Behren Morton

#2 · QB · Sr. · Texas Tech6′2″ · 220 lb · Eastland, TX

Behren Morton: QB · Texas Tech · #2.

Behren Morton

QB · Texas Tech · Sr · #2

Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. The five seasons at Texas Tech span two head coaches: Matt Wells and Joey McGuire. The first one came in 2022: Big 12 Newcomer Player of the Week. On tape: 464 passing yards and 4 passing TD against Oregon State, Week 3, 2025.

Fans

No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.

Texas Tech in the news

West Virginia reveals depth chartYahoo Sports Nov 3
Big 12 commissioner resignsOct 30
Booster dismisses McGuire hot seatOn3 Oct 28
Booster criticizes Texas Tech after lossHeartland College Sports Oct 24

Where to follow

Career stats

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Season	Team
2025	Texas Tech	219	333	65.8%	2,780	8.3	22	6	154.1	67
2024	Texas Tech	293	463	63.3%	3,300	7.1	27	8	138.9	38
2023	Texas Tech	182	294	61.9%	1,754	6.0	15	8	123.4	25
2022	Texas Tech	96	169	56.8%	1,117	6.6	7	6	118.9	31
2021	Texas Tech	1	3	33.3%	--	0.0	0	0	33.3	--
Career		791	1,262	62.7%	8,951	7.1	71	28	136.4	42

Season	Team
2025	Texas Tech	43	−113	−2.6	0	11
2024	Texas Tech	55	−22	−0.4	1	26
2023	Texas Tech	46	3	0.1	4	14
2022	Texas Tech	41	72	1.8	2	15
2021	Texas Tech	2	15	7.5	0	17
Career		187	−45	−0.2	7	26

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 67-7vs Arkansas-Pine Bluff	16/20	201	4	0	10.1	92.3	4 TD passes
Wk 2	W 62-14vs Kent State	18/26	258	3	0	9.9	82.1	3 TD passes
Wk 3	W 45-14vs Oregon State	23/35	464	4	1	13.3	73.5	Season-high 464 yds
Wk 4	W 34-10@ No. 16 Utah	12/19	142	0	2	7.5	29.6
Wk 6	W 35-11@ Houston	28/40	345	1	0	8.6	76.6
Wk 7	W 42-17vs Kansas	7/12	91	1	0	7.6	74.6
Wk 10	W 43-20@ Kansas State	21/32	249	2	1	7.8	68.8
Wk 11	W 29-7vs No. 8 BYU	17/32	219	1	0	6.8	57.0
Wk 12	W 48-9vs UCF	14/20	149	1	0	7.5	77.4
Wk 14	W 49-0@ West Virginia	25/32	310	3	0	9.7	89.0	3 TD passes
Wk 15	W 34-7vs No. 11 BYU	20/33	215	2	0	6.5	73.4
Bowl	L 0-23vs No. 5 Oregon	18/32	137	0	2	4.3	18.0
Total		219/333	2780	22	6	8.3	—

Highs and lows

Only games with 20 or more plays count for best and lowest.
Best by our grade	Oregon State	W 45-14 · Graded great · 464 yds, 4 TD, 1 INT · Rush 5 for -9 · Sacked 1
Lowest by our grade	Oregon	L 0-23 · Graded shaky · 137 yds, 0 TD, 2 INT · Rush 6 for -32 · Interceptions cost about 12 points of win chance · Sacked 3
Biggest game	Oregon	No. 5 at kickoff · L 0-23 · Graded shaky · 137 yds, 0 TD, 2 INT · Rush 6 for -32 · Interceptions cost about 12 points of win chance · Sacked 3

Passing profile

Pass Profile · True throw depth (charted plays)

Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from

219/333 (65.8%) · 22 TD · 6 INT

318 of 333 attempts matched to play-by-play

148 of 318 attempts charted for true throw depth

Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 318 passing plays (206 completions) against the box score's 333 attempts (219 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.

Adjusted ANY/A

8.0622 of 206 QBs

Sack rate

4.6%95 of 206 QBs

Rarely sacked (95 of 206 QBs) and still 22 of 206 in Adjusted ANY/A.

Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.

