.

Heisman Heat

#14368

<1% win probability

Fan Belief

Awaiting

Player-specific FI not yet ingested. Falls back to team mood below.

Respect Gap

Awaiting

Coming online with player-level FI.

Reality Gap

Awaiting

Coming online with player-level FI.

ACCOLADE PROBABILITY

Heisman

<1%

TOP DEFENSE AWARD

Nagurski

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 1 · 2-deep

R04 · Rotational

Rotational. Earning real snaps in the rotation.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#901 national
CFB
College
Boston College
2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.

PositionDL
Class2
Jersey52
Measurements6-2 | 305 lb
HometownHilton Head Island, SC
Primary teamBoston College

Recruiting Pedigree

How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.

Top pedigree 3-star No. 901 recruit
Composite rating 0.8672 HighSchool
Signed with Wake Forest 2023
Origin Hilton Head Hilton Head Island, SC, USA
Class Profile Context
2023 3-star | 0.8672 No. 901 recruit | HighSchool | Wake Forest

Transfer Arc

Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.

Portal moves 1 Programs changed on file
Latest destination Boston College 2025
Transfer stars 3-star CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Immediate Apr 22, 2025
Season Move Context
2025 Wake Forest -> Boston College 3-star | 0.8300 | Immediate

Heisman Lens · 2024 Season · Final

Where the player landed at the end of the listed season — final nowcast rank, win/finalist/ballot probabilities, and the cleanest official Heisman placement on file.

HIGH CONFIDENCE· through week 16
Current nowcast#14368Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#14451Where the full season sim points
Win probability0.0%Chance to actually win the trophy
Finalist probability0.0%Chance to make the finalist tier
Ballot probability0.0%Chance to appear anywhere on a ballot
Best official finish--Best completed Heisman placement on file

Heisman Futures

Not yet listed on major futures markets.

No achievements unlocked yet this season.

Selector Grid · 2025

AP
FWAA
AFCA
WCFF
SN
SI

Selector recognition fills in once the major honors lists (AP, FWAA, AFCA, Walter Camp, Sporting News, SI) are scraped and ingested.

NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft

Market value, pedigree & pro outcome

Recruit stars

★★★☆☆

to Wake Forest

Composite

0.8672

#901 national

Today’s Hot-Take

The Hot-Take engine fires when this player’s percentile profile crosses a defensible threshold (top 10% in a cohort, 100+ snap sample). When it’s quiet, the model is honoring its “must be defensible” rule.

Anti-Take

PENDING

The contrarian read fires when the rules-engine detects a stat that complicates the Hot-Take. Quiet here means the model hasn’t found a defensible counter yet — not that one doesn’t exist.

The Room on Chris Marable Jr.

Fan sentiment · Awaiting signal

The Room reads fan conversation around a player — who’s talking, what they believe, and how that shifts. It publishes once weekly volume rebuilds; for most players that’s in-season, when game-week chatter spikes.

Cohort divergence map

Cohort divergence reads how different fanbases talk about this player. Returns once weekly mentions clear the publish floor.

Rival Radar

How rival fanbases talk about Chris Marable Jr.

No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.

Signature Story

Awaiting candidate metric

He hasn't written his page yet — we'll start filling it in when there are enough snaps to rank against his peers.

Signature Moment

No signature moment on the ledger yet.

Returns once this player puts together a multi-game body of work — single-game flashes alone don't clear the bar.

A 3-act season arc returns once this player has six or more games on the ledger.

Season Pace · Projection

Where the defensive totals stand

projecting to 13-game
Through 10g
22Tackles
0.5Tackles for loss
0.5Sacks
Per game
2Tackles
0.1Tackles for loss
0.1Sacks
Projected (13g)
29Tackles
0.7Tackles for loss
0.7Sacks

To hit 80-tackle season (currently 22): needs 19.3/game over remaining 3.

To hit 100-tackle season (currently 22): needs 26/game over remaining 3.

