Anthony Gordon: QB · Washington State · #18.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Anthony Gordon
Keeps the offense on schedule and doesn't lose the game. Two seasons in the Washington State quarterback room to date. One game to point at: 606 passing yards and 6 passing TD against Oregon State — Week 13, 2019.
Play style
Consistent underneath passer who protects the lead. Rarely loses games; rarely wins them alone.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
45.1% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 20.8% conversion-per-dropback — 52.2% of completions land short of the sticks.
Where completions land is fact — whether incompletions were aimed deep is intent, not recorded here, so this card counts completions only. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
2 of the team's 16 inside-the-5 carries (12.5%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Washington State | 493 | 689 | 71.6% | 5,575 | 8.1 | 48 | 16 | 157.9 | 62 |
| 2018 | Washington State | 3 | 5 | 60.0% | 17 | 3.4 | 0 | 1 | 48.6 | -- |
| Career | 496 | 694 | 71.5% | 5,592 | 8.1 | 48 | 17 | 157.1 | 62 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Washington State | 51 | −20 | −0.4 | 0 | 17 |
| 2018 | Washington State | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 51 | −20 | −0.4 | 0 | 17 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2019 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 58-7vs New Mexico State | 29/35 | 420 | 5 | 0 | 12.0 | 98.5 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 59-17vs Northern Colorado | 31/39 | 464 | 4 | 1 | 11.9 | 94.8 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | W 31-24vs Houston | 36/48 | 440 | 3 | 1 | 9.2 | 81.5 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | L 63-67vs UCLA | 41/61 | 570 | 9 | 2 | 9.3 | 84.3 | 9 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | L 13-38@ No. 19 Utah | 30/49 | 252 | 1 | 2 | 5.1 | 35.1 | |
| Wk 7 | L 34-38@ No. 18 Arizona State | 44/64 | 466 | 3 | 0 | 7.3 | 79.0 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | W 41-10vs Colorado | 35/51 | 369 | 4 | 1 | 7.2 | 79.3 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 9 | L 35-37@ No. 11 Oregon | 32/50 | 406 | 3 | 2 | 8.1 | 65.5 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 11 | L 20-33@ California | 45/58 | 407 | 2 | 1 | 7.0 | — | |
| Wk 12 | W 49-22vs Stanford | 44/60 | 520 | 5 | 1 | 8.7 | — | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 13 | W 54-53vs Oregon State | 50/70 | 606 | 6 | 3 | 8.7 | — | Season-high 606 yds · 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 14 | L 13-31@ Washington | 48/62 | 308 | 0 | 2 | 5.0 | — | |
 Bowl | L 21-31vs No. 24 Air Force | 28/42 | 347 | 3 | 0 | 8.3 | — | |
| Total | 493/689 | 5575 | 48 | 16 | 8.1 | — |
Week 4 · 2019
L 63-67
vs UCLA
570 yds · 9 TD · 2 INT · QBR 84.3 · 21 rush yds (5 car)
With M. Borghi — 123 rush yds (15 car) · 2 rec · 80 yds · 1 TD · E. Winston Jr. — 10 rec · 114 yds · 4 TD
The plays that mattered most
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 669 passing plays (473 completions) against the box score's 689 attempts (493 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
8.0435 of 205 QBsSack rate
2.8%16 of 205 QBsRarely sacked (16 of 205 QBs) and still 35 of 205 in Adjusted ANY/A.
Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.
Short
0–9 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 71.6% completion on 689 attempts · 62 deep completions averaging 30.1 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2019 baseline
No situation moves him more than 33 percentile points from his baseline.
Deltas are vs. this player’s own season baseline, never a league average. League sack rate by down is shown as context because sack attribution isn’t incompletion-denominated.
2 seasons under Mike Leach, all pass-heavy offenses — 17-9 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2019 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 492 | 5.5 | 9.6 | 1.3 |
| Road5g | 368 | 1.8 | 6.5 | 1.4 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 423 | 4.0 | 9.0 | 0.9 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 436 | 3.3 | 7.4 | 1.7 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mike Leach
Pass share
77.7%
708 pass / 203 run
Plays / game
70.1
13 games
Scheme: Pass-heavy.
Player standing · 2019
689 pass attempts and 51 carries in 13 games, more passes and runs a game than nearly every FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Washington State, 5,592 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2016–2019
1 coachPlayed every college season under Mike Leach.
