Evan Simon

#12 · QB · Sr. · Temple6′3″ · 205 lb · Mount Joy, PA · Manheim Central

Evan Simon is a quarterback who has not played this season; the last season with a stat line was 2025, at Temple.

Simon operates within the system without forcing anything. Played for three head coaches at two programs in five seasons: Greg Schiano, Everett Withers and K.C. Keeler. The first career honor came in 2025: AAC Offensive Player of the Week. A game that shows it: 345 passing yards and 20 rushing yards against Navy — Week 7, 2025.

Where to follow

Career stats

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Season	Team
2025	Temple	190	314	60.5%	2,098	6.7	25	2	141.6	50
2024	Temple	181	308	58.8%	2,032	6.6	15	9	124.4	25
2023	Rutgers	2	3	66.7%	30	10.0	1	0	260.7	--
2022	Rutgers	79	137	57.7%	782	5.7	4	6	106.5	44
2021	Rutgers	16	28	57.1%	145	5.2	0	1	93.5	--
Career		468	790	59.2%	5,087	6.4	45	18	127.6	39

Season	Team
2025	Temple	75	191	2.5	2	34
2024	Temple	87	20	0.2	3	16
2023	Rutgers	--	--	--	--	--
2022	Rutgers	22	−2	−0.1	0	15
2021	Rutgers	8	6	0.8	0	11
Career		192	215	1.1	5	34

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 42-10@ Massachusetts	19/25	248	6	0	9.9	95.8	6 TD passes
Wk 2	W 55-7vs Howard	8/10	174	3	0	17.4	92.1	3 TD passes
Wk 3	L 3-42vs No. 13 Oklahoma	13/25	75	0	0	3.0	17.6
Wk 4	L 24-45@ No. 18 Georgia Tech	13/32	127	1	0	4.0	37.9
Wk 6	W 27-21vs UTSA	16/25	181	2	0	7.2	70.9
Wk 7	L 31-32vs Navy	25/36	345	1	0	9.6	80.2	Season-high 345 yds
Wk 8	W 49-14@ Charlotte	15/22	194	3	0	8.8	76.9	3 TD passes
Wk 9	W 38-37@ Tulsa	24/35	267	5	0	7.6	72.0	5 TD passes
Wk 10	L 14-45vs East Carolina	11/20	80	0	1	4.0	29.0
Wk 11	L 13-14@ Army	15/25	157	1	0	6.3	72.4
Wk 13	L 13-37vs No. 24 Tulane	21/32	168	2	0	5.3	49.1
Wk 14	L 25-52@ No. 21 North Texas	10/27	82	1	1	3.0	22.8
Total		190/314	2098	25	2	6.7	—

Highs and lows

Only games with 20 or more plays count for best and lowest.
Best by our grade	at Massachusetts	W 42-10 · Graded great · Steady all game · 248 yds, 6 TD, 0 INT · Rush 4 for 21 · Sacked 0
Lowest by our grade	at Georgia Tech	L 24-45 · Graded rough · Passing grade only · 127 yds, 1 TD, 0 INT · Rush 14 for 68 · Sacked 2
Biggest game	Oklahoma	No. 13 at kickoff · L 3-42 · Graded rough · 75 yds, 0 TD, 0 INT · Rush 9 for -10 · Sacked 2
Best play	at Massachusetts	Completion, touchdown, Q2 11:48 · Win chance 39% to 65%

Passing profile

Pass Profile · True throw depth (charted plays)

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

190/314 (60.5%) · 25 TD · 2 INT

291 of 314 attempts matched to play-by-play

133 of 291 attempts charted for true throw depth

Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 291 passing plays (174 completions) against the box score's 314 attempts (190 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.

Adjusted ANY/A

7.4054 of 206 QBs

Sack rate

4.3%82 of 206 QBs

Rarely sacked (82 of 206 QBs) and still 54 of 206 in Adjusted ANY/A.

