Austin Reed: QB · Western Kentucky · #16.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Austin Reed
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Transferred to Western Kentucky from Western Kentucky. All-Conference USA in 2023 made it two straight seasons on the honors list. One game to point at: 392 passing yards and 3 passing TD against Sam Houston — Week 12, 2023.
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
57.8% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 37.0% conversion-per-dropback — 34.6% 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. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
9 of 12 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (75.0%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Western Kentucky | 289 | 470 | 61.5% | 3,324 | 7.1 | 31 | 11 | 138.0 | 45 |
| 2022 | Western Kentucky | 390 | 602 | 64.8% | 4,747 | 7.9 | 40 | 11 | 149.3 | 70 |
| Career | 679 | 1,072 | 63.3% | 8,071 | 7.5 | 71 | 22 | 144.3 | 58 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Western Kentucky | 42 | 100 | 2.4 | 4 | 26 |
| 2022 | Western Kentucky | 90 | 232 | 2.6 | 8 | 20 |
| Career | 132 | 332 | 2.5 | 12 | 26 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 41-24vs South Florida | 29/50 | 336 | 2 | 0 | 6.7 | 52.9 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 2 | W 52-22vs Houston Christian | 27/33 | 253 | 4 | 0 | 7.7 | 74.0 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | L 10-63@ No. 6 Ohio State | 21/37 | 207 | 1 | 1 | 5.6 | 75.1 | |
| Wk 4 | L 24-27@ Troy | 24/40 | 275 | 2 | 0 | 6.9 | 73.8 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 5 | W 31-10vs Middle Tennessee | 30/52 | 297 | 2 | 1 | 5.7 | 54.8 | |
| Wk 6 | W 35-28@ Louisiana Tech | 19/34 | 297 | 3 | 1 | 8.7 | 72.5 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | L 17-20@ Jacksonville State | 24/48 | 250 | 2 | 1 | 5.2 | 44.6 | |
| Wk 9 | L 29-42vs Liberty | 30/44 | 365 | 4 | 1 | 8.3 | 60.5 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 10 | W 21-13@ UTEP | 11/20 | 102 | 1 | 1 | 5.1 | 45.9 | |
| Wk 11 | L 29-38vs New Mexico State | 20/36 | 270 | 3 | 1 | 7.5 | 65.0 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | W 28-23vs Sam Houston | 28/41 | 392 | 3 | 4 | 9.6 | 39.2 | Season-high 392 yds · 4 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 13 | W 41-28@ Florida International | 26/35 | 280 | 4 | 0 | 8.0 | 84.6 | 4 TD passes |
| Total | 289/470 | 3324 | 31 | 11 | 7.1 | — |
Week 2 · 2023
W 52-22
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 456 passing plays (284 completions) against the box score's 470 attempts (289 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.1470 of 212 QBsSack rate
1.5%9 of 212 QBsRarely sacked (9 of 212 QBs) and still 70 of 212 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 61.5% completion on 470 attempts · 43 deep completions averaging 34.0 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2023 baseline
+58
percentile points better on third down or later
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 Tyson Helton, all pass-leaning offenses — 17-10 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2023 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 319 | 3.0 | 7.6 | 1.2 |
| Road6g | 235 | 2.2 | 6.6 | 0.7 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 278 | 2.3 | 6.9 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 276 | 2.8 | 7.3 | 1.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Tyson Helton
Pass share
60.8%
539 pass / 347 run
Plays / game
68.2
13 games
Scheme: Pass-leaning.
Player standing · 2023
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
How it ended
Two seasons at Western Kentucky, 8,071 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Honored in a first season.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-CONFERENCE USA
All-Conference USA mention (2023)
Weekly recognition
1 weekly honor (2023)
2 career weekly honors across 2 seasons
Coaching lineage · 2021–2023
1 coachPlayed every college season under Tyson Helton.
