Dalton Sturm: QB · UTSA · #14.
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Dalton Sturm
Extends plays on the move until something opens up. The four seasons at UTSA span two head coaches: Larry Coker and Frank Wilson. On tape: 367 passing yards and 28 rushing yards against Southern Miss, Week 6, 2017.
Play style
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
61.4% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 29.8% conversion-per-dropback — 48.1% 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
6 of the team's 22 inside-the-5 carries (27.3%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2017 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | W 17-10@ Baylor | 15/20 | 155 | 2 | 0 | 7.8 | 81.0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 51-17vs Southern | 19/22 | 292 | 4 | 0 | 13.3 | 99.4 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | W 44-14@ Texas State | 17/25 | 212 | 0 | 0 | 8.5 | 55.3 | |
| Wk 6 | L 29-31vs Southern Miss | 27/43 | 367 | 3 | 1 | 8.5 | 63.2 | Season-high 367 yds |
| Wk 7 | L 26-29@ North Texas | 13/24 | 215 | 2 | 0 | 9.0 | 59.2 | |
| Wk 8 | W 20-7vs Rice | 12/21 | 134 | 1 | 0 | 6.4 | 62.1 | |
| Wk 9 | W 31-14@ UTEP | 18/30 | 188 | 1 | 1 | 6.3 | 58.9 | |
| Wk 10 | L 7-14@ Florida International | 13/21 | 105 | 1 | 0 | 5.0 | 40.0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 19-24vs UAB | 17/37 | 162 | 1 | 1 | 4.4 | 45.3 | |
| Wk 12 | W 9-7vs Marshall | 25/38 | 264 | 0 | 0 | 6.9 | 70.2 | |
| Wk 13 | L 6-20@ Louisiana Tech | 9/16 | 91 | 0 | 2 | 5.7 | 32.6 | |
| Total | 185/297 | 2185 | 15 | 5 | 7.4 | — |
Week 3 · 2017
W 51-17
vs Southern
292 yds · 4 TD · 0 INT · QBR 99.4 · 35 rush yds (4 car) · 1 TD
Dominant 34-point win at home against Southern.
With Y. Routsas — 39 yards per punt · 3 punts · 51 long · J. Rhodes — 61 rush yds (10 car) · 1 TD · 2 rec · 30 yds
The plays that mattered most
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
6.7276 of 205 QBsSack rate
7.2%139 of 205 QBsSacked on 7.2% of dropbacks (139 of 205) — and still 76 of 205 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 62.3% completion on 297 attempts · 25 deep completions averaging 28.5 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2017 baseline
No situation moves him more than 35 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
2017 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 244 | 1.8 | 7.9 | 0.4 |
| Road6g | 161 | 1.0 | 7.0 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 248 | 2.2 | 9.4 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 157 | 0.7 | 5.8 | 0.7 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Frank Wilson
Pass share
40.7%
307 pass / 447 run
Plays / game
68.5
11 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2017
297 pass attempts and 120 carries in 11 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Four seasons at UTSA, 5,768 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Larry Coker → Frank Wilson. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
