Haynes King keeps submitting exhibits like 2,951 pass YDS, 2,500-yd club, and the Georgia Tech fanbase keeps asking for one more week.
6′3″ · 215 lb · Longview, TX
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.
The numbers
passing yards · 2025
14 TD · 6 INT · 8.2 per attempt
Backed by 19 car · 156 yds · 3 TD -- top 1% rushing TDs game. -- Best game: 408 pass yds, 2 TD, 1 INT, at NC State
The play that turned itSwung Georgia Tech from 27% to 89% to win.Syracuse at Georgia Tech · 31-22
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 quarterback for Georgia Tech. 2025: 2,951 passing yards, 14 TD, 6 INT.
How he plays
Extends plays with his feet until something opens up.
Sack rate: 91st percentile.
The full scouting readAura™ · Him Watch
+9aura tax
81st pctl our passing-value metric (wEPA) QBs · 160 qualified, n=292
— the discourse is fair.Buzz vs Tape
The wider college football conversation reads him warmer than his own fans do — a gap of 16.6 points in belief.
This is the year. ~~Bo Nix~~ Haynes King has improved so much ~~under~~ in year ~~2~~ 3 of this new offense. He's focused. He's having fun. I wouldn't be surprised if he's a dark horse for the Heisman
Also worth knowing:
“It’s a Preseason Game with very lose defense, but glad to see Haynes King getting it done submitted by /u/taohid1 [link] [comments]”
Fan claims · every quote verified verbatim
Bro what? Wr had the catch and bobbled it. Theyre giving Mendoza some easy throws. He is not gonna scramble like Haynes king.
The Brent Key experiment needs to be over. Geoff Collins was really bad, and he's better than Collins. That doesn't make him a good coach though. Haynes King masked a lot of flaws.
Based on 3 comments from 3 posters across 3 threads · Sep 4, 2026 · via CFB
King will never be able to get the Heisman with his stats. He just gets honorable mentioned for his guts and how well he runs this offense.
Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Oct 11, 2025 · via CFB
This is the year. ~~Bo Nix~~ Haynes King has improved so much ~~under~~ in year ~~2~~ 3 of this new offense.
Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Aug 29, 2025 · via CFB
Haynes King
Haynes King is on trial in Georgia Tech's fan jury — the eye test against the résumé.
PASS YDS · 2,500-YD CLUB
2,951
2951 passing yards — clears the 2,500-QB volume bar.
Georgia Tech fans can't agree whether the tape backs the reputation.
Minority viewA vocal minority sees it the other way.
AI-generated narrative · may contain errors · not journalism · updated 2026-09-15
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
ALL-ACC · 1ST TEAM
All-ACC 1st team (2025)
Coaching lineage · 2020–2025
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Geoff Collins → Brent Key. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: sack rate (91st percentile). Strength: success rate (91st 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 · True throw depth (charted plays)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
7.8130 of 206 QBsSack rate
2.7%27 of 206 QBsRarely sacked (27 of 206 QBs) and still 30 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
Short · 0–9 air yds
Middle · 10–19 air yds
Deep · 20+ air yds
Overall 68.8% completion on 352 attempts · 50% completion on 22 deep attempts (20+ air yds).
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2025 baseline
No situation moves him more than 35 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
2025 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 221 | 1.3 | 8.0 | 0.5 |
| Road6g | 271 | 1.0 | 8.6 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 204 | 1.0 | 7.5 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 288 | 1.3 | 9.2 | 0.7 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Brent Key
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2025
First team in his league at the position.
our read the All-Conference 1st team honor is earned — and the box score backs it up emphatically: #8 of 146 FBS quarterbacks by CFB Index Score.2025 profile
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
Former four-star. Now #8 at the position.
