Camden Coleman

#7 · QB · 4th-year · James Madison6′3″ · 225 lb · Winston-Salem, NC · Robert B. Glenn

ZPR5057th of 119 QBs Last gameL 21–24vs Troy · Oct 29

Nextat Southern MissThu Nov 5 · 8 pm ET

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Started again vs Troy, the first start since at Georgia Southern, week 6.

L 21-24 in overtime vs Troy, Oct 29: 14 of 25 for 175 yards, 2 touchdowns, 2 interceptions · 5 carries for -1 yard.

James Madison’s next game: at Southern Miss, Thu Nov 5, 8:00 p.m. ET · ESPN2

James Madison is 6-2 in the eight games with 10 or more passes thrown. A balanced passer.

Strongest: sacked on 4% of dropbacks, 36th lowest of 158 starters.

Plays most like Houser, Illinois.

Passing yards

1,743

146 of 238, 61%

TD–INT

16–4

7.3 per throw

NCAA rating

141.7

59th of 119

ZPR

57th of 119

How ZPR works

Solid or better in 5 of 7 graded games.

Best by our grade: Marshall. Lowest: at Georgia Southern, sacked 3 times. Best play: Run for 6 yards, touchdown, at App State, Q4 0:03. Win chance 9% to 65%. Costliest play: Interception, at App State, Q4 6:03. Win chance 71% to 51%.

Tap a game for its plays

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Liberty

W 20–13·Unranked

Came on at half

Came on at half for JC Evans, up 17-9 · 57 yds, 0 TD, 0 INT · No rushes · Sacked 0

None of the quarterback’s own plays moved the team's chance of winning by more than a few points.

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Wagner

W 87–3·FCS

Few throws

171 yds, 1 TD, 0 INT · Rush 3 for 7 · Sacked 0

None of the quarterback’s own plays moved the team's chance of winning by more than a few points.

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at San Diego State

W 26–13·Unranked

Solid

246 yds, 2 TD, 0 INT · Rush 11 for 25, 1 TD · Sacked 3

ITS CAMDEN COLEMAN TIME!!!!
James Madison fan

Biggest swing: a Q1 run added 21 points of win chance. Win chance: 52% to 73%.

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at Old Dominion

W 46–20·Unranked

Solid

Carried by the first quarter · 243 yds, 4 TD, 1 INT · Rush 8 for 17 · Sacked 1

Camden Coleman truthers (myself) vindicated
James Madison fan

Biggest swing: a Q1 completion added 14 points of win chance. Win chance: 54% to 67%.

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Marshall

W 45–17·Unranked

Solid

263 yds, 3 TD, 0 INT · Rush 6 for 45 · Lost a fumble · Sacked 0

Biggest swing: a Q1 completion added 20 points of win chance. It flipped the game for the team: 39% to 59%.

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at Georgia Southern

W 27–24·Unranked

Shaky

Last pass came in the fourth quarter; JC Evans finished the game · 171 yds, 1 TD, 0 INT · Rush 4 for -14 · Sacked 3

Biggest swing: a Q3 completion added 26 points of win chance. It flipped the game for the team: 40% to 66%.

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Georgia State

W 49–22·Unranked

Great

Carried by the second quarter · 185 yds, 2 TD, 0 INT · Rush 4 for 26 · Sacked 0

Designed run for Camden Coleman. Didn’t know that was in the playbook
James Madison fan

Biggest swing: a Q1 completion added 15 points of win chance. Win chance: 65% to 80%.

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at App State

L 31–34·Unranked

Fans talked about this game

Shaky

232 yds, 1 TD, 1 INT · Rush 4 for 11, 1 TD · A fourth-quarter interception took the team's chance of winning from 54% to 34% · Sacked 0

Biggest swing: a Q4 run added 67 points of win chance. It flipped the game for the team: 5% to 72%.

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Troy

L 21–24·Unranked

Solid

175 yds, 2 TD, 2 INT · Rush 5 for -1 · Interceptions cost about 23 points of win chance · Sacked 1

Biggest swing: a Q3 interception cost the team 18 points of win chance. It flipped the game against the team: 66% to 48%.

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Season

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How to read this

Each column is a quarter. Blue and up is a good stretch for the quarterback, red and down a bad one, hatched means the game was already decided. A red cross is a turnover and a black dot a touchdown. The word on the right grades the whole game. A gold line means the r/CFB game thread kept naming the quarterback. Tap a game to open its plays: each bar is one of the quarterback’s plays, up helped the team’s chance of winning and down hurt it, and the grey line is that chance.

