Connor Halliday: QB · Washington State · #12.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Connor Halliday
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. One game to point at: 734 passing yards and 17 rushing yards against California — Week 6, 2014.
Play style
High-percentage passer who protects the ball. Loses the matchup on improvisation.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
51.1% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 28.6% conversion-per-dropback — 41.7% 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
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Washington State | 354 | 526 | 67.3% | 3,873 | 7.4 | 32 | 11 | 145.0 | 63 |
| Career | 354 | 526 | 67.3% | 3,873 | 7.4 | 32 | 11 | 145.0 | 63 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Washington State | 29 | −131 | −4.5 | 0 | 13 |
| Career | 29 | −131 | −4.5 | 0 | 13 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2014 season · 9 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 38-41vs Rutgers | 40/56 | 532 | 5 | 1 | 9.5 | 78.2 | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | L 13-24@ Nevada | 38/57 | 389 | 1 | 2 | 6.8 | 27.8 | |
| Wk 3 | W 59-21vs Portland State | 41/62 | 544 | 6 | 2 | 8.8 | 81.5 | 6 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | L 31-38vs No. 2 Oregon | 43/63 | 436 | 4 | 0 | 6.9 | 65.6 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | W 28-27@ Utah | 39/61 | 417 | 4 | 2 | 6.8 | 35.1 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 6 | L 59-60vs California | 49/70 | 734 | 6 | 0 | 10.5 | 89.6 | Season-high 734 yds |
| Wk 7 | L 17-34@ No. 25 Stanford | 42/69 | 292 | 2 | 1 | 4.2 | 39.3 | |
| Wk 9 | L 37-59vs No. 15 Arizona | 56/79 | 489 | 4 | 2 | 6.2 | 37.1 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 10 | L 17-44vs USC | 6/9 | 40 | 0 | 1 | 4.4 | 18.2 | |
| Total | 354/526 | 3873 | 32 | 11 | 7.4 | — |
Week 6 · 2014
L 59-60
vs California
734 yds · 6 TD · 0 INT · QBR 89.6 · 17 rush yds (3 car)
With V. Mayle — 11 rec · 263 yds · 1 TD · R. Cracraft — 11 rec · 172 yds · 3 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 526 passing plays (356 completions) against the box score's 526 attempts (354 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.1152 of 181 QBsSack rate
3.7%37 of 181 QBsRarely sacked (37 of 181 QBs) and still 52 of 181 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 67.3% completion on 526 attempts · 40 deep completions averaging 36.9 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2014 baseline
No situation moves him more than 42 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
2014 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 462 | 4.2 | 7.7 | 1.0 |
| Road3g | 366 | 2.3 | 5.9 | 1.7 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 478 | 4.0 | 7.6 | 1.1 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 264 | 2.0 | 5.3 | 1.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mike Leach
Pass share
76.1%
769 pass / 241 run
Plays / game
84.2
12 games
Scheme: Pass-heavy, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2014
More passes and runs a game than nearly every FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
One season at Washington State, 3,873 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2010–2014
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Paul Wulff → Mike Leach. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
