Hudson Card

Former quarterback at Purdue. 2024: 1,641 passing yards, 9 TD, 7 INT.

QB · Purdue · Sr. · #1

6′3″ · 210 lb · Austin, TX

CFB Index 33 · #104 of 137 QBsHigh confidencePurdue 2024 — college career complete

Recruiting

4★

DUAL recruit

No. 59 nationally · Signed with Texas

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

Former quarterback at Purdue. 2024: 1,641 passing yards, 9 TD, 7 INT.

Signed as a 4-star recruit to Texas in 2020.
Transferred from Texas to Purdue in 2023.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Five seasons at Purdue, 5,551 passing yards — his college career is complete.

His career

He barely played early on. Then he did not come off the field.

2020

Signed with Texas4-star out of Lake Travis

202311 games

The role got bigger.

Entered the portal

Career arc

Recruit

★★★★

#59 national

CFB

College

2 teams

2020–2024

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Coaching lineage · 2020–2024

2 coaches

2020–2022

Jeff Brohm

Purdue

2023–2024

Ryan Walters

Purdue

era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Jeff Brohm → Ryan Walters. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

2024 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2020Texas7-3HC: Tom Herman · Balanced, fast tempo

2021Texas5-7HC: Steve Sarkisian · Run-leaning

2022Texas8-5HC: Steve Sarkisian · Run-leaning

2023Purdue4-8HC: Ryan Walters · Run-leaning

2024Purdue1-11HC: Ryan Walters · Balanced, slow tempo

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

33Below cohort / limited sample #104 of 137?

High confidence12 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: epa / dropback (22nd percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Interception rate#87 / 169 · 49th pct

2.2%

Success rate#114 / 169 · 32nd pct

38.9%

Explosive rate#129 / 169 · 24th pct

7.8%

Sack rate#129 / 169 · 24th pct

7.9%

EPA / dropback#132 / 169 · 22nd pct

0.12

Box-score rates (7)

Interceptions#78 / 165 · 49th pct

Pass yards#104 / 165 · 37th pct

1641

Pass TDs#120 / 165 · 26th pct

Completion %#125 / 165 · 24th pct

58.1%

Yards / att#129 / 165 · 20th pct

6.6

Rush yards#145 / 165 · 12th pct

-27

Rush TDs#137 / 165 · 9th pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

33rd → 22nd percentile

Success rate

40th → 32nd percentile

Explosive rate

10th → 24th percentile

Sack rate

60th → 24th percentile

Interception rate

84th → 49th percentile

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).

Passing profile

Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)

Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from

140/232 (60.3%) · 9 TD · 7 INT

232 of 248 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

5.07159 of 205 QBs

Sack rate

7.5%156 of 205 QBs

Sacked on 7.5% of dropbacks (156 of 205) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (159 of 205).

Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.

Short

0–9 yds

46%of completions

64 comp4.2 yds avg4 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

41%of completions

58 comp13.7 yds avg1 TD

Deep

20+ yds

13%of completions

18 comp29.3 yds avg2 TD

Overall 60.3% completion on 232 attempts · 18 deep completions averaging 29.3 yds.

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2024 baseline

No situation moves him more than 48 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-48 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 7/74 (9.5%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 2

+33 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 4/72 (5.6%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 3+

+19 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 5/64 (7.8%) · league sack rate 8.1% · ~our read

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 & context

Splits · Per-game

2024 season · 10 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home5g	198	1.4	7.6	0.6
Road5g	130	0.4	4.9	0.8

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-75g	148	1.4	6.3	0.8
Weeks 8+5g	181	0.4	6.1	0.6

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Barry Odom

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2024

Starter

A locked-in starting job.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

33 · #104 of 137 QBs

Former four-star. Now #104 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2024	Purdue	144	248	58.1%	1,641	6.6	9	7	120.0	45	--	--
2023	Purdue	215	365	58.9%	2,387	6.5	15	8	123.0	49	--	--
2022	Texas	75	108	69.4%	928	8.6	6	1	158.1	70	--	--
2021	Texas	51	83	61.4%	590	7.1	5	1	138.6	45	--	--
2020	Texas	1	3	33.3%	5	1.7	0	0	47.3	--	--	--
Career		486	807	60.2%	5,551	6.9	35	17	128.1	50	--	--