Behind LOS · Negative air yds

16% of attempts (24)

83%comp1 INT

Air -2.5 · YAC 8.2 avg

Short · 0–9 air yds

58% of attempts (86)

69%comp

Air 4.0 · YAC 5.0 avg

Middle · 10–19 air yds

14% of attempts (20)

55%comp

Air 14.2 · YAC 8.7 avg

Deep · 20+ air yds

12% of attempts (18)

39%comp

Air 29.5 · YAC 5.3 avg

Overall 65.8% completion on 333 attempts · 39% completion on 18 deep attempts (20+ air yds).

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2025 baseline

No situation moves him more than 54 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-28 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 3/123 (2.4%) · league sack rate 4.2%

Down 2

-18 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 4/90 (4.4%) · league sack rate 4.5%

Down 3+

+54 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 9/93 (9.7%) · league sack rate 7.8%

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.

Teams and coaches

2021Texas Tech7-6HC: Matt Wells and Sonny Cumbie · Balanced

2022Texas Tech8-5HC: Joey McGuire · Balanced, fast tempo

2023Texas Tech7-6HC: Joey McGuire · Balanced

2024Texas Tech8-5HC: Joey McGuire · Balanced, fast tempo

2025Texas Tech12-2HC: Joey McGuire · Balanced

Our ratings

CFB Zeitgeist Score 58 (#47 of 146). Show the ratings

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles · 2025 season

58Quality starter #47 of 146 · 2025?

13 metrics · season cumulative

2025 score: the 2026 sample is not big enough yet. The rows below are 2026 so far. Elite: explosive rate (93rd percentile). Strength: yards / att (84th percentile). Concern: rush yards (2nd percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Explosive rate#14 / 183 · 93rd pct

12.9%

Success rate#39 / 183 · 79th pct

44.6%

EPA / dropback#40 / 183 · 78th pct

0.29

Interception rate#45 / 183 · 76th pct

1.6%

Sack rate#81 / 183 · 56th pct

4.8%

Box-score rates (8)

Yards / att#27 / 183 · 84th pct

8.3

Pass TDs#35 / 183 · 80th pct

Completion %#45 / 183 · 75th pct

65.8%

Pass yards#49 / 183 · 73rd pct

2780

Fumbles lost#32 / 174 · 66th pct

Interceptions#70 / 183 · 56th pct

Rush TDs#150 / 183 · 9th pct

Rush yards#180 / 183 · 2nd pct

-113

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

55th → 78th percentile

Success rate

43rd → 79th percentile

Explosive rate

39th → 93rd percentile

Sack rate

75th → 56th percentile

Interception rate

63rd → 76th percentile

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps in 2025. 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).

Zeitgeist Passer Rating

2025 · our own passing-efficiency number, shown next to the 1979 formula it does not replace.

After 299 dropbacks

67Zeitgeist Passer Rating31st of 142 FBS QBs

NCAA passer rating 154.1 20th of 142 FBS QBs

ZPR ranks this quarterback 11 places lower than passer rating does: the positive-play rate and yards per attempt sit closer to average than the box line suggests.

Positive-play rate weight 24%

48.8%74th pct of FBS QBs

share of dropbacks that gained expected points · +1.9% schedule adj.

Yards per attempt weight 56%

7.9582nd pct of FBS QBs

sacks excluded · +0.2 schedule adj.

Sack rate weight 21% (penalty)

5.6%50th pct of FBS QBs

the input passer rating cannot see · +0.2% schedule adj.

Opponent-adjusted; garbage time excluded (34 of 333 dropbacks dropped). 50 = FBS average; the number is pulled toward 50 when the sample is thin. How ZPR is built.

Splits

Home and road splits, scheme and staff

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home6g	230	2.3	9.2	0.2
Road4g	262	1.5	8.4	0.8

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-77g	234	1.9	8.8	0.7
Weeks 8+5g	228	1.8	7.7	0.2

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Joey McGuire

Pass share

47.6%

484 pass / 532 run

Plays / game

72.6

14 games

Scheme: Balanced.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Heisman model top 25

Our Heisman model had this player inside its top 25 in 2025.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score

58 · #47 of 146 QBs · 2025

Former four-star. Now #47 at the position.

Behren Morton

Fans

Texas Tech in the news

Where to follow

Career stats

Game log

Highs and lows

Passing profile

Situational

Teams and coaches

Our ratings

Splits

Awards

Heisman model top 25

Five seasons at Texas Tech, drafted

2021

2026