2015 Football Roster
Roster
Kendrick Market
- Position:
- DB
- Height:
- 5-10
- Weight:
- 196
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Batesville, MS
- High School/Previous School:
- South Panola HS
CAREER STATISTICS
CAREER: Smart, instinctive safety and leader of the secondary ... Always in the right place at the right time on the field … Played in 41 games with 20 starts ... Totaled 147 tackles with three tackles for loss ... Forced one fumble and intercepted one pass ... Suffered a torn Achilles in the 2014 Egg Bowl and tore his ACL in 2015 … Earned his degree from Mississippi State in December 2015.
2015 SENIOR SEASON: Started four games at safety before suffering a torn ACL in his left knee in the second quarter at Texas A&M on Oct. 3 … Missed the final eight games of the year and underwent surgery … Recorded 23 tackles on the year … Made a season-best nine tackles against LSU and added eight tackles in the win at Auburn.
2014 JUNIOR SEASON: Played in all 12 regular-season games before missing the Orange Bowl due to a torn Achilles tendon ... Started three games at free safety and one contest at strong safety ... Made 49 tackles with 1.5 tackles for loss and a pass breakup ... Totaled six tackles and a pass breakup against Southern Miss in the season opener (9/6) ... Notched five tackles at South Alabama (9/13) ... Tallied three stops and one tackle for loss at No. 8 LSU (9/20) ... Collected five tackles against No. 6 Texas A&M (10/4) ... Registered six tackles, including 0.5 for loss, against Arkansas (11/1) ... Tallied a season-high seven stops at No. 3 Alabama (11/15).
2013 SOPHOMORE SEASON: Became a primary starter and ended the campaign as the team’s third-leading tackler with 62 stops ... Started the final 12 games of the year ... Booked a team-best 53 solo hits to go along with 19 assists ... Registered 24 stops on passing plays, good for the second most on the squad ... Added a MSU-high 10 special teams’ hits, nine on kickoff returns and one on a punt runback ... Tallied 1.5 tackles for lost yardage, one pass breakup and the first forced fumble of career ... Recorded six games with five or more tackles (Oklahoma State/six; Auburn/seven; LSU/five; Kentucky/six; Alabama/10; Ole Miss/nine) ... Tallied six tackles against Oklahoma State (8/31), doubling previous best ... Registered first career tackle for a loss in that game … Made seven tackles at Auburn (9/14) ... Registered six tackles and first pass breakup of the campaign against Kentucky (10/24) ... Helped seal the MSU victory versus the Wildcats with two key plays during UK’s final drive … Tripped up Raymond Sanders after a six-yard gain when Sanders appeared to have a clear path to the end zone for a game-winning score and batted away Maxwell Smith’s final pass of the contest ... Booked four tackles during the opening drive against Alabama (11/16) and finished the contest with a career-high 10 stops, including 0.5 for a loss ... Forced first career fumble, taking the ball from T.J. Yeldon in the third quarter ... Finished second on the squad with nine tackles against Ole Miss (11/28), booking five solo hits ... Tallied three hits during the Rebels’ second drive of the contest and ended the opening half with six of game’s nine tackles.
2012 REDSHIRT FRESHMAN SEASON: Played in 12 games in debut campaign, tallying 13 tackles and an interception ... Collected two tackles in the win versus Jackson State and the victory at Troy ... Made a tackle in the nationally-televised home win vs. Tennessee ... Posted a season-high three tackles and nabbed first career interception in the homecoming win against MTSU ... Recorded two tackles at Alabama ... Made a solo stop at LSU ... Tallied two hits in the home finale against Arkansas.
2011 TRUE FRESHMAN SEASON: Sat out his freshman year as a redshirt.
HIGH SCHOOL: Highly-touted athlete from one of the top high school programs in the nation ... Three-year starter on both sides of the ball and in the return game, and a two-time All-State selection ... Rated the No. 15 prospect in the state regardless of position by Rivals.com ... Helped lead Lance Pouge’s South Panola team to state titles in both 2009 and 2010 ... Recognized by the Mississippi Association of Coaches as First-Team All-State in Class 6A as a linebacker following his senior season ... The MAC also picked him for the Mississippi-Alabama All Star Game where he practiced at cornerback, safety, linebacker, as well as both return positions ... Named First-Team All-State as a linebacker by the Jackson Clarion-Ledger ... Also ranked among the Top 40 Prospects list, taken from all classes ... For the 2010 season as a starting defensive back he was credited with 52 tackles and six interceptions ... Also rushed for 726 yards with six more scores ... Earned first All-State recognition as a junior playing both on offense and defense ... Scout.com placed him on its First-Team All-State defense after the 2009 season, one of just two juniors on the team ... For the year, had 64 total tackles, including two sacks, and intercepted a pair of passes ... On offense, rushed 64 times for 587 yards and was 20-of-30 passing for 312 yards and four touchdowns.
PERSONAL: Born Kendrick O’Neal Market on Aug. 23, 1992 … Majored in industrial technology … Graduated from MSU in December 2015.
MARKET’S CAREER HIGHS
Tackles: 10, vs. Alabama (11-16-13)
Tackles for loss: 1.0, (two times) last at LSU (9-20-14)
Interceptions: 1, vs. Middle Tennessee (10-20-12)
Fumbles forced: 1, vs. Alabama (11-16-13)
Pass breakups: 1, vs. Kentucky (10-24-13)
