Devin Gardner: QB · Michigan · #98.
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Devin Gardner
Operates within the system without forcing anything. One game to point at: 233 passing yards and 21 rushing yards against Ohio State — Week 14, 2014.
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 27.5% conversion-per-dropback — 38.9% 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
5 of the team's 17 inside-the-5 carries (29.4%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Michigan | 174 | 283 | 61.5% | 1,896 | 6.7 | 10 | 15 | 118.8 | 49 |
| Career | 174 | 283 | 61.5% | 1,896 | 6.7 | 10 | 15 | 118.8 | 49 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Michigan | 98 | 258 | 2.6 | 4 | 25 |
| Career | 98 | 258 | 2.6 | 4 | 25 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2014 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 52-14vs App State | 13/14 | 173 | 3 | 0 | 12.4 | 96.6 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | L 0-31@ No. 16 Notre Dame | 19/32 | 189 | 0 | 3 | 5.9 | 30.4 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 3 | W 34-10vs Miami (OH) | 13/20 | 184 | 2 | 1 | 9.2 | 71.5 | |
| Wk 4 | L 10-26vs Utah | 14/26 | 148 | 0 | 2 | 5.7 | 27.3 | |
| Wk 5 | L 14-30vs Minnesota | 3/6 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 6.5 | 81.5 | |
| Wk 6 | L 24-26@ Rutgers | 13/22 | 178 | 0 | 1 | 8.1 | 73.5 | |
| Wk 7 | W 18-13vs Penn State | 16/24 | 192 | 1 | 1 | 8.0 | 30.8 | |
| Wk 9 | L 11-35@ No. 8 Michigan State | 15/30 | 125 | 0 | 2 | 4.2 | 2.6 | |
| Wk 10 | W 34-10vs Indiana | 22/29 | 220 | 2 | 1 | 7.6 | 76.8 | |
| Wk 11 | W 10-9@ Northwestern | 11/24 | 109 | 0 | 2 | 4.5 | 6.0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 16-23vs Maryland | 13/24 | 106 | 0 | 1 | 4.4 | 40.8 | |
| Wk 14 | L 28-42@ No. 7 Ohio State | 22/32 | 233 | 2 | 1 | 7.3 | 67.2 | Season-high 233 yds |
| Total | 174/283 | 1896 | 10 | 15 | 6.7 | — |
Week 14 · 2014
L 28-42
at Ohio State
233 yds · 2 TD · 1 INT · QBR 67.2 · 21 rush yds (14 car)
With D. Johnson — 74 rush yds (15 car) · 2 TD · 18 yds · 0 TD · 0 INT · QBR 99.8 · W. Hagerup — 41.3 yards per punt · 4 punts · 1 inside the 20
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 281 passing plays (173 completions) against the box score's 283 attempts (174 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
4.08156 of 181 QBsSack rate
7.8%149 of 181 QBsSacked on 7.8% of dropbacks (149 of 181) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (156 of 181).
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 61.5% completion on 283 attempts · 24 deep completions averaging 26.0 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2014 baseline
No situation moves him more than 8 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
2014 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 152 | 1.1 | 7.7 | 0.9 |
| Road5g | 167 | 0.4 | 6.0 | 1.8 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 158 | 0.9 | 8.0 | 1.1 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 159 | 0.8 | 5.6 | 1.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Brady Hoke
Pass share
43.6%
326 pass / 421 run
Plays / game
62.2
12 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2014
283 pass attempts, 98 carries and 1 catch in 12 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
One season at Michigan, 1,896 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2010–2014
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Rich Rodriguez → Brady Hoke. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
