Senior quarterback for Oklahoma. 2023: 509 passing yards, 5 TD, 5 INT.
6′0″ · 192 lb · Newcastle, OK
CFB Index
A single number blending on-field production (an EPA-based value lane) with box-score output for this player's position.
0-100, scaled within each position's own cohort — not directly comparable across positions.
Recruiting
DUAL recruit
No. 291 nationally · Signed with Texas
Statement game358 yds · 6 TDvs Kansas (FBS) · L 56-57
Top 0.1% passing TDs game since 2021.
if you only read the box score you would think Casey Thompson should be a heisman contender when he managed to get benched this gamer/CFB game thread · ▲ 7His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 quarterback for Oklahoma. 2023: 509 passing yards, 5 TD, 5 INT.
Casey Thompson
Throws it deep and dares you to make a play. Across five seasons and three programs, three head coaches: Tom Herman, Steve Sarkisian and Mickey Joseph. In 2021 the league put his name on paper for the first time: Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week. One game to point at: 280 pass yds, 18 rush yds against Monmouth — Week 1, 2023.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Five seasons at Florida Atlantic, 5,338 passing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
He arrived as a blue-chip recruit and played like one.
The snaps went the other way.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2019–2023
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Lincoln Riley, Bob Stoops, and Brent Venables. Multi-era developmental context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: sack rate (82nd percentile). Strength: fumbles lost (93rd percentile). Concern: interception rate (3rd percentile).
Real play-by-play efficiency
Season trend
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).
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
4.45182 of 212 QBsSack rate
3.7%46 of 212 QBsRarely sacked (46 of 212), but Adjusted ANY/A hasn't followed (182 of 212).
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 66.7% completion on 75 attempts · 68% of completions gained 0–9 yds.
Splits · Per-game
2023 season · 3 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home2g | 230 | 2.5 | 7.8 | 1.5 |
| Road1g | 49.0 | 0.0 | 4.1 | 2.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 170 | 1.7 | 6.5 | 1.7 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Brent Venables
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2023
On the two-deep and pushing for snaps.
| Season | Team | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Florida Atlantic | 50 | 79 | 63.3% | 509 | 6.4 | 5 | 5 | 125.6 | 53 | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Nebraska | 173 | 274 | 63.1% | 2,407 | 8.8 | 17 | 10 | 150.1 | 77 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Texas | 165 | 261 | 63.2% | 2,113 | 8.1 | 24 | 9 | 154.7 | 45 | -- | -- |
| 2020 | Texas | 12 | 17 | 70.6% | 225 | 13.2 | 6 | 0 | 298.2 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2019 | Texas | 8 | 12 | 66.7% | 84 | 7.0 | 0 | 0 | 125.5 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 408 | 643 | 63.5% | 5,338 | 8.3 | 52 | 24 | 152.4 | 61 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Florida Atlantic | 10 | 2 | 0.2 | 0 | -- |
| 2022 | Nebraska | 56 | -21 | -0.4 | 5 | -- |
| 2021 | Texas | 55 | 157 | 2.9 | 4 | -- |
| 2020 | Texas | 8 | 31 | 3.9 | 0 | -- |
| 2019 | Texas | 10 | 22 | 2.2 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 139 | 191 | 1.4 | 10 | -- |
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 3 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 42-20vs Monmouth | 20/25 | 280 | 5 | 1 | 11.2 | 82.8 | Season-high 280 yds |
| Wk 2 | L 10-17vs Ohio | 23/42 | 180 | 0 | 2 | 4.3 | 14.4 | |
| Wk 3 | L 14-48@ Clemson | 7/12 | 49 | 0 | 2 | 4.1 | 4.6 | |
| Total | 50/79 | 509 | 5 | 5 | 6.5 | 33.9 |
Play style
Go-for-it mentality with the arm to back it up — and the turnovers to live with.
CFB Index positional classification
Player DNA
Go-for-it mentality with the arm to back it up — and the turnovers to live with.
His 2022 production profile sits closest to Jayden de Laura’s 2022 season.
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As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Jayden de Laura's senior season at Arizona (2022).
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Player DNA