Navy Football Player Profile: Marcell Gleaton, WR
Marcell Gleaton, Navy WR (image: Navy Sports)
Marcell Gleaton
Position: WR
Height: 6’3”
Weight: 216
Year: Freshman
Hometown: Ellenwood, GA
High School:
Marcell Gleaton graduated from Community Christian School in Stockbridge, Georgia in 2017. He excelled at sports, earning letters in baseball, basketball and football.
Gleaton committed early to the Naval Academy, at the end of his junior year. After visiting Navy, he had a clear picture of where he wanted to be. “It’s the brotherly bond that they have,” Gleaton said in July of 2016. “It made me commit to them.”
“It wasn’t like any other school,” Santonio Gleaton, Marcell’s father, added at the time. “If (Marcell) gets hurt, his scholarship is in jeopardy. Not with the Navy though, he can continue his career and his education.”
After finishing his senior year with the Royal Knights, Gleaton attended NAPS (Naval Academy Prep School) during the 2017-18 academic year.
Freshman Year (2018):
Marcell Gleaton begins the 2018 season as one of the three freshman wide receivers fighting for a place on Navy’s opening game depth chart.
Along with Mychal Cooper and Collins Woods III, Gleaton has impressed the coaches in fall camp. “They’re young and still learning, but the future looks bright” Ivin Jasper, Navy’s offensive coordinator said last week. “All three of those kids attack the football when it’s in the air.”
“We have three young wideouts that we like,” head coach Ken Niumatalolo added. “All three of those guys have the kind of length you look for.”
Mick Yokitis, Navy’s wide receivers coach, praised Gleaton individually last Monday, “(Gleaton’s) super talented, just needs to get in his playbook a little bit more, which he will.”
With talented hands, quick feet and the coaches’ appreciation of those skills, Marcell Gleaton looks to make his mark in Navy’s season opener, September 1 in Hawaii.
