Chevan Cordeiro: QB · San José State · #2.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Chevan Cordeiro
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Played for three head coaches at two programs in six seasons: Nick Rolovich, Todd Graham and Brent Brennan. Named All-Mountain West two seasons running, most recently in 2023. A game that shows it: 325 passing yards and 29 rushing yards against Boise State — Week 6, 2023.
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
50.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 29.8% conversion-per-dropback — 33.3% 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
2 of the team's 23 inside-the-5 carries (8.7%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| 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 | 55 |
| 2018 | Hawai'i | 30 | 49 | 61.2% | 384 | 7.8 | 6 | 2 | 159.3 | 51 |
| 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 | 28 |
| 2022 | San José State | 138 | 260 | 1.9 | 9 | 36 |
| 2021 | Hawai'i | 116 | 342 | 2.9 | 3 | 35 |
| 2020 | Hawai'i | 116 | 485 | 4.2 | 7 | 54 |
| 2019 | Hawai'i | 39 | 203 | 5.2 | 3 | 26 |
| 2018 | Hawai'i | 22 | 52 | 2.4 | 0 | 17 |
| Career | 512 | 1,614 | 3.2 | 25 | 54 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 28-56@ No. 6 USC | 21/38 | 198 | 3 | 0 | 5.2 | 69.0 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 1 | L 17-42vs No. 18 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 | 7.6 | — |
Week 1 · 2023
L 28-56
at USC
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 336 passing plays (205 completions) against the box score's 363 attempts (223 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.6056 of 212 QBsSack rate
4.2%62 of 212 QBsRarely 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 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 61.4% completion on 363 attempts · 40 deep completions averaging 33.7 yds.
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.
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 · Per-game
2023 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 172 | 1.5 | 7.4 | 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
Head Coach
Brent Brennan
Pass share
47.6%
375 pass / 412 run
Plays / game
60.5
13 games
Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.
Player standing · 2023
First team in his league at the position.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Two-star recruit. Now #51 at the position.
How it ended
Six seasons, at Hawai'i and San José State, 12,182 passing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2023) — the college career is complete.
Recruited as a two-star, and honored since.
The role got bigger.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-MOUNTAIN WEST · 1ST TEAM
All-Mountain West 1st team (2023)
Weekly recognition
2 weekly honors (2022)
Mountain West Offensive Player of the Week
Coaching lineage · 2018–2023
3 coachesPlayed for 3 head coaches at 2 schools: Nick Rolovich, Todd Graham and Brent Brennan.
