Junior quarterback for Wisconsin. 2025: 635 passing yards, 5 TD, 5 INT.
6′0″ · 205 lb · Indianapolis, IN · Cathedral
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.
The numbers
passing yards · 2025
5 TD · 5 INT · 7.1 per attempt
Best game: 283 pass yds, 3 TD, 1 INT, vs Middle Tennessee
Swing playSwung San Diego State from 17% to 44% to win.Hawai'i at San Diego State · 27-24
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
3 quarterback for Wisconsin. 2025: 635 passing yards, 5 TD, 5 INT.
How he plays
Extends plays with his feet until something opens up.
Success rate: 66th percentile.
The full scouting readAura™ · Him Watch
-17aura tax
27th pctl our passing-value metric (wEPA) QBs · 160 qualified, n=10
— the discourse is fair.Buzz vs Tape
Every angle we can check here reads about where you'd expect this season.
Danny O'Neil
Extends plays with his feet until something opens up. Danny O'Neil has played for two head coaches across two seasons and two programs. 2024 brought the first one: Mountain West Freshman Player of the Week. The receipt: 283 pass yds, 11 rush yds against Middle Tennessee — Week 2, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
He was winning awards before he was old enough to be a story.
Career arc
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
FRESHMAN HONORS
Freshman recognition (2024)
2 mention(s)
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: completion % (89th percentile). Concern: sack rate (0th 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 · True throw depth (charted plays)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
3.76188 of 206 QBsSack rate
13.5%205 of 206 QBsSacked on 13.5% of dropbacks (205 of 206) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (188 of 206).
Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.
Behind LOS · Negative air yds
Deep · 20+ air yds
Overall 68.3% completion on 82 attempts · 50% of attempts thrown negative air yds.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 6 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 104 | 0.8 | 4.1 | 0.6 |
| Road1g | 117 | 1.0 | 6.9 | 2.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 160 | 1.2 | 7.3 | 1.2 |
| Weeks 8+2g | -2.5 | 0.0 | -0.8 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Luke Fickell
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2025
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Wisconsin | 61 | 90 | 67.8% | 635 | 7.1 | 5 | 5 | 134.3 | 41 | -- | -- |
| 2024 | San Diego State | 209 | 330 | 63.3% | 2,181 | 6.6 | 12 | 6 | 127.2 | 17 | -- | -- |
| Career | 270 | 420 | 64.3% | 2,816 | 6.7 | 17 | 11 | 128.7 | 21 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Wisconsin | 50 | 58 | 1.2 | 1 | -- |
| 2024 | San Diego State | 74 | 89 | 1.2 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 124 | 147 | 1.2 | 2 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 11 · 2025
W 13–10
vs Washington
30 rush yds (3 car)
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 3 at home.
With S. West — 24 yds · 0 TD · 0 INT · QBR 100.0 · A. Bertrams — 37 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 43 LONG
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 6 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 17-0vs Miami (OH) | 12/19 | 120 | 1 | 1 | 6.3 | 45.0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 42-10vs Middle Tennessee | 23/27 | 283 | 3 | 1 | 10.5 | 57.8 | Season-high 283 yds |
| Wk 3 | L 14-38@ Alabama | 11/17 | 117 | 1 | 2 | 6.9 | 23.3 | |
| Wk 4 | L 10-27vs Maryland | 14/22 | 120 | 0 | 1 | 5.5 | 18.3 | |
| Wk 8 | L 0-34vs Ohio State | 1/3 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1.7 | 26.4 | |
| Wk 11 | W 13-10vs Washington | 0/2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 33.5 | |
| Total | 61/90 | 635 | 5 | 5 | 4.6 | 34.1 |
Play style
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
CFB Index positional classification
2026 Outlook
Wisconsin
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Quarterback · Wisconsin
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Wisconsin · Last season: 4-8 · Talent rank #30 · 2026 recruiting class #78
Player DNA
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Logan Fife’s 2022 season.
Matches Logan on
Differs from Logan on
Through 2 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Trenton Bourguet’s path through Arizona State.
Parker McKinney
Matches Trenton on
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Anthony Colandrea's sophomore season at Virginia (2024).
Differs from Anthony on
Player DNA
Awards and Honors 2024: All-Mountain West honorable mention (College Football Network), 2x Mountain West Freshman of the Week (Oct. 5, Oct. 12) 2025 Season (Sophomore): Played in seven games, making three starts at quarterback … finished the season with 635 yards and five touchdown passes on 61-f...