Everett Golson: QB · Florida State · #6.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Everett Golson
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. The two seasons span two programs and two head coaches: Brian Kelly and Jimbo Fisher. One game to point at: 372 passing yards and 3 passing TD against Louisville — Week 7, 2015.
Play style
High-percentage passer who protects the ball. Loses the matchup on improvisation.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
57.7% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 34.5% 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
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
The New York Times Nov 1
Saturday Down South Oct 28Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Florida State | 147 | 219 | 67.1% | 1,778 | 8.1 | 11 | 3 | 149.2 | 57 |
| 2014 | Notre Dame | 256 | 427 | 60.0% | 3,445 | 8.1 | 29 | 14 | 143.6 | 74 |
| Career | 403 | 646 | 62.4% | 5,223 | 8.1 | 40 | 17 | 145.5 | 68 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Florida State | 47 | −35 | −0.7 | 0 | 17 |
| 2014 | Notre Dame | 114 | 283 | 2.5 | 8 | 61 |
| Career | 161 | 248 | 1.5 | 8 | 61 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2015 season · 9 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 59-16vs Texas State | 19/25 | 302 | 4 | 0 | 12.1 | 77.6 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 34-14vs South Florida | 14/26 | 163 | 1 | 0 | 6.3 | 19.6 | |
| Wk 3 | W 14-0@ Boston College | 15/24 | 119 | 1 | 0 | 5.0 | 54.1 | |
| Wk 5 | W 24-16@ Wake Forest | 20/31 | 202 | 1 | 0 | 6.5 | 70.5 | |
| Wk 6 | W 29-24vs Miami | 25/33 | 291 | 1 | 0 | 8.8 | 76.2 | |
| Wk 7 | W 41-21vs Louisville | 26/38 | 372 | 3 | 0 | 9.8 | 59.5 | Season-high 372 yds |
| Wk 8 | L 16-22@ Georgia Tech | 20/30 | 210 | 0 | 1 | 7.0 | 34.3 | |
| Wk 11 | W 34-17vs NC State | 5/9 | 52 | 0 | 2 | 5.8 | 18.1 | |
| Wk 12 | W 52-13vs Chattanooga | 3/3 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 22.3 | 99.2 | |
| Total | 147/219 | 1778 | 11 | 3 | 8.1 | — |
Week 7 · 2015
W 41-21
vs Louisville
372 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 59.5
With D. Cook — 163 rush yds (22 car) · 2 TD · 4 rec · 60 yds · K. Whitfield — 9 rec · 172 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 214 passing plays (143 completions) against the box score's 219 attempts (147 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.3142 of 198 QBsSack rate
7.2%140 of 198 QBsSacked on 7.2% of dropbacks (140 of 198) — and still 42 of 198 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 67.1% completion on 219 attempts · 24 deep completions averaging 27.2 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2015 baseline
No situation moves him more than 46 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
2015 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 208 | 1.5 | 10.8 | 0.3 |
| Road3g | 177 | 0.7 | 6.2 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 242 | 1.8 | 8.1 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 110 | 0.0 | 11.7 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jimbo Fisher
Pass share
50.1%
418 pass / 417 run
Plays / game
64.2
13 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2015
Our Heisman model had this player inside its top 25 in 2015.
How it ended
Two seasons, at Notre Dame and Florida State, 5,223 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2011–2015
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 2 schools: Brian Kelly and Jimbo Fisher.
