Chandler Whitmer

#10 · QB · UConn6′0″ · Newnan, GA

Chandler Whitmer: QB · UConn · #10.

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Chandler Whitmer

QB · UConn · #10

Operates within the system without forcing anything. On tape: 303 passing yards and 35 rushing yards against East Carolina, Week 9, 2014.

Style of play

Play style

Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

57.9%Completion %

22.0%Conversion/dropback

59.1%Land short of sticks

0INTs

57.9% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 22.0% conversion-per-dropback — 59.1% 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

Fans

No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.

UConn in the news

M&T Bank gets naming rights for Gampel PavilionOct 21

Where to follow

Career stats

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Season	Team
2014	UConn	124	223	55.6%	1,522	6.8	11	8	122.0	31
Career		124	223	55.6%	1,522	6.8	11	8	122.0	31

Season	Team
2014	UConn	76	56	0.7	2	26
Career		76	56	0.7	2	26

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2014 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	L 10-35vs BYU	8/17	113	0	0	6.6	35.5
Wk 2	W 19-16vs Stony Brook	12/27	142	1	0	5.3	22.6
Wk 3	L 21-38vs Boise State	16/29	209	2	2	7.2	21.2
Wk 4	L 14-17@ South Florida	6/9	88	1	0	9.8	5.7
Wk 5	L 10-36vs Temple	12/22	163	1	1	7.4	7.2
Wk 7	L 3-12@ Tulane	17/24	141	0	0	5.9	44.0
Wk 9	L 21-31@ No. 18 East Carolina	18/30	303	2	1	10.1	72.7	Season-high 303 yds
Wk 10	W 37-29vs UCF	13/25	142	2	0	5.7	41.8
Wk 11	L 21-35vs Army	19/31	170	2	2	5.5	45.0
Wk 13	L 0-41vs Cincinnati	1/5	11	0	1	2.2	0.4
Wk 14	L 10-41@ Memphis	1/1	2	0	0	2.0	81.4
Wk 15	L 20-27vs SMU	1/3	38	0	1	12.7	1.9
Total		124/223	1522	11	8	6.8	—

Signature game

Week 9 · 2014

L 21-31

at East Carolina

303 yds · 2 TD · 1 INT · QBR 72.7 · 35 rush yds (7 car) · 1 TD

With J. Wain — 38.3 yards per punt · 8 punts · 1 inside the 20 · D. Foxx — 4 rec · 120 yds · 1 TD

Signature plays

The plays that mattered most

Week 5 · Temple · 3rd and 5 · Q1 · EPA −10.86Chandler Whitmer pass intercepted for a TD Tavon Young return for 93 yds for a TD, (Austin Jones KICK)
Week 3 · Boise State · 3rd and 1 · Q4 · EPA −9.09Chandler Whitmer pass intercepted for a TD Donte Deayon return for 50 yds for a TD, (Dan Goodale KICK)
Week 9 · East Carolina · 2nd and 10 · Q3 · EPA +7.11Chandler Whitmer pass complete to Deshon Foxx for 88 yds for a TD, (Bobby Puyol KICK)
Week 5 · Temple · 2nd and 12 · Q3 · EPA +6.87Chandler Whitmer pass complete to Arkeel Newsome for 74 yds for a TD, (Bobby Puyol KICK)
Week 10 · UCF · 3rd and 19 · Q2 · EPA +5.89Chandler Whitmer pass complete to Noel Thomas for 38 yds for a TD, (Bobby Puyol KICK)
Week 15 · SMU · 1st and 10 · Q2 · EPA −4.26Chandler Whitmer pass intercepted, touchback. Horace Richardson return for no gain

