Emory Jones: QB · Cincinnati · #5.
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Emory Jones
Extends plays on the move until something opens up. The six seasons span three programs and three head coaches: Dan Mullen, Herm Edwards and Scott Satterfield. The first one came in 2023: Big 12 Newcomer Player of the Week. A game that shows it: 345 passing yards and 26 rushing yards against Eastern Kentucky — Week 1, 2023.
Play style
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
65.6% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 28.2% conversion-per-dropback — 47.6% 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 13 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (61.5%). 5 of the team's 18 inside-the-5 carries (27.8%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
Yahoo Sports Oct 24
Front Office Sports Oct 22Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Cincinnati | 197 | 322 | 61.2% | 2,219 | 6.9 | 18 | 10 | 131.3 | 28 |
| 2022 | Arizona State | 125 | 198 | 63.1% | 1,533 | 7.7 | 7 | 4 | 135.8 | 47 |
| 2021 | Florida | 224 | 346 | 64.7% | 2,734 | 7.9 | 19 | 13 | 141.7 | 76 |
| 2020 | Florida | 18 | 32 | 56.2% | 221 | 6.9 | 2 | 1 | 128.6 | -- |
| 2019 | Florida | 25 | 38 | 65.8% | 267 | 7.0 | 3 | 0 | 150.9 | -- |
| 2018 | Florida | 12 | 16 | 75.0% | 125 | 7.8 | 2 | 0 | 181.9 | -- |
| Career | 601 | 952 | 63.1% | 7,099 | 7.5 | 51 | 28 | 137.6 | 51 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Cincinnati | 155 | 560 | 3.6 | 4 | 25 |
| 2022 | Arizona State | 59 | 31 | 0.5 | 4 | 23 |
| 2021 | Florida | 143 | 759 | 5.3 | 4 | 49 |
| 2020 | Florida | 32 | 217 | 6.8 | 2 | 22 |
| 2019 | Florida | 42 | 256 | 6.1 | 4 | 29 |
| 2018 | Florida | 16 | 34 | 2.1 | 0 | 15 |
| Career | 447 | 1,857 | 4.2 | 18 | 49 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 66-13vs Eastern Kentucky | 19/23 | 345 | 5 | 0 | 15.0 | 96.6 | Season-high 345 yds |
| Wk 2 | W 27-21@ Pittsburgh | 18/26 | 125 | 2 | 1 | 4.8 | 61.3 | |
| Wk 3 | L 24-31vs Miami (OH) | 18/34 | 265 | 0 | 2 | 7.8 | 61.6 | |
| Wk 4 | L 6-20vs No. 16 Oklahoma | 22/41 | 235 | 0 | 2 | 5.7 | 41.9 | |
| Wk 5 | L 27-35@ BYU | 23/37 | 256 | 3 | 1 | 6.9 | 67.5 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 7 | L 10-30vs Iowa State | 14/26 | 96 | 1 | 2 | 3.7 | 61.0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 29-32vs Baylor | 19/30 | 162 | 2 | 0 | 5.4 | 41.0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 13-45@ Oklahoma State | 6/16 | 117 | 0 | 1 | 7.3 | 10.1 | |
| Wk 10 | L 26-28vs UCF | 16/22 | 217 | 1 | 1 | 9.9 | 53.4 | |
| Wk 11 | W 24-14@ Houston | 13/16 | 131 | 1 | 0 | 8.2 | 66.4 | |
| Wk 12 | L 21-42@ West Virginia | 14/24 | 166 | 2 | 0 | 6.9 | 56.7 | |
| Wk 13 | L 16-49vs Kansas | 15/27 | 104 | 1 | 0 | 3.9 | 67.2 | |
| Total | 197/322 | 2219 | 18 | 10 | 6.9 | — |
Week 1 · 2023
W 66-13
345 yds · 5 TD · 0 INT · QBR 96.6 · 26 rush yds (9 car) · 2 TD
Dominant 53-point win at home against Eastern Kentucky.
With X. Henderson — 7 rec · 149 yds · 1 TD · B. Lichtenberg — 93 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 99.9
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 306 passing plays (192 completions) against the box score's 322 attempts (197 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.80120 of 212 QBsSack rate
6.9%148 of 212 QBsSacked on 6.9% of dropbacks (148 of 212) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (120 of 212).
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 61.2% completion on 322 attempts · 29 deep completions averaging 31.3 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2023 baseline
No situation moves him more than 37 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 · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 203 | 1.4 | 7.3 | 1.0 |
| Road5g | 159 | 1.6 | 6.8 | 0.6 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 220 | 1.8 | 7.3 | 1.3 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 150 | 1.2 | 6.9 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Scott Satterfield
Pass share
41.2%
360 pass / 513 run
Plays / game
72.8
12 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2023
322 pass attempts and 155 carries in 12 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Former four-star. Now #60 at the position.
How it ended
Six seasons, at Florida, Arizona State and Cincinnati, 7,099 passing yards — the college career is complete.
A blue-chip recruit with honors.
The role got bigger.
Coaching lineage · 2018–2023
4 coachesPlayed for 4 head coaches at 3 schools: Dan Mullen, Herm Edwards, Shaun Aguano and Scott Satterfield.