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

Behind LOS · Negative air yds

14% of attempts (18)

61%comp

Air -2.8 · YAC 6.5 avg

Short · 0–9 air yds

50% of attempts (66)

67%comp

Air 4.1 · YAC 2.3 avg

Middle · 10–19 air yds

29% of attempts (38)

45%comp2 INT

Air 14.6 · YAC 5.3 avg

Deep · 20+ air yds

8% of attempts (11)

27%comp

Air 29.6 · YAC -2.7 avg

Overall 60.5% completion on 314 attempts · 27% completion on 11 deep attempts (20+ air yds).

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2025 baseline

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

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-18 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 2/105 (1.9%) · league sack rate 4.2%

Down 2

-5 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 4/87 (4.6%) · league sack rate 4.5%

Down 3+

+26 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 6/88 (6.8%) · league sack rate 7.8%

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.

Teams and coaches

2021Rutgers5-8HC: Greg Schiano · Run-leaning

2022Rutgers4-8HC: Greg Schiano · Run-leaning

2023Rutgers7-6HC: Greg Schiano · Run-heavy, slow tempo

2024Temple3-9HC: Stan Drayton · Balanced

2025Temple5-7HC: K.C. Keeler · Balanced, slow tempo

Our ratings

CFB Zeitgeist Score 50 (#68 of 146). Show the ratings

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles · 2025 season

50Rotational starter #68 of 146 · 2025?

Ascending13 metrics · season cumulative

2025 score: the 2026 sample is not big enough yet. The rows below are 2026 so far. Elite: interception rate (96th percentile). Strength: epa / dropback (85th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Interception rate#8 / 183 · 96th pct

0.7%

EPA / dropback#28 / 183 · 85th pct

0.30

Explosive rate#36 / 183 · 81st pct

11.0%

Success rate#47 / 183 · 74th pct

43.6%

Sack rate#72 / 183 · 61st pct

4.6%

Box-score rates (8)

Interceptions#8 / 183 · 92nd pct

Pass TDs#19 / 183 · 89th pct

Fumbles lost#32 / 174 · 66th pct

Rush yards#74 / 183 · 60th pct

191

Pass yards#83 / 183 · 55th pct

2098

Rush TDs#101 / 183 · 39th pct

Completion %#113 / 183 · 38th pct

60.5%

Yards / att#120 / 183 · 31st pct

6.7

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

39th → 85th percentile

Success rate

16th → 74th percentile

Explosive rate

28th → 81st percentile

Sack rate

17th → 61st percentile

Interception rate

97th → 96th percentile

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps in 2025. 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).

Zeitgeist Passer Rating

2025 · our own passing-efficiency number, shown next to the 1979 formula it does not replace.

After 277 dropbacks

50Zeitgeist Passer Rating71st of 142 FBS QBs

NCAA passer rating 141.6 51st of 142 FBS QBs

ZPR ranks this quarterback 20 places lower than passer rating does: passer rating rewards the low interception count, which ZPR treats as mostly luck.

Positive-play rate weight 24%

46.0%53rd pct of FBS QBs

share of dropbacks that gained expected points · -1.3% schedule adj.

Yards per attempt weight 56%

6.8442nd pct of FBS QBs

sacks excluded · -0.3 schedule adj.

Sack rate weight 21% (penalty)

4.6%67th pct of FBS QBs

the input passer rating cannot see · +0.3% schedule adj.

Opponent-adjusted; garbage time excluded (28 of 305 dropbacks dropped). 50 = FBS average; the number is pulled toward 50 when the sample is thin. How ZPR is built.

Splits

Home and road splits, scheme and staff

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home6g	170	1.3	7.8	0.2
Road6g	179	2.8	6.6	0.2

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-76g	192	2.2	8.5	0.0
Weeks 8+6g	158	2.0	5.8	0.3

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

K.C. Keeler

Pass share

47.0%

348 pass / 392 run

Plays / game

61.7

12 games

Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Starter

314 pass attempts and 75 carries in 12 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score

50 · #68 of 146 QBs · 2025

Three-star recruit. Now #68 at the position.

2026 outlook

In the mix for All-AAC

Based on 2025: #10 of 15 American Athletic QBs

How the All-AAC base rate is computed

A base rate for the rank, not a forecast of this player: 35% of returning players who ranked #4–10 at their position in their conference made an all-conference team the next season (95% confidence interval 31–38%).