#10

Ben Wooldridge

Former quarterback at Louisiana. 2024: 2,453 passing yards, 17 TD, 6 INT.

QB · Louisiana · Sr. · #10

6′3″ · 216 lb · Pleasanton, CA

CFB Index 53 · #53 of 137 QBsHigh confidenceAll-Conf 1st teamLouisiana 2024 — college career complete

The story

Former quarterback at Louisiana. 2024: 2,453 passing yards, 17 TD, 6 INT.

Transferred from Fresno State to Louisiana in 2021.
Named Sun Belt Offensive Player of the Year in 2024.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Five seasons at Louisiana, 4,735 passing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2024) — his college career is complete.

His career

Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.

2021

Entered the portal

202411 games

All-Sun Beltfirst
Sun Belt Offensive Player of the Yearwinner

Career arc

Recruit

—

No recruit profile

CFB

College

2 teams

2019–2024

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Trophy case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

4 honors · 1 category

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ALL-SUN BELT · 1ST TEAM

All-Sun Belt 1st team (2024)

Coaching lineage · 2019–2024

2 coaches

2019–2020

Billy Napier

Louisiana

2022–2024

Michael Desormeaux

Louisiana

era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Billy Napier → Michael Desormeaux. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

2024 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2019Fresno State4-8HC: Jeff Tedford · Balanced

2020Fresno State3-3HC: Kalen DeBoer · Balanced, fast tempo

2022Louisiana6-7HC: Michael Desormeaux · Balanced

2023Louisiana6-7HC: Michael Desormeaux · Run-leaning

2024Louisiana10-4HC: Michael Desormeaux · Run-leaning

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

53Rotational starter #53 of 137?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: success rate (95th percentile). Strength: epa / dropback (87th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Success rate#9 / 169 · 95th pct

50.5%

EPA / dropback#23 / 169 · 87th pct

0.35

Explosive rate#24 / 169 · 86th pct

12.9%

Sack rate#34 / 169 · 80th pct

3.7%

Interception rate#81 / 169 · 52nd pct

2.1%

Box-score rates (8)

Fumbles lost#1 / 159 · 94th pct

Yards / att#22 / 165 · 85th pct

8.4

Completion %#30 / 165 · 82nd pct

66.0%

Rush TDs#37 / 165 · 74th pct

Pass TDs#59 / 165 · 62nd pct

Interceptions#49 / 165 · 62nd pct

Pass yards#72 / 165 · 57th pct

2453

Rush yards#78 / 165 · 53rd pct

174

Season trend

EPA / dropback— first qualifying season

Success rate— first qualifying season

Explosive rate— first qualifying season

Sack rate— first qualifying season

Interception rate— first qualifying season

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 · Completions by yards gained (PBP)

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

184/287 (64.1%) · 17 TD · 6 INT

287 of 291 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

8.0726 of 205 QBs

Sack rate

3.6%45 of 205 QBs

Rarely sacked (45 of 205 QBs) and still 26 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 yds

49%of completions

91 comp5.3 yds avg5 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

30%of completions

56 comp13.5 yds avg3 TD

Deep

20+ yds

20%of completions

37 comp31.9 yds avg8 TD

Overall 64.1% completion on 287 attempts · 37 deep completions averaging 31.9 yds.

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2024 baseline

No situation moves him more than 30 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-30 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 3/109 (2.8%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 2

+22 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 1/94 (1.1%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 3+

+17 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 5/69 (7.2%) · league sack rate 8.1% · ~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

2024 season · 11 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home5g	220	1.6	8.4	1.0
Road6g	226	1.5	8.1	0.2

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-77g	210	1.7	7.7	0.7
Weeks 8+4g	245	1.2	9.2	0.2

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Michael Desormeaux

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

Awards

Player standing · 2024

All-Conference 1st team

First team in his league at the position.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

