Chevan Cordeiro

Senior quarterback for San José State. 2023: 2,773 passing yards, 20 TD, 4 INT.

QB · San José State · Sr. · #2

6′1″ · 187 lb · Honolulu, HI

CFB Index 57 · #51 of 140 QBsHigh confidenceAll-Conf 1st teamSan José State 2023 alumnus

The story

4 quarterback for San José State. 2023: 2,773 passing yards, 20 TD, 4 INT.

Signed as a 2-star recruit to Hawai'i in 2018.
Transferred from Hawai'i to San José State in 2022.

His career, year by year

Recruiting

2★

DUAL recruit

No. 3211 nationally · Signed with Hawai'i

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

How it ended

Six seasons at San José State, 12,182 passing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2023) — his college career is complete.

His career

Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.

20184 games

Signed with Hawai'i2-star out of St. Louis

202212 games

The role got bigger.

Entered the portal
All-Mountain Westsecond

202313 games

All-Mountain Westfirst

Career arc

Recruit

★★

#3211 national

CFB

College

2 teams

2018–2023

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Trophy case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

7 honors · 1 category

🥈

ALL-MOUNTAIN WEST · 1ST TEAM

All-Mountain West 1st team (2023)

Coaching lineage · 2018–2023

1 coach

2018–2023

Brent Brennan

San José State

Played his entire career under Brent Brennan.

2023 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2018Hawai'i8-6HC: Nick Rolovich · Pass-leaning

2019Hawai'i10-5HC: Nick Rolovich · Pass-leaning

2020Hawai'i5-4HC: Todd Graham · Balanced, fast tempo

2021Hawai'i6-7HC: Todd Graham · Balanced

2022San José State7-5HC: Brent Brennan · Pass-leaning

2023San José State7-6HC: Brent Brennan · Balanced, slow tempo

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

57Quality starter #51 of 140?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Production sits in the middle of the position cohort across the board.

Real play-by-play efficiency

Explosive rate#54 / 177 · 69th pct

11.8%

EPA / dropback#62 / 177 · 65th pct

0.33

Sack rate#62 / 177 · 65th pct

4.7%

Interception rate#67 / 177 · 62nd pct

0.3%

Success rate#74 / 177 · 58th pct

43.0%

Box-score rates (8)

Interceptions#38 / 179 · 75th pct

Pass yards#46 / 179 · 75th pct

2773

Pass TDs#47 / 179 · 72nd pct

Rush yards#57 / 179 · 68th pct

272

Yards / att#65 / 179 · 63rd pct

7.6

Rush TDs#72 / 179 · 55th pct

Completion %#86 / 179 · 52nd pct

61.4%

Fumbles lost#76 / 167 · 40th pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

57th → 65th percentile

Success rate

68th → 58th percentile

Explosive rate

68th → 69th percentile

Sack rate

16th → 65th percentile

Interception rate

81st → 62nd percentile

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).

Passing profile

Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)

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

205/336 (61.0%) · 20 TD · 4 INT

336 of 363 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

7.6056 of 212 QBs

Sack rate

4.2%62 of 212 QBs

Rarely sacked (62 of 212 QBs) and still 56 of 212 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 yds

55%of completions

112 comp4.9 yds avg3 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

26%of completions

53 comp14.3 yds avg2 TD

Deep

20+ yds

20%of completions

40 comp33.7 yds avg11 TD

Overall 61.0% completion on 336 attempts · 40 deep completions averaging 33.7 yds.

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2023 baseline

No situation moves him more than 56 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-37 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 2/104 (1.9%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 2

-4 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 4/88 (4.5%) · league sack rate 5.2% · ~our read

Down 3+

+56 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 6/76 (7.9%) · league sack rate 9.1% · ~our read

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.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2023 season · 13 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home7g	179	1.4	7.3	0.3
Road6g	254	1.7	9.1	0.3

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-78g	229	1.1	8.0	0.4
Weeks 8+5g	188	2.2	8.4	0.2

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Ken Niumatalolo

Pass share

51.0%

106 pass / 102 run

Plays / game

69.3

3 games

Scheme: Balanced.