The word grades the game against every FBS quarterback start, from Rough to Great, using the same throws as the season Zeitgeist Passer Rating and adjusting for the defense faced. Bars are points added per throw in that quarter. The Season row leaves out quarters after a game was decided.

Style of play

Balanced

Why this word

Runs2.8 a gameRarelyA lot

Throws9.1 yards past the lineShortDeep

Completes61%FewerMore

Takes sacks4% of dropbacksRarelyOften

The dot is this quarterback, among this season’s starters; the tick is the middle.

Throws at a middling depth and runs some. 2.8 carries a game. Closest matches: Houser, Chambliss, Warren, Heintschel.

Where the throws go

Behind the line13%typical 17%

Short43%typical 47%

Middle31%typical 22%

Deep12%typical 14%

Runs 2.8 times a game; 73% of starters run more.

Closest in style

Nearer the middle means more alike.

Houser Illinois · Vertical passer
1,663 yards, 13 TD, 5 INT so far. Both score a lot and rarely run.
Chambliss Ole Miss · Balanced
2,189 yards, 18 TD, 8 INT so far. Both hit few big plays and rarely throw behind the line.
Warren Stanford · Pocket passer
2,203 yards, 14 TD, 3 INT so far. Both avoid sacks and rarely throw behind the line.
Heintschel Pittsburgh · Balanced
1,304 yards, 14 TD, 1 INT so far. Both avoid sacks and score a lot.

Compared with the 158 FBS starters this season for throws and running, and with 219 quarterbacks across 2 seasons for the matches, on how they play and how they have done.

This week

RecordJames Madison is 7-2.
Fans after Troy
Who is this person we have at qb and what did he do with the real Camden Coleman?
James Madison fan

Worth knowing

Camden Coleman has 170.2 passing yards a game at home, 223 on the road.

His most important play this season

Q4, 0:03 · James Madison down 7, ties itCamden Coleman runs 6 yards for a touchdownJames Madison at App State, week 8Q4, 0:03 · James Madison 31, App State 310:03Game-tying touchdown for James Madison with 0:03 left0:03Game-tying touchdown for James Madison with 0:03 leftGame-tying touchdown for James Madison with 0:03 leftC.Coleman rush middle for 6 yards gain to the APP00 touchdown, kick goodWatch from this play

All 15 of his plays on video

Camden Coleman

QB · James Madison · #7

Filling the Shoesas of Nov 4

Camden Coleman takes over from Alonza Barnett at James Madison.

1,743passing yards16passing TD117rushing yards

PRODUCES ABOVE PERCEPTION · PCTL GAP

+44

perception vs production percentile · 2026

The production (64th) is outrunning the reputation (20th). The recognition is the thing lagging behind.

Read the story so far

Camden Coleman lines up at QB for James Madison.

On the field, the headline is 1,743 pass yds, with 16 pass td.

Camden Coleman inherited the QB job from Alonza Barnett (3-star).

The number to watch: +44 — produces above perception · pctl gap.

QB successionleap of faith

Inherited fromAlonza Barnett 3★

AI-generated narrative · may contain errors · not journalism · updated 2026-11-04

Career stats

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Season	Team
2026	James Madison	146	238	61.3%	1,743	7.3	16	4	141.7	50
Career		146	238	61.3%	1,743	7.3	16	4	141.7	50

Season	Team
2026	James Madison	45	116	2.6	2	48
Career		45	116	2.6	2	48

Last game (Wk 9): 175 passing yards, 2 passing TD, 2 interceptions.

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2026 season · 9 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	Grade	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	SK	RUSH	Note
Wk 1	W 20-13vs Liberty	Came on at half	5/9	57	0	0	6.3	—	0	—
Wk 2	W 87-3vs Wagner		12/18	171	1	0	9.5	38.4	0	7
Wk 3	W 26-13@ San Diego State	Solid	19/27	246	2	0	9.1	75.4	3	25
Wk 4	W 46-20@ Old Dominion	Solid	24/42	243	4	1	5.8	63.1	1	17	4 TD passes
Wk 5	W 45-17vs Marshall	Solid	21/32	263	3	0	8.2	58.9	0	45	Season-high 263 yds
Wk 6	W 27-24@ Georgia Southern	Shaky	16/27	171	1	0	6.3	37.3	3	-14
Wk 7	W 49-22vs Georgia State	Great	13/19	185	2	0	9.7	91.5	0	26
Wk 8	L 31-34@ App State	Shaky	22/39	232	1	1	5.9	44.4	0	11
Wk 9	L 21-24vs Troy	Solid	14/25	175	2	2	7.0	23.0	1	-1
Total			146/238	1743	16	4	7.3	—	8	116

The latest game

Oct. 29 · L 21-24 vs Troy, play by play

14 of 25 for 175 yards, 2 touchdowns and 2 interceptions. He was 2 of 11 on third and fourth down.

