Former quarterback at Florida State. 2024: 1,065 passing yards, 4 TD, 6 INT.
6′4″ · 252 lb · Bellflower, CA
CFB Index
A single number blending on-field production (an EPA-based value lane) with box-score output for this player's position.
0-100, scaled within each position's own cohort — not directly comparable across positions.
Recruiting
PRO recruit
No. 10 nationally · Signed with Clemson
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
Former quarterback at Florida State. 2024: 1,065 passing yards, 4 TD, 6 INT.
D.J. Uiagalelei
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Across five seasons and three programs, three head coaches: Dabo Swinney, Jonathan Smith and Mike Norvell. One game to point at: 272 pass yds, 1 pass TD against Boston College — Week 1, 2024.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Five seasons at Florida State, 9,378 passing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 5 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Badges
Coaching lineage · 2020–2024
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Mike Norvell.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: fumbles lost (94th percentile). Concern: success 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
4.81165 of 205 QBsSack rate
6.6%132 of 205 QBsSacked on 6.6% of dropbacks (132 of 205) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (165 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 53.9% completion on 154 attempts · 16 deep completions averaging 29.9 yds.
Splits · Per-game
2024 season · 5 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 217 | 0.7 | 6.6 | 1.0 |
| Road2g | 208 | 1.0 | 7.2 | 1.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 213 | 0.8 | 6.9 | 1.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mike Norvell
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2024
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Florida State | 84 | 156 | 53.8% | 1,065 | 6.8 | 4 | 6 | 112.0 | 43 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Oregon State | 180 | 315 | 57.1% | 2,638 | 8.4 | 21 | 7 | 145.0 | 70 | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Clemson | 228 | 368 | 62.0% | 2,515 | 6.8 | 22 | 7 | 135.3 | 44 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Clemson | 208 | 374 | 55.6% | 2,246 | 6.0 | 9 | 10 | 108.7 | 31 | -- | -- |
| 2020 | Clemson | 78 | 117 | 66.7% | 914 | 7.8 | 5 | 0 | 146.4 | 65 | -- | -- |
| Career | 778 | 1,330 | 58.5% | 9,378 | 7.1 | 61 | 30 | 128.3 | 48 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Florida State | 37 | -8 | -0.2 | 0 | -- |
| 2023 | Oregon State | 68 | 219 | 3.2 | 6 | -- |
| 2022 | Clemson | 142 | 545 | 3.8 | 7 | -- |
| 2021 | Clemson | 104 | 316 | 3.0 | 4 | -- |
| 2020 | Clemson | 28 | 60 | 2.1 | 4 | -- |
| Career | 379 | 1,132 | 3.0 | 21 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 4 · 2024
W 14–9
vs California
177 yds · 1 TD · 1 INT · QBR 48.0 · 11 rush yds (9 car)
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 5 at home.
With A. Mastromanno — 49 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 56 LONG · J. Douglas — 10 rush yds (2 car)
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 5 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 21-24@ Georgia Tech | 19/27 | 193 | 0 | 0 | 7.1 | 77.7 | Season-high 272 yds |
| Wk 1 | L 13-28vs Boston College | 21/42 | 272 | 1 | 1 | 6.5 | — | Season-high 272 yds |
| Wk 3 | L 12-20vs Memphis | 16/30 | 201 | 0 | 1 | 6.7 | 33.6 | |
| Wk 4 | W 14-9vs California | 16/27 | 177 | 1 | 1 | 6.6 | 48.0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 16-42@ SMU | 12/30 | 222 | 2 | 3 | 7.4 | 13.2 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Total | 84/156 | 1065 | 4 | 6 | 6.9 | 43.1 |
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
CFB Index positional classification
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
58.3% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 32.0% conversion-per-dropback — 42.9% 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
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
3 of the team's 17 inside-the-5 carries (17.6%).
Player DNA
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
His 2024 production profile sits closest to Phil Jurkovec’s 2022 season.
Matches Phil on
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Through 5 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to N'Kosi Perry’s path through Florida Atlantic.
Matches N'Kosi on
As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Hudson Card's graduate season at Purdue (2024).
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Player DNA