Bishop Davenport

#4 · QB · South Alabama6′2″ · 210 lb · Spring, TX

Last gameL 20–35vs Louisiana Tech · Oct 31

Nextat LouisianaSat Nov 7 · 5 pm ET

Did not play in South Alabama’s last 6 games.

Jared Hollins started the last one, L 20-35 vs Louisiana Tech, Oct 31.

South Alabama’s next game: at Louisiana, Sat Nov 7, 5:00 p.m. ET

South Alabama is 4-4.

His most important play this season

Q3, 12:17 · South Alabama down 4, takes the leadBishop Davenport finds Anthony Eager for a 43-yard touchdownSouth Alabama at Tulane, week 2Q3, 12:17 · South Alabama 17, Tulane 14Go-ahead score for South Alabama in the third quarterGo-ahead score for South Alabama in the third quarterB.Davenport pass complete deep left to A.Eager caught at TLN04, for 43 yards to the TLN00 touchdown, 1ST DOWN, kick goodWatch from this play Sun Belt Conference

All 2 of his plays on video

Played for two head coaches at two programs in four seasons: Blake Anderson and Major Applewhite. The first career honor came in 2022: Mountain West Freshman Player of the Week. One game to point at: 296 passing yards and 50 rushing yards against Tulane — Week 2, 2026.

450 passing yards · 3 passing TD · 73 rushing yards

Style of play

Play style

Keeps the offense on schedule and doesn't lose the game.

Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration

Who gets the tough yard

1/20Inside-5 share

1 of the team's 20 inside-the-5 carries (5.0%).

Similar players

Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.

Conner HarrellCharlotte · 2025 · 79% season match
Brendon LewisMemphis · 2025 · 74% season match
Sean CliffordPenn State · 2021 · 73% season match
Tanner MordecaiWisconsin · 2023 · 72% season match
Brennan ArmstrongNC State · 2023 · 72% season match

Career stats

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Season	Team
2026	South Alabama	40	59	67.8%	450	7.6	3	0	148.6	46
2025	South Alabama	200	294	68.0%	2,072	7.0	12	6	136.6	42
2024	South Alabama	48	79	60.8%	604	7.6	3	1	135.0	50
2022	Utah State	27	44	61.4%	245	5.6	1	2	106.5	28
Career		315	476	66.2%	3,371	7.1	19	9	135.1	43

Season	Team
2026	South Alabama	20	73	3.6	1	27
2025	South Alabama	116	326	2.8	9	56
2024	South Alabama	37	161	4.4	1	50
2022	Utah State	30	49	1.6	2	19
Career		203	609	3.0	13	56

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2026 season · 2 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	Grade	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	YPA	QBR	SK	RUSH	Note
Wk 1	W 39-14vs SE Louisiana	Rough	18/27	154	1	5.7	—	1	23
Wk 2	L 24-28@ Tulane	Great	22/32	296	2	9.3	79.8	1	50	Season-high 296 yds
Total			40/59	450	3	7.6	—	2	73

The season, game by game

L 24-28 at TulaneSept. 12296 yds22 of 32, 2 TDBox score only

22 of 32 for 296 yards and 2 touchdowns.

Not drawn: the play-by-play doesn’t add up to the box score.

W 39-14 vs SE LouisianaSept. 5154 yds18 of 27, 1 TDBox score only

18 of 27 for 154 yards and a touchdown.

Not drawn: the play-by-play doesn’t add up to the box score.

Signature game

Week 2 · 2026

L 24-28

at Tulane

296 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 79.8 · 50 rush yds (9 car)

With A. Pulkkinen — 49 yards per punt · 2 punts · 1 inside the 20 · P. Martin — 73 rush yds (15 car) · 1 TD · 4 rec · 32 yds

Signature plays

The plays that mattered most

Week 1 · SE Louisiana · 4th and 4 · Q2 · EPA −4.69B.Davenport sacked for loss of 9 yards to the USA 49 (A.Alexander), TURNOVER ON DOWNS
Week 2 · Tulane · 4th and 2 · Q2 · EPA −4.61B.Davenport rush right for 5 yards loss (M.Williams), TURNOVER ON DOWNS
Week 2 · Tulane · 1st and 10 · Q3 · EPA +3.35Davenport to Eager: a 43-yard touchdown pass.
Week 2 · Tulane · 3rd and 8 · Q3 · EPA +3.31Davenport to Eager: a 21-yard pass.
Week 1 · SE Louisiana · 3rd and 4 · Q1 · EPA +3.28B.Davenport pass complete short left to B.Jenkins caught at SLU 19, for 26 yards to the SLU 00 TOUCHDOWN
Week 2 · Tulane · 3rd and 3 · Q1 · EPA +2.93B.Davenport rush middle for 27 yards gain (A.Rogers), out of bounds

