Cameron Ward

Former quarterback at Miami. 2024: 4,313 passing yards, 39 TD, 7 INT.

QB · Miami · Sr. · #1

6′2″ · 223 lb · West Columbia, TX

CFB Index 93 · #3 of 137 QBsHigh confidencePOTY finalist (model)Tennessee — drafted 2025, No. 1 overall

Recruiting

3★

QB recruit

No. 773 nationally · Signed with Washington State

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

Former quarterback at Miami. 2024: 4,313 passing yards, 39 TD, 7 INT.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Washington State in 2021.
Transferred from Incarnate Word to Washington State in 2022.
Drafted round 1 by the Tennessee in 2025.

His career, year by year

Career, closed

Gone at No. 1 overall.

How it ended

Three seasons at Miami, 11,263 passing yards — drafted at No. 1 overall by Tennessee.

His career

Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.

2021

Signed with Washington State3-star out of Eastvale Roosevelt

202213 games

The role got bigger.

Entered the portal

202413 games

All-ACC

2025

Drafted by Tennesseeround 1, pick 1

Career arc

Recruit

—

No recruit profile

CFB

College

2 teams

2022–2024

NFL

NFL Draft

R1 · #1

Tennessee · 2025

Coaching lineage · 2022–2024

1 coach

2022–2024

Mario Cristobal

Miami

Played his entire career under Mario Cristobal.

Where He Ended Up · NFL

TennesseeEntering 2nd NFL season

#1Rd 1 · Pick 1

TennesseeEntering 2nd NFL season

View college career stats ↓

2024 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2022Washington State7-6HC: Jake Dickert · Pass-leaning

2023Washington State5-7HC: Jake Dickert · Pass-leaning

2024Miami10-3HC: Mario Cristobal · Balanced

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

93All-America level #3 of 137?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: epa / dropback (96th percentile). Strength: success rate (96th percentile). Concern: fumbles lost (22nd percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

EPA / dropback#8 / 169 · 96th pct

0.46

Success rate#8 / 169 · 96th pct

50.8%

Explosive rate#8 / 169 · 96th pct

16.3%

Interception rate#43 / 169 · 75th pct

1.4%

Sack rate#66 / 169 · 61st pct

4.9%

Box-score rates (8)

Pass TDs#1 / 165 · 100th pct

Pass yards#2 / 165 · 99th pct

4313

Yards / att#7 / 165 · 95th pct

9.5

Completion %#19 / 165 · 89th pct

67.2%

Rush TDs#50 / 165 · 66th pct

Rush yards#72 / 165 · 56th pct

204

Interceptions#78 / 165 · 49th pct

Fumbles lost#111 / 159 · 22nd pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

43rd → 96th percentile

Success rate

62nd → 96th percentile

Explosive rate

49th → 96th percentile

Sack rate

35th → 61st percentile

Interception rate

69th → 75th percentile

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

298/443 (67.3%) · 39 TD · 7 INT

443 of 454 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

9.725 of 205 QBs

Sack rate

4.8%84 of 205 QBs

Rarely sacked (84 of 205 QBs) and still 5 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 yds

43%of completions

129 comp4.7 yds avg12 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

33%of completions

97 comp14.3 yds avg7 TD

Deep

20+ yds

24%of completions

72 comp31.1 yds avg16 TD

Overall 67.3% completion on 443 attempts · 72 deep completions averaging 31.1 yds.

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2024 baseline

No situation moves him more than 37 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-19 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 4/200 (2.0%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 2

+3 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 10/138 (7.2%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 3+

+37 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 7/95 (7.4%) · league sack rate 8.1% · ~our read

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 & context

Splits · Per-game

2024 season · 13 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home7g	296	3.1	9.5	0.6
Road6g	374	2.8	10.0	0.5

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-77g	344	3.3	10.6	0.7
Weeks 8+6g	317	2.7	8.6	0.3

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Mario Cristobal

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

Awards

Player standing · 2024

POTY finalist (model)

Our Heisman model has him in the top five; no finalist honor is on the books yet.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

93 · #3 of 137 QBs

Career stats

Season	Team
2024	Miami	305	454	67.2%	4,313	9.5	39	7	172.2	94	--	--
2023	Washington State	324	486	66.7%	3,732	7.7	25	7	145.3	47	--	--
2022	Washington State	319	496	64.3%	3,218	6.5	23	9	130.5	25	--	--
Career		948	1,436	66.0%	11,263	7.8	87	23	148.7	54	--	--

Season	Team
2024	Miami	60	204	3.4	4	--
2023	Washington State	120	122	1.0	8	--
2022	Washington State	106	70	0.7	5	--
Career		286	396	1.4	17	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2024

W 41–17

at Florida

385 yds · 3 TD · 1 INT · QBR 95.7 · 33 rush yds (3 car)

Dominant 24-point win on the road against Florida.

