#10

Bo Nix

Junior quarterback for Auburn. 2021: 2,294 passing yards, 11 TD, 3 INT.

QB · Auburn · Jr. · #10

6′3″ · 214 lb · Pinson, AL

CFB Index 48 · #70 of 126 QBsHigh confidenceAuburn 2021 alumnus

Recruiting

5★

DUAL recruit

No. 33 nationally · Signed with Auburn

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

3 quarterback for Auburn. 2021: 2,294 passing yards, 11 TD, 3 INT.

Signed as a 5-star recruit to Auburn in 2019.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Three seasons at Auburn, 7,250 passing yards — his college career is complete.

His career

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

201913 games

Signed with Auburn5-star out of Pinson Valley

202110 games

All-SEC

2023

Campbellwinner

Career arc

Recruit

★★★★★

#33 national

CFB

College

Auburn

2019–2021

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Featured in The Canon

#16

The 100 Best Players of the CFP Era

Coaching lineage · 2019–2021

3 coaches

2019

Gus Malzahn

Auburn

2020

Kevin Steele

Auburn

era →

2021

Bryan Harsin

Auburn

era →

Played under 3 different head coaches: Gus Malzahn, Kevin Steele, and Bryan Harsin. Multi-era developmental context.

2021 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2019Auburn9-4HC: Gus Malzahn · Run-leaning

2020Auburn6-5HC: Kevin Steele · Balanced

2021Auburn6-7HC: Bryan Harsin · Balanced

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

48Rotational starter #70 of 126?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: interception rate (92nd percentile). Strength: sack rate (88th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Interception rate#14 / 167 · 92nd pct

0.9%

Sack rate#21 / 167 · 88th pct

3.9%

Success rate#70 / 167 · 58th pct

47.6%

EPA / dropback#90 / 167 · 46th pct

0.25

Explosive rate#108 / 167 · 36th pct

8.6%

Box-score rates (8)

Interceptions#17 / 169 · 86th pct

Rush TDs#39 / 169 · 72nd pct

Rush yards#64 / 169 · 62nd pct

168

Pass yards#75 / 169 · 56th pct

2294

Pass TDs#89 / 169 · 47th pct

Completion %#91 / 169 · 46th pct

61.0%

Yards / att#105 / 169 · 37th pct

7.1

Fumbles lost#82 / 159 · 36th pct

Season trend

EPA / dropback— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Success rate— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Explosive rate— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Sack rate— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Interception rate— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

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

197/323 (61.0%) · 11 TD · 3 INT

323 of 323 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

6.7693 of 204 QBs

Sack rate

3.9%36 of 204 QBs

Rarely sacked (36 of 204 QBs) and still 93 of 204 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

53%of completions

105 comp5.3 yds avg3 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

32%of completions

63 comp13.5 yds avg2 TD

Deep

20+ yds

15%of completions

29 comp30.5 yds avg6 TD

Overall 61.0% completion on 323 attempts · 29 deep completions averaging 30.5 yds.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2021 season · 10 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home6g	235	1.3	8.1	0.2
Road4g	221	0.8	6.4	0.5

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-77g	213	1.1	7.5	0.3
Weeks 8+3g	269	1.0	7.4	0.3

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Alex Golesh

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

Awards

Player standing · 2021

Starter

A locked-in starting job.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

48 · #70 of 126 QBs

Former five-star. Now #70 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2021	Auburn	197	323	61.0%	2,294	7.1	11	3	130.0	67	--	--
2020	Auburn	214	356	60.1%	2,414	6.8	12	7	124.3	34	--	--
2019	Auburn	217	377	57.6%	2,542	6.7	16	6	125.0	--	--	--
Career		628	1,056	59.5%	7,250	6.9	39	16	126.3	50	--	--

Season	Team
2021	Auburn	57	168	2.9	4	--
2020	Auburn	108	388	3.6	7	--
2019	Auburn	97	313	3.2	7	--
Career		262	869	3.3	18	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 9 · 2021

W 31–20

vs Ole Miss

276 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 85.9 · 30 rush yds (8 car) · 2 TD

With O. Chapman — 56 AVG · 1 IN 20 · 65 LONG · T. Bigsby — 140 rush yds (23 car) · 1 TD

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 7 · Arkansas · 1&10 · Q3 · EPA +5.78Bo Nix pass complete to Demetris Robertson for 71 yds for a TD, (Anders Carlson KICK)
Week 11 · Mississippi State · 3&8 · Q3 · EPA +4.00Bo Nix pass complete to Ja'Varrius Johnson for 44 yds to the MisSt 18 for a 1ST down
Week 5 · LSU · 4&2 · Q2 · EPA +3.69Bo Nix pass complete to Tyler Fromm for 24 yds for a TD, (Anders Carlson KICK)
Week 2 · Alabama State · 3&10 · Q1 · EPA +3.66Bo Nix pass complete to Demetris Robertson for 27 yds to the AlbSt 43 for a 1ST down
Week 3 · Penn State · 3&12 · Q2 · EPA +3.56Bo Nix pass complete to Kobe Hudson for 36 yds to the PnSt 13 for a 1ST down
Week 5 · LSU · 3&3 · Q3 · EPA +3.49Bo Nix pass complete to John Samuel Shenker for 33 yds to the LSU 35 for a 1ST down
Week 4 · Georgia State · 3&7 · Q2 · EPA +3.49Bo Nix pass complete to Kobe Hudson for 28 yds to the GeoSt 45 for a 1ST down
Week 1 · Akron · 3&5 · Q2 · EPA +3.48Bo Nix pass complete to Kobe Hudson for 28 yds for a TD (Anders Carlson KICK)
Week 7 · Arkansas · 2&13 · Q4 · EPA +3.27Bo Nix run for 23 yds for a TD, (Anders Carlson KICK)
Week 11 · Mississippi State · 3&8 · Q2 · EPA +3.17Bo Nix pass complete to Kobe Hudson for 23 yds to the 50 yard line for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2021 season · 10 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 60-10vs Akron	20/22	275	3	0	12.5	95.9	3 TD passes
Wk 2	W 62-0vs Alabama State	9/17	108	2	0	6.4	38.0
Wk 3	L 20-28@ Penn State	21/37	185	0	0	5.0	73.2
Wk 4	W 34-24vs Georgia State	13/27	156	0	0	5.8	24.3
Wk 5	W 24-19@ LSU	23/44	255	1	0	5.8	79.8
Wk 6	L 10-34vs Georgia	21/38	217	0	1	5.7	38.7
Wk 7	W 38-23@ Arkansas	21/26	292	2	1	11.2	97.8
Wk 9	W 31-20vs Ole Miss	22/30	276	1	0	9.2	85.9
Wk 10	L 3-20@ Texas A&M	20/41	153	0	1	3.7	27.9
Wk 11	L 34-43vs Mississippi State	27/41	377	2	0	9.2	83.4	Season-high 377 yds
Total		197/323	2294	11	3	7.5	64.5

How he plays

Play style

Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

48.6%Completion %

28.2%Conversion/dropback

38.9%Land short of sticks

0INTs

48.6% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 28.2% conversion-per-dropback — 38.9% 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