Gary Nova: QB · Rutgers · #10.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Gary Nova
Throws it deep and dares you to make a play. One game to point at: 404 passing yards and 5 rushing yards against Michigan — Week 6, 2014.
Play style
Go-for-it mentality with the arm to back it up — and the turnovers to live with.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
44.6% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 26.7% conversion-per-dropback — 36.0% 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
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
2 of the team's 20 inside-the-5 carries (10.0%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
The Detroit News Oct 29
247Sports Oct 20Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Rutgers | 187 | 327 | 57.2% | 2,851 | 8.7 | 22 | 12 | 145.3 | 85 |
| Career | 187 | 327 | 57.2% | 2,851 | 8.7 | 22 | 12 | 145.3 | 85 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Rutgers | 45 | −5 | −0.1 | 3 | 20 |
| Career | 45 | −5 | −0.1 | 3 | 20 |
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 41-38@ Washington State | 16/27 | 281 | 2 | 1 | 10.4 | 68.6 | |
| Wk 2 | W 38-25vs Howard | 15/19 | 282 | 4 | 0 | 14.8 | 94.9 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | L 10-13vs Penn State | 15/30 | 192 | 0 | 5 | 6.4 | 28.3 | 5 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 4 | W 31-24@ Navy | 11/14 | 151 | 0 | 0 | 10.8 | 94.1 | |
| Wk 5 | W 31-6vs Tulane | 14/21 | 291 | 4 | 1 | 13.9 | 98.0 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 6 | W 26-24vs Michigan | 22/39 | 404 | 3 | 0 | 10.4 | 83.5 | Season-high 404 yds |
| Wk 8 | L 17-56@ No. 13 Ohio State | 17/28 | 192 | 0 | 1 | 6.9 | 44.7 | |
| Wk 9 | L 24-42@ No. 16 Nebraska | 8/19 | 156 | 1 | 1 | 8.2 | 27.9 | |
| Wk 10 | L 0-37vs Wisconsin | 5/15 | 46 | 0 | 1 | 3.1 | 2.2 | |
| Wk 12 | W 45-23vs Indiana | 16/27 | 217 | 2 | 0 | 8.0 | 54.5 | |
| Wk 13 | L 3-45@ No. 10 Michigan State | 11/26 | 108 | 0 | 2 | 4.2 | 7.1 | |
| Wk 14 | W 41-38@ Maryland | 28/42 | 347 | 4 | 0 | 8.3 | 85.9 | 4 TD passes |
 Bowl | W 40-21vs North Carolina | 9/20 | 184 | 2 | 0 | 9.2 | 87.0 | |
| Total | 187/327 | 2851 | 22 | 12 | 8.7 | — |
Week 14 · 2014
W 41-38
at Maryland
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 325 passing plays (186 completions) against the box score's 327 attempts (187 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.6134 of 181 QBsSack rate
5.2%83 of 181 QBsRarely sacked (83 of 181 QBs) and still 34 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 57.2% completion on 327 attempts · 46 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 28 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 | 230 | 1.8 | 8.4 | 1.4 |
| Road6g | 206 | 1.2 | 8.1 | 0.8 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 255 | 2.1 | 10.8 | 1.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 178 | 1.2 | 6.5 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Kyle Flood
Pass share
42.8%
356 pass / 476 run
Plays / game
64.0
13 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2014
327 pass attempts and 45 carries in 13 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
One season at Rutgers, 2,851 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2011–2014
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Greg Schiano → Kyle Flood. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
