Cameron Ward: QB · Miami · #1.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Cameron Ward
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. Played for two head coaches at two programs in three seasons: Jake Dickert and Mario Cristobal. First career honor, 2024: All-America (Consensus). A game that shows it: 437 passing yards and 15 rushing yards against California — Week 6, 2024.
Play style
High-percentage passer who protects the ball. Loses the matchup on improvisation.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
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. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
1 of the team's 22 inside-the-5 carries (4.5%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| 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 | 24 |
| 2023 | Washington State | 120 | 122 | 1.0 | 8 | 22 |
| 2022 | Washington State | 106 | 70 | 0.7 | 5 | 17 |
| Career | 286 | 396 | 1.4 | 17 | 24 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 13 games
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| 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 No. 18 Iowa State | 12/19 | 190 | 3 | 0 | 10.0 | 97.6 | |
| Total | 305/454 | 4313 | 39 | 7 | 9.5 | — |
Week 8 · 2024
W 52-45
at Louisville
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 443 passing plays (298 completions) against the box score's 454 attempts (305 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
9.725 of 205 QBsSack rate
4.8%84 of 205 QBsRarely 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 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 67.2% completion on 454 attempts · 72 deep completions averaging 31.1 yds.
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.
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
2024 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 314 | 3.2 | 9.4 | 0.7 |
| 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
Head Coach
Mario Cristobal
Pass share
53.5%
489 pass / 425 run
Plays / game
70.3
13 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2024
A finalist for the position's national player-of-the-year award.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Selector Grid · 2024
Named Consensus All-American — recognized on 3+ of the 5 NCAA-recognized selector lists.
Career, closed
Gone at No. 1 overall.
How it ended
Three seasons, at Washington State and Miami, 11,263 passing yards, the Davey O'Brien Award (2024) — drafted at No. 1 overall by the Tennessee Titans.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-AMERICA · CONSENSUS
Consensus AA (2024)
8 first-team selectors
National awards
Davey O'Brien, Manning
2024 season
ALL-ACC · 1ST TEAM
All-ACC 1st team (2024)
Weekly recognition
5 weekly honors (2024)
ACC Quarterback Player of the Week — a 4+ season has tracked to All-Conference ~83% of the time
Coaching lineage · 2022–2024
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 2 schools: Jake Dickert and Mario Cristobal.
Next stop · NFL
Tennessee TitansEntering 2nd NFL season
Tennessee TitansEntering 2nd NFL season