4 more plays

Week 1 · SE Louisiana · 4th and 2 · Q3 · EPA +2.85Bishop Davenport 2 Yd Run
Week 1 · SE Louisiana · 3rd and 11 · Q1 · EPA +2.81B.Davenport pass complete short right to B.Jenkins caught at SLU 34, for 12 yards to the SLU 34, out of bounds at SLU 34
Week 2 · Tulane · 2nd and 8 · Q4 · EPA +2.80Davenport to Jenkins: a 17-yard touchdown pass.
Week 2 · Tulane · 2nd and 15 · Q3 · EPA +2.76Davenport to Jenkins: a 20-yard pass.

Where he ranks

Stat	His	Nation	Sun Belt
Passing yards	450	166th of 370	19th of 38
Yards an attempt	7.6	Not ranked	Not ranked
Touchdown passes	3	T-151st of 370	T-18th of 38
Passer rating	148.6	Not ranked	Not ranked
Completion percentage	67.8	Not ranked	Not ranked
Rushing yards	73	T-128th of 370	T-17th of 38
Rushing touchdowns	1	T-117th of 370	T-15th of 38

Counting stats rank all FBS quarterbacks with a pass attempt; the rates rank those with at least 10 attempts a game. He has 59 attempts of the 80 needed after 8 games, so the rates are not ranked.

All Sun Belt quarterbacks

Rk	Quarterback	Yards	TD	INT	Att	Y/A
1	Trey Owens	1,940	11	6	233	8.3
2	Deuce Bailey	1,935	19	6	236	8.2
3	Max Johnson	1,928	11	2	279	6.9
4	Malachi Singleton	1,915	9	4	237	8.1
5	Camden Coleman	1,743	16	4	238	7.3
6	Lunch Winfield	1,457	6	5	196	7.4
7	Cameran Brown	1,356	14	5	166	8.2
8	Blake Baker	1,327	13	1	149	8.9
9	Landry Lyddy	1,326	8	4	201	6.6
10	Aidan Armenta	1,316	9	3	187	7.0
11	Jared Hollins	1,195	9	4	156	7.7
12	Will Crowder	1,162	9	5	183	6.3
13	Carlos Del Rio-Wilson	1,080	6	5	148	7.3
14	Quinn Henicle	648	4	4	98	6.6
15	Zion Turner	608	2	3	92	6.6
16	Jaxon Potter	495	0	4	83	6.0
17	Trey Kukuk	494	4	2	76	6.5
18	Ayden Pereira	463	4	3	73	6.3
19	Bishop Davenport	450	3	0	59	7.6
20	Ethan Hampton	419	2	4	75	5.6
21	Ryan Huff	394	2	1	62	6.4
22	JC Evans	370	5	1	36	10.3
23	Austin Carlisle	360	3	3	67	5.4
24	Turner Helton	275	1	1	38	7.2
25	Tucker Kilcrease	252	1	0	46	5.5
26	Henry Hasselbeck	172	2	1	26	6.6
27	Khalil Wilkins	122	0	0	14	8.7
28	Arrington Maiden	111	2	0	8	13.9
29	Daniel Beale	90	0	1	10	9.0
30	Weston Bryan	26	0	0	8	3.2
31	Gavin Nuckolls	20	0	0	3	6.7
32	Tommy Ulatowski	20	0	0	5	4.0
33	TJ Stanley	19	0	0	3	6.3
34	Tanner Vibabul	16	0	0	1	16.0
35	Tre Guerra	11	0	0	4	2.8
36	Jackson Bradley	3	0	0	3	1.0
37	John White	0	0	0	2	0.0
38	Landon Graves	0	0	0	3	0.0

Sorted by passing yards. Gray: under 10 attempts a game, so not ranked on yards an attempt.

Pass targets

Jenkins and Jones-Thomas saw 32 of the 59 charted throws.

Receiver	Targets	Catches	Yards	Throw depth	After catch
Brendan Jenkins	22	14	197	13.6	3.5
Jeremiah Jones-Thomas	10	7	71	5.4	7.0
Micah Woods	9	5	45	10.2	3.8
PJ Martin	5	5	34	-3.4	10.2
Keenan Phillips	4	3	-2	-2.0	2.7
4 others	9	6	105	12.6	5.0

Play by play: 59 passes, 40 caught, 450 yards. Throw depth: average air yards per target. After catch: average yards after the catch per catch. Bar: targets; the blue part was caught.