53 · #53 of 137 QBs

Career stats

Season	Team
2024	Louisiana	192	291	66.0%	2,453	8.4	17	6	151.9	77	--	--
2023	Louisiana	39	69	56.5%	508	7.4	5	1	139.4	44	--	--
2022	Louisiana	137	243	56.4%	1,627	6.7	15	5	128.9	31	--	--
2020	Fresno State	8	16	50.0%	117	7.3	0	0	111.4	--	--	--
2019	Fresno State	4	6	66.7%	30	5.0	1	0	163.7	--	--	--
Career		380	625	60.8%	4,735	7.6	38	12	140.7	54	--	--

Season	Team
2024	Louisiana	65	174	2.7	5	--
2023	Louisiana	17	77	4.5	2	--
2022	Louisiana	48	189	3.9	2	--
2020	Fresno State	2	13	6.5	0	--
2019	Fresno State	2	13	6.5	0	--
Career		134	466	3.5	9	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 10 · 2024

W 23–17

at Texas State

252 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 79.0 · 39 rush yds (8 car)

A wire-to-wire battle — won by 6 on the road.

With D. Washington — 94 rush yds (10 car) · 1 TD · N. Torney — 37 AVG · 1 IN 20 · 45 LONG

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 4 · Tulane · 3&5 · Q2 · EPA -7.26Ben Wooldridge pass intercepted Jack Tchienchou return for 38 yds for a TD (Ethan Head KICK)
Week 8 · Coastal Carolina · 3&13 · Q4 · EPA +6.78Ben Wooldridge pass complete to Terrance Carter for 59 yds for a TD (Kenneth Almendares KICK)
Week 7 · App State · 1&10 · Q2 · EPA +6.01Ben Wooldridge pass complete to Terrance Carter for 74 yds for a TD (Kenneth Almendares KICK)
Week 5 · Wake Forest · 2&10 · Q3 · EPA +4.76Ben Wooldridge pass complete to Lance LeGendre for 48 yds for a TD (Kenneth Almendares KICK)
Week 1 · Grambling · 4&2 · Q4 · EPA -4.13Ben Wooldridge sacked by Blake Davis for a loss of 5 yards to the GRAM 8
Week 1 · Grambling · 2&1 · Q2 · EPA +3.86Ben Wooldridge pass complete to Tavion Smith for 56 yds for a TD (Two-Point Conversion failed)
Week 1 · Grambling · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA +3.62Ben Wooldridge pass complete to Harvey Broussard for 50 yds to the GRAM 32 for a 1ST down
Week 8 · Coastal Carolina · 3&12 · Q4 · EPA +3.60Ben Wooldridge pass complete to Lance LeGendre for 26 yds to the CCU 26 for a 1ST down
Week 8 · Coastal Carolina · 2&10 · Q1 · EPA +3.54Ben Wooldridge pass complete to Lance LeGendre for 33 yds for a TD (Kenneth Almendares KICK)
Week 6 · Southern Miss · 4&8 · Q2 · EPA +3.37Ben Wooldridge pass complete to Terrance Carter for 21 yds to the USM 21 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2024 season · 11 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 40-10vs Grambling	25/33	308	3	1	9.3	83.4	3 TD passes
Wk 2	W 34-10@ Kennesaw State	15/19	189	1	0	9.9	77.1
Wk 4	L 33-41vs Tulane	19/34	238	2	2	7.0	65.1
Wk 5	W 41-38@ Wake Forest	20/29	257	3	0	8.9	87.5	3 TD passes
Wk 6	W 23-13@ Southern Miss	22/30	222	1	0	7.4	66.2
Wk 7	W 34-24vs App State	14/23	198	2	1	8.6	66.5
Wk 8	W 34-24@ Coastal Carolina	27/36	373	3	0	10.4	85.7	Season-high 373 yds
Wk 10	W 23-17@ Texas State	18/28	252	1	0	9.0	79.0
Wk 11	W 55-19vs Arkansas State	17/26	264	1	0	10.2	42.6
Wk 12	L 22-24vs South Alabama	8/13	91	0	1	7.0	44.6
Bowl	L 3-34@ TCU	7/20	61	0	1	3.1	5.4
Total		192/291	2453	17	6	8.3	63.9