Behren Morton

Former quarterback at Texas Tech. 2025: 2,780 passing yards, 22 TD, 6 INT.

QB · Texas Tech · Sr. · #2

6′2″ · 220 lb · Eastland, TX

CFB Index 58 · #47 of 146 QBsHigh confidenceWatch-list name (model)Drafted by New England — Rd 7, Pick 18, #234 overall

How he plays

Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball.

Explosive rate: 93rd percentile.

The full scouting read

The numbers

2,780

passing yards · 2025

22 TD · 6 INT · 8.3 per attempt

Backed by 464 yds · 4 TD -- top 1% passing yards game. -- Best game: 201 pass yds, 4 TD, vs Arkansas-Pine Bluff

Swing playSwung Texas Tech from 39% to 66% to win.North Texas at Texas Tech · 66-21

His career numbers, season by season

The story

Former quarterback at Texas Tech. 2025: 2,780 passing yards, 22 TD, 6 INT.

Signed as a 4-star recruit to Texas Tech in 2021.
Drafted round 7 by the New England in 2026.

The full story, with sources

How it ended

Five seasons at Texas Tech, 8,951 passing yards — drafted at #234 overall by New England.

His career

He arrived as a blue-chip recruit and played like one.

The week the volume broke through — put up 282 yds vs TCU.TCU · W 35-282023

2021

Signed with Texas Tech4-star out of Eastland

2026

Drafted by New Englandround 7, pick 234

Career arc

Recruit

★★★★

#149 national

CFB

College

Texas Tech

2021–2025

NFL

NFL Draft

R7 · #234

New England · 2026

Coaching lineage · 2021–2025

2 coaches

2021

Matt Wells

Texas Tech

2022–2025

Joey McGuire

Texas Tech

era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Matt Wells → Joey McGuire. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

Where He Ended Up · NFL

New England2026 NFL rookie season

#234Rd 7 · Pick 18

New England2026 NFL rookie season

View college career stats ↓

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2021Texas Tech7-6HC: Matt Wells · 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

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

58Quality starter #47 of 146?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

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 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).

Passing profile

Pass Profile · True throw depth (charted plays)

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

206/318 (64.8%) · 22 TD · 6 INT

318 of 333 attempts matched to play-by-play

148 of 318 attempts charted for true throw depth

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 64.8% completion on 318 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% · ~our read

Down 2

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

Down 3+

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

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.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home8g	217	2.0	8.2	0.4
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

2026 season

Head Coach

Joey McGuire

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Watch-list name (model)

Our Heisman model has him inside the top 25; he is not on a published award watch list yet.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

58 · #47 of 146 QBs

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

Career stats

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	--
2024	Texas Tech	55	-22	-0.4	1	--
2023	Texas Tech	46	3	0.1	4	--
2022	Texas Tech	41	72	1.8	2	--
2021	Texas Tech	2	15	7.5	0	--
Career		187	-45	-0.2	7	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 4 · 2025

W 34–10

at Utah

142 yds · 0 TD · 2 INT · QBR 29.6 · 2 rush yds (5 car)

Dominant 24-point win on the road against Utah.

With W. Hammond — 169 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 96.3 · 61 rush yds (8 car) · J. Burgess — 41 AVG · 5 IN 20 · 54 LONG

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 6 · Houston · 3&4 · Q1 · EPA +6.61Cameron Dickey 69 Yd pass from Behren Morton (Two-Point Pass Conversion Failed)
Week 3 · Oregon State · 2&13 · Q1 · EPA +6.28Behren Morton pass complete to Caleb Douglas for 61 yds for a TD (Upton Bellenfant KICK)
Week 3 · Oregon State · 3&26 · Q2 · EPA +5.90J'Koby Williams 30 Yd pass from Behren Morton (Stone Harrington Kick)
Week 1 · Arkansas-Pine Bluff · 3&9 · Q2 · EPA +5.03Behren Morton pass complete to Coy Eakin for 41 yds for a TD (Stone Harrington KICK)
Week 4 · Utah · 3&10 · Q1 · EPA +4.73Behren Morton pass complete to J'Koby Williams for 73 yds to the UTAH 12 for a 1ST down
Week 6 · Houston · 3&20 · Q1 · EPA +4.35Behren Morton pass complete to Caleb Douglas for 33 yds to the HOU 25 for a 1ST down
Week 4 · Utah · 2&5 · Q2 · EPA -4.26Behren Morton pass intercepted Jackson Bennee return for no gain to the UTAH 20
Week 14 · West Virginia · 3&10 · Q2 · EPA +4.23(03:35) No Huddle-Shotgun #2 B.Morton pass complete short left to #5 C.Douglas caught at TTU46, for 43 yards to the WVU23 (#6 J.Scruggs), 1ST DOWN
Week 3 · Oregon State · 1&35 · Q1 · EPA +4.21Behren Morton pass complete to J'Koby Williams for 39 yds to the ORST 38 for a 1ST down
Week 1 · Oregon · 3&9 · Q4 · EPA -3.99(13:52) No Huddle-Shotgun #2 B.Morton pass intercepted by #4 B.Finney at ORE00, Touchback

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

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@ 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 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 BYU	20/33	215	2	0	6.5	73.4
Bowl	L 0-23vs Oregon	18/32	137	0	2	4.3	18.0
Total		219/333	2780	22	6	8.3	67.7

How he plays

Play style

High-percentage passer who protects the ball. Loses the matchup on improvisation.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

62.8%Completion %

27.1%Conversion/dropback

51.9%Land short of sticks

2INTs

62.8% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 27.1% conversion-per-dropback — 51.9% 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

Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration

Who gets the tough yard

fact

2/30Inside-5 share

2 of the team's 30 inside-the-5 carries (6.7%).