Hudson Card: QB · Purdue · #1.
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Hudson Card
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Played for three head coaches at two programs in five seasons: Tom Herman, Steve Sarkisian and Ryan Walters. A game that shows it: 342 passing yards and 1 passing TD against Michigan State — Week 13, 2024.
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
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. checkdown by design
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 10 games
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| 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 No. 18 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@ No. 3 Ohio State | 9/19 | 108 | 0 | 1 | 5.7 | 19.2 | |
| Wk 12 | L 10-49vs No. 4 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@ No. 10 Indiana | 6/13 | 35 | 0 | 1 | 2.7 | 7.7 | |
| Total | 144/248 | 1641 | 9 | 7 | 6.6 | — |
Week 1 · 2024
W 49-0
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 — 46.7 yards per punt · 3 punts · 1 inside the 20
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 232 passing plays (140 completions) against the box score's 248 attempts (144 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.07159 of 205 QBsSack rate
7.5%156 of 205 QBsSacked 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 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 58.1% completion on 248 attempts · 18 deep completions averaging 29.3 yds.
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.
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
2024 season · 10 games
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
Head Coach
Ryan Walters
Pass share
48.8%
328 pass / 344 run
Plays / game
56.0
12 games
Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.
Player standing · 2024
248 pass attempts, 46 carries and 1 catch in 10 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Former four-star. Now #104 at the position.
How it ended
Five seasons, at Texas and Purdue, 5,551 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
The role got bigger.
Coaching lineage · 2020–2024
3 coachesPlayed for 3 head coaches at 2 schools: Tom Herman, Steve Sarkisian and Ryan Walters.