4 more plays

Week 7 · Tulane · 1st and 10 · Q3 · EPA −4.16Chandler Whitmer pass complete to Arkeel Newsome for 7 yds Arkeel Newsome fumbled, forced by Tanzel Smart, recovered by Tulan Darion Monroe
Week 15 · SMU · 3rd and 8 · Q2 · EPA +4.00Chandler Whitmer pass complete to Joshua Marriner for 38 yds to the SMU 27 for a
Week 9 · East Carolina · 3rd and 7 · Q3 · EPA +3.97Whitmer to Thomas: a 32-yard touchdown pass.
Week 9 · East Carolina · 3rd and 7 · Q3 · EPA +3.96Chandler Whitmer pass complete to Thomas Lucas for 37 yds to the ECaro 35 for a

Passing profile

Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)

Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from

124/223 (55.6%) · 11 TD · 8 INT

216 of 223 attempts matched to play-by-play

Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 216 passing plays (121 completions) against the box score's 223 attempts (124 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.

Adjusted ANY/A

5.03123 of 181 QBs

Sack rate

10.1%169 of 181 QBs

Sacked on 10.1% of dropbacks (169 of 181) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (123 of 181).

Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.

Short

0–9 yds

53%of completions

64 comp4.2 yds avg1 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

31%of completions

37 comp13.2 yds avg3 TD

Deep

20+ yds

17%of completions

20 comp34.7 yds avg4 TD

Overall 55.6% completion on 223 attempts · 20 deep completions averaging 34.7 yds.

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2014 baseline

No situation moves him more than 43 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-43 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 6/79 (7.6%) · league sack rate 4.8%

Down 2

+20 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 11/77 (14.3%) · league sack rate 5.3%

Down 3+

+27 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 6/70 (8.6%) · league sack rate 8.1%

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

2014UConn2-10HC: Bob Diaco · Run-leaning, slow tempo

Our ratings

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Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles · 2014 season

12 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: sack rate (7th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Explosive rate#91 / 163 · 44th pct

9.3%

Interception rate#91 / 163 · 44th pct

2.8%

EPA / dropback#136 / 163 · 17th pct

0.05

Success rate#146 / 163 · 11th pct

32.9%

Sack rate#152 / 163 · 7th pct

10.4%

Box-score rates (7)

Interceptions#73 / 157 · 49th pct

Rush TDs#85 / 157 · 40th pct

Yards / att#99 / 157 · 35th pct

6.8

Pass TDs#102 / 157 · 34th pct

Rush yards#104 / 157 · 34th pct

Pass yards#111 / 157 · 30th pct

1522

Completion %#112 / 157 · 29th pct

55.6%

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 in 2014. 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

2014 · our own passing-efficiency number, shown next to the 1979 formula it does not replace.

After 226 dropbacks

31Zeitgeist Passer Rating119th of 142 FBS QBs

NCAA passer rating 122.0 93rd of 142 FBS QBs

ZPR ranks this quarterback 26 places lower than passer rating does: passer rating cannot see sacks, and a sack comes on 10.2% of dropbacks; and the schedule adjustment debits the defenses faced.

Positive-play rate weight 24%

38.9%14th pct of FBS QBs

share of dropbacks that gained expected points · -2.2% schedule adj.

Yards per attempt weight 56%

6.7241st pct of FBS QBs

sacks excluded · +0.1 schedule adj.

Sack rate weight 21% (penalty)

10.4%2nd pct of FBS QBs

the input passer rating cannot see · +0.2% schedule adj.

Opponent-adjusted; garbage time excluded (14 of 240 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

2014 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home7g	117	0.9	6.7	0.7
Road4g	134	0.8	7.0	0.2

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-76g	143	0.8	7.0	0.5
Weeks 8+6g	111	1.0	6.4	0.8

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2014 season

Head Coach

Bob Diaco

Pass share

46.4%

339 pass / 392 run

Plays / game

60.9

12 games

Scheme: Run-leaning, slow tempo.

Awards

Player standing · 2014

Starter

223 pass attempts and 76 carries in 12 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Chandler Whitmer

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Style of play

Fans

UConn in the news

Where to follow

Career stats

Game log

Signature game

Signature plays

Passing profile

Situational

Teams and coaches

Our ratings

Splits

Awards

Starter

Three seasons at UConn

Moves

2012