Jacob Clark

#12 · QB · Sr. · Missouri State6′5″ · 220 lb · Rockwall, TX

Jacob Clark is a quarterback who has not played this season; the last season with a stat line was 2025, at Missouri State.

Clark pushes it downfield on every look. Played for two head coaches at two programs in two seasons: P.J. Fleck and Nick Petrino. First career honor, 2025: All-Conference USA. One game to point at: 359 passing yards and 30 rushing yards against Marshall — Week 2, 2025.

Where to follow

Career stats

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Season	Team
2025	Missouri State	247	376	65.7%	3,244	8.6	28	11	156.9	59
2019	Minnesota	1	1	100.0%	39	39.0	0	0	427.6	--
Career		248	377	65.8%	3,283	8.7	28	11	157.6	59

Season	Team
2025	Missouri State	94	−16	−0.2	3	14
2019	Minnesota	--	--	--	--	--
Career		94	−16	−0.2	3	14

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	L 13-73@ USC	16/24	147	1	2	6.1	18.9	4 TD passes
Wk 2	W 21-20@ Marshall	21/31	359	3	1	11.6	51.3	Season-high 359 yds
Wk 3	L 10-28vs SMU	23/37	275	1	3	7.4	29.2	3 INTs — rough day
Wk 4	W 42-10vs UT Martin	20/28	271	3	0	9.7	72.5	3 TD passes
Wk 5	L 22-27vs Western Kentucky	8/15	143	0	0	9.5	50.7
Wk 9	W 24-17@ New Mexico State	28/44	283	3	2	6.4	41.8	3 TD passes
Wk 10	W 28-21vs Florida International	16/27	163	2	0	6.0	63.4
Wk 11	W 21-17@ Liberty	20/33	286	2	0	8.7	61.1	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 12	W 38-24vs UTEP	30/39	330	4	0	8.5	76.8	4 TD passes
Wk 13	L 34-41@ Kennesaw State	23/32	344	3	2	10.8	70.4	3 TD passes
Wk 14	L 30-42vs Louisiana Tech	17/31	294	2	1	9.5	70.0
Bowl	L 28-34vs Arkansas State	25/35	349	4	0	10.0	42.6
Total		247/376	3244	28	11	8.6	—

Highs and lows

Only games with 20 or more plays count for best and lowest.
Best by our grade	at Kennesaw State	L 34-41 · Graded great · 344 yds, 3 TD, 2 INT · Rush 3 for -2 · Interceptions cost about 13 points of win chance · Sacked 1
Lowest by our grade	Arkansas State	L 28-34 · Graded shaky · 349 yds, 4 TD, 0 INT · Rush 14 for -24 · Sacked 6
Best play	at Marshall	Completion, touchdown, Q4 2:12 · Win chance 14% to 71%

Passing profile

Pass Profile · True throw depth (charted plays)

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

247/376 (65.7%) · 28 TD · 11 INT

355 of 376 attempts matched to play-by-play

204 of 355 attempts charted for true throw depth

Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 355 passing plays (224 completions) against the box score's 376 attempts (247 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.

Adjusted ANY/A

7.3855 of 206 QBs

Sack rate

9.6%190 of 206 QBs

Sacked on 9.6% of dropbacks (190 of 206) — and still 55 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

10% of attempts (20)

80%comp

Air -2.8 · YAC 8.6 avg

Short · 0–9 air yds

54% of attempts (110)

68%comp2 INT

Air 4.3 · YAC 4.3 avg

Middle · 10–19 air yds

24% of attempts (49)

59%comp1 INT

Air 14.3 · YAC 3.9 avg

Deep · 20+ air yds

12% of attempts (25)

48%comp2 INT

Air 26.5 · YAC 2.4 avg

Overall 65.7% completion on 376 attempts · 48% completion on 25 deep attempts (20+ air yds).

Situational

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.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-18 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 13/152 (8.6%) · league sack rate 4.2%

Down 2

-8 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 9/122 (7.4%) · league sack rate 4.5%

Down 3+

+35 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 12/102 (11.8%) · league sack rate 7.8%

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.

Teams and coaches

2019Minnesota11-2HC: P.J. Fleck · Run-heavy

2025Missouri State7-6HC: Ryan Beard · Balanced

Our ratings

CFB Zeitgeist Score 55 (#52 of 146). Show the ratings

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles · 2025 season

55Quality starter #52 of 146 · 2025?

13 metrics · season cumulative

2025 score: the 2026 sample is not big enough yet. The rows below are 2026 so far. Elite: explosive rate (92nd percentile). Strength: pass tds (93rd percentile). Concern: sack rate (6th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Explosive rate#16 / 183 · 92nd pct

12.7%

EPA / dropback#66 / 183 · 64th pct

0.23

Success rate#80 / 183 · 56th pct

41.2%

Interception rate#93 / 183 · 49th pct

2.3%

Sack rate#173 / 183 · 6th pct

10.1%

Box-score rates (8)

Pass TDs#12 / 183 · 93rd pct

Yards / att#19 / 183 · 90th pct

8.6

Pass yards#22 / 183 · 88th pct

3244

Completion %#49 / 183 · 73rd pct

65.7%

Fumbles lost#32 / 174 · 66th pct

Rush TDs#86 / 183 · 49th pct

Rush yards#156 / 183 · 15th pct

-16

Interceptions#162 / 183 · 10th pct

Season trend

EPA / dropback— first qualifying season

Success rate— first qualifying season

Explosive rate— first qualifying season

Sack rate— first qualifying season

Interception rate— first qualifying season

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps in 2025. 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).

Zeitgeist Passer Rating

2025 · our own passing-efficiency number, shown next to the 1979 formula it does not replace.

After 364 dropbacks

59Zeitgeist Passer Rating48th of 142 FBS QBs

NCAA passer rating 156.9 15th of 142 FBS QBs

ZPR ranks this quarterback 33 places lower than passer rating does: passer rating cannot see sacks, and a sack comes on 9.3% of dropbacks.

Positive-play rate weight 24%

47.3%64th pct of FBS QBs

share of dropbacks that gained expected points · -0.5% schedule adj.

Yards per attempt weight 56%

8.1587th pct of FBS QBs

sacks excluded · -0.1 schedule adj.

Sack rate weight 21% (penalty)

9.9%3rd pct of FBS QBs

the input passer rating cannot see · +0.5% schedule adj.

Opponent-adjusted; garbage time excluded (31 of 395 dropbacks dropped). 50 = FBS average; the number is pulled toward 50 when the sample is thin. How ZPR is built.

Splits

Home and road splits, scheme and staff

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home6g	246	2.0	8.4	0.7
Road5g	284	2.4	8.7	1.4

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-76g	257	2.0	9.0	1.0
Weeks 8+6g	283	2.7	8.3	0.8

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Nick Petrino

Pass share

51.9%

433 pass / 401 run

Plays / game

64.2

13 games

Scheme: Balanced.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

All-Conference

Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score

55 · #52 of 146 QBs · 2025

Three-star recruit. Now #52 at the position.

2026 outlook

In the mix to repeat All-Conference USA

Based on 2025: #3 of 16 Conference USA QBs

How the All-Conference USA base rate is computed

A base rate for the rank, not a forecast of this player: 49% of returning players who ranked #1–3 at their position in their conference made an all-conference team the next season (95% confidence interval 43–54%).