Dylan Hopkins: QB · New Mexico · #10.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Dylan Hopkins
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Played for three head coaches at two programs in five seasons: Bill Clark, Bryant Vincent and Danny Gonzales. Mountain West Offensive Player of the Week in 2023 made it three straight seasons on the honors list. On tape: 273 passing yards and 9 rushing yards against Tennessee Tech, Week 2, 2023.
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
40.5% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 25.0% 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
1 of the team's 22 inside-the-5 carries (4.5%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | New Mexico | 157 | 282 | 55.7% | 2,074 | 7.4 | 11 | 9 | 123.9 | 47 |
| 2022 | UAB | 136 | 215 | 63.3% | 1,920 | 8.9 | 10 | 4 | 149.9 | 74 |
| 2021 | UAB | 155 | 235 | 66.0% | 2,274 | 9.7 | 18 | 7 | 166.6 | 69 |
| 2019 | UAB | 44 | 85 | 51.8% | 563 | 6.6 | 3 | 5 | 107.3 | 38 |
| 2018 | UAB | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 492 | 817 | 60.2% | 6,831 | 8.4 | 42 | 25 | 141.3 | 59 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | New Mexico | 51 | 124 | 2.4 | 1 | 48 |
| 2022 | UAB | 48 | 116 | 2.4 | 2 | 61 |
| 2021 | UAB | 85 | 19 | 0.2 | 5 | 27 |
| 2019 | UAB | 64 | 217 | 3.4 | 1 | 78 |
| 2018 | UAB | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 248 | 476 | 1.9 | 9 | 78 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 10-52@ No. 23 Texas A&M | 15/24 | 115 | 0 | 1 | 4.8 | 63.8 | |
| Wk 2 | W 56-10vs Tennessee Tech | 13/17 | 273 | 4 | 1 | 16.1 | 81.1 | Season-high 273 yds |
| Wk 3 | L 17-27vs New Mexico State | 20/39 | 247 | 1 | 0 | 6.3 | 37.5 | |
| Wk 4 | W 34-31@ Massachusetts | 9/17 | 192 | 1 | 0 | 11.3 | 82.6 | |
| Wk 5 | L 26-35@ Wyoming | 14/30 | 151 | 1 | 1 | 5.0 | 42.1 | |
| Wk 7 | L 24-52vs San José State | 13/24 | 187 | 0 | 1 | 7.8 | 22.3 | |
| Wk 8 | W 42-21vs Hawai'i | 20/25 | 202 | 3 | 0 | 8.1 | 86.6 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 9 | L 24-34@ Nevada | 18/34 | 271 | 1 | 3 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 10 | L 14-56vs UNLV | 15/23 | 187 | 0 | 0 | 8.1 | 56.6 | |
| Wk 12 | W 25-17@ Fresno State | 8/18 | 124 | 0 | 2 | 6.9 | 15.5 | |
| Wk 13 | L 41-44vs Utah State | 12/31 | 125 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | 29.7 | |
| Total | 157/282 | 2074 | 11 | 9 | 7.4 | — |
Week 2 · 2023
W 56-10
273 yds · 4 TD · 1 INT · QBR 81.1
Dominant 46-point win at home against Tennessee Tech.
With J. Merritt — 162 rush yds (12 car) · 3 TD · D. Jones — 1 rec · 78 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 266 passing plays (156 completions) against the box score's 282 attempts (157 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.22105 of 212 QBsSack rate
4.4%69 of 212 QBsRarely sacked (69 of 212 QBs) and still 105 of 212 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 55.7% completion on 282 attempts · 30 deep completions averaging 34.0 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2023 baseline
No situation moves him more than 40 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
2023 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 204 | 1.3 | 8.4 | 0.3 |
| Road5g | 171 | 0.6 | 7.2 | 1.4 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 194 | 1.2 | 8.6 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 182 | 0.8 | 7.0 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Danny Gonzales
Pass share
44.5%
351 pass / 437 run
Plays / game
65.7
12 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2023
282 pass attempts and 51 carries in 11 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Three-star recruit. Now #90 at the position.
How it ended
Five seasons, at UAB and New Mexico, 6,831 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
The role got bigger.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-CONFERENCE USA
All-Conference USA mention (2021)
Weekly recognition
2 weekly honors (2023)
3 career weekly honors across 2 seasons
Coaching lineage · 2018–2023
3 coachesPlayed for 3 head coaches at 2 schools: Bill Clark, Bryant Vincent and Danny Gonzales.