To hit 6-sack season (currently 0.5): needs 1.8/game over remaining 3.

To hit 10-sack season (currently 0.5): needs 3.2/game over remaining 3.

Why this is a rare defensive case

The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.

Chris Marable Jr. is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Boston College's defense, with 0.5 sacks, 0.5 tackles for loss, and -- interceptions through the current loaded season. For a defender, the question is never just production; it is whether elite disruption and team context can become nationally undeniable.

Current place #14368 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Transfer path 1 portal move

2025 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

DEF season snapshot

2025 season snapshot | final

2025 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Total tackles 22 15 solo | #1869/4942 (62nd pct)
TFL 0.5 Backfield disruption | #2658/4972 (47th pct)
Sacks 0.5 Pass-rush finish | #1501/4972 (70th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Defensive contributor against FBS defenders.

Balanced profile

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Tackling & Disruption

TOT
22 62nd
SOLO
15 69th
TFL
0.5 47th
SACK
0.5 70th
QBH
1 44th

Coverage & Takeaways

PD
1 43rd

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 10 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 2L 40-42@ Michigan State100.00.00
Wk 3L 20-30@ Stanford220.00.00
Wk 5L 24-28vs California100.00.00
Wk 6L 7-48@ Pittsburgh220.00.00
Wk 7L 10-41vs Clemson110.00.00
Wk 8L 23-38vs UConn210.50.50
Wk 9L 24-38@ Louisville200.00.01
Wk 10L 10-25vs Notre Dame430.00.00Season-high 4 tackles
Wk 12L 34-36vs Georgia Tech330.00.00
Wk 14W 34-12@ Syracuse430.00.00
Total22150.50.51
Season-by-season tables Career rows + per-season box score

Traditional history

Traditional Stats

Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.

Season rows Career row

Season context · Team result + system

2025Boston College2-10HC: Bill O'Brien · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2025Boston College22150.50.51----
Career1 loaded season22150.50.51----
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Disruption stats

TFL, sacks, and QB hurries are grouped together because defensive Heisman cases are usually built on visible havoc, not on tackle counts alone.

Coverage splash

Pass breakups, interceptions, and forced fumbles matter because national awards voters respond to plays that change possessions and highlight reels.

Peer percentile

Every percentile is compared against players at the same position and level, so an FBS quarterback is judged against FBS quarterbacks, not the whole sport.

Traditional first

The top tables stick to the stats fans already know from broadcasts and box scores. Advanced context is pushed underneath instead of replacing the basics.

INT -- -- pick-six TD
Pass breakups 1 Coverage disruption | #1241/2184 (43rd pct)
QB pressures 1 Quarterback hurries | #1051/1878 (44th pct)
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 22 #1869/4942 62nd pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 0.5 #2658/4972 47th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Sacks 0.5 #1501/4972 70th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Pass breakups 1 #1241/2184 43rd pct Coveragevs FBS DEF
Defense QB hurries 1 #1051/1878 44th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 15 #1434/4584 69th pct Volumevs FBS DEF

Player Standing

Universal 17-step ladder. Tier pills below; accolade streams nested.

AWAITING CLASSIFICATION

On-team2-deepStartingRecognizedEliteApex

AWAITING CLASSIFICATION · Rung None of 16

Why he’s here

Standing classification populates when honors, Heisman, and roster signals all align.

What moves him up

What moves him down

Accolade streams

StatusAwaiting tracker

The Lombardi award tracker integrates per-week probability once a dedicated scraper for this award lands. Confirmed past winners and finalists for this player will surface here.

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 10 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Home5g2.20.10.10.0
Road5g2.20.00.00.2

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins1g4.00.00.00.0
Losses9g2.00.10.10.1

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-75g1.40.00.00.0
Weeks 8+5g3.00.10.10.2

Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the DL cohort

43Mid-pack
6 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: tackles for loss (18th).

