Caleb Evans: QB · UL Monroe · #6.
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Caleb Evans
Extends plays on the move until something opens up. Rated a two-star prospect, with four seasons of snaps at UL Monroe since. One game to point at: 346 passing yards and 69 rushing yards against Coastal Carolina — Week 13, 2019.
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
55.6% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 26.1% conversion-per-dropback — 52.0% 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
12 of 14 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (85.7%). 6 of the team's 22 inside-the-5 carries (27.3%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2019 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 31-9vs Grambling | 19/25 | 183 | 1 | 1 | 7.3 | 64.1 | |
| Wk 2 | L 44-45@ Florida State | 23/38 | 241 | 2 | 0 | 6.3 | 77.4 | |
| Wk 4 | L 20-72@ Iowa State | 19/30 | 176 | 2 | 1 | 5.9 | 40.5 | |
| Wk 5 | W 30-17vs South Alabama | 17/25 | 286 | 3 | 0 | 11.4 | 88.5 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 6 | L 33-52vs Memphis | 23/44 | 286 | 2 | 1 | 6.5 | 62.6 | |
| Wk 7 | W 24-14@ Texas State | 18/33 | 225 | 0 | 1 | 6.8 | 64.1 | |
| Wk 8 | L 7-52@ No. 24 App State | 9/19 | 75 | 0 | 1 | 3.9 | 21.7 | |
| Wk 10 | L 41-48vs Arkansas State | 24/37 | 215 | 2 | 0 | 5.8 | — | |
| Wk 11 | W 45-31vs Georgia State | 24/32 | 291 | 3 | 1 | 9.1 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | L 29-51@ Georgia Southern | 21/36 | 285 | 2 | 2 | 7.9 | — | |
| Wk 13 | W 45-42vs Coastal Carolina | 19/33 | 346 | 2 | 1 | 10.5 | — | Season-high 346 yds |
| Wk 14 | L 30-31@ Louisiana | 22/37 | 330 | 2 | 1 | 8.9 | — | |
| Total | 238/389 | 2939 | 21 | 10 | 7.6 | — |
Week 6 · 2019
L 33-52
vs Memphis
286 yds · 2 TD · 1 INT · QBR 62.6 · 112 rush yds (18 car) · 2 TD
With J. Pederson — 7 rec · 82 yds · 2 TD · 33 yds · 0 TD · 0 INT · QBR 100.0 · J. Porter — 45 yards per punt · 2 punts · 48 long
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 388 passing plays (237 completions) against the box score's 389 attempts (238 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.9977 of 205 QBsSack rate
3.7%31 of 205 QBsRarely sacked (31 of 205 QBs) and still 77 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 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 61.2% completion on 389 attempts · 41 deep completions averaging 32.4 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2019 baseline
No situation moves him more than 29 percentile points from his baseline.
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.
4 seasons under Matt Viator — 19-29 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2019 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 268 | 2.2 | 8.4 | 0.7 |
| Road6g | 222 | 1.3 | 6.6 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 233 | 1.7 | 7.4 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 257 | 1.8 | 7.7 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Matt Viator
Pass share
47.8%
410 pass / 447 run
Plays / game
71.4
12 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2019
389 pass attempts and 140 carries in 12 games, more passes and runs a game than nearly every FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Four seasons at UL Monroe, 9,510 passing yards — the college career is complete.
A stat line in 42 games over four seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2016–2019
1 coachPlayed every college season under Matt Viator.