Season	Team
2024	Purdue	46	-27	-0.6	0	--
2023	Purdue	93	203	2.2	5	--
2022	Texas	17	46	2.7	0	--
2021	Texas	26	17	0.7	1	--
2020	Texas	4	11	2.8	0	--
Career		186	250	1.3	6	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2024

W 49–0

vs Indiana State

273 yds · 4 TD · 0 INT · QBR 87.8 · 16 rush yds (3 car)

Dominant 49-point win at home against Indiana State.

With E. Jackson — 83 rush yds (3 car) · 1 TD · K. Crimmins — 46 AVG · 1 IN 20 · 54 LONG

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 3 · Notre Dame · 1&10 · Q2 · EPA -9.14Hudson Card pass intercepted Boubacar Traore return for 34 yds for a TD (Mitch Jeter KICK)
Week 4 · Oregon State · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA -8.07Hudson Card pass intercepted Zakaih Saez return for 20 yds for a TD (Everett Hayes KICK)
Week 5 · Nebraska · 2&7 · Q4 · EPA -7.63Hudson Card pass intercepted John Bullock return for 29 yds for a TD (John Hohl KICK)
Week 13 · Michigan State · 3&21 · Q4 · EPA +4.37Hudson Card pass complete to Jaron Tibbs for 38 yds to the MSU 7 for a 1ST down
Week 3 · Notre Dame · 3&5 · Q3 · EPA +3.93Hudson Card pass complete to Kam Brown for 52 yds to the ND 7 for a 1ST down
Week 10 · Northwestern · 3&6 · Q1 · EPA +3.70Hudson Card pass complete to CJ Smith for 32 yds to the NU 39 for a 1ST down
Week 13 · Michigan State · 4&2 · Q2 · EPA +3.65Hudson Card pass complete to Max Klare for 27 yds to the MSU 30 for a 1ST down
Week 4 · Oregon State · 2&10 · Q2 · EPA +3.48Hudson Card pass complete to Max Klare for 32 yds for a TD (Spencer Porath KICK)
Week 5 · Nebraska · 3&11 · Q4 · EPA +3.30Hudson Card pass complete to Leland Smith for 15 yds for a TD (Spencer Porath KICK)
Week 12 · Penn State · 2&11 · Q2 · EPA +3.23Hudson Card pass complete to Jahmal Edrine for 30 yds to the PSU 31 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2024 season · 10 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 49-0vs Indiana State	24/25	273	4	0	10.9	87.8	4 TD passes
Wk 3	L 7-66vs Notre Dame	11/24	124	1	2	5.2	10.2
Wk 4	L 21-38@ Oregon State	7/17	56	1	1	3.3	15.2
Wk 5	L 10-28vs Nebraska	18/25	174	1	1	7.0	33.9
Wk 6	L 6-52@ Wisconsin	11/21	111	0	0	5.3	42.6
Wk 10	L 20-26vs Northwestern	21/37	267	1	0	7.2	67.6
Wk 11	L 0-45@ Ohio State	9/19	108	0	1	5.7	19.2
Wk 12	L 10-49vs Penn State	11/20	151	0	0	7.6	53.8
Wk 13	L 17-24@ Michigan State	26/47	342	1	1	7.3	52.9	Season-high 342 yds
Wk 14	L 0-66@ Indiana	6/13	35	0	1	2.7	7.7
Total		144/248	1641	9	7	6.2	39.1

How he plays

Play style

Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

48.4%Completion %

17.6%Conversion/dropback

60.0%Land short of sticks

1INTs

48.4% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 17.6% conversion-per-dropback — 60.0% 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. ~ our read: checkdown by design