Jake Coker: QB · Alabama · #14.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Jake Coker
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. Second year in the Alabama quarterback room. One game to point at: 335 passing yards and 2 passing TD against Clemson — Bowl, 2015.
Play style
High-percentage passer who protects the ball. Loses the matchup on improvisation.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
64.2% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 23.2% conversion-per-dropback — 61.8% 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
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
3 of the team's 39 inside-the-5 carries (7.7%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
Yahoo Sports Oct 28
Heavy Oct 28
Saturday Down South Oct 24
The Tuscaloosa News Oct 15Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
Game log · Week-by-week
2015 season · 15 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 35-17vs No. 20 Wisconsin | 15/21 | 213 | 1 | 0 | 10.1 | 42.9 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 2 | W 37-10vs Middle Tennessee | 15/26 | 214 | 1 | 1 | 8.2 | 63.5 | |
| Wk 3 | L 37-43vs No. 15 Ole Miss | 21/45 | 201 | 3 | 2 | 4.5 | 65.2 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | W 34-0vs UL Monroe | 17/31 | 158 | 3 | 1 | 5.1 | 26.9 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | W 38-10@ No. 8 Georgia | 11/16 | 190 | 1 | 0 | 11.9 | 87.4 | |
| Wk 6 | W 27-14vs Arkansas | 24/33 | 262 | 2 | 2 | 7.9 | 43.9 | |
| Wk 7 | W 41-23@ No. 9 Texas A&M | 19/25 | 138 | 0 | 0 | 5.5 | 46.3 | |
| Wk 8 | W 19-14vs Tennessee | 21/27 | 247 | 0 | 1 | 9.1 | 49.9 | |
| Wk 10 | W 30-16vs No. 4 LSU | 18/24 | 184 | 0 | 0 | 7.7 | 28.0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 31-6@ No. 20 Mississippi State | 15/25 | 144 | 1 | 1 | 5.8 | 25.1 | |
| Wk 12 | W 56-6vs Charleston Southern | 11/13 | 155 | 2 | 0 | 11.9 | 96.1 | |
| Wk 13 | W 29-13@ Auburn | 17/26 | 179 | 1 | 0 | 6.9 | 47.4 | |
| Wk 14 | W 29-15vs No. 18 Florida | 18/26 | 204 | 2 | 0 | 7.8 | 76.1 | |
 Bowl | W 38-0vs No. 3 Michigan State | 25/30 | 286 | 2 | 0 | 9.5 | 78.3 | |
 Bowl | W 45-40vs No. 1 Clemson | 16/25 | 335 | 2 | 0 | 13.4 | 63.3 | |
| Total | 263/393 | 3110 | 21 | 8 | 7.9 | — |
Week 3 · 2015
L 37-43
vs Ole Miss
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 386 passing plays (257 completions) against the box score's 393 attempts (263 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.1848 of 198 QBsSack rate
6.0%99 of 198 QBsRarely sacked (99 of 198 QBs) and still 48 of 198 in Adjusted ANY/A.
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 66.9% completion on 393 attempts · 37 deep completions averaging 36.1 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2015 baseline
No situation moves him more than 8 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.
2 seasons under Nick Saban, all run-leaning offenses — 26-3 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2015 season · 15 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 203 | 1.6 | 7.8 | 1.0 |
| Road4g | 163 | 0.8 | 7.5 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-79g | 222 | 1.7 | 8.5 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 186 | 1.0 | 8.2 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Nick Saban
Pass share
41.3%
446 pass / 633 run
Plays / game
71.9
15 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2015
Our Heisman model had this player inside its top 25 in 2015.
How it ended
Two seasons at Alabama, 3,513 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2015
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 2 schools: Jimbo Fisher and Nick Saban.
