Jalen Mayden: QB · San Diego State · #18.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Jalen Mayden
Extends plays on the move until something opens up. Played for two head coaches across four seasons and two programs. First career honor, 2022: All-Mountain West. A game that shows it: 265 passing yards and 3 passing TD against Utah State — Week 10, 2023.
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
57.6% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 27.8% conversion-per-dropback — 47.4% 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
1 of the team's 22 inside-the-5 carries (4.5%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | San Diego State | 199 | 314 | 63.4% | 2,031 | 6.5 | 10 | 9 | 122.5 | 33 |
| 2022 | San Diego State | 140 | 236 | 59.3% | 2,018 | 8.6 | 12 | 10 | 139.5 | 71 |
| 2021 | San Diego State | 5 | 6 | 83.3% | 50 | 8.3 | 1 | 0 | 208.3 | -- |
| 2018 | Mississippi State | 1 | 2 | 50.0% | 9 | 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 87.8 | -- |
| Career | 345 | 558 | 61.8% | 4,108 | 7.4 | 23 | 19 | 130.5 | 51 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | San Diego State | 128 | 528 | 4.1 | 5 | 70 |
| 2022 | San Diego State | 69 | 231 | 3.3 | 3 | 32 |
| 2021 | San Diego State | 4 | 36 | 9.0 | 0 | 33 |
| 2018 | Mississippi State | 7 | 32 | 4.6 | 0 | 14 |
| Career | 208 | 827 | 4.0 | 8 | 70 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 20-13vs Ohio | 18/28 | 164 | 2 | 0 | 5.9 | 53.0 | |
| Wk 1 | W 36-28vs Idaho State | 13/19 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 4.5 | 60.8 | |
| Wk 2 | L 10-35vs UCLA | 19/37 | 196 | 1 | 3 | 5.3 | 27.8 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 3 | L 9-26@ No. 16 Oregon State | 20/32 | 256 | 0 | 1 | 8.0 | 42.0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 31-34vs Boise State | 16/22 | 241 | 1 | 0 | 11.0 | 86.5 | |
| Wk 5 | L 10-49@ Air Force | 13/24 | 122 | 1 | 1 | 5.1 | 53.0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 41-34@ Hawai'i | 18/24 | 221 | 1 | 1 | 9.2 | 35.6 | |
| Wk 8 | L 0-6vs Nevada | 6/14 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 3.4 | 3.8 | |
| Wk 10 | L 24-32vs Utah State | 25/39 | 265 | 3 | 1 | 6.8 | 42.2 | Season-high 265 yds |
| Wk 11 | L 19-22@ Colorado State | 19/25 | 128 | 0 | 0 | 5.1 | 33.2 | |
| Wk 12 | L 13-24@ San José State | 15/24 | 117 | 0 | 2 | 4.9 | 26.5 | |
| Wk 13 | W 33-18vs Fresno State | 17/26 | 189 | 1 | 0 | 7.3 | 74.1 | |
| Total | 199/314 | 2031 | 10 | 9 | 6.5 | — |
Week 4 · 2023
L 31-34
vs Boise State
241 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 86.5 · 85 rush yds (16 car) · 1 TD
With K. Christon II — 44 rush yds (12 car) · 1 rec · 4 yds · J. Browning — 40 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 268 passing plays (172 completions) against the box score's 314 attempts (199 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.18155 of 212 QBsSack rate
5.1%90 of 212 QBsRarely sacked (90 of 212), but Adjusted ANY/A hasn't followed (155 of 212).
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 63.4% completion on 314 attempts · 25 deep completions averaging 26.6 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2023 baseline
No situation moves him more than 14 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
2023 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 170 | 1.1 | 6.3 | 0.6 |
| Road5g | 169 | 0.4 | 6.5 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 184 | 0.9 | 7.0 | 0.9 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 149 | 0.8 | 5.5 | 0.6 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Brady Hoke
Pass share
41.7%
318 pass / 445 run
Plays / game
63.6
12 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2023
314 pass attempts and 128 carries in 12 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Former four-star. Now #93 at the position.
How it ended
Four seasons, at Mississippi State and San Diego State, 4,108 passing yards — the college career is complete.
A blue-chip recruit with honors.
The snaps went the other way.
The role got bigger.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-MOUNTAIN WEST
All-Mountain West mention (2022)
Weekly recognition
1 weekly honor (2022)
Mountain West Offensive Player of the Week
Coaching lineage · 2018–2023
3 coachesPlayed for 3 head coaches at 2 schools: Joe Moorhead, Mike Leach and Brady Hoke.
