DeShone Kizer: QB · Notre Dame · #14.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
DeShone Kizer
Pushes it downfield on every look. Second year in the same quarterback room at Notre Dame. A game that shows it: 471 passing yards and 3 passing TD against Syracuse — Week 5, 2016.
Play style
Elite arm talent, pushing downfield. Completion rate is the variable.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
54.5% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 35.1% conversion-per-dropback — 33.3% 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
8 of the team's 22 inside-the-5 carries (36.4%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Notre Dame | 212 | 361 | 58.7% | 2,925 | 8.1 | 26 | 9 | 145.6 | 63 |
| 2015 | Notre Dame | 211 | 335 | 63.0% | 2,884 | 8.6 | 21 | 10 | 150.0 | 69 |
| Career | 423 | 696 | 60.8% | 5,809 | 8.3 | 47 | 19 | 147.7 | 66 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Notre Dame | 129 | 472 | 3.7 | 8 | 49 |
| 2015 | Notre Dame | 134 | 520 | 3.9 | 10 | 79 |
| Career | 263 | 992 | 3.8 | 18 | 79 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2016 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 47-50@ Texas | 15/24 | 215 | 5 | 0 | 9.0 | 89.8 | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 39-10vs Nevada | 15/18 | 156 | 2 | 1 | 8.7 | 75.1 | |
| Wk 3 | L 28-36vs No. 12 Michigan State | 20/37 | 344 | 2 | 1 | 9.3 | 67.3 | |
| Wk 4 | L 35-38vs Duke | 22/37 | 381 | 2 | 1 | 10.3 | 84.9 | |
| Wk 5 | W 50-33vs Syracuse | 23/35 | 471 | 3 | 1 | 13.5 | 76.9 | Season-high 471 yds |
| Wk 6 | L 3-10@ NC State | 9/26 | 54 | 0 | 1 | 2.1 | 3.3 | |
| Wk 7 | L 10-17vs Stanford | 14/26 | 154 | 0 | 2 | 5.9 | 39.2 | |
| Wk 9 | W 30-27vs Miami | 25/38 | 263 | 2 | 0 | 6.9 | 67.3 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 10 | L 27-28vs Navy | 19/27 | 223 | 3 | 0 | 8.3 | 90.2 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 11 | W 44-6vs Army | 17/28 | 209 | 3 | 1 | 7.5 | 95.5 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | L 31-34vs Virginia Tech | 16/33 | 235 | 2 | 0 | 7.1 | 51.7 | |
| Wk 13 | L 27-45@ No. 12 USC | 17/32 | 220 | 2 | 1 | 6.9 | 18.8 | |
| Total | 212/361 | 2925 | 26 | 9 | 8.1 | — |
Week 1 · 2016
L 47-50
at Texas
215 yds · 5 TD · 0 INT · QBR 89.8 · 77 rush yds (13 car) · 1 TD
With T. Newsome — 38.3 yards per punt · 7 punts · 53 long · C. Sanders — 3 rec · 55 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 359 passing plays (211 completions) against the box score's 361 attempts (212 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.5336 of 193 QBsSack rate
6.5%118 of 193 QBsSacked on 6.5% of dropbacks (118 of 193) — and still 36 of 193 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 58.7% completion on 361 attempts · 51 deep completions averaging 30.9 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2016 baseline
No situation moves him more than 25 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 Brian Kelly — 14-11 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 256 | 1.7 | 8.0 | 0.8 |
| Road3g | 163 | 2.3 | 6.0 | 0.7 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 254 | 2.0 | 8.4 | 1.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 230 | 2.4 | 7.3 | 0.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Brian Kelly
Pass share
47.4%
387 pass / 429 run
Plays / game
68.0
12 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2016
361 pass attempts, 129 carries and 1 catch in 12 games, more passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Notre Dame, 5,809 passing yards — drafted at #52 overall by the Cleveland Browns.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Brian Kelly.
Next stop · NFL
Cleveland BrownsEntering 10th NFL season
Cleveland BrownsEntering 10th NFL season