Passing profile

Pass Profile · True throw depth (charted plays)

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

40/59 (67.8%) · 3 TD · 0 INT

59 of 59 attempts matched to play-by-play

59 of 59 attempts charted for true throw depth

Adjusted ANY/A

8.0837 of 185 QBs

Sack rate

3.3%34 of 185 QBs

Rarely sacked (34 of 185 QBs) and still 37 of 185 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

17% of attempts (10)

100%comp

Air -4.0 · YAC 7.7 avg

Short · 0–9 air yds

37% of attempts (22)

77%comp

Air 4.7 · YAC 6.5 avg

Middle · 10–19 air yds

39% of attempts (23)

52%comp

Air 14.8 · YAC 1.2 avg

Deep · 20+ air yds

7% of attempts (4)

25%comp

Air 32.5 · YAC 4.0 avg

Overall 67.8% completion on 59 attempts · 39% of attempts thrown 10–19 air yds.

Teams and coaches

2022Utah State6-7HC: Blake Anderson · Run-leaning

2024South Alabama7-6HC: Major Applewhite · Balanced

2025South Alabama4-8HC: Major Applewhite · Run-heavy

2026South Alabama4-4HC: Major Applewhite · Run-heavy

Our ratings

CFB Zeitgeist Score 36 (#105 of 146). Show the ratings

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score percentiles

36Below cohort / limited sample #105 of 146 · 2025?

2 metrics · season cumulative

2025 score: the 2026 sample is not big enough yet. The rows below are 2026 so far.

Box-score rates

Completion %#28 / 159 · 82nd pct

67.8%

Yards / att#68 / 159 · 55th pct

7.6

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.

Zeitgeist Passer Rating

2026 · our own passing-efficiency number, shown next to the 1979 formula it does not replace.

Thin sample: 59 dropbacks

46Zeitgeist Passer Ratingnot ranked until 125 dropbacks

Positive-play rate weight 24%

45.2%36th pct of FBS QBs

share of dropbacks that gained expected points · -5.7% schedule adj.

Yards per attempt weight 56%

6.8323rd pct of FBS QBs

sacks excluded · -1.2 schedule adj.

Sack rate weight 21% (penalty)

4.5%71st pct of FBS QBs

the input passer rating cannot see · +1.1% schedule adj.

Opponent-adjusted; garbage time excluded (2 of 61 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 splits

Through 2 games: 225 YDS/g, 1.5 TD/g, 7.5 YPA, 0.0 INT/g — splits start at 3 games.

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Major Applewhite

Pass share

37.6%

215 pass / 357 run

Plays / game

71.5

8 games

Scheme: Run-heavy.

South Alabama’s two quarterbacks

Bishop Davenport	Threw in 2 of 8 games · 40 of 59, 450 yds, 3 TD, 0 INT · 7.6 yards an attempt on 59 attempts · ran for 73 yds, 1 TD
Jared Hollins	Threw in 6 of 8 games · 82 of 156, 1,195 yds, 9 TD, 4 INT · 7.7 yards an attempt on 156 attempts · ran for 150 yds, 2 TD

Box score. Every quarterback on the team who has thrown a pass this season.

Who threw, quarter by quarter

Who threw in each quarter. Blue: Bishop Davenport. Gray: Jared Hollins. From the play by play.

Q1Q2Q3Q4SE Louisiana@ TulaneOhio@ KentuckyUL Monroe@ Arkansas State@ MarshallLouisiana Tech

Awards

Player standing · 2026

59 pass attempts and 20 carries in 2 games

About as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

2026 outlook

Outside shot for All-Sun Belt

Based on 2025: #11 of 15 Sun Belt QBs

How the All-Sun Belt base rate is computed

A base rate for the rank, not a forecast of this player: 22% of returning players who ranked #11–20 at their position in their conference made an all-conference team the next season (95% confidence interval 19–25%).

Starter

The No. 1,685 recruit in the country is starting at quarterback in the Sun Belt.

Bishop Davenport

His most important play this season

Style of play

Similar players

In the game threads

Where to follow

Career stats

Game log

The season, game by game

Signature game

Signature plays

Where he ranks

Pass targets

Passing profile

Teams and coaches

Our ratings

Splits

South Alabama’s two quarterbacks

Who threw, quarter by quarter

Awards

59 pass attempts and 20 carries in 2 games

Starter

Five seasons, two schools

Moves

2022 3 games

2023