Emory Jones

Senior quarterback for Cincinnati. 2023: 2,219 passing yards, 18 TD, 10 INT.

QB · Cincinnati · Sr. · #5

6′3″ · 212 lb · Lagrange, GA

CFB Index 50 · #60 of 140 QBsHigh confidenceCincinnati 2023 alumnus

Recruiting

4★

DUAL recruit

No. 85 nationally · Signed with Florida

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 quarterback for Cincinnati. 2023: 2,219 passing yards, 18 TD, 10 INT.

Signed as a 4-star recruit to Florida in 2018.
Transferred from Arizona State to Cincinnati in 2023.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Six seasons at Cincinnati, 7,099 passing yards — his college career is complete.

His career

He arrived as a blue-chip recruit and played like one.

20184 games

Signed with Florida4-star out of Heard County

20228 games

The role got bigger.

Entered the portal

202312 games

Entered the portal

Career arc

Recruit

★★★★

#85 national

CFB

College

3 teams

2018–2023

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Coaching lineage · 2018–2023

2 coaches

2018–2022

Luke Fickell

Cincinnati

2023

Scott Satterfield

Cincinnati

era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Luke Fickell → Scott Satterfield. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

2023 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2018Florida10-3HC: Dan Mullen · Run-leaning

2019Florida11-2HC: Dan Mullen · Balanced

2020Florida8-4HC: Dan Mullen · Pass-leaning, fast tempo

2021Florida6-7HC: Dan Mullen · Run-leaning, fast tempo

2022Arizona State3-9HC: Herm Edwards · Balanced

2023Cincinnati3-9HC: Scott Satterfield · Run-leaning

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

50Rotational starter #60 of 140?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: interception rate (84th percentile). Strength: rush yards (92nd percentile). Concern: interceptions (15th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Interception rate#1 / 177 · 84th pct

0.0%

Success rate#93 / 177 · 47th pct

41.5%

Explosive rate#106 / 177 · 40th pct

9.5%

EPA / dropback#109 / 177 · 39th pct

0.23

Sack rate#121 / 177 · 32nd pct

7.3%

Box-score rates (8)

Rush yards#15 / 179 · 92nd pct

560

Rush TDs#49 / 179 · 67th pct

Pass TDs#60 / 179 · 66th pct

Pass yards#69 / 179 · 62nd pct

2219

Completion %#89 / 179 · 50th pct

61.2%

Fumbles lost#76 / 167 · 40th pct

Yards / att#105 / 179 · 39th pct

6.9

Interceptions#148 / 179 · 15th pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

33rd → 39th percentile

Success rate

41st → 47th percentile

Explosive rate

65th → 40th percentile

Sack rate

4th → 32nd percentile

Interception rate

46th → 84th percentile

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).

Passing profile

Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)

Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from

192/306 (62.7%) · 18 TD · 10 INT

306 of 322 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

5.80120 of 212 QBs

Sack rate

6.9%148 of 212 QBs

Sacked 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 yds

56%of completions

108 comp4.5 yds avg5 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

29%of completions

55 comp13.3 yds avg3 TD

Deep

20+ yds

15%of completions

29 comp31.3 yds avg8 TD

Overall 62.7% completion on 306 attempts · 29 deep completions averaging 31.3 yds.

Situational

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.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-25 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 5/127 (3.9%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 2

-0 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 8/93 (8.6%) · league sack rate 5.2% · ~our read

Down 3+

+37 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 7/85 (8.2%) · league sack rate 9.1% · ~our read

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 & context

Splits · Per-game

2023 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

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

2026 season

Head Coach

Scott Satterfield

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2023

Impact starter

Producing measurably more than a replacement-level starter.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

50 · #60 of 140 QBs

Former four-star. Now #60 at the position.

Career stats

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	--
2022	Arizona State	59	31	0.5	4	--
2021	Florida	143	759	5.3	4	--
2020	Florida	32	217	6.8	2	--
2019	Florida	42	256	6.1	4	--
2018	Florida	16	34	2.1	0	--
Career		447	1,857	4.2	18	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2023

W 66–13

vs Eastern Kentucky

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 · 4 rush yds (1 car) · 1 TD

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 1 · Eastern Kentucky · 3&15 · Q2 · EPA +6.30Emory Jones pass complete to Braden Smith for 48 yds for a TD (Carter Brown KICK)
Week 1 · Eastern Kentucky · 4&5 · Q1 · EPA +6.24Emory Jones pass complete to Xzavier Henderson for 49 yds for a TD (Carter Brown KICK)
Week 12 · West Virginia · 3&15 · Q4 · EPA +4.51Emory Jones pass complete to Xzavier Henderson for 55 yds to the WVU 30 for a 1ST down
Week 5 · BYU · 3&12 · Q4 · EPA +4.44Emory Jones pass complete to Braden Smith for 31 yds for a TD (Carter Brown KICK)
Week 10 · UCF · 3&15 · Q3 · EPA +4.10Emory Jones pass complete to Donovan Ollie for 40 yds to the UCF 40 for a 1ST down
Week 12 · West Virginia · 4&5 · Q4 · EPA +3.85Emory Jones run for 25 yds to the WVU 37 for a 1ST down
Week 5 · BYU · 3&8 · Q2 · EPA +3.71Chamon Metayer 27 Yd pass from Emory Jones (Carter Brown Kick)
Week 8 · Baylor · 4&1 · Q1 · EPA -3.64Emory Jones run for a loss of 3 yards to the BAY 23 Emory Jones fumbled, recovered by CIN Emory Jones
Week 4 · Oklahoma · 3&19 · Q4 · EPA +3.54Emory Jones run for 20 yds to the OU 48 for a 1ST down
Week 3 · Miami (OH) · 3&4 · Q4 · EPA +3.38Emory Jones pass complete to Braden Smith for 37 yds to the M-OH 48 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week