Driphus Jackson: QB · Rice · #6.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Driphus Jackson
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Rated a two-star prospect, with two seasons of snaps at Rice since. On tape: 373 passing yards and 3 passing TD against North Texas, Week 3, 2015.
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
40.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 26.7% conversion-per-dropback — 14.3% 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
2 of the team's 22 inside-the-5 carries (9.1%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2015 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 56-16vs Wagner | 10/19 | 123 | 1 | 1 | 6.5 | 86.5 | |
| Wk 2 | L 28-42@ Texas | 16/29 | 139 | 1 | 2 | 4.8 | 28.5 | |
| Wk 3 | W 38-24@ North Texas | 29/39 | 373 | 3 | 0 | 9.6 | 85.6 | Season-high 373 yds |
| Wk 4 | L 17-70@ No. 5 Baylor | 10/17 | 115 | 1 | 0 | 6.8 | 11.9 | |
| Wk 5 | L 10-49vs Western Kentucky | 5/10 | 87 | 0 | 1 | 8.7 | 1.8 | |
| Wk 6 | W 27-26@ Florida Atlantic | 22/34 | 284 | 3 | 0 | 8.4 | 74.4 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | W 38-31vs Army | 20/30 | 267 | 2 | 0 | 8.9 | 69.3 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 9 | L 17-42vs Louisiana Tech | 14/28 | 180 | 2 | 0 | 6.4 | 47.7 | |
| Wk 10 | L 21-24@ UTEP | 14/26 | 230 | 2 | 0 | 8.8 | 76.0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 10-65vs Southern Miss | 8/19 | 69 | 1 | 0 | 3.6 | 0.7 | |
| Wk 12 | L 24-34@ UTSA | 23/40 | 359 | 2 | 2 | 9.0 | 66.8 | |
| Wk 13 | W 27-7vs Charlotte | 14/25 | 122 | 0 | 1 | 4.9 | 52.5 | |
| Total | 185/316 | 2348 | 18 | 7 | 7.4 | — |
Week 6 · 2015
W 27-26
284 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 74.4 · 27 rush yds (12 car) · 1 TD
A close one, won by 1 on the road.
With D. Dillard — 106 rush yds (23 car) · 3 rec · 44 yds · 1 TD · J. Farrimond — 48 yards per punt · 2 punts · 52 long
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 290 passing plays (171 completions) against the box score's 316 attempts (185 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.3976 of 198 QBsSack rate
9.2%178 of 198 QBsSacked on 9.2% of dropbacks (178 of 198) — and still 76 of 198 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 58.5% completion on 316 attempts · 31 deep completions averaging 32.0 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2015 baseline
No situation moves him more than 54 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 David Bailiff — 13-12 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2015 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 141 | 1.0 | 6.5 | 0.5 |
| Road6g | 250 | 2.0 | 7.9 | 0.7 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 187 | 1.5 | 7.5 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 204 | 1.5 | 6.9 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
David Bailiff
Pass share
41.2%
368 pass / 526 run
Plays / game
74.5
12 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2015
316 pass attempts and 109 carries in 12 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Rice, 5,190 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2011–2015
1 coachPlayed every college season under David Bailiff.
