Senior quarterback for Louisiana Tech. 2021: 1,884 passing yards, 13 TD, 9 INT.
6′2″ · 212 lb · Waxhaw, NC
Recruiting
PRO recruit
No. 190 nationally · Signed with Oklahoma
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 quarterback for Louisiana Tech. 2021: 1,884 passing yards, 13 TD, 9 INT.
Austin Kendall
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Austin Kendall has played for four head coaches across five seasons and three programs. The receipt: 351 pass yds, 20 rush yds against SMU — Week 3, 2021.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Five seasons at Louisiana Tech, 4,302 passing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 5 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
The role got bigger.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2016–2021
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Skip Holtz.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: fumbles lost (93rd percentile). Concern: interception rate (12th percentile).
Real play-by-play efficiency
Season trend
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season. Most bars are box-score rates; EPA / success-rate bars are computed from real play-by-play (offense only — no defensive EPA model exists yet).
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
6.54103 of 204 QBsSack rate
6.2%116 of 204 QBsSacked on 6.2% of dropbacks (116 of 204) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (103 of 204).
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 64.1% completion on 234 attempts · 27 deep completions averaging 32.6 yds.
Splits · Per-game
2021 season · 7 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 282 | 2.3 | 8.4 | 1.0 |
| Road4g | 259 | 1.5 | 7.2 | 1.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 270 | 2.0 | 7.7 | 1.6 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 266 | 1.5 | 7.6 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Sonny Cumbie
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2021
Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.
| Season | Team | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Louisiana Tech | 148 | 243 | 60.9% | 1,884 | 7.8 | 13 | 9 | 136.3 | 62 | -- | -- |
| 2020 | West Virginia | 11 | 23 | 47.8% | 164 | 7.1 | 2 | 0 | 136.4 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2019 | West Virginia | 187 | 304 | 61.5% | 1,989 | 6.5 | 12 | 10 | 122.9 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2018 | Oklahoma | 12 | 17 | 70.6% | 122 | 7.2 | 1 | 0 | 150.3 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2016 | Oklahoma | 16 | 22 | 72.7% | 143 | 6.5 | 2 | 0 | 157.3 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 374 | 609 | 61.4% | 4,302 | 7.1 | 30 | 19 | 130.8 | 62 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Louisiana Tech | 59 | 157 | 2.7 | 3 | -- |
| 2020 | West Virginia | 2 | -2 | -1.0 | 0 | -- |
| 2019 | West Virginia | 45 | 91 | 2.0 | 1 | -- |
| 2018 | Oklahoma | 7 | 21 | 3.0 | 0 | -- |
| 2016 | Oklahoma | 6 | 8 | 1.3 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 119 | 275 | 2.3 | 4 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2021
W 45–42
vs SE Louisiana
217 yds · 1 TD · 1 INT · QBR 49.1 · 10 rush yds (7 car) · 1 TD
Edged out SE Louisiana at home in a shootout.
With C. Barajas — 38 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 46 LONG · T. Magee — 1 rec · 16 yds
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2021 season · 7 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 34-35@ Mississippi State | 20/36 | 269 | 2 | 1 | 7.5 | 81.1 | |
| Wk 2 | W 45-42vs SE Louisiana | 19/27 | 217 | 1 | 1 | 8.0 | 49.1 | |
| Wk 3 | L 37-39vs SMU | 24/39 | 351 | 4 | 1 | 9.0 | 65.8 | Season-high 351 yds |
| Wk 5 | L 27-34@ NC State | 26/43 | 341 | 3 | 2 | 7.9 | 79.9 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 7 | L 3-19@ UTEP | 14/28 | 174 | 0 | 3 | 6.2 | 15.8 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 8 | L 16-45vs UTSA | 23/34 | 279 | 2 | 1 | 8.2 | 34.4 | |
| Wk 9 | L 20-23@ Old Dominion | 22/36 | 253 | 1 | 0 | 7.0 | 28.6 | |
| Total | 148/243 | 1884 | 13 | 9 | 7.7 | 50.7 |
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
CFB Index positional classification
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
66.7% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 26.7% conversion-per-dropback — 55.6% 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. ~ our read: checkdown by design
Player DNA
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
His 2021 production profile sits closest to Grant Wells’s 2020 season.
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Through 1 college season, his career arc tracks closest to Preston Hutchinson’s path through Chattanooga.
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As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Davis Brin's senior season at Tulsa (2021).
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Player DNA