Jalen Hurts: QB · Oklahoma · #1.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Jalen Hurts
Extends plays on the move until something opens up. The four seasons span two programs and two head coaches: Nick Saban and Lincoln Riley. All-Big 12 in 2019 was the second season with an honor. One game to point at: 415 passing yards and 70 rushing yards against Texas Tech — Week 5, 2019.
Play style
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
71.9% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 45.7% conversion-per-dropback — 30.4% 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
10 of 11 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (90.9%). 16 of the team's 35 inside-the-5 carries (45.7%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth Nov 3
On3 Oct 29
ABC News Oct 28Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
Game log · Week-by-week
2019 season · 14 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 49-31vs Houston | 20/23 | 332 | 3 | 0 | 14.4 | 98.7 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 70-14vs South Dakota | 14/18 | 259 | 3 | 0 | 14.4 | 95.6 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | W 48-14@ UCLA | 15/20 | 289 | 3 | 0 | 14.5 | 99.3 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | W 55-16vs Texas Tech | 17/24 | 415 | 3 | 1 | 17.3 | 99.1 | Season-high 415 yds |
| Wk 6 | W 45-20@ Kansas | 16/24 | 228 | 2 | 1 | 9.5 | 92.2 | |
| Wk 7 | W 34-27vs No. 11 Texas | 16/28 | 235 | 3 | 1 | 8.4 | 76.2 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | W 52-14vs West Virginia | 16/17 | 316 | 3 | 0 | 18.6 | 98.9 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 9 | L 41-48@ Kansas State | 19/26 | 395 | 1 | 0 | 15.2 | 84.2 | |
| Wk 11 | W 42-41vs Iowa State | 18/26 | 273 | 3 | 1 | 10.5 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | W 34-31@ No. 12 Baylor | 30/43 | 297 | 4 | 1 | 6.9 | — | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 13 | W 28-24vs TCU | 11/21 | 145 | 2 | 1 | 6.9 | — | |
| Wk 14 | W 34-16@ No. 21 Oklahoma State | 13/16 | 163 | 1 | 0 | 10.2 | — | |
| Wk 15 | W 30-23vs No. 8 Baylor | 17/24 | 287 | 1 | 1 | 12.0 | — | |
 Bowl | L 28-63vs No. 1 LSU | 15/31 | 217 | 0 | 1 | 7.0 | — | |
| Total | 237/341 | 3851 | 32 | 8 | 11.3 | — |
Week 1 · 2019
W 49-31
vs Houston
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 330 passing plays (226 completions) against the box score's 341 attempts (237 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
10.945 of 205 QBsSack rate
6.3%115 of 205 QBsSacked on 6.3% of dropbacks (115 of 205) — and still 5 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 69.5% completion on 341 attempts · 62 deep completions averaging 33.2 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2019 baseline
No situation moves him more than 33 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 · 14 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 290 | 2.8 | 13.7 | 0.5 |
| Road5g | 274 | 2.2 | 11.3 | 0.4 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 282 | 2.4 | 12.2 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+7g | 268 | 2.1 | 11.5 | 0.6 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Lincoln Riley
Pass share
40.8%
381 pass / 552 run
Plays / game
66.6
14 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2019
A finalist for the position's national player-of-the-year award.
How it ended
Four seasons, at Alabama and Oklahoma, 9,477 passing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2016) — drafted at #53 overall by the Philadelphia Eagles.
Honored in a first season.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-BIG 12 · 1ST TEAM
All-Big 12 1st team (2019)
Coaching lineage · 2015–2019
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 2 schools: Nick Saban and Lincoln Riley.
Next stop · NFL
Philadelphia EaglesEntering 7th NFL season
Philadelphia EaglesEntering 7th NFL season
