CAREER

In two-year, 23-game career, has rushed for 417 yards on 73 carries with three touchdowns (5.7 average yards per carry), caught 14 passes for 145 yards and one touchdown (10.4 average) and has scored five touchdowns (three rushing, one receiving, one kickoff return) … also has totaled 1,080 all-purpose yards, 518 kickoff return yards, one touchdown on 23 returns.

2022

As a sophomore, played in 10 games with one start at running back … listed as the backup running back on the depth chart … saw action in 153 plays on offense and on special teams … ranked third on the team in rushing yardage with 323 yards with three touchdowns on 51 carries (6.3 yards per carry), caught five passes for 81 yards and a touchdown … also returned two kickoffs for 33 yards … rushed four times for 48 yards with a long of 35 yards in season finale at Eastern Michigan (11/25) … rushed seven times for 16 yards in start vs. Bowling Green (10/22) … set career-highs for all-purpose yards (249 yards), total touchdowns (three), rushing yardage (160), touchdown runs (two) and rushing attempts (26) with a career-long of 39 yards, caught four passes for 71 yards and a touchdown, along with a 37-yard reception at Akron (10/15) … rushed three times for 47 yards with a long of 30 vs. Bucknell (9/17) … scored a touchdown, rushed three times for 36 yards with a long of 21 vs. South Alabama (9/10).

2021

As a freshman, earned All-Mid-American Conference Third Team honors as a kickoff return specialist … played in all 13 games, making one start vs. Western Michigan (11/3) … served as the Chippewas’ primary kickoff returner … totaled 485 yards on 21 total returns (23.1 yards per return) … returned the second-half kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown vs. Eastern Michigan (11/26) … caught nine passes for 64 yards … rushed 22 times for 94 yards.

HIGH SCHOOL

A 2021 graduate of Charlestown High School, where he played three years of varsity football for Head Coach Jason Hawkins … two-time Indiana Football Coaches Association Class 3A Senior All-State Team selection (2019 and 2020) … Louisville Courier-Journal Football Player of the Year … three-time All-Mid-Southern Conference selection … over three-year career, rushed for 5,436 yards and scored 64 touchdowns as the school’s all-time rusher … rushed for 9.5 yards per carry and 2,599 yards on 209 carries and 30 touchdowns as a junior … led team to 8-2 finish … rushed for 1,074 yards and 12 touchdowns as a sophomore … transferred from Floyd Central to Charlestown after his first semester as a freshman … rated a three-star recruit by 247sports and ON3DB and two-star recruit by ESPN and Rivals … also earned three letters in track & field and one in basketball.

PERSONAL

Born Marion Nicholls Lukes on June 10, 2002 … son of John and Nichole Lukes … younger brother Deven replaced him at running back at Charlestown H.S. … first started playing football at age 4 … he played quarterback and scored so many touchdowns in flag football that the league implemented a rule that he could only run the ball one time every three series … switched positions to running back from quarterback during his high school career … committed to Central Michigan on October 6, 2019 … majors in Entrepreneurship.

Marion Lukes