2 of 12 of his drives scored
2 of 11 on 3rd and 4th down
sacked once
4 runs for 8 yds

First quarterbegan tied 0-0
TD3 of 3, 26 yds
TD2 of 3, 37 yds
Second quarterbegan up 14-0
Punt2 of 2, 6 yds
Fumble1 of 1, 43 yds1
Int0 of 2, 0 yds2
Punt1 of 2, 9 yds
Third quarterbegan up 21-7
Punt0 of 2, 0 yds
Punt1 of 2, 5 yds
Int0 of 1, 0 yds3
Punt1 of 2, 14 yds
Fourth quarterbegan tied 21-21
Downs2 of 4, 21 yds4
Ot quarterbegan tied 21-21
Downs1 of 1, 14 yds
FinalL 21-24

a drive that ended in a touchdown or a field goala drive he didn’t playa completion, by its yardshis runincompleteinterceptedsacked, by the yards lost

completea touchdownincompleteinterceptedhis runsacked

1
43-yard completion to Michael Scott. Second quarter, up 21-7.
2
Intercepted on 3rd and 8. Second quarter, up 21-7. Picked off by Troy’s Justin Powe.
3
Intercepted. Third quarter, tied 21-21. Picked off by Troy’s Justin Powe.
4
Incomplete to Cole Keller on 4th and 10. Fourth quarter, tied 21-21. Turnover on downs. Broken up by Troy’s J. Powe.

The season, game by game

Highs and lows

Only games with 20 or more plays count for best and lowest.
Best by our grade	Marshall	W 45-17 · Graded solid · 263 yds, 3 TD, 0 INT · Rush 6 for 45 · Lost a fumble · Sacked 0
Lowest by our grade	at Georgia Southern	W 27-24 · Graded shaky · 171 yds, 1 TD, 0 INT · Rush 4 for -14 · Sacked 3
Best play	at App State	Run for 6 yards, touchdown, Q4 0:03 · Win chance 9% to 65%
Costliest play	at App State	Interception, Q4 6:03 · Win chance 71% to 51%

Where he ranks

2nd among Sun Belt quarterbacks in touchdown passes.

Stat	His	Nation	Sun Belt
Passing yards	1,743	50th of 370	5th of 38
Yards an attempt	7.3	T-83rd of 152	T-8th of 15
Touchdown passes	16	T-22nd of 370	2nd of 38
Passer rating	141.7	66th of 152	6th of 15
Completion percentage	61.3	T-99th of 152	9th of 15
Rushing yards	116	T-95th of 370	14th of 38
Rushing touchdowns	2	T-71st of 370	T-5th of 38

Counting stats rank all FBS quarterbacks with a pass attempt; the rates rank those with at least 10 attempts a game.

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.

Passing yards1,7435th in the Sun Belt this season.

Touchdown passes162nd in the Sun Belt this season.

Conference ranks count every player in the conference with a row in that stat, any position. Career ranks count current FBS players, from the games in our log.

Opponents faced, by strength

Ratings of the games shown run from -15 to +8 points against an average team (SP+ rating of each opponent).

Pass targets

Wisloski and Scott saw 75 of the 238 charted throws.

Receiver	Targets	Catches	Yards	Throw depth	After catch
Braeden Wisloski	38	22	261	9.0	6.0
Corey Scott	37	22	359	11.2	3.4
Michael Scott	34	22	283	10.5	4.7
Jeremiah Harrison	29	16	191	12.0	2.3
Cole Keller	24	17	204	9.0	6.2
9 others	71	47	402	5.0	4.8
No receiver charted	5	All four interceptions are among these

Play by play: 238 passes, 146 caught, 1,700 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

146/238 (61.3%) · 16 TD · 4 INT

238 of 238 attempts matched to play-by-play

235 of 238 attempts charted for true throw depth

Adjusted ANY/A

7.4157 of 185 QBs

Sack rate

3.6%42 of 185 QBs

Rarely sacked (42 of 185 QBs) and still 57 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

13% of attempts (31)

77%comp

Air -3.2 · YAC 8.7 avg

Short · 0–9 air yds

45% of attempts (105)

71%comp

Air 4.3 · YAC 4.2 avg

Middle · 10–19 air yds

31% of attempts (73)

51%comp3 INT

Air 13.7 · YAC 2.6 avg

Deep · 20+ air yds

11% of attempts (26)

27%comp1 INT

Air 28.1 · YAC 6.6 avg

Overall 61.3% completion on 238 attempts · 27% completion on 26 deep attempts (20+ air yds).

