Jake Retzlaff

#12 · QB · Jr. · Tulane6′1″ · 205 lb · Corona, CA

Jake Retzlaff is a quarterback who has not played this season; the last season with a stat line was 2025, at Tulane.

Retzlaff extends plays on the move until something opens up. Played for two head coaches across three seasons and two programs. The first career honor came in 2025: AAC Offensive Player of the Week. One game to point at: 347 passing yards and 20 rushing yards against East Carolina — Week 7, 2025.

Where to follow

Career stats

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Season	Team
2025	Tulane	242	391	61.9%	3,168	8.1	15	7	139.0	66
2024	BYU	211	367	57.5%	2,896	7.9	19	12	134.3	49
2023	BYU	63	125	50.4%	648	5.2	3	3	97.1	26
Career		516	883	58.4%	6,712	7.6	37	22	131.1	54

Season	Team
2025	Tulane	129	634	4.9	16	69
2024	BYU	100	417	4.2	6	29
2023	BYU	51	116	2.3	3	19
Career		280	1,167	4.2	25	69

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 14 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 23-3vs Northwestern	18/31	152	1	0	4.9	77.7
Wk 2	W 33-31@ South Alabama	13/24	125	1	0	5.2	74.5
Wk 3	W 34-27vs Duke	15/23	245	0	0	10.7	94.7
Wk 4	L 10-45@ No. 13 Ole Miss	5/17	56	0	0	3.3	37.2
Wk 5	W 31-14@ Tulsa	17/30	242	0	0	8.1	59.0
Wk 7	W 26-19vs East Carolina	26/36	347	2	0	9.6	79.6	Season-high 347 yds
Wk 8	W 24-17vs Army	22/29	261	2	1	9.0	89.9
Wk 10	L 26-48@ UTSA	14/28	194	1	2	6.9	58.3
Wk 11	W 38-32@ No. 22 Memphis	16/23	332	3	0	14.4	95.4	3 TD passes
Wk 12	W 35-24vs Florida Atlantic	18/27	241	2	1	8.9	67.5
Wk 13	W 37-13@ Temple	17/28	231	2	0	8.3	68.6
Wk 14	W 27-0vs Charlotte	28/38	291	0	2	7.7	39.3
Wk 15	W 34-21vs No. 20 North Texas	13/22	145	0	0	6.6	76.9
Bowl	L 10-41@ No. 6 Ole Miss	20/35	306	1	1	8.7	37.9
Total		242/391	3168	15	7	8.1	—

Highs and lows

Only games with 20 or more plays count for best and lowest.
Best by our grade	East Carolina	W 26-19 · Graded great · 347 yds, 2 TD, 0 INT · Rush 4 for 20 · Sacked 0
Lowest by our grade	at Ole Miss	L 10-45 · Graded shaky · 56 yds, 0 TD, 0 INT · Rush 8 for 51 · Sacked 0
Biggest game	at Ole Miss	No. 6 at kickoff · L 10-41 · Graded solid · 306 yds, 1 TD, 1 INT · Rush 11 for 24 · The interception cost about 13 points of win chance · Sacked 2
Best play	East Carolina	Completion, touchdown, Q4 10:51 · Win chance 43% to 74%

Passing profile

Pass Profile · True throw depth (charted plays)

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

242/391 (61.9%) · 15 TD · 7 INT

380 of 391 attempts matched to play-by-play

164 of 380 attempts charted for true throw depth

Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 380 passing plays (229 completions) against the box score's 391 attempts (242 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.

Adjusted ANY/A

7.6937 of 206 QBs

Sack rate

2.5%26 of 206 QBs

Rarely sacked (26 of 206 QBs) and still 37 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

15% of attempts (25)

84%comp

Air -2.8 · YAC 7.0 avg

Short · 0–9 air yds

43% of attempts (70)

61%comp2 INT

Air 4.7 · YAC 5.4 avg

Middle · 10–19 air yds

29% of attempts (48)

60%comp

Air 13.9 · YAC 3.4 avg

Deep · 20+ air yds

13% of attempts (21)

52%comp3 INT

Air 29.6 · YAC 8.2 avg

Overall 61.9% completion on 391 attempts · 52% completion on 21 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 47 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-18 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 1/161 (0.6%) · league sack rate 4.2%

Down 2

-15 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 3/107 (2.8%) · league sack rate 4.5%

Down 3+

+47 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 6/99 (6.1%) · 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

2023BYU5-7HC: Kalani Sitake · Balanced

2024BYU11-2HC: Kalani Sitake · Run-leaning

2025Tulane11-3HC: Jon Sumrall · Run-leaning

Our ratings

CFB Zeitgeist Score 72 (#26 of 146). Show the ratings

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

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

72Quality starter #26 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: sack rate (92nd percentile). Strength: success rate (88th percentile). Concern: fumbles lost (8th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Sack rate#16 / 183 · 92nd pct

2.6%

Success rate#22 / 183 · 88th pct

46.3%

EPA / dropback#38 / 183 · 80th pct

0.29

Explosive rate#69 / 183 · 62nd pct

9.7%

Interception rate#72 / 183 · 61st pct

1.8%

Box-score rates (8)

Rush TDs#3 / 183 · 98th pct

Rush yards#21 / 183 · 89th pct

634

Pass yards#26 / 183 · 86th pct

3168

Yards / att#34 / 183 · 81st pct

8.1

Pass TDs#71 / 183 · 60th pct

Completion %#101 / 183 · 45th pct

61.9%

Interceptions#92 / 183 · 44th pct

Fumbles lost#154 / 174 · 8th pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

46th → 80th percentile

Success rate

54th → 88th percentile

Explosive rate

60th → 62nd percentile

Sack rate

62nd → 92nd percentile

Interception rate

29th → 61st percentile

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 361 dropbacks

66Zeitgeist Passer Rating34th of 142 FBS QBs

NCAA passer rating 139.0 62nd of 142 FBS QBs

ZPR ranks this quarterback 28 places higher than passer rating does: passer rating cannot see sacks, and a sack comes on only 2.8% of dropbacks.

Positive-play rate weight 24%

47.8%68th pct of FBS QBs

share of dropbacks that gained expected points · -1.2% schedule adj.

Yards per attempt weight 56%

7.5068th pct of FBS QBs

sacks excluded · -0.2 schedule adj.

Sack rate weight 21% (penalty)

3.5%83rd pct of FBS QBs

the input passer rating cannot see · +0.7% schedule adj.

Opponent-adjusted; garbage time excluded (29 of 390 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 · 14 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home7g	240	1.0	8.2	0.6
Road7g	212	1.1	7.8	0.4

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-77g	210	0.7	7.2	0.1
Weeks 8+7g	242	1.4	8.8	0.9

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Jon Sumrall

Pass share

45.8%

424 pass / 501 run

Plays / game

66.1

14 games

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Impact starter

391 pass attempts and 129 carries in 14 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score

72 · #26 of 146 QBs · 2025

Three-star recruit. Now #26 at the position.

2026 outlook

In the mix for All-AAC

Based on 2025: #3 of 15 American Athletic QBs

How the All-AAC 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%).