Clayton Tune

Former quarterback at Houston. 2022: 4,074 passing yards, 40 TD, 10 INT.

QB · Houston · Sr. · #3

6′3″ · 220 lb · Carrollton, TX

CFB Index 88 · #5 of 140 QBsHigh confidenceAll-Conf 1st teamArizona — drafted 2023, Rd 5, Pick 5, #139 overall

Recruiting

3★

PRO recruit

No. 827 nationally · Signed with Houston

Statement game527 yds · 7 TDat SMU (FBS) · L 63-77

Top 0.1% passing TDs game since 2021.

I’m gonna miss Clayton Tune. He’s really grown on me. What a freaking run!r/CFB game thread · ▲ 5His career numbers, season by season

The story

Former quarterback at Houston. 2022: 4,074 passing yards, 40 TD, 10 INT.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Houston in 2018.
Drafted round 5 by the Arizona in 2023.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Five seasons at Houston, 11,996 passing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2022) — drafted at #139 overall by Arizona.

His career

Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.

20185 games

Signed with Houston3-star out of Hebron

202213 games

The role got bigger.

All-AACfirst

2023

Drafted by Arizonaround 5, pick 139

Career arc

Recruit

★★★

#827 national

CFB

College

Houston

2018–2022

NFL

NFL Draft

R5 · #139

Arizona · 2023

Trophy case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

7 honors · 1 category

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ALL-AAC · 1ST TEAM

All-AAC 1st team (2022)

Coaching lineage · 2018–2022

2 coaches

2018

Major Applewhite

Houston

2019–2022

Dana Holgorsen

Houston

era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Major Applewhite → Dana Holgorsen. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

Where He Ended Up · NFL

ArizonaEntering 4th NFL season

#139Rd 5 · Pick 5

ArizonaEntering 4th NFL season

View college career stats ↓

2022 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2018Houston8-5HC: Major Applewhite · Balanced, fast tempo

2019Houston4-8HC: Dana Holgorsen · Run-leaning

2020Houston3-5HC: Dana Holgorsen · Balanced, fast tempo

2021Houston12-2HC: Dana Holgorsen · Balanced

2022Houston8-5HC: Dana Holgorsen · Pass-leaning

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

88All-Conference level #5 of 140?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: epa / dropback (93rd percentile). Strength: success rate (92nd percentile). Concern: fumbles lost (7th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

EPA / dropback#13 / 169 · 93rd pct

0.43

Success rate#14 / 169 · 92nd pct

53.3%

Sack rate#53 / 169 · 69th pct

4.7%

Explosive rate#71 / 169 · 58th pct

10.7%

Interception rate#79 / 169 · 54th pct

2.1%

Box-score rates (8)

Pass TDs#3 / 177 · 98th pct

Pass yards#7 / 177 · 96th pct

4074

Rush yards#19 / 177 · 90th pct

547

Completion %#21 / 177 · 88th pct

67.2%

Yards / att#44 / 177 · 74th pct

8.2

Rush TDs#43 / 177 · 73rd pct

Interceptions#144 / 177 · 15th pct

Fumbles lost#152 / 169 · 7th pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

74th → 93rd percentile

Success rate

75th → 92nd percentile

Explosive rate

74th → 58th percentile

Sack rate

27th → 69th percentile

Interception rate

52nd → 54th 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

326/478 (68.2%) · 40 TD · 10 INT

478 of 497 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

8.2028 of 206 QBs

Sack rate

4.6%64 of 206 QBs

Rarely sacked (64 of 206 QBs) and still 28 of 206 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

47%of completions

153 comp4.6 yds avg12 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

37%of completions

121 comp13.4 yds avg13 TD

Deep

20+ yds

16%of completions

52 comp31.3 yds avg12 TD

Overall 68.2% completion on 478 attempts · 52 deep completions averaging 31.3 yds.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2022 season · 13 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home7g	288	2.4	8.4	0.6
Road6g	344	3.8	8.0	1.0

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-77g	257	2.1	7.5	0.6
Weeks 8+6g	380	4.2	9.0	1.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Willie Fritz

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2022

All-Conference 1st team

First team in his league at the position.

our read the All-Conference 1st team honor is earned — and the box score backs it up emphatically: #5 of 140 FBS quarterbacks by CFB Index Score.2022 profile

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

88 · #5 of 140 QBs

Three-star recruit. Now #5 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2022	Houston	334	497	67.2%	4,074	8.2	40	10	158.6	73	--	--
2021	Houston	287	421	68.2%	3,546	8.4	30	10	157.7	60	--	--
2020	Houston	170	285	59.6%	2,048	7.2	15	10	130.4	40	--	--
2019	Houston	106	179	59.2%	1,533	8.6	11	9	141.4	--	--	--
2018	Houston	59	117	50.4%	795	6.8	8	2	126.6	--	--	--
Career		956	1,499	63.8%	11,996	8.0	104	41	148.4	61	--	--

Season	Team
2022	Houston	128	547	4.3	5	--
2021	Houston	105	154	1.5	2	--
2020	Houston	72	253	3.5	5	--
2019	Houston	66	244	3.7	2	--
2018	Houston	41	53	1.3	1	--
Career		412	1,251	3.0	15	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2022

W 37–35

at UTSA

206 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 82.3 · 51 rush yds (15 car) · 1 TD

Edged out UTSA on the road in a shootout.

With L. Wilkins — 46 AVG · 53 LONG · 5 NO · M. Golden — 2 rec · 46 yds

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 10 · SMU · 4&10 · Q2 · EPA +6.19Clayton Tune pass complete to Matthew Golden for 42 yds for a TD, (Kyle Ramsey KICK)
Week 10 · SMU · 1&20 · Q1 · EPA +5.64Clayton Tune run for 55 yds for a TD, (Kyle Ramsey KICK)
Week 10 · SMU · 4&7 · Q2 · EPA +5.44Clayton Tune pass complete to KeSean Carter for 37 yds for a TD, (Kyle Ramsey KICK)
Week 13 · Tulsa · 3&7 · Q1 · EPA +4.37Clayton Tune pass complete to Peyton Sawyer for 53 yds to the Tulsa 28 for a 1ST down
Week 12 · East Carolina · 3&14 · Q1 · EPA +4.35Clayton Tune pass complete to Nathaniel Dell for 47 yds to the ECaro 34 for a 1ST down
Week 1 · Louisiana · 1&30 · Q4 · EPA +4.17Clayton Tune pass complete to KeSean Carter for 41 yds to the LaLaf 38 for a 1ST down
Week 11 · Temple · 2&4 · Q1 · EPA -4.07Clayton Tune sacked for a loss of 19 yards to the Houst 46
Week 4 · Rice · 3&15 · Q4 · EPA +4.05Clayton Tune pass complete to Nathaniel Dell for 28 yds to the Rice 32 for a 1ST down
Week 9 · South Florida · 1&10 · Q2 · EPA +4.01Clayton Tune pass complete to Nathaniel Dell for 52 yds for a TD, (Kyle Ramsey KICK)
Week 11 · Temple · 2&7 · Q4 · EPA +3.97Clayton Tune pass complete to Matthew Golden for 44 yds for a TD, (C. Tune Run For Two-point Conversion)

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2022 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 37-35@ UTSA	22/32	206	3	0	6.4	82.3	3 TD passes
Wk 2	L 30-33@ Texas Tech	20/39	266	1	1	6.8	44.4
Wk 3	L 30-48vs Kansas	22/31	272	1	1	8.8	44.7
Wk 4	W 34-27vs Rice	19/26	249	2	1	9.6	54.0
Wk 5	L 24-27vs Tulane	22/33	208	2	0	6.3	63.5
Wk 6	W 33-32@ Memphis	36/57	366	3	1	6.4	69.7	3 TD passes
Wk 8	W 38-20@ Navy	21/30	261	5	0	8.7	89.4	5 TD passes
Wk 9	W 42-27vs South Florida	31/37	380	4	0	10.3	89.3	4 TD passes
Wk 10	L 63-77@ SMU	36/53	527	7	3	9.9	89.3	Season-high 527 yds · 3 INTs — rough day
Wk 11	W 43-36vs Temple	29/40	289	3	1	7.2	82.4	3 TD passes
Wk 12	W 42-3@ East Carolina	32/44	435	4	1	9.9	93.9	4 TD passes
Wk 13	L 30-37vs Tulsa	26/47	386	2	1	8.2	48.3
Bowl	W 23-16vs Louisiana	18/28	229	3	0	8.2	—
Total		334/497	4074	40	10	8.2	70.9

How he plays

Play style

Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

69.6%Completion %

33.3%Conversion/dropback

50.0%Land short of sticks

0INTs

69.6% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 33.3% conversion-per-dropback — 50.0% 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. ~ our read: checkdown by design