Ethan Garbers

Former quarterback at UCLA. 2024: 2,727 passing yards, 16 TD, 11 INT.

QB · UCLA · Sr. · #4

6′3″ · 210 lb · Newport Beach, CA

CFB Index 55 · #49 of 137 QBsHigh confidenceUCLA 2024 — college career complete

Recruiting

4★

PRO recruit

No. 121 nationally · Signed with Washington

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

Former quarterback at UCLA. 2024: 2,727 passing yards, 16 TD, 11 INT.

Signed as a 4-star recruit to Washington in 2020.
Transferred from Washington to UCLA in 2021.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Four seasons at UCLA, 4,462 passing yards — his college career is complete.

His career

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

The week the volume broke through — put up 56 yds at Nebraska.Nebraska · W 27-202024

2020

Signed with Washington4-star out of Corona Del Mar

20215 games

Entered the portal

202411 games

The role got bigger.

All-Big Ten

Career arc

Recruit

★★★★

#121 national

CFB

College

UCLA

2021–2024

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Coaching lineage · 2021–2024

2 coaches

2021–2023

Chip Kelly

UCLA

2024

Deshaun Foster

UCLA

era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Chip Kelly → Deshaun Foster. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

2024 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2021UCLA8-4HC: Chip Kelly · Run-heavy

2022UCLA9-4HC: Chip Kelly · Run-leaning

2023UCLA8-5HC: Chip Kelly · Run-leaning

2024UCLA5-7HC: Deshaun Foster · Balanced, slow tempo

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

55Quality starter #49 of 137?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: sack rate (22nd percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Explosive rate#49 / 169 · 71st pct

11.5%

Success rate#52 / 169 · 69th pct

43.7%

EPA / dropback#57 / 169 · 67th pct

0.27

Interception rate#127 / 169 · 25th pct

3.0%

Sack rate#132 / 169 · 22nd pct

8.1%

Box-score rates (8)

Completion %#44 / 165 · 73rd pct

64.7%

Pass yards#49 / 165 · 71st pct

2727

Pass TDs#67 / 165 · 57th pct

Yards / att#70 / 165 · 57th pct

7.5

Rush yards#85 / 165 · 48th pct

137

Rush TDs#105 / 165 · 27th pct

Interceptions#132 / 165 · 16th pct

Fumbles lost#147 / 159 · 5th pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

38th → 67th percentile

Success rate

81st → 69th percentile

Explosive rate

5th → 71st percentile

Sack rate

21st → 22nd percentile

Interception rate

4th → 25th 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

236/364 (64.8%) · 16 TD · 11 INT

364 of 363 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

6.02117 of 205 QBs

Sack rate

8.1%165 of 205 QBs

Sacked on 8.1% of dropbacks (165 of 205) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (117 of 205).

Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.

Short

0–9 yds

54%of completions

128 comp5.2 yds avg6 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

28%of completions

66 comp13.7 yds avg3 TD

Deep

20+ yds

18%of completions

42 comp28.2 yds avg7 TD

Overall 64.8% completion on 364 attempts · 42 deep completions averaging 28.2 yds.

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2024 baseline

No situation moves him more than 26 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-26 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 9/136 (6.6%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 2

+8 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 5/125 (4.0%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 3+

+22 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 18/114 (15.8%) · league sack rate 8.1% · ~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

2024 season · 11 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home6g	218	0.8	7.0	1.3
Road5g	284	2.2	8.0	0.6

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-75g	220	0.8	7.0	1.8
Weeks 8+6g	271	2.0	7.9	0.3

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Bob Chesney

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

Awards

Player standing · 2024

Impact starter

Producing measurably more than a replacement-level starter.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

55 · #49 of 137 QBs

Former four-star. Now #49 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2024	UCLA	235	363	64.7%	2,727	7.5	16	11	136.3	71	--	--
2023	UCLA	98	146	67.1%	1,136	7.8	11	3	153.2	38	--	--
2022	UCLA	26	37	70.3%	294	7.9	2	2	144.0	--	--	--
2021	UCLA	31	51	60.8%	305	6.0	2	2	116.1	--	--	--
Career		390	597	65.3%	4,462	7.5	31	18	139.2	62	--	--