With D. Joyce — 48 AVG · 53 LONG · 2 NO · X. Restrepo — 7 rec · 112 yds · 1 TD

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 6 · California · 1&10 · Q3 · EPA -7.85Cam Ward pass intercepted Nohl Williams return for 40 yds for a TD (Ryan Coe KICK)
Week 11 · Georgia Tech · 2&9 · Q1 · EPA +6.67Cam Ward pass complete to Elijah Arroyo for 74 yds for a TD (Andres Borregales KICK)
Week 4 · South Florida · 2&6 · Q2 · EPA +6.47Cam Ward pass complete to Samuel Brown for 76 yds for a TD (Cam Ward pass to Damien Martinez for Two-Point Conversion)
Week 10 · Duke · 2&8 · Q4 · EPA +6.10Cam Ward pass complete to Xavier Restrepo for 66 yds for a TD (Andres Borregales KICK)
Week 1 · Iowa State · 3&13 · Q2 · EPA +5.42Joshisa Trader 40 Yd pass from Cam Ward (Andres Borregales Kick)
Week 10 · Duke · 2&8 · Q4 · EPA +4.57Cam Ward pass complete to Jacolby George for 49 yds for a TD (Andres Borregales KICK)
Week 8 · Louisville · 2&10 · Q4 · EPA +4.31Cam Ward pass complete to Samuel Brown for 59 yds to the LOU 21 for a 1ST down
Week 6 · California · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA +4.29Cam Ward pass complete to Xavier Restrepo for 77 yds to the CAL 15 for a 1ST down
Week 5 · Virginia Tech · 2&6 · Q3 · EPA -4.19Cam Ward pass intercepted Kaleb Spencer return for 77 yds to the MIA 17
Week 5 · Virginia Tech · 3&1 · Q1 · EPA +4.05Cam Ward pass complete to Elijah Arroyo for 43 yds for a TD (Andres Borregales KICK)

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2024 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 41-17@ Florida	26/35	385	3	1	11.0	95.7	3 TD passes
Wk 2	W 56-9vs Florida A&M	20/26	304	3	0	11.7	92.3	3 TD passes
Wk 3	W 62-0vs Ball State	19/28	346	5	0	12.4	93.8	5 TD passes
Wk 4	W 50-15@ South Florida	24/34	404	3	1	11.9	94.1	3 TD passes
Wk 5	W 38-34vs Virginia Tech	24/38	343	4	2	9.0	89.4	4 TD passes
Wk 6	W 39-38@ California	35/53	437	2	1	8.2	81.7	Season-high 437 yds
Wk 8	W 52-45@ Louisville	21/32	319	4	0	10.0	93.3	4 TD passes
Wk 9	W 36-14vs Florida State	22/35	208	0	0	5.9	71.7
Wk 10	W 53-31vs Duke	25/41	400	5	1	9.8	94.2	5 TD passes
Wk 11	L 23-28@ Georgia Tech	25/39	348	3	0	8.9	58.8	3 TD passes
Wk 13	W 42-14vs Wake Forest	27/38	280	2	1	7.4	50.7
Wk 14	L 38-42@ Syracuse	25/36	349	2	0	9.7	92.8	Clean 2-TD game
Bowl	L 41-42vs Iowa State	12/19	190	3	0	10.0	97.6
Total		305/454	4313	39	7	9.7	85.1

How he plays

Play style

High-percentage passer who protects the ball. Loses the matchup on improvisation.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

59.4%Completion %

41.7%Conversion/dropback

21.1%Land short of sticks

1INTs

59.4% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 41.7% conversion-per-dropback — 21.1% 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

Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration

Who gets the tough yard

fact

1/22Inside-5 share

1 of the team's 22 inside-the-5 carries (4.5%).