Former quarterback at Louisiana. 2024: 897 passing yards, 5 TD, 1 INT.
5′10″ · 204 lb · Metairie, LA
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
PRO recruit
No. 1250 nationally · Signed with Louisiana
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
Former quarterback at Louisiana. 2024: 897 passing yards, 5 TD, 1 INT.
Chandler Fields
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Six seasons at Louisiana, two different head coaches: Billy Napier and Michael Desormeaux. The receipt: 323 pass yds, 26 rush yds against Troy — Week 13, 2024.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Six seasons at Louisiana, 3,211 passing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 6 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2019–2024
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Billy Napier → Michael Desormeaux. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: epa / dropback (100th percentile). Strength: explosive rate (96th percentile). Concern: pass yards (12th 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
10.432 of 205 QBsSack rate
3.3%39 of 205 QBsRarely sacked (39 of 205 QBs) and still 2 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 72.4% completion on 87 attempts · 15 deep completions averaging 32.7 yds.
Splits · Per-game
2024 season · 7 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 140 | 0.6 | 11.0 | 0.0 |
| Road2g | 98.0 | 1.0 | 5.6 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-72g | 31.5 | 0.0 | 7.5 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 167 | 1.0 | 10.3 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Michael Desormeaux
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2024
Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 7 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 40-10vs Grambling | 4/5 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 11.0 | 45.7 | |
| Wk 2 | W 34-10@ Kennesaw State | 2/2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | 99.4 | |
| Wk 11 | W 55-19vs Arkansas State | 4/5 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 6.8 | 99.1 | |
| Wk 12 | L 22-24vs South Alabama | 14/17 | 185 | 1 | 0 | 10.9 | 87.9 | |
| Wk 13 | W 51-30vs Troy | 18/24 | 323 | 2 | 0 | 13.5 | 75.1 | Season-high 323 yds |
| Wk 14 | W 37-23@ UL Monroe | 17/26 | 188 | 2 | 1 | 7.2 | 67.8 | |
| Wk 15 | L 3-31vs Marshall | 4/8 | 104 | 0 | 0 | 13.0 | 76.3 | |
| Total | 63/87 | 897 | 5 | 1 | 9.5 | 78.8 |
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
CFB Index positional classification
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
2 of the team's 29 inside-the-5 carries (6.9%).
Player DNA
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
His 2024 production profile sits closest to Maddux Madsen’s 2023 season.
Differs from Maddux on
Through 3 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Zac Thomas’s path through App State.
Matches Zac on
Player DNA
Final Heisman position · 2024
Chandler Fields finished 129th in our Heisman model, with a 0% chance of a finalist trip.