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OFFSEASON · SUMMER 2026 · COMMITMENT SEASON
Heisman / Players / Santino Marucci /New Mexico State

Santino Marucci

QB · New Mexico State · Jr · #18

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

ALUMNUSWake Forest 2023 alumnus

QB · NEW MEXICO STATE · CONFERENCE USA

Santino Marucci

  • 3
  • #18
  • 6-1 | 215 lb
  • Jacksonville, FL

CFB Zeitgeist QB Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#2273

<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 QB AWARD

Davey O'Brien

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 0 · Not on team

R01 · Scout team / redshirt

Scout team / redshirt. Developing behind the depth chart.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#861 national
CFB
College
Wake Forest
2021–2023
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionQB
Class3
Jersey18
Measurements6-1 | 215 lb
HometownJacksonville, FL
Primary teamNew Mexico State

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 861 recruit
Composite rating 0.8626 HighSchool
Signed with -- 2021
Origin Bartram Trail Jacksonville, FL, USA
Class Profile Context
2021 3-star | 0.8626 No. 861 recruit | HighSchool

Transfer Arc

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

Portal moves 2 Programs changed on file
Latest destination -- 2025
Transfer stars 3-star CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Immediate Apr 1, 2025
Season Move Context
2025 New Mexico State -> -- 3-star | Immediate
2024 Wake Forest -> New Mexico State 3-star | 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#2273Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#2819Where 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 —

Composite

0.8626

#861 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 Santino Marucci

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 Santino Marucci

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.

Scenario Explorer

Available for players with a qualifying signature metric (passing yards, rushing yards, receiving yards, sacks, etc.). The slider projects how a season finishes if the current pace holds.

What made this player interesting

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

Santino Marucci's story is about how role and output meet each other. For New Mexico State, the card already shows enough current-season production to explain why he is on the serious-player board, and the next layer is determining whether the profile is just very good or actually distinctive.

Current place #2273 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 1.7% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Transfer path 2 portal moves

2023 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

QB season snapshot

2023 season snapshot | final

2023 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Pass yards 151 1 TD | 2 INT | #245/382 (36th pct)
Completion rate 57.1% 12/21 completions | #256/383 (33rd pct)
Yards/attempt 7.2 Explosiveness through the air | #156/382 (59th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Pocket-leaning against FBS QB peers. The quickest read is whether the profile wins on volume, efficiency, explosiveness, or rushing value.

Pocket-leaning

2023 Season · Final

2023 season snapshot | final

Passing Efficiency

CMP
12 36th
ATT
21 39th
CMP%
57.1% 33rd
Y/A
7.2 59th

Passing Production

YDS
151 36th
TD
1 44th
INT
2 52nd

Rushing

CAR
8 32nd
YDS
4 24th
YPC
0.5 21st
TD
0 44th

Game Log

Week-by-week box

No per-game rows for this season yet — the table fills in as box scores arrive.

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

2021Wake Forest10-3HC: Dave Clawson · Balanced, fast tempo
2023Wake Forest4-8HC: Dave Clawson · Run-leaning
SeasonTeam
2023Wake Forest122157.1%1517.212114.2----
2021Wake Forest--------------------
Career2 loaded seasons122157.1%1517.212114.2----
SeasonTeam
2023Wake Forest840.50--
2021Wake Forest1-3-3.00--
Career2 loaded seasons910.10--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Passing WEPA

Opponent-adjusted passing value. Positive numbers mean the quarterback is adding more value through the air than a neutral peer would in the same environment.

Role share

How much of the offense runs through the quarterback once passing and rushing responsibility are blended together.

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.

Rush impact 4 0 rush TD | #311/408 (24th pct)
Usage 1.7% 0.0% pass share | 3.3% rush share | #400/428 (7th pct)
Passing WEPA -- Adjusted value feed still loading
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Passing Passing yards 151 #245/382 36th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Pass TD 1 #228/407 44th pct Scoringvs FBS QB
Passing Completions 12 #248/383 36th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Completion % 57.1% #256/383 33rd pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Passing Yards / attempt 7.2 #156/382 59th pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Rushing Rushing yards 4 #311/408 24th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Usage Role share 1.7% #400/428 7th pct Share of team offensevs FBS QB
Passing Attempts 21 #251/407 39th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Interceptions 2 #195/407 52nd pct Turnoversvs FBS QB
Rushing Carries 8 #278/408 32nd pct Volumevs FBS QB
Rushing Rushing LONG 8 #324/391 17th pct Metricvs FBS QB
Rushing Yards / carry 0.5 #321/407 21st pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Rushing Rush TD 0 #230/408 44th pct Scoringvs FBS QB
Usage 3rd-down usage 8.3% #325/428 24th pct Money-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage Rush share 3.3% #323/428 25th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS QB
Usage Standard-down usage 2.2% #385/428 10th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS QB
Usage 1st-down usage 0.0% #400/428 7th pct Early-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage 2nd-down usage 0.0% #396/428 8th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage Pass share 0.0% #407/428 5th pct Air-game usagevs FBS QB
Usage Passing-down usage 0.0% #394/428 8th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS QB

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

Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.

Splits

Per-game splits

Splits fill in once box scores from at least three games land for this season.

Box-score Savant card waits for a season-stat snapshot above the cohort floor. Returns once enough box-score volume lands.

Advanced Savant · QB · 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 returns once this player clears the Savant metric floor (4+ scored bars).
DNA Match awaiting data — similarity scores compute once season stats clear the volume gate for this position cohort.

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Tony Sanchez

Pass share

57.4%

472 pass / 350 run

Plays / game

68.5

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

9.7%

359 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Pass-leaning.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2023

2 coaches
2021
Doug Martin
New Mexico State
2023
Jerry Kill
New Mexico State
era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Doug Martin → Jerry Kill. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownJacksonville, FL
Height6'1"
Weight215 lb
Class3
PositionQB
Jersey18

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 New Mexico State QB3 #2273 #2819 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Conference USA
2023 Wake Forest QB3 #1397 #1685 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | ACC
2022 Wake Forest QB3 #1113 #885 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | ACC
2021 Wake Forest QB3 #967 #651 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | ACC

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2024 New Mexico State Conference USA QB 3 No. 18 | 6-1 | 215 lb | Jacksonville, FL
2023 Wake Forest ACC QB 3 No. 18 | 6-1 | 215 lb | Jacksonville, FL
2022 Wake Forest ACC QB 3 No. 18 | 6-1 | 215 lb | Jacksonville, FL
2021 Wake Forest ACC QB 3 No. 18 | 6-1 | 215 lb | Jacksonville, FL