David Pindell: QB · UConn · #5.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
David Pindell
Extends plays on the move until something opens up. Two seasons in the UConn quarterback room to date. A game that shows it: 308 passing yards and 137 rushing yards against Rhode Island — Week 3, 2018.
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
53.2% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 25.5% conversion-per-dropback — 48.0% 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
11 of 15 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (73.3%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 17-56vs No. 21 UCF | 27/41 | 266 | 1 | 1 | 6.5 | — | |
| Wk 2 | L 7-62@ No. 20 Boise State | 11/21 | 71 | 1 | 1 | 3.4 | — | |
| Wk 3 | W 56-49vs Rhode Island | 20/27 | 308 | 4 | 1 | 11.4 | — | Season-high 308 yds |
| Wk 4 | L 21-51@ Syracuse | 17/24 | 151 | 1 | 0 | 6.3 | — | |
| Wk 5 | L 7-49vs Cincinnati | 9/23 | 125 | 1 | 0 | 5.4 | — | |
| Wk 6 | L 14-55@ Memphis | 22/37 | 190 | 1 | 2 | 5.1 | — | |
| Wk 8 | L 30-38@ No. 21 South Florida | 10/21 | 133 | 0 | 1 | 6.3 | — | |
| Wk 9 | L 17-22vs Massachusetts | 4/6 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 2.5 | — | |
| Wk 10 | L 19-49@ Tulsa | 14/28 | 232 | 2 | 1 | 8.3 | — | |
| Wk 11 | L 50-62vs SMU | 25/38 | 215 | 4 | 1 | 5.7 | — | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | L 21-55@ East Carolina | 15/25 | 156 | 3 | 1 | 6.2 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 13 | L 7-57vs Temple | 12/23 | 89 | 1 | 3 | 3.9 | — | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Total | 186/314 | 1951 | 19 | 13 | 6.2 | — |
Week 3 · 2018
W 56-49
vs Rhode Island
308 yds · 4 TD · 1 INT · 137 rush yds (26 car) · 2 TD
Edged out Rhode Island at home in a shootout.
With K. Dixon — 2 rec · 37 yds · H. Maurisseau — 1 rec · 74 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
Adjusted ANY/A
4.81167 of 207 QBsSack rate
6.5%112 of 207 QBsSacked on 6.5% of dropbacks (112 of 207) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (167 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 59.2% completion on 314 attempts · 25 deep completions averaging 32.8 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2018 baseline
No situation moves him more than 30 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.
2 seasons under Randy Edsall, all run-leaning offenses — 4-20 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 170 | 1.8 | 5.9 | 1.2 |
| Road6g | 156 | 1.3 | 5.9 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 185 | 1.5 | 6.4 | 0.8 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 140 | 1.7 | 5.5 | 1.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Randy Edsall
Pass share
41.3%
349 pass / 496 run
Plays / game
70.4
12 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2018
314 pass attempts, 212 carries and 1 catch in 12 games, more passes and runs a game than nearly every FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at UConn, 2,888 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2015–2018
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Bob Diaco → Randy Edsall. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