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2026 baseline

No situation moves him more than 34 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-34 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 3/83 (3.6%) · league sack rate 4.5%

Down 2

+17 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 5/85 (5.9%) · league sack rate 5.0%

Down 3+

+22 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 0/63 (0.0%) · league sack rate 8.3%

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.

Teams and coaches

2026James Madison7-2HC: Billy Napier · Run-leaning

Our ratings

CFB Zeitgeist Score 49 (#69 of 145). Show the ratings

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

49Rotational starter #69 of 145?

13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: sack rate (82nd percentile). Strength: pass tds (85th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Sack rate#29 / 157 · 82nd pct

3.6%

Success rate#53 / 157 · 66th pct

44.7%

Interception rate#55 / 157 · 65th pct

1.7%

EPA / dropback#59 / 157 · 63rd pct

0.23

Explosive rate#109 / 157 · 31st pct

8.8%

Box-score rates (8)

Pass TDs#23 / 159 · 85th pct

Pass yards#51 / 159 · 68th pct

1743

Fumbles lost#23 / 142 · 64th pct

Interceptions#62 / 159 · 54th pct

Rush TDs#57 / 159 · 52nd pct

Rush yards#78 / 159 · 51st pct

116

Yards / att#86 / 159 · 45th pct

7.3

Completion %#103 / 159 · 35th pct

61.3%

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).

Zeitgeist Passer Rating

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

After 231 dropbacks

50Zeitgeist Passer Rating57th of 119 FBS QBs

NCAA passer rating 141.7 59th of 119 FBS QBs

Positive-play rate weight 24%

47.6%55th pct of FBS QBs

share of dropbacks that gained expected points · -1.4% schedule adj.

Yards per attempt weight 56%

7.2537th pct of FBS QBs

sacks excluded · -0.2 schedule adj.

Sack rate weight 21% (penalty)

4.1%77th pct of FBS QBs

the input passer rating cannot see · +0.6% schedule adj.

Opponent-adjusted; garbage time excluded (15 of 246 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

2026 season · 9 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home5g	170	1.6	8.1	0.4
Road4g	223	2.0	6.8	0.5

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-77g	191	1.9	7.8	0.1
Weeks 8+2g	204	1.5	6.5	1.5

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Billy Napier

Pass share

45.5%

283 pass / 339 run

Plays / game

69.1

9 games

Scheme: Run-leaning.

James Madison’s quarterbacks

Camden Coleman	Threw in all 9 games · 146 of 238, 1,743 yds, 16 TD, 4 INT · 7.3 yards an attempt on 238 attempts · ran for 116 yds, 2 TD
JC Evans	Threw in 5 of 9 games · 26 of 36, 370 yds, 5 TD, 1 INT · 10.3 yards an attempt on 36 attempts · ran for 115 yds, 2 TD
Arrington Maiden	Threw in 1 of 9 games · 7 of 8, 111 yds, 2 TD, 0 INT · 13.9 yards an attempt on 8 attempts · ran for 23 yds, 0 TD
Tanner Vibabul	Threw in 1 of 9 games · 1 of 1, 16 yds, 0 TD, 0 INT · 16.0 yards an attempt on 1 attempt

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: Camden Coleman. Gray: JC Evans, Arrington Maiden, Tanner Vibabul. From the play by play.

Q1Q2Q3Q4OTLibertyWagner@ San Diego State@ Old DominionMarshall@ Georgia SouthernGeorgia State@ App StateTroy

Awards

Player standing · 2026

Starter

238 pass attempts and 45 carries in 9 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score

49 · #69 of 145 QBs

Camden Coleman

Style of play

This week

Worth knowing

His most important play this season

What fans said

In the game threads

Named in

Where to follow

Career stats

Game log

The latest game

The season, game by game

Highs and lows

Where he ranks

Pass targets

Passing profile

Situational

Teams and coaches

Our ratings

Splits

James Madison’s quarterbacks

Who threw, quarter by quarter

Awards

Starter

Two seasons at James Madison

Moves

2025