Garrett Grayson: QB · Colorado State · #18.
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Garrett Grayson
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. First career honor, 2014: All-Mountain West. One game to point at: 434 passing yards and 3 passing TD against Boise State — Week 2, 2014.
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
45.8% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 35.8% conversion-per-dropback — 13.6% 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
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Colorado State | 270 | 420 | 64.3% | 4,006 | 9.5 | 32 | 7 | 166.2 | 84 |
| Career | 270 | 420 | 64.3% | 4,006 | 9.5 | 32 | 7 | 166.2 | 84 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Colorado State | 57 | −46 | −0.8 | 0 | 19 |
| Career | 57 | −46 | −0.8 | 0 | 19 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2014 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 31-17vs Colorado | 13/23 | 134 | 1 | 0 | 5.8 | 70.8 | |
| Wk 2 | L 24-37@ Boise State | 31/58 | 434 | 3 | 2 | 7.5 | 64.3 | Season-high 434 yds |
| Wk 3 | W 49-21vs UC Davis | 22/31 | 425 | 4 | 0 | 13.7 | 93.2 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | W 24-21@ Boston College | 27/41 | 268 | 2 | 2 | 6.5 | 55.0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 42-17vs Tulsa | 12/18 | 236 | 3 | 1 | 13.1 | 83.1 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 7 | W 31-24@ Nevada | 26/36 | 326 | 3 | 0 | 9.1 | 86.0 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | W 16-13vs Utah State | 20/31 | 243 | 0 | 0 | 7.8 | 41.2 | |
| Wk 9 | W 45-31vs Wyoming | 18/21 | 390 | 5 | 0 | 18.6 | 98.9 | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 10 | W 38-31@ San José State | 22/28 | 290 | 1 | 0 | 10.4 | 93.8 | |
| Wk 11 | W 49-22vs Hawai'i | 13/24 | 278 | 4 | 0 | 11.6 | 35.1 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 13 | W 58-20vs New Mexico | 23/29 | 389 | 3 | 0 | 13.4 | 93.4 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 14 | L 24-27@ Air Force | 23/46 | 366 | 3 | 1 | 8.0 | 46.2 | 3 TD passes |
 Bowl | L 10-45vs No. 23 Utah | 20/34 | 227 | 0 | 1 | 6.7 | 34.7 | |
| Total | 270/420 | 4006 | 32 | 7 | 9.5 | — |
Week 3 · 2014
W 49-21
vs UC Davis · neutral site
425 yds · 4 TD · 0 INT · QBR 93.2
Dominant 28-point win at a neutral site against UC Davis.
With R. Higgins — 7 rec · 147 yds · 2 TD · E. Masters Jr. — 5 rec · 112 yds
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 393 passing plays (249 completions) against the box score's 420 attempts (270 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
9.534 of 181 QBsSack rate
5.2%82 of 181 QBsRarely sacked (82 of 181 QBs) and still 4 of 181 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 64.3% completion on 420 attempts · 59 deep completions averaging 35.6 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2014 baseline
No situation moves him more than 53 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
2014 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 307 | 3.0 | 12.9 | 0.2 |
| Road5g | 337 | 2.4 | 8.3 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 293 | 2.3 | 8.9 | 0.9 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 326 | 2.7 | 11.6 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jim McElwain
Pass share
51.3%
447 pass / 425 run
Plays / game
67.1
13 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2014
First team in his league at the position.
How it ended
One season at Colorado State, 4,006 passing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2014) — drafted at #75 overall by the New Orleans Saints.
Honored in a first season.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-MOUNTAIN WEST · 1ST TEAM
All-Mountain West 1st team (2014)
Coaching lineage · 2011–2014
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Steve Fairchild → Jim McElwain. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Next stop · NFL
New Orleans SaintsEntering 12th NFL season
New Orleans SaintsEntering 12th NFL season
