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Marcus Ardel Taulauniu Mariota (born October 30, 1993) is an American football quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL).
Mariota played college football for the Oregon Ducks, where he was the starting quarterback from 2012 to 2014. As a junior in 2014, Mariota became the first University of Oregon player, as well as the first Hawaii-born athlete, to win the Heisman Trophy, in addition to winning the Maxwell Award, the Walter Camp Award, the Manning Award, the Davey O'Brien Award and the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award. He also led the team to an appearance in the 2015 CFP National Championship game.
He was selected second overall by the Tennessee Titans in the 2015 NFL Draft. Beginning with his second season as starting quarterback for the Titans, who had only won five combined games in the previous two seasons, Mariota led the team to three consecutive winning seasons, the most since the team was known as the Houston Oilers. He was benched and replaced by Ryan Tannehill as starting quarterback halfway through the 2019 season, who the team had traded for earlier that offseason. Mariota signed with the Las Vegas Raiders the following season and backed up Derek Carr for two seasons. He then signed with the Atlanta Falcons in 2022, where he started for most of the season.