Senior quarterback for Miami. 2021: 767 passing yards, 3 TD, 4 INT.
5′11″ · 195 lb · Manvel, TX
Recruiting
ATH recruit
No. 409 nationally · Signed with Houston
Statement game430 yds · 5 TDat NC State (FBS) · W 44-41
Top 1% passing yards game since 2021.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 quarterback for Miami. 2021: 767 passing yards, 3 TD, 4 INT.
D'Eriq King
Keeps the offense on schedule and doesn't lose the game. D'Eriq King has played for five head coaches across six seasons and two programs. His first career honor landed in 2020: ACC Quarterback Player of the Week. One game to point at: 388 pass yds, 7 rush yds against Michigan State — Week 3, 2021.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Six seasons at Miami, 8,378 passing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2016–2021
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Mark Richt, Manny Diaz, and Jess Simpson. Multi-era developmental context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: completion % (82nd percentile). Concern: explosive rate (12th percentile).
Real play-by-play efficiency
Season trend
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).
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
4.54176 of 204 QBsSack rate
6.9%134 of 204 QBsSacked on 6.9% of dropbacks (134 of 204) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (176 of 204).
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 65.9% completion on 123 attempts · 8 deep completions averaging 27.4 yds.
Splits · Per-game
2021 season · 3 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 256 | 1.0 | 6.2 | 1.3 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 256 | 1.0 | 6.2 | 1.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mario Cristobal
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2021
On the two-deep and pushing for snaps.
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2021 season · 3 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 13-44vs Alabama | 23/30 | 179 | 1 | 2 | 6.0 | 54.6 | |
| Wk 2 | W 25-23vs App State | 20/33 | 200 | 0 | 0 | 6.1 | 45.4 | |
| Wk 3 | L 17-38vs Michigan State | 38/59 | 388 | 2 | 2 | 6.6 | 50.2 | Season-high 388 yds |
| Total | 81/122 | 767 | 3 | 4 | 6.2 | 50.1 |
Play style
Consistent underneath passer who protects the lead. Rarely loses games; rarely wins them alone.
CFB Index positional classification
Player DNA
Consistent underneath passer who protects the lead. Rarely loses games; rarely wins them alone.
His 2021 production profile sits closest to Jack Abraham’s 2020 season.
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Through 2 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Zac Thomas’s path through App State.
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As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Anthony Colandrea's senior season at Virginia (2024).
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Player DNA