Chase Cunningham: QB · Middle Tennessee · #16.
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Chase Cunningham
Keeps the offense on schedule and doesn't lose the game. Fifth year in the Middle Tennessee quarterback room. The first career honor came in 2022: All-Conference USA. A game that shows it: 448 passing yards and 10 rushing yards against Florida Atlantic — Week 12, 2022.
Play style
Consistent underneath passer who protects the lead. Rarely loses games; rarely wins them alone.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
62.2% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 31.4% conversion-per-dropback — 42.9% 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
9 of the team's 33 inside-the-5 carries (27.3%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Middle Tennessee | 309 | 463 | 66.7% | 3,156 | 6.8 | 21 | 10 | 134.6 | 37 |
| 2021 | Middle Tennessee | 110 | 176 | 62.5% | 1,318 | 7.5 | 16 | 3 | 152.0 | 47 |
| 2020 | Middle Tennessee | 9 | 17 | 52.9% | 73 | 4.3 | 0 | 2 | 65.5 | -- |
| 2019 | Middle Tennessee | 17 | 32 | 53.1% | 221 | 6.9 | 2 | 1 | 125.5 | -- |
| 2018 | Middle Tennessee | -- | 1 | 0.0% | -- | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | -- |
| Career | 445 | 689 | 64.6% | 4,768 | 6.9 | 39 | 16 | 136.8 | 39 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Middle Tennessee | 99 | 52 | 0.5 | 6 | 18 |
| 2021 | Middle Tennessee | 44 | 118 | 2.7 | 0 | 27 |
| 2020 | Middle Tennessee | 2 | -- | 0.0 | 0 | 6 |
| 2019 | Middle Tennessee | 3 | 10 | 3.3 | 1 | 8 |
| 2018 | Middle Tennessee | 1 | -- | 0.0 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 149 | 180 | 1.2 | 7 | 27 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2022 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 7-44@ James Madison | 18/32 | 110 | 1 | 0 | 3.4 | 8.1 | |
| Wk 2 | W 34-19@ Colorado State | 31/39 | 266 | 1 | 1 | 6.8 | 58.2 | |
| Wk 3 | W 49-6vs Tennessee State | 20/24 | 216 | 2 | 1 | 9.0 | 78.2 | |
| Wk 4 | W 45-31@ No. 25 Miami | 16/25 | 408 | 3 | 1 | 16.3 | 91.9 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | L 30-45vs UTSA | 35/56 | 368 | 1 | 0 | 6.6 | 38.9 | |
| Wk 6 | L 14-41@ UAB | 26/43 | 196 | 1 | 1 | 4.6 | 63.1 | |
| Wk 7 | L 17-35vs Western Kentucky | 32/51 | 228 | 1 | 1 | 4.5 | 28.8 | |
| Wk 9 | W 24-13@ UTEP | 21/27 | 265 | 3 | 0 | 9.8 | 75.3 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 10 | L 24-40@ Louisiana Tech | 15/27 | 136 | 1 | 3 | 5.0 | 18.1 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 12 | W 49-21vs Florida Atlantic | 40/54 | 448 | 5 | 1 | 8.3 | 77.1 | Season-high 448 yds |
| Wk 13 | W 33-28@ Florida International | 29/42 | 279 | 0 | 0 | 6.6 | 56.4 | |
 Bowl | W 25-23vs San Diego State | 26/43 | 236 | 2 | 1 | 5.5 | — | |
| Total | 309/463 | 3156 | 21 | 10 | 6.8 | — |
Week 12 · 2022
W 49-21
448 yds · 5 TD · 1 INT · QBR 77.1 · 10 rush yds (10 car)
Dominant 28-point win at home against Florida Atlantic.
With F. Peasant — 8 rec · 107 yds · 2 TD · 59 rush yds (13 car) · 1 TD · K. Ulbrich — 56 yards per punt · 2 punts · 1 inside the 20
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 463 attempts (309 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.95121 of 206 QBsSack rate
5.7%102 of 206 QBsRarely sacked (102 of 206), but Adjusted ANY/A hasn't followed (121 of 206).
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 463 attempts · 34 deep completions averaging 35.1 yds.
5 seasons under Rick Stockstill — 30-31 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2022 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 315 | 2.2 | 7.1 | 0.8 |
| Road7g | 237 | 1.4 | 7.5 | 0.9 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 254 | 1.5 | 7.1 | 0.8 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 282 | 2.2 | 7.4 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Rick Stockstill
Pass share
53.6%
511 pass / 442 run
Plays / game
73.3
13 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2022
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
How it ended
Five seasons at Middle Tennessee, 4,768 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-CONFERENCE USA
All-Conference USA mention (2022)
Weekly recognition
2 weekly honors (2022)
Conference USA Offensive Player of the Week
Coaching lineage · 2018–2022
1 coachPlayed every college season under Rick Stockstill.
