NFL Draft
4/9/25
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Marques Sigle 2025 NFL Draft: Scouting Report For Kansas State Wildcats DB
Height: 5113 (verified)
Weight: 199lbs (verified)
Year: Redshirt Senior
Pro Comparison: Javon Bullard
Scouting Overview
Kansas State Wildcats defensive back Marques Sigle projects as a hybrid safety/nickel defender at the NFL level. He boasts cornerback experience from his time at North Dakota State but has served as more of a matchup defender at KSU.
Sigle offers a dynamic athletic profile with good physicality as a run support player. He’s missing some high-end traits with length and transitional quickness that could offer him a greater ceiling as a do-it-all player in the league, but nevertheless, Sigle looks like a productive NFL defender.
2025 NFL Combine Results
| Position | Name | School | 40-Yard Dash | 10-Yard Split | Broad Jump | Vertical Jump | 3-Cone Drill | 20-Yard Shuttle | Bench Press |
| S | Marques Sigle | Kansas State | 4.37 | 1.5 | 130 | 38 |
Positives
- Aggressive and physical playing off man and zone coverage to diagnose and fit the run
- Offers alignment versatility with the athletic profile to be honed and developed to do even more from a man/matchup perspective
- Offers firm striking ability when fitting downhill
Negatives
- Lacks the reach and wingspan to be an assertive coverage defender from the trail position
- Can be reckless at times with his angles and fits from depth, leading to missed tackles
- Does not have great eyes and feel for playing deep zones
Background
Sigle is from Omaha, NE, and played high school football for Omaha North HS. There, he was underrecruited as an unranked prep prospect and enrolled with FCS powerhouse North Dakota State to begin his college career.
Sigle redshirted his true freshman season in 2020 and proceeded to take on a rotational role for the program in 2021. He would again play a modest role for NDSU in 2022, logging less than 250 snaps for the Bison before entering the transfer portal.
Ranked as a 3-star transfer (247 Sports), Sigle committed to Kansas State and immediately became a starter for the program. He posted major snaps in the slot but showcased the ability to play all over the front and live on the second level as a subpackage defender.
After his redshirt senior season with KSU in 2024, he accepted an invitation to the 2025 East-West Shrine Bowl to culminate his college career.
Tale Of The Tape
Sigle is a twitched-up defender who has a notable menu of coverage implementations that make him a likable addition to an NFL secondary. Sigle is dense and physical enough to play closer to the core despite his lack of wingspan and reach to attack blockers or wrap up in the run game.
Sigle is aggressive in playing downhill and blurs the lines between a corner and a safety at times, making him the perfect fit for a third safety.
He is better suited playing lower to the line of scrimmage, so teams that want to play base or prefer more of a true, developed cover option in the slot may regard him as more of a depth player early on, but the flashes and background indicate he’s capable of developing here.
His density and quick-twitch ability can aid his press technique, but his strike zone and punch radius are limited, limiting his ability to dictate terms in reps at the line of scrimmage.
Sigle does appear to have the hips and feet to flip and run with receivers — and likely appears to be better suited in this role than playing off-man and handling all the extra grass that comes with covering receivers in space early on. Still, his background as an outside corner warrants more consideration and patience to develop him here. He’s got the goods to make it work.
Lining up as a third safety or nickel defender who can align at dime backer or as the apex defender before pushing to the perimeter or inverting to take deeper coverages gives Sigle plenty of variety of landmarks as compared to being a static D-gap insert and hook/curl coverage defender.
This is an active and urgent defender who has received positive reviews for his play demeanor and work ethic. This adds to the versatility and coverage upside he appears to afford long-term.
As an added bonus, he was a productive special teams talent at North Dakota State, playing nearly 300 snaps on teams as a cover special teamer and providing 15 total tackles in two seasons in such a role. It gives him an immediate playing pathway in addition to hopefully the right pairing that can implement him as a low, third safety early in his career.
Sigle’s impressive combine is the cherry on top. With a 4.37s 40, explosive jumps, and a potent 10-yard split, he feels like a developing gem — just not as a deep safety or perimeter corner. Teams willing to blur the lines between the two will get the most out of him.
Ideal Scheme Fit, Role
Sigle projects as a developmental starter as a nickel/third-safety. He can play on early downs for teams that want to live in nickel and desire to match personnel with 3-safety groups.
He should be considered an attractive zone defender in coverage, and he has the upside of growing as an off-man option as he matures at the NFL level.
Grade: 72.00/100.00, Fourth Round Value
Big Board Rank: 146
Position Rank: SAF11
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