2011 Player Rating and Review – Tyrone Marshall

Name: Tyrone Marshall

Number: 34

Appearances: 27 (24)

Stats: Over 2100 minutes played, 1 Assist

It's hard to fault Tyrone Marshall for having what wound up being a fairly mediocre season when we look back at it. After all, he wasn't brought in to play 2177 minutes of football at 36 years of age. When Colorado picked up the former

defender in last year's re-entry draft, it was so he could effectively replace Julien Baudet as Colorado's 'big central defender off the bench'. He looked to fit the bill quite well – more talented than

with plenty of footballing experience to give the rest of the defense confidence with him in it, along with some speed and size.

Honestly, Marshall for the vast majority of the season wasn't half bad. His defense was a bit too physical, sure, but he kept his tackles clean enough to get the ball out of harms way and played the big man in the middle role about as well as we could expect. His speed was nothing special but it was good enough, what we expected from our first man off the bench. Slowly as the season wore on, the wear and tear of 20+ games began to show slowly but surely on the 36 year old.

I still think that Marshall has another year of decent football in him as a depth player after seeing his decent play at the beginning of this year. It's absolutely crucial though that the team builds their depth to the point where Marshall is playing no more than 20 appearances in a season, ideally less than 15 of those being starts. Any more than that and the now 37 year old Marshall may once again be the easy breakthrough point for an opposing team when the Rapids need it least.

PLAYER RATING: 6