Jake Rudock: QB · Michigan · #15.
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Jake Rudock
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. Played for two head coaches across two seasons and two programs. One game to point at: 440 passing yards and 64 rushing yards against Indiana — Week 11, 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
58.5% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 33.3% conversion-per-dropback — 37.5% 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. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
3 of the team's 34 inside-the-5 carries (8.8%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2015 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 17-24@ Utah | 27/43 | 279 | 2 | 3 | 6.5 | 26.5 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 35-7vs Oregon State | 18/26 | 180 | 0 | 1 | 6.9 | 26.9 | |
| Wk 3 | W 28-7vs UNLV | 14/22 | 123 | 1 | 1 | 5.6 | 38.5 | |
| Wk 4 | W 31-0vs No. 22 BYU | 14/25 | 194 | 1 | 0 | 7.8 | 96.6 | |
| Wk 5 | W 28-0@ Maryland | 16/32 | 180 | 1 | 1 | 5.6 | 52.3 | |
| Wk 6 | W 38-0vs No. 13 Northwestern | 17/23 | 179 | 0 | 0 | 7.8 | 79.9 | |
| Wk 7 | L 23-27vs No. 7 Michigan State | 15/25 | 168 | 0 | 0 | 6.7 | 38.4 | |
| Wk 9 | W 29-26@ Minnesota | 13/21 | 140 | 1 | 1 | 6.7 | 58.8 | |
| Wk 10 | W 49-16vs Rutgers | 18/25 | 337 | 2 | 0 | 13.5 | 99.7 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 11 | W 48-41@ Indiana | 33/46 | 440 | 6 | 1 | 9.6 | 96.6 | Season-high 440 yds |
| Wk 12 | W 28-16@ Penn State | 25/38 | 256 | 2 | 1 | 6.7 | 49.0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 13-42vs No. 8 Ohio State | 19/32 | 263 | 1 | 0 | 8.2 | 75.6 | |
 Bowl | W 41-7vs No. 19 Florida | 20/31 | 278 | 3 | 0 | 9.0 | 95.3 | |
| Total | 249/389 | 3017 | 20 | 9 | 7.8 | — |
Week 11 · 2015
W 48-41
at Indiana
440 yds · 6 TD · 1 INT · QBR 96.6 · 64 rush yds (7 car)
Edged out Indiana on the road in a shootout.
With J. Chesson — 10 rec · 207 yds · 4 TD · B. O'Neill — 41 yards per punt · 3 punts · 45 long
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 379 passing plays (239 completions) against the box score's 389 attempts (249 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.1947 of 198 QBsSack rate
4.2%55 of 198 QBsRarely sacked (55 of 198 QBs) and still 47 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 64.0% completion on 389 attempts · 43 deep completions averaging 27.7 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2015 baseline
No situation moves him more than 41 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
2015 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 206 | 0.7 | 8.1 | 0.3 |
| Road5g | 259 | 2.4 | 7.0 | 1.4 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 198 | 1.0 | 7.0 | 0.8 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 287 | 2.4 | 8.9 | 0.6 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jim Harbaugh
Pass share
46.7%
415 pass / 473 run
Plays / game
68.3
13 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2015
389 pass attempts, 58 carries and 1 catch in 13 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons, at Iowa and Michigan, 5,453 passing yards — drafted at #191 overall by the Detroit Lions.
Coaching lineage · 2011–2015
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 2 schools: Kirk Ferentz and Jim Harbaugh.
Next stop · NFL
Detroit LionsEntering 11th NFL season
Detroit LionsEntering 11th NFL season
