STRENGTHS
Marlon has the size to play multiple positions in specific down and distance situations. He has the long arms needed to shed blocks and make tackles and the burst off the line to shoot gaps and cause havoc in the backfield of his opponents. Marlon gives good effort on every play and is smart and shows leadership skills through his play on the field. He is an excellent teammate giving up personal playmaking ability to make his teammates around him better. He is proud and will do the grunt work moving to different positions even when he is overmatched. Marlon is a quality defensive player who should become a core player and a fan favorite for the team that selects him.
CONCERNS
Marlon doesn’t have the bulk and strength to play inside and lacks the quickness to play on the outside. His techniques are all screwed up and he struggles to be consistent with those techniques. The team that selects him will need a plan to establish Marlon’s best position to impact for the next level. I have no doubt, that Marlon can be very effective if the plan is right.
BOTTOM LINE 2.33
Here’s the plan, you either bulk Marlon up and play him inside or you ask him to lose some weight, get down to the 280 LB’s area and hope his quickness off the line of scrimmage will help him to become a power pass rusher similar to Michael Strahan or JJ Watt. I’m not suggesting that Marlon can become as impacting as those two were and are, I’m saying he can play the same style of game as those two players. How impacting he can become is up to him. Personally, my plan would be, to ask him to lose weight and use his athletic quickness off the line, along with learning some solid pass-rushing techniques to become an impact power pass rusher because he is excellent against the run right now. He can and will be able to add weight and could be a good rotational defensive tackle but I believe just buy his play on film that he has been wasted on his college team playing all of the different line positions inside and out and it has set him back in his ability to play one position consistently. But that’s just me talking to myself. Marlon is a quality football player and should become a core player and a fan favorite because he will do anything he can, play any position asked of him to make his teammates around him better. Give Marlon some time and one position to learn and I think he could become something special.
