Blake Sims: QB · Alabama · #6.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Blake Sims
Extends plays on the move until something opens up. First career honor, 2014: All-SEC. One game to point at: 445 passing yards and 39 rushing yards against Florida — Week 4, 2014.
Play style
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
75.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 40.9% conversion-per-dropback — 40.0% 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
7 of 10 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (70.0%). 6 of the team's 32 inside-the-5 carries (18.8%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
Yahoo Sports Oct 28
Heavy Oct 28
Saturday Down South Oct 24
The Tuscaloosa News Oct 15Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Alabama | 252 | 391 | 64.5% | 3,487 | 8.9 | 28 | 10 | 157.9 | 88 |
| Career | 252 | 391 | 64.5% | 3,487 | 8.9 | 28 | 10 | 157.9 | 88 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Alabama | 83 | 350 | 4.2 | 7 | 43 |
| Career | 83 | 350 | 4.2 | 7 | 43 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2014 season · 14 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 33-23vs West Virginia | 24/33 | 250 | 0 | 1 | 7.6 | 77.1 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 2 | W 41-0vs Florida Atlantic | 12/14 | 228 | 2 | 0 | 16.3 | 97.8 | |
| Wk 3 | W 52-12vs Southern Miss | 12/17 | 168 | 2 | 0 | 9.9 | 97.4 | |
| Wk 4 | W 42-21vs Florida | 23/33 | 445 | 4 | 1 | 13.5 | 81.5 | Season-high 445 yds |
| Wk 6 | L 17-23@ No. 11 Ole Miss | 19/31 | 228 | 0 | 1 | 7.4 | 66.8 | |
| Wk 7 | W 14-13@ Arkansas | 11/21 | 161 | 2 | 0 | 7.7 | 27.3 | |
| Wk 8 | W 59-0vs No. 21 Texas A&M | 16/27 | 268 | 3 | 0 | 9.9 | 86.7 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 9 | W 34-20@ Tennessee | 14/24 | 286 | 2 | 0 | 11.9 | 96.9 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 11 | W 20-13@ No. 14 LSU | 20/45 | 209 | 2 | 0 | 4.6 | 42.3 | |
| Wk 12 | W 25-20vs No. 1 Mississippi State | 19/31 | 211 | 1 | 0 | 6.8 | 72.0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 48-14vs Western Carolina | 17/25 | 222 | 2 | 1 | 8.9 | 61.1 | |
| Wk 14 | W 55-44vs No. 15 Auburn | 20/27 | 312 | 4 | 3 | 11.6 | 90.1 | 4 TD passes · 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 15 | W 42-13vs No. 14 Missouri | 23/27 | 262 | 2 | 0 | 9.7 | 69.2 | Clean 2-TD game |
 Bowl | L 35-42vs No. 5 Ohio State | 22/36 | 237 | 2 | 3 | 6.6 | 25.3 | |
| Total | 252/391 | 3487 | 28 | 10 | 8.9 | — |
Week 8 · 2014
W 59-0
vs Texas A&M
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 376 passing plays (238 completions) against the box score's 391 attempts (252 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
8.6912 of 181 QBsSack rate
3.2%25 of 181 QBsRarely sacked (25 of 181 QBs) and still 12 of 181 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 64.5% completion on 391 attempts · 43 deep completions averaging 34.1 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2014 baseline
+66
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.
Splits · Per-game
2014 season · 14 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 265 | 2.6 | 11.0 | 0.7 |
| Road4g | 221 | 1.5 | 7.9 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 245 | 1.7 | 9.9 | 0.9 |
| Weeks 8+7g | 253 | 2.3 | 9.1 | 0.6 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Nick Saban
Pass share
44.5%
450 pass / 562 run
Plays / game
72.3
14 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2014
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
How it ended
One season at Alabama, 3,487 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Honored in a first season.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-SEC · 2ND TEAM
All-SEC 2nd team (2014)
Coaching lineage · 2010–2014
1 coachPlayed every college season under Nick Saban.