2026 outlook
In the mix to repeat All-ACC
Based on 2025: #1 of 17 ACC QBs
49% estimated, 95% confidence interval 43–54%. Base rate measured from players who finished at a comparable rank in their conference and came back the next season. It is an estimate from a small sample, not a forecast of this player.
| Season | Team | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Georgia Tech | 252 | 361 | 69.8% | 2,951 | 8.2 | 14 | 6 | 147.9 | 77 | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Georgia Tech | 196 | 269 | 72.9% | 2,114 | 7.9 | 14 | 2 | 154.6 | 78 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Georgia Tech | 226 | 367 | 61.6% | 2,842 | 7.7 | 27 | 16 | 142.2 | 59 | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Texas A&M | 104 | 187 | 55.6% | 1,220 | 6.5 | 7 | 6 | 116.4 | 41 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Texas A&M | 22 | 35 | 62.9% | 300 | 8.6 | 2 | 3 | 136.6 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2020 | Texas A&M | 2 | 4 | 50.0% | 59 | 14.8 | 1 | 1 | 206.4 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 802 | 1,223 | 65.6% | 9,486 | 7.8 | 65 | 34 | 142.7 | 66 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Georgia Tech | 185 | 953 | 5.2 | 15 | -- |
| 2024 | Georgia Tech | 126 | 577 | 4.6 | 11 | -- |
| 2023 | Georgia Tech | 120 | 737 | 6.1 | 10 | -- |
| 2022 | Texas A&M | 29 | 89 | 3.1 | 1 | -- |
| 2021 | Texas A&M | 6 | 24 | 4.0 | 0 | -- |
| 2020 | Texas A&M | 6 | 43 | 7.2 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 472 | 2,423 | 5.1 | 37 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 3 · 2025
W 24–21
vs Clemson
211 yds · 0 TD · 0 INT · QBR 69.1 · 103 rush yds (25 car) · 1 TD
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 3 at home.
With M. Nichols — 46 AVG · 48 LONG · 2 NO · A. Birr — 55 LONG · 100 PCT · 10 PTS
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 12 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 27-20@ Colorado | 13/20 | 143 | 0 | 1 | 7.2 | 89.1 | |
| Wk 3 | W 24-21vs Clemson | 20/28 | 211 | 0 | 0 | 7.5 | 69.1 | |
| Wk 4 | W 45-24vs Temple | 13/18 | 161 | 2 | 0 | 8.9 | 65.7 | |
| Wk 5 | W 30-29@ Wake Forest | 28/42 | 243 | 1 | 0 | 5.8 | 73.9 | |
| Wk 7 | W 35-20vs Virginia Tech | 20/24 | 213 | 1 | 0 | 8.9 | 92.8 | |
| Wk 8 | W 27-18@ Duke | 14/21 | 205 | 0 | 0 | 9.8 | 85.9 | |
| Wk 9 | W 41-16vs Syracuse | 25/31 | 304 | 3 | 0 | 9.8 | 93.2 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 10 | L 36-48@ NC State | 25/35 | 408 | 2 | 1 | 11.7 | 84.2 | Season-high 408 yds |
| Wk 12 | W 36-34@ Boston College | 26/34 | 371 | 1 | 0 | 10.9 | 74.6 | |
| Wk 13 | L 28-42vs Pittsburgh | 27/41 | 257 | 2 | 2 | 6.3 | 33.9 | |
| Wk 14 | L 9-16vs Georgia | 19/27 | 181 | 0 | 1 | 6.7 | 63.2 | |
| Bowl | L 21-25@ BYU | 22/40 | 254 | 2 | 1 | 6.4 | 82.8 | |
| Total | 252/361 | 2951 | 14 | 6 | 8.3 | 75.7 |
Play style
Extends plays with his feet until something opens up.
CFB Index positional classification
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
50.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 22.2% conversion-per-dropback — 52.9% 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. ~ our read: checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
20 of 26 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (76.9%). 19 of the team's 31 inside-the-5 carries (61.3%).
2026 Outlook
Georgia Tech
2026 Depth chart
Returning starter
Quarterback · Georgia Tech · editorial
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
Georgia Tech · Last season: 9-4 (AP #24) · Talent rank #34 · 2026 recruiting class #41
Player DNA
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Haynes King’s 2024 season.
Matches Haynes on
Differs from Haynes on
Through 5 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Ethan Garbers’s path through UCLA.
Matches Ethan on
Player DNA
Heisman Trajectory · 2025
Peaked at #22 this season.