Daniel Jones: QB · Duke · #17.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Daniel Jones
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Arrived as a two-star recruit; three seasons of production at Duke since. One game to point at: 423 passing yards and 6 receiving yards against Temple — Bowl, 2018.
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
50.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 25.0% conversion-per-dropback — 42.1% 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
3 of the team's 29 inside-the-5 carries (10.3%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
The Daily Progress Oct 23
Yahoo Sports Oct 19Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 34-14vs Army | 13/17 | 197 | 1 | 0 | 11.6 | — | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 21-7@ Northwestern | 16/22 | 192 | 3 | 0 | 8.7 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | L 14-31vs Virginia Tech | 23/35 | 226 | 1 | 1 | 6.5 | — | |
| Wk 7 | W 28-14@ Georgia Tech | 17/27 | 206 | 3 | 1 | 7.6 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | L 14-28vs Virginia | 22/40 | 240 | 1 | 2 | 6.0 | — | |
| Wk 9 | L 45-54@ Pittsburgh | 27/42 | 396 | 4 | 0 | 9.4 | — | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 10 | W 20-12@ Miami | 17/35 | 130 | 0 | 1 | 3.7 | — | |
| Wk 11 | W 42-35vs North Carolina | 31/54 | 361 | 3 | 1 | 6.7 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | L 6-35@ No. 2 Clemson | 24/43 | 158 | 0 | 0 | 3.7 | — | |
| Wk 13 | L 7-59vs Wake Forest | 17/36 | 145 | 1 | 1 | 4.0 | — | |
 Bowl | W 56-27vs Temple | 30/41 | 423 | 5 | 2 | 10.3 | — | |
| Total | 237/392 | 2674 | 22 | 9 | 6.8 | — |
Week 9 · 2018
L 45-54
at Pittsburgh
396 yds · 4 TD · 0 INT · 38 rush yds (15 car)
With D. Jackson — 162 rush yds (10 car) · 3 rec · 89 yds · 1 TD · J. Lloyd — 7 rec · 136 yds · 1 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 391 passing plays (236 completions) against the box score's 392 attempts (237 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.05114 of 207 QBsSack rate
6.7%114 of 207 QBsSacked on 6.7% of dropbacks (114 of 207) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (114 of 207).
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 60.5% completion on 392 attempts · 29 deep completions averaging 37.8 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2018 baseline
-45
percentile points worse on first down
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.
3 seasons under David Cutcliffe — 19-19 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 234 | 1.4 | 7.0 | 1.0 |
| Road5g | 216 | 2.0 | 6.6 | 0.4 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 249 | 2.6 | 8.9 | 0.8 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 238 | 1.5 | 5.6 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
David Cutcliffe
Pass share
50.0%
474 pass / 474 run
Plays / game
72.9
13 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2018
392 pass attempts, 104 carries and 1 catch in 11 games, more passes and runs a game than nearly every FBS quarterback who plays every week.
Career, closed
Gone at #6 overall.
How it ended
Three seasons at Duke, 8,160 passing yards — drafted at #6 overall by the New York Giants.
A stat line in 35 games over three seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2015–2018
1 coachPlayed every college season under David Cutcliffe.
Next stop · NFL
New York GiantsEntering 8th NFL season
New York GiantsEntering 8th NFL season
