Former quarterback at Florida. 2024: 791 passing yards, 6 TD, 2 INT.
6′3″ · 216 lb · Overland Park, KS
CFB Index
A single number blending on-field production (an EPA-based value lane) with box-score output for this player's position.
0-100, scaled within each position's own cohort — not directly comparable across positions.
Recruiting
PRO recruit
No. 65 nationally · Signed with Wisconsin
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
Former quarterback at Florida. 2024: 791 passing yards, 6 TD, 2 INT.
Graham Mertz
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Graham Mertz has played for three head coaches across six seasons and two programs. 2020 brought the first one: Big Ten Freshman Player of the Week. The receipt: 201 pass yds, 24 rush yds against Mississippi State — Week 4, 2024.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Six seasons at Florida, 9,074 passing yards — drafted at #197 overall by Houston.
His career
He arrived as a blue-chip recruit and played like one.
The role got bigger.
Career arc
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
FRESHMAN HONORS
Freshman recognition (2020)
1 mention(s)
Coaching lineage · 2019–2024
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Dan Mullen → Billy Napier. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Where He Ended Up · NFL
HoustonEntering 2nd NFL season
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: success rate (97th percentile). Strength: completion % (99th percentile). Concern: pass yards (8th percentile).
Real play-by-play efficiency
Season trend
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).
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
8.0130 of 205 QBsSack rate
5.1%87 of 205 QBsRarely sacked (87 of 205 QBs) and still 30 of 205 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 77.5% completion on 89 attempts · 8 deep completions averaging 28.4 yds.
Splits · Per-game
2024 season · 5 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 155 | 0.7 | 8.5 | 0.7 |
| Road2g | 163 | 2.0 | 8.9 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 158 | 1.2 | 8.7 | 0.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jon Sumrall
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2024
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Florida | 72 | 94 | 76.6% | 791 | 8.4 | 6 | 2 | 164.1 | 57 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Florida | 260 | 357 | 72.8% | 2,878 | 8.1 | 20 | 3 | 157.4 | 53 | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Wisconsin | 164 | 286 | 57.3% | 2,136 | 7.5 | 19 | 10 | 135.0 | 38 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Wisconsin | 169 | 284 | 59.5% | 1,958 | 6.9 | 10 | 11 | 121.3 | 60 | -- | -- |
| 2020 | Wisconsin | 118 | 193 | 61.1% | 1,238 | 6.4 | 9 | 5 | 125.2 | 41 | -- | -- |
| 2019 | Wisconsin | 9 | 10 | 90.0% | 73 | 7.3 | 0 | 0 | 151.3 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 792 | 1,224 | 64.7% | 9,074 | 7.4 | 64 | 31 | 139.2 | 50 | -- | -- |
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 5 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 17-41vs Miami | 11/20 | 91 | 0 | 1 | 4.6 | 19.1 | |
| Wk 3 | L 20-33vs Texas A&M | 12/15 | 195 | 1 | 1 | 13.0 | 45.3 | |
| Wk 4 | W 45-28@ Mississippi State | 19/21 | 201 | 3 | 0 | 9.6 | 95.1 | Season-high 201 yds |
| Wk 6 | W 24-13vs UCF | 19/23 | 179 | 1 | 0 | 7.8 | 81.5 | |
| Wk 7 | L 17-23@ Tennessee | 11/15 | 125 | 1 | 0 | 8.3 | 66.9 | |
| Total | 72/94 | 791 | 6 | 2 | 8.7 | 61.6 |
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
CFB Index positional classification
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
1 of the team's 20 inside-the-5 carries (5.0%).
Player DNA
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
His 2024 production profile sits closest to Hudson Card’s 2022 season.
Matches Hudson on
Differs from Hudson on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
Player DNA
Final Heisman position · 2024
Graham Mertz finished 90th in our Heisman model, with a 0% chance of a finalist trip.