West Virginia’s Nicco Marchiol Placed on Wuerffel Trophy Watch List

WVU’s redshirt junior quarterback Nicco Marchiol has been named to the 2025 watch list for the Allstate Wuerffel Trophy, which is presented to the FBS player for community service as well as leadership on and off the field.

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There are over 100 players in consideration for the award and 14 players from the Big 12 Conference.

Marchiol has played in 20 games with three starts in his three seasons at WVU. Throughout his career, he has thrown for 742 yards and eight touchdowns. Marchiol is 3-0 record wise as a starter at WVU.

Last year, Marchiol started two games, playing in eight, and threw for 434 yards with five touchdowns. He made his first start of the year against Arizona, where he threw for 198 yards and one touchdown while completing 18 passes on 22 attempts.

West Virginia’s Nicco Marchiol (8) drops back to pass in Cincinnati during a game in 2024. (WVSN photo by Cody Nespor)

Marchiol started the next game as well against Cincinnati, completing 9-of-15 passes for 156 yards, one touchdown and one interception.

As a redshirt freshman in 2023, Marchiol made his first career start against Texas Tech, leading WVU to a win just one week after coming off the bench for a win over Pitt in the Backyard Brawl’s return to Morgantown.

In terms of the quarterback situation this season, Head Coach Rich Rodriguez has been very secretive when it comes to naming a starter for 2025. However, the newly-named head coach said he is open to playing more than one quarterback.

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“Some coaches say if you have two, you have none; if you have three, you have none. I don’t believe that I say if you’re good enough to win, just play with them, that’s for any position including quarterback,” Rodriguez said at the Big 12 Media Days.

WVU’s 2025 season will kickoff at 2 p.m. on August 30 against Robert Morris at Milan Puskar Stadium.

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