Former quarterback at Penn State. 2025: 1,100 passing yards, 8 TD, 3 INT.
6′5″ · 235 lb · Medina, OH
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
8 TD · 3 INT · 6.9 per attempt
The play that turned itSwung Penn State from 17% to 68% to win.Oregon at Penn State · 30-24
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
Former quarterback at Penn State. 2025: 1,100 passing yards, 8 TD, 3 INT.
How he plays
Extends plays with his feet until something opens up.
Interception rate: 81st percentile.
The full scouting readAura™ · Him Watch
+17aura tax
75th pctl our passing-value metric (wEPA) QBs · 160 qualified, n=315
— the discourse is fair.Buzz vs Tape
His own fans read him warmer than the wider college football conversation does — a gap of 73.7 points in belief.
Also worth knowing:
“Sure I knew Drew Allar would be bad, but even with a bad QB PSU had the talent to go 8-4 at least.”
Drew Allar
Extends plays with his feet until something opens up. Drew Allar has played for two head coaches in four seasons at Penn State. Two straight seasons of it now: All-Big Ten again in 2024. One game to point at: 217 pass yds, 20 rush yds against Nevada — Week 1, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at Penn State, 7,402 passing yards — drafted at #76 overall by Pittsburgh.
His career
He arrived as a blue-chip recruit and played like one.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2022–2025
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: James Franklin → Terry Smith. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Where He Ended Up · NFL
Pittsburgh2026 NFL rookie season
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: interception rate (81st percentile). Strength: success rate (80th percentile). Concern: explosive rate (12th 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
6.6579 of 206 QBsSack rate
3.6%58 of 206 QBsRarely sacked (58 of 206 QBs) and still 79 of 206 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 air yds
Overall 63.7% completion on 146 attempts · 100% of attempts thrown 0–9 air yds.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 6 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 180 | 1.2 | 6.8 | 0.6 |
| Road1g | 200 | 2.0 | 7.7 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 183 | 1.3 | 7.0 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Matt Campbell
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 | Penn State | 103 | 159 | 64.8% | 1,100 | 6.9 | 8 | 3 | 135.7 | 48 | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Penn State | 262 | 394 | 66.5% | 3,327 | 8.4 | 24 | 8 | 153.5 | 87 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Penn State | 233 | 388 | 60.1% | 2,631 | 6.8 | 25 | 2 | 137.2 | 51 | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Penn State | 35 | 60 | 58.3% | 344 | 5.7 | 4 | 0 | 128.5 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 633 | 1,001 | 63.2% | 7,402 | 7.4 | 61 | 13 | 142.9 | 66 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Penn State | 36 | 172 | 4.8 | 1 | -- |
| 2024 | Penn State | 96 | 302 | 3.1 | 6 | -- |
| 2023 | Penn State | 74 | 210 | 2.8 | 4 | -- |
| 2022 | Penn State | 18 | 52 | 2.9 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 224 | 736 | 3.3 | 12 | -- |
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 46-11vs Nevada | 22/26 | 217 | 1 | 0 | 8.3 | 39.3 | Season-high 217 yds |
| Wk 2 | W 34-0vs Florida International | 19/33 | 200 | 2 | 0 | 6.1 | 57.2 | |
| Wk 3 | W 52-6vs Villanova | 16/29 | 209 | 1 | 1 | 7.2 | 19.6 | |
| Wk 5 | L 24-30vs Oregon | 14/25 | 137 | 2 | 1 | 5.5 | 68.6 | |
| Wk 6 | L 37-42@ UCLA | 19/26 | 200 | 2 | 0 | 7.7 | 81.8 | |
| Wk 7 | L 21-22vs Northwestern | 13/20 | 137 | 0 | 1 | 6.9 | 52.7 | |
| Total | 103/159 | 1100 | 8 | 3 | 7.0 | 53.2 |
Play style
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
CFB Index positional classification
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
1 of the team's 29 inside-the-5 carries (3.4%).
Player DNA
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to D.J. Uiagalelei’s 2022 season.
Matches D.J. on
Differs from D.J. on
Through 4 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Eli Peters’s path through Toledo.
Matches Eli on
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Tyler Shough's senior season at Texas Tech (2023).
Differs from Tyler on
Player DNA
Heisman Trajectory · 2025
Peaked at #55 this season.