Taulauniu, Marcus Ardel Mariota popularly called Marcus Mariota was born October 30, 1993, in Honolulu, Hawaii. He plays quarterback for the National Football League’s Atlanta Falcons.
The Tennessee Titans selected him in the second round of the 2015 NFL Draft. At Oregon, where he played collegiate football, from 2012 to 2014, Mariota was the team’s starting quarterback.
Mariota won the Heisman Trophy as a junior in 2014, making history as the first athlete from Hawaii and a player for the University of Oregon.
Mariota led the Titans to three consecutive winning seasons, the most since the team was known as the Houston Oilers, beginning with his second season as the team’s starting quarterback after the Titans had only won five games combined in the previous two seasons.
Halfway through the 2019 season, the team benched him and Ryan Tannehill, who they had acquired through trade earlier in the summer, took over as the starting quarterback.
The following year, Mariota joined the Las Vegas Raiders and served as Derek Carr’s backup before joining the Falcons in 2022.
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Mariota agreed to a two-year, $18.75 million contract with the Atlanta Falcons on March 21, 2022. He is currently playing as a quarterback for the team, sporting jersey number #1.
Mariota and rookie Desmond Ridder engaged in an open competition for the starting quarterback position over the offseason before Mariota was finally designated the Falcons’ starting quarterback on July 28, 2022.