QB hurries#1007 / 2975 · 55th pct
1defe
Sacks#1367 / 2975 · 51st pct
0.5defe
Solo tackles#1434 / 2975 · 50th pct
15defe
Passes defended#1191 / 2975 · 48th pct
1defe
Tackles#1869 / 2975 · 36th pct
22defe
Tackles for loss#2332 / 2975 · 18th pct
0.5defe

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.

Advanced Savant · DL · 2024

Percentile Card

Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.

P4G5All FBS
EPA / dropback
awaiting
CPOE
awaiting
Success rate
awaiting
Explosive rate (20+)
awaiting
aDOT
awaiting
Deep-ball accuracy
awaiting
Pressure-to-sack
awaiting
3rd-down EPA
awaiting
Red-zone TD rate
awaiting
Play-action EPA
awaiting
Scramble EPA
awaiting
Turnover-worthy play rate
awaiting

Advanced Savant

Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.

Advanced opponent-adjusted metrics are coming soon for this player. Selected cohort: P4.

Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match

Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile

3 peers · 6 metrics
Chris Marable Jr.Boston CollegeBlake FletcherAir Force· 63% simTyler MartinMassachusetts· 61% simDalton JohnsonArizona· 58% sim
QB hurries
55
Jr.
92
Fletcher
22
Martin
22
Johnson
Sacks
51
Jr.
24
Fletcher
24
Martin
63
Johnson
Solo tackles
50
Jr.
91
Fletcher
87
Martin
97
Johnson
Passes defended
48
Jr.
67
Fletcher
67
Martin
96
Johnson
Tackles
36
Jr.
99
Fletcher
98
Martin
98
Johnson
Tackles for loss
18
Jr.
28
Fletcher
63
Martin
47
Johnson

Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.

Player DNA

The Nose Anchor

Two-gap space-eater who occupies blockers and frees the linebackers.

IDL

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Lavon Johnson’s 2024 season.

Lavon Johnson

90%match

Maryland · 2024

#2

Luke To'omalatai

BYU · 2024

88%
#3

Colin Coates

Charlotte · 2024

86%
#4

Elinneus Davis

Washington · 2025

84%
#5

Jayden Williams

North Texas · 2025

83%

Matches Lavon on

Weight
Class year
TFL rate

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Elinneus Davis's sophomore season at Washington (2025).

Elinneus Davis

89%match

Washington · 2025

#2

Eamon Smalls

UAB · 2024

85%
#3

Derrick Shepard

UAB · 2024

85%
#4

Marcus Moore Jr.

Akron · 2024

85%
#5

Jayden Williams

North Texas · 2025

84%

Matches Elinneus on

Class year
Height
TFL rate

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Bill O'Brien

Pass share

54.8%

454 pass / 374 run

Plays / game

69.0

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

10.9%

349 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2025

1 coach
2025
Bill O'Brien
Boston College

Played his entire career under Bill O'Brien.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.

HometownHilton Head Island, SC
Height6'2"
Weight305 lb
Class2
PositionDL
Jersey52

Trophy Case · Detail

Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.

Honors

No formal honors on the ledger yet

All-America, all-conference, player-of-the-week, watch-list, and postseason awards land here when they're earned. The absence is the signal: most players never collect formal honors, and that's its own kind of context.

Honors Timeline

Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.

Season Honor Scope Team / Selector Context
No formal honors on the ledger yet. All-America, all-conference, weekly awards, watch lists, and postseason trophies land here when they’re earned.

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2024 Wake Forest DL2 #14368 #14451 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | ACC
2023 Wake Forest DL2 #13966 #14061 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | ACC

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Boston College ACC DL 2 No. 52 | 6-2 | 305 lb | Hilton Head Island, SC
2024 Wake Forest ACC DL 2 No. 52 | 6-2 | 305 lb | Hilton Head Island, SC
2023 Wake Forest ACC DL 2 No. 52 | 6-2 | 305 lb | Hilton Head Island, SC