Jake Luton: QB · Oregon State · #6.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Jake Luton
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Played for two head coaches at Oregon State: Cory Hall and Jonathan Smith. One game to point at: 408 passing yards and 5 passing TD against Washington State — Week 13, 2019.
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
52.1% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 21.2% conversion-per-dropback — 56.0% 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.
OregonLive Nov 2OregonLive Oct 26
Sports Illustrated Oct 23Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Oregon State | 222 | 358 | 62.0% | 2,714 | 7.6 | 28 | 3 | 149.8 | 53 |
| 2018 | Oregon State | 140 | 223 | 62.8% | 1,660 | 7.4 | 10 | 4 | 136.5 | 67 |
| 2017 | Oregon State | 83 | 135 | 61.5% | 853 | 6.3 | 4 | 4 | 118.4 | 50 |
| Career | 445 | 716 | 62.2% | 5,227 | 7.3 | 42 | 11 | 139.8 | 57 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Oregon State | 44 | −87 | −2.0 | 1 | 19 |
| 2018 | Oregon State | 28 | −144 | −5.1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2017 | Oregon State | 17 | 27 | 1.6 | 0 | 18 |
| Career | 89 | −204 | −2.3 | 1 | 19 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2019 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 36-52vs Oklahoma State | 23/42 | 251 | 3 | 0 | 6.0 | 68.6 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | L 28-31@ Hawai'i | 15/32 | 169 | 1 | 0 | 5.3 | 42.5 | |
| Wk 3 | W 45-7vs Cal Poly | 17/22 | 255 | 4 | 0 | 11.6 | 93.3 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | L 28-31vs Stanford | 27/39 | 337 | 1 | 0 | 8.6 | 71.0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 48-31@ UCLA | 18/26 | 285 | 5 | 0 | 11.0 | 98.6 | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 7 | L 7-52vs No. 15 Utah | 17/34 | 131 | 0 | 1 | 3.9 | 23.6 | |
| Wk 8 | W 21-17@ California | 18/34 | 174 | 2 | 0 | 5.1 | 35.2 | |
| Wk 10 | W 56-38@ Arizona | 20/26 | 328 | 3 | 0 | 12.6 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 11 | L 7-19vs Washington | 19/28 | 88 | 0 | 1 | 3.1 | — | |
| Wk 12 | W 35-34vs Arizona State | 26/35 | 288 | 4 | 0 | 8.2 | — | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 13 | L 53-54@ Washington State | 22/40 | 408 | 5 | 1 | 10.2 | — | Season-high 408 yds |
| Total | 222/358 | 2714 | 28 | 3 | 7.6 | — |
Week 13 · 2019
L 53-54
408 yds · 5 TD · 1 INT
With J. Jefferson — 132 rush yds (21 car) · 2 TD · 3 rec · 52 yds · 2 TD · D. Rodriguez — 37.3 yards per punt · 3 punts · 2 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 358 passing plays (221 completions) against the box score's 358 attempts (222 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.7044 of 205 QBsSack rate
6.5%122 of 205 QBsSacked on 6.5% of dropbacks (122 of 205) — and still 44 of 205 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 62.0% completion on 358 attempts · 38 deep completions averaging 30.8 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2019 baseline
No situation moves him more than 24 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
2019 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 225 | 2.0 | 6.9 | 0.3 |
| Road5g | 273 | 3.2 | 8.8 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 238 | 2.3 | 7.7 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 257 | 2.8 | 7.8 | 0.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jonathan Smith
Pass share
50.7%
419 pass / 407 run
Plays / game
68.8
12 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2019
358 pass attempts and 44 carries in 11 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Oregon State, 5,227 passing yards — drafted at #189 overall by the Jacksonville Jaguars.
A stat line in 29 games over four seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2019
4 coachesPlayed for 4 head coaches at 2 schools: Paul Petrino, Gary Andersen, Cory Hall and Jonathan Smith.
Next stop · NFL
Jacksonville JaguarsEntering 7th NFL season
Jacksonville JaguarsEntering 7th NFL season
