Chase Garbers: QB · California · #7.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Chase Garbers
Extends plays on the move until something opens up. Fourth year in the same quarterback room at California. A game that shows it: 319 passing yards and 71 rushing yards against Washington — Week 4, 2021.
Play style
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
64.9% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 25.0% conversion-per-dropback — 58.3% 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
5 of the team's 22 inside-the-5 carries (22.7%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | California | 223 | 348 | 64.1% | 2,531 | 7.3 | 16 | 8 | 135.7 | 58 |
| 2020 | California | 85 | 136 | 62.5% | 771 | 5.7 | 6 | 3 | 120.3 | 20 |
| 2019 | California | 131 | 215 | 60.9% | 1,772 | 8.2 | 14 | 3 | 148.9 | 46 |
| 2018 | California | 158 | 259 | 61.0% | 1,508 | 5.8 | 14 | 10 | 120.0 | 22 |
| Career | 597 | 958 | 62.3% | 6,582 | 6.9 | 50 | 24 | 132.2 | 39 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | California | 104 | 456 | 4.4 | 4 | 38 |
| 2020 | California | 39 | 75 | 1.9 | 2 | 22 |
| 2019 | California | 90 | 223 | 2.5 | 3 | 19 |
| 2018 | California | 98 | 420 | 4.3 | 2 | 29 |
| Career | 331 | 1,174 | 3.5 | 11 | 38 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2021 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 17-22vs Nevada | 25/38 | 177 | 1 | 1 | 4.7 | 35.5 | |
| Wk 2 | L 32-34@ TCU | 16/27 | 309 | 2 | 0 | 11.4 | 88.0 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 3 | W 42-30vs Sacramento State | 22/34 | 288 | 2 | 1 | 8.5 | 59.8 | |
| Wk 4 | L 24-31@ Washington | 30/41 | 319 | 2 | 2 | 7.8 | 83.5 | Season-high 319 yds |
| Wk 5 | L 6-21vs Washington State | 14/30 | 152 | 0 | 1 | 5.1 | 11.2 | |
| Wk 7 | L 17-24@ No. 9 Oregon | 25/44 | 247 | 2 | 0 | 5.6 | 65.8 | |
| Wk 8 | W 26-3vs Colorado | 22/29 | 225 | 2 | 0 | 7.8 | 94.0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 39-25vs Oregon State | 17/26 | 262 | 3 | 0 | 10.1 | 87.9 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | W 41-11@ Stanford | 18/27 | 250 | 2 | 1 | 9.3 | 81.6 | |
| Wk 13 | L 14-42@ UCLA | 16/31 | 125 | 0 | 2 | 4.0 | 14.3 | |
| Wk 14 | W 24-14vs USC | 18/21 | 177 | 0 | 0 | 8.4 | 56.3 | |
| Total | 223/348 | 2531 | 16 | 8 | 7.3 | — |
Week 9 · 2021
W 39-25
vs Oregon State
262 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 87.9 · 58 rush yds (10 car) · 1 TD
With J. Sheahan — 44.3 yards per punt · 3 punts · 48 long · C. Brown Jr. — 83 rush yds (20 car) · 2 rec · 40 yds · 2 TD
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 311 passing plays (197 completions) against the box score's 348 attempts (223 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.60100 of 204 QBsSack rate
4.7%59 of 204 QBsRarely sacked (59 of 204 QBs) and still 100 of 204 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 64.1% completion on 348 attempts · 35 deep completions averaging 32.9 yds.
4 seasons under Justin Wilcox — 21-21 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2021 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 214 | 1.3 | 7.4 | 0.5 |
| Road5g | 250 | 1.6 | 7.6 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 249 | 1.5 | 7.2 | 0.8 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 208 | 1.4 | 7.9 | 0.6 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Justin Wilcox
Pass share
49.1%
379 pass / 393 run
Plays / game
64.3
12 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2021
348 pass attempts and 104 carries in 11 games, more passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
How it ended
Four seasons at California, 6,582 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2018–2021
1 coachPlayed every college season under Justin Wilcox.