Season	Team
2024	UCLA	83	137	1.7	1	--
2023	UCLA	35	127	3.6	0	--
2022	UCLA	7	--	0.0	2	--
2021	UCLA	18	31	1.7	0	--
Career		143	295	2.1	3	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 11 · 2024

W 20–17

vs Iowa

203 yds · 2 TD · 2 INT · QBR 67.6 · 23 rush yds (4 car)

A wire-to-wire battle — won by 3 at home.

With T. Harden — 125 rush yds (20 car) · B. Richter — 55 AVG · 55 LONG · 1 NO

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 8 · Rutgers · 2&2 · Q3 · EPA +5.17Ethan Garbers pass complete to Keegan Jones for 67 yds for a TD (Mateen Bhaghani KICK)
Week 8 · Rutgers · 2&12 · Q2 · EPA +5.13Ethan Garbers run for 49 yds for a TD (Mateen Bhaghani KICK)
Week 11 · Iowa · 2&3 · Q1 · EPA -4.79Ethan Garbers pass intercepted, touchback. Quinn Schulte return for no gain
Week 10 · Nebraska · 3&9 · Q2 · EPA +4.49Ethan Garbers run for 57 yds to the NEB 17 for a 1ST down
Week 1 · Hawai'i · 3&12 · Q3 · EPA +4.49Ethan Garbers pass complete to Rico Flores Jr. for 53 yds to the HAW 8 for a 1ST down
Week 1 · Hawai'i · 3&5 · Q1 · EPA -4.21Ethan Garbers pass intercepted, touchback. Jalen Smith return for no gain
Week 12 · Washington · 3&9 · Q1 · EPA +3.92Ethan Garbers pass complete to Moliki Matavao for 33 yds to the WASH 31 for a 1ST down
Week 4 · LSU · 2&12 · Q3 · EPA -3.78Ethan Garbers run for a loss of 23 yards to the UCLA 48 Ethan Garbers fumbled, recovered by UCLA Garrett DiGiorgio
Week 7 · Minnesota · 3&6 · Q2 · EPA -3.69Ethan Garbers pass intercepted Cody Lindenberg return for no gain to the MINN 14
Week 10 · Nebraska · 1&10 · Q3 · EPA +3.69Ethan Garbers pass complete to Kwazi Gilmer for 48 yds for a TD (Mateen Bhaghani KICK)

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2024 season · 11 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 16-13@ Hawai'i	19/38	272	1	2	7.2	39.6
Wk 3	L 13-42vs Indiana	14/23	137	0	1	6.0	45.5
Wk 4	L 17-34@ LSU	22/36	281	2	1	7.8	47.4
Wk 5	L 13-34vs Oregon	12/20	118	0	2	5.9	24.7
Wk 7	L 17-21vs Minnesota	25/36	293	1	3	8.1	70.8	3 INTs — rough day
Wk 8	W 35-32@ Rutgers	32/38	383	4	0	10.1	96.6	Season-high 383 yds
Wk 10	W 27-20@ Nebraska	17/25	219	2	0	8.8	94.4
Wk 11	W 20-17vs Iowa	21/34	203	2	2	6.0	67.6
Wk 12	L 19-31@ Washington	27/44	267	2	0	6.1	76.0	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 13	L 13-19vs USC	20/29	265	1	0	9.1	47.1
Wk 14	W 20-13vs Fresno State	26/40	289	1	0	7.2	67.2
Total		235/363	2727	16	11	7.5	61.5

How he plays

Play style

Consistent underneath passer who protects the lead. Rarely loses games; rarely wins them alone.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

54.5%Completion %

27.1%Conversion/dropback

45.8%Land short of sticks

2INTs

54.5% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 27.1% conversion-per-dropback — 45.8% 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. ~ our read: checkdown by design