Cooper Rush: QB · Central Michigan · #10.
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Cooper Rush
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Played for two head coaches at Central Michigan: Dan Enos and John Bonamego. A game that shows it: 402 passing yards and 2 passing TD against Virginia — Week 4, 2016.
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
53.7% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 23.1% 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. checkdown by design
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Central Michigan | 278 | 465 | 59.8% | 3,540 | 7.6 | 23 | 16 | 133.2 | 40 |
| 2015 | Central Michigan | 324 | 489 | 66.3% | 3,848 | 7.9 | 25 | 11 | 144.7 | 67 |
| 2014 | Central Michigan | 243 | 382 | 63.6% | 3,157 | 8.3 | 27 | 13 | 149.6 | 64 |
| Career | 845 | 1,336 | 63.2% | 10,545 | 7.9 | 75 | 40 | 142.1 | 57 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Central Michigan | 68 | −21 | −0.3 | 1 | 29 |
| 2015 | Central Michigan | 63 | 48 | 0.8 | 3 | 33 |
| 2014 | Central Michigan | 46 | −51 | −1.1 | 0 | 23 |
| Career | 177 | −24 | −0.1 | 4 | 33 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2016 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 49-3vs Presbyterian | 16/26 | 237 | 1 | 2 | 9.1 | 46.0 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 2 | W 30-27@ No. 22 Oklahoma State | 31/43 | 368 | 4 | 1 | 8.6 | 73.9 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | W 44-21vs UNLV | 20/33 | 352 | 6 | 0 | 10.7 | 94.5 | 6 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | L 35-49@ Virginia | 25/45 | 402 | 2 | 1 | 8.9 | 65.9 | Season-high 402 yds |
| Wk 5 | L 10-49vs Western Michigan | 17/29 | 178 | 1 | 1 | 6.1 | 9.4 | |
| Wk 6 | W 24-21vs Ball State | 21/32 | 269 | 1 | 0 | 8.4 | 68.0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 34-28@ Northern Illinois | 19/35 | 254 | 3 | 2 | 7.3 | 67.1 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | L 17-31@ Toledo | 18/31 | 229 | 1 | 1 | 7.4 | 45.3 | |
| Wk 9 | L 24-27vs Kent State | 20/43 | 244 | 2 | 3 | 5.7 | 51.4 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 10 | L 17-37@ Miami (OH) | 21/32 | 242 | 0 | 1 | 7.6 | 62.3 | |
| Wk 12 | W 27-20vs Ohio | 25/32 | 268 | 2 | 0 | 8.4 | 82.2 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 13 | L 21-26@ Eastern Michigan | 21/35 | 256 | 0 | 1 | 7.3 | 50.3 | |
 Bowl | L 10-55vs Tulsa | 24/49 | 241 | 0 | 3 | 4.9 | 11.6 | |
| Total | 278/465 | 3540 | 23 | 16 | 7.6 | — |
Week 2 · 2016
W 30-27
368 yds · 4 TD · 1 INT · QBR 73.9
A close one, won by 3 on the road.
With C. Mojsiejenko — 43.2 yards per punt · 6 punts · 46 long · M. Chapman — 3 rec · 46 yds · 7 rush yds (1 car)
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 452 passing plays (267 completions) against the box score's 465 attempts (278 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.1892 of 193 QBsSack rate
6.8%128 of 193 QBsSacked on 6.8% of dropbacks (128 of 193) — and still 92 of 193 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 59.8% completion on 465 attempts · 46 deep completions averaging 30.2 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2016 baseline
No situation moves him more than 40 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
2016 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 258 | 2.2 | 8.1 | 1.0 |
| Road6g | 292 | 1.7 | 7.9 | 1.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 288 | 2.2 | 8.0 | 1.2 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 248 | 1.0 | 7.3 | 1.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
John Bonamego
Pass share
54.0%
471 pass / 402 run
Plays / game
67.2
13 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2016
465 pass attempts, 68 carries and 1 catch in 13 games, more passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Central Michigan, 10,545 passing yards — the college career is complete.
A stat line in 39 games over three seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2016
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Dan Enos → John Bonamego. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