Awards

Player standing · 2023

All-Conference 1st team

First team in his league at the position.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

57 · #51 of 140 QBs

Two-star recruit. Now #51 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2023	San José State	223	363	61.4%	2,773	7.6	20	4	141.6	52	--	--
2022	San José State	259	426	60.8%	3,242	7.6	23	6	139.7	54	--	--
2021	Hawai'i	195	353	55.2%	2,793	7.9	17	11	131.4	43	--	--
2020	Hawai'i	195	312	62.5%	2,083	6.7	14	6	129.5	40	--	--
2019	Hawai'i	69	120	57.5%	907	7.6	8	3	138.0	--	--	--
2018	Hawai'i	30	49	61.2%	384	7.8	6	2	159.3	--	--	--
Career		971	1,623	59.8%	12,182	7.5	88	32	136.8	48	--	--

Season	Team
2023	San José State	81	272	3.4	3	--
2022	San José State	138	260	1.9	9	--
2021	Hawai'i	116	342	2.9	3	--
2020	Hawai'i	116	485	4.2	7	--
2019	Hawai'i	39	203	5.2	3	--
2018	Hawai'i	22	52	2.4	0	--
Career		512	1,614	3.2	25	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 11 · 2023

W 42–18

vs Fresno State

146 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 89.4 · 27 rush yds (6 car)

Dominant 24-point win at home against Fresno State.

With A. Weir — 42 AVG · 3 IN 20 · 55 LONG · K. Robinson — 200 rush yds (19 car) · 2 TD

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 1 · Coastal Carolina · 4&9 · Q4 · EPA +5.49Chevan Cordeiro pass complete to Sam Olson for 35 yds for a TD (Kyler Halvorsen KICK)
Week 13 · UNLV · 3&2 · Q1 · EPA +5.47Chevan Cordeiro pass complete to Sam Olson for 56 yds for a TD (Kyler Halvorsen KICK)
Week 7 · New Mexico · 3&1 · Q3 · EPA +5.11Chevan Cordeiro pass complete to Nick Nash for 54 yds for a TD (Kyler Halvorsen KICK)
Week 7 · New Mexico · 1&10 · Q3 · EPA +4.28Chevan Cordeiro pass complete to Kairee Robinson for 55 yds for a TD (Kyler Halvorsen KICK)
Week 2 · Cal Poly · 4&7 · Q2 · EPA +4.22Chevan Cordeiro pass complete to Charles Ross for 24 yds for a TD (Kyler Halvorsen KICK)
Week 2 · Cal Poly · 1&25 · Q1 · EPA +4.08Chevan Cordeiro pass complete to Dominick Mazotti for 38 yds to the CP 32 for a 1ST down
Week 11 · Fresno State · 3&10 · Q1 · EPA +4.03Chevan Cordeiro pass complete to Nick Nash for 41 yds to the FRES 19 for a 1ST down
Week 1 · USC · 3&10 · Q2 · EPA +3.98Chevan Cordeiro pass complete to Nick Nash for 28 yds for a TD, (Kyler Halvorsen KICK)
Week 6 · Boise State · 3&9 · Q1 · EPA +3.97Chevan Cordeiro pass complete to Isaac Jernagin for 34 yds to the BOIS 32 for a 1ST down
Week 6 · Boise State · 1&10 · Q2 · EPA +3.86Chevan Cordeiro pass complete to Nick Nash for 58 yds to the BOIS 26 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2023 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	L 28-56@ USC	21/38	198	3	0	5.2	69.0	3 TD passes
Wk 1	L 17-42vs Oregon State	18/32	152	0	0	4.8	51.9	3 TD passes
Wk 2	W 59-3vs Cal Poly	15/21	205	2	0	9.8	81.2
Wk 3	L 17-21@ Toledo	24/42	228	1	1	5.4	28.8
Wk 4	L 20-45vs Air Force	24/35	239	0	1	6.8	65.2
Wk 6	L 27-35@ Boise State	23/38	325	0	1	8.6	57.0	Season-high 325 yds
Wk 7	W 52-24@ New Mexico	8/17	272	2	0	16.0	74.5	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 8	W 42-21vs Utah State	15/20	119	3	0	6.0	71.0	3 TD passes
Wk 9	W 35-0@ Hawai'i	16/26	251	2	0	9.7	62.8	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 11	W 42-18vs Fresno State	9/18	146	3	0	8.1	89.4	3 TD passes
Wk 12	W 24-13vs San Diego State	15/20	174	1	1	8.7	80.4
Wk 13	W 37-31@ UNLV	19/26	249	2	0	9.6	84.2
Bowl	L 14-24vs Coastal Carolina	16/30	215	1	0	7.2	76.8
Total		223/363	2773	20	4	8.1	68.6

Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology