Cole Snyder: QB · Eastern Michigan · #10.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Cole Snyder
Operates within the system without forcing anything. The five seasons span three programs and four head coaches: Nunzio Campanile, Greg Schiano, Maurice Linguist and Chris Creighton. The first one came in 2024: MAC Offensive Player of the Week. A game that shows it: 351 passing yards and 3 passing TD against Buffalo — Week 13, 2024.
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
47.4% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 28.6% 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
8 of the team's 33 inside-the-5 carries (24.2%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Eastern Michigan | 239 | 402 | 59.5% | 2,676 | 6.7 | 15 | 9 | 123.2 | 38 |
| 2023 | Buffalo | 203 | 372 | 54.6% | 2,109 | 5.7 | 13 | 9 | 108.9 | 36 |
| 2022 | Buffalo | 248 | 417 | 59.5% | 2,766 | 6.6 | 15 | 7 | 123.7 | 35 |
| 2021 | Rutgers | 18 | 28 | 64.3% | 130 | 4.6 | 1 | 0 | 115.1 | -- |
| 2019 | Rutgers | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | 35 | 11.7 | 0 | 0 | 198.0 | -- |
| Career | 711 | 1,222 | 58.2% | 7,716 | 6.3 | 44 | 25 | 119.0 | 36 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Eastern Michigan | 136 | 322 | 2.4 | 4 | 29 |
| 2023 | Buffalo | 67 | 88 | 1.3 | 1 | 22 |
| 2022 | Buffalo | 104 | 145 | 1.4 | 4 | 25 |
| 2021 | Rutgers | 15 | 42 | 2.8 | 0 | 9 |
| 2019 | Rutgers | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | 0 | 6 |
| Career | 323 | 603 | 1.9 | 9 | 29 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 28-14@ Massachusetts | 17/29 | 241 | 1 | 0 | 8.3 | 68.8 | |
| Wk 2 | L 9-30@ Washington | 16/27 | 129 | 0 | 0 | 4.8 | 27.8 | |
| Wk 3 | W 37-34vs Jacksonville State | 26/37 | 273 | 2 | 0 | 7.4 | 63.9 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 4 | W 36-0vs Saint Francis | 9/19 | 101 | 0 | 0 | 5.3 | 16.3 | |
| Wk 5 | W 52-33@ Kent State | 26/33 | 213 | 1 | 0 | 6.5 | 43.8 | |
| Wk 7 | L 14-38vs Miami (OH) | 27/42 | 211 | 0 | 1 | 5.0 | 50.8 | |
| Wk 8 | W 38-34vs Central Michigan | 17/38 | 300 | 3 | 1 | 7.9 | 28.1 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 9 | L 21-25@ Akron | 28/47 | 346 | 2 | 0 | 7.4 | 52.1 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 10 | L 28-29vs Toledo | 24/45 | 265 | 2 | 1 | 5.9 | 56.8 | |
| Wk 12 | L 10-35@ Ohio | 18/30 | 155 | 1 | 3 | 5.2 | 7.1 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 13 | L 20-37vs Buffalo | 24/33 | 351 | 3 | 2 | 10.6 | 32.6 | Season-high 351 yds |
| Wk 14 | L 18-26@ Western Michigan | 7/22 | 91 | 0 | 1 | 4.1 | 12.6 | |
| Total | 239/402 | 2676 | 15 | 9 | 6.7 | — |
Week 3 · 2024
W 37-34
273 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 63.9
Edged out Jacksonville State at home in a shootout.
With T. Lockett — 9 rec · 61 yds · 22 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 100.0 · E. Jackson-Anderson — 87 rush yds (24 car) · 1 rec · 24 yds · 1 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 368 passing plays (222 completions) against the box score's 402 attempts (239 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.61137 of 205 QBsSack rate
6.5%130 of 205 QBsSacked on 6.5% of dropbacks (130 of 205) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (137 of 205).
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 59.5% completion on 402 attempts · 22 deep completions averaging 34.2 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2024 baseline
+67
percentile points better on third down or later
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
2024 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 250 | 1.7 | 7.0 | 0.8 |
| Road6g | 196 | 0.8 | 6.0 | 0.7 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 195 | 0.7 | 6.2 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 251 | 1.8 | 6.9 | 1.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Chris Creighton
Pass share
46.9%
415 pass / 469 run
Plays / game
73.7
12 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2024
402 pass attempts and 136 carries in 12 games, more passes and runs a game than nearly every FBS quarterback who plays every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Three-star recruit. Now #105 at the position.
How it ended
Five seasons, at Rutgers, Buffalo and Eastern Michigan, 7,716 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
Coaching lineage · 2019–2024
5 coachesPlayed for 5 head coaches at 3 schools: Chris Ash, Nunzio Campanile, Greg Schiano, Maurice Linguist and Chris Creighton.
