Senior quarterback for Sam Houston. 2025: 1,108 passing yards, 5 TD, 4 INT.
6′3″ · 210 lb · Celina, 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
5 TD · 4 INT · 6.1 per attempt
The play that turned itSwung Sam Houston from 40% to 88% to win.Jacksonville State at Sam Houston · 29-27
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 quarterback for Sam Houston. 2025: 1,108 passing yards, 5 TD, 4 INT.
How he plays
Operates within the system without forcing anything.
Interception rate: 60th percentile.
The full scouting readHunter Watson
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Hunter Watson has been at Sam Houston through two head coaches in two seasons. 2024 brought the first one: Conference USA Offensive Player of the Week. The receipt on tape: 222 pass yds, 16 rush yds against New Mexico State, Week 6, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
He was winning awards before he was old enough to be a story.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2024–2025
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: K.C. Keeler → Phil Longo. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
In Portal · 2026
In transfer portal
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Concern: epa / dropback (7th 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
4.80166 of 206 QBsSack rate
8.1%177 of 206 QBsSacked on 8.1% of dropbacks (177 of 206) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (166 of 206).
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 54.4% completion on 160 attempts · 53% of attempts thrown 0–9 air yds.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 7 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 133 | 1.3 | 6.8 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 178 | 0.2 | 5.7 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 151 | 0.8 | 5.7 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 177 | 0.5 | 7.2 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Phil Longo
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2025
Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.
| Season | Team | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Sam Houston | 104 | 182 | 57.1% | 1,108 | 6.1 | 5 | 4 | 113.0 | 38 | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Sam Houston | 175 | 281 | 62.3% | 1,811 | 6.4 | 12 | 8 | 124.8 | 22 | -- | -- |
| Career | 279 | 463 | 60.3% | 2,919 | 6.3 | 17 | 12 | 120.2 | 27 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Sam Houston | 74 | 276 | 3.7 | 2 | -- |
| 2024 | Sam Houston | 168 | 647 | 3.9 | 9 | -- |
| Career | 242 | 923 | 3.8 | 11 | -- |
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 7 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 24-41@ Western Kentucky | 19/30 | 209 | 0 | 1 | 7.0 | 41.3 | |
| Wk 1 | L 21-38vs UNLV | 11/22 | 101 | 0 | 0 | 4.6 | 47.7 | |
| Wk 4 | L 0-55@ Texas | 13/25 | 86 | 0 | 1 | 3.4 | 20.6 | |
| Wk 6 | L 10-37@ New Mexico State | 22/34 | 222 | 1 | 1 | 6.5 | 22.8 | Season-high 222 yds |
| Wk 7 | L 27-29vs Jacksonville State | 12/19 | 136 | 3 | 0 | 7.2 | 44.5 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | L 17-35vs UTEP | 13/19 | 161 | 1 | 0 | 8.5 | 58.7 | |
| Wk 10 | L 14-55@ Louisiana Tech | 14/33 | 193 | 0 | 1 | 5.8 | 21.9 | |
| Total | 104/182 | 1108 | 5 | 4 | 6.1 | 36.8 |
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
39.4% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 14.3% conversion-per-dropback — 61.5% 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
Player DNA
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Brendon Lewis’s 2021 season.
Matches Brendon on
Differs from Brendon on
Through 2 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Brayden Schager’s path through Hawai'i.
Matches Brayden on
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Cam Fancher's sophomore season at Marshall (2022).
Matches Cam on
Differs from Cam on
Player DNA