Jalen Milroe: QB · Alabama · #4.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Jalen Milroe
Extends plays on the move until something opens up. Played for two head coaches in four seasons at Alabama. That makes two straight seasons on the honors list: All-SEC again in 2024. One game to point at: 374 passing yards and 117 rushing yards against Georgia — Week 5, 2024.
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
40.5% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 21.3% conversion-per-dropback — 41.2% 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
13 of 16 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (81.2%). 7 of the team's 25 inside-the-5 carries (28.0%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
Yahoo Sports Oct 28
Heavy Oct 28
Saturday Down South Oct 24
The Tuscaloosa News Oct 15Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 63-0vs Western Kentucky | 7/9 | 200 | 3 | 0 | 22.2 | 98.7 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 42-16vs South Florida | 16/26 | 194 | 2 | 0 | 7.5 | 50.5 | |
| Wk 3 | W 42-10@ Wisconsin | 12/17 | 196 | 3 | 0 | 11.5 | 89.9 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | W 41-34vs No. 2 Georgia | 27/33 | 374 | 2 | 1 | 11.3 | 98.5 | Season-high 374 yds |
| Wk 6 | L 35-40@ Vanderbilt | 18/24 | 310 | 1 | 1 | 12.9 | 77.9 | |
| Wk 7 | W 27-25vs South Carolina | 16/23 | 209 | 1 | 2 | 9.1 | 69.2 | |
| Wk 8 | L 17-24@ No. 11 Tennessee | 25/45 | 239 | 1 | 2 | 5.3 | 65.3 | |
| Wk 9 | W 34-0vs No. 21 Missouri | 16/26 | 215 | 0 | 0 | 8.3 | 71.7 | |
| Wk 11 | W 42-13@ No. 14 LSU | 12/18 | 109 | 0 | 0 | 6.1 | 99.3 | |
| Wk 12 | W 52-7vs Mercer | 11/16 | 186 | 2 | 0 | 11.6 | 91.8 | |
| Wk 13 | L 3-24@ Oklahoma | 11/26 | 164 | 0 | 3 | 6.3 | 15.4 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 14 | W 28-14vs Auburn | 18/24 | 256 | 0 | 1 | 10.7 | 97.3 | |
 Bowl | L 13-19vs Michigan | 16/32 | 192 | 1 | 1 | 6.0 | 26.5 | |
| Total | 205/319 | 2844 | 16 | 11 | 8.9 | — |
Week 5 · 2024
W 41-34
vs Georgia
374 yds · 2 TD · 1 INT · QBR 98.5 · 117 rush yds (16 car) · 2 TD
Edged out Georgia at home in a shootout.
With R. Williams — 6 rec · 177 yds · 1 TD · J. Burnip — 43.4 yards per punt · 5 punts · 1 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 311 passing plays (197 completions) against the box score's 319 attempts (205 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.4150 of 205 QBsSack rate
6.2%116 of 205 QBsSacked on 6.2% of dropbacks (116 of 205) — and still 50 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 64.3% completion on 319 attempts · 37 deep completions averaging 29.3 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2024 baseline
No situation moves him more than 13 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
2024 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 233 | 1.4 | 11.5 | 0.6 |
| Road5g | 204 | 1.0 | 8.4 | 1.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 239 | 1.9 | 11.5 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 195 | 0.5 | 8.0 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Kalen DeBoer
Pass share
42.4%
353 pass / 479 run
Plays / game
64.0
13 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2024
Our Heisman model had this player inside its top 25 in 2024.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Former four-star. Now #7 at the position.
How it ended
Four seasons at Alabama, 6,016 passing yards — drafted at #92 overall by the Seattle Seahawks.
A blue-chip recruit with honors.
The role got bigger.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
National awards
Campbell
2024 season
ALL-SEC · 2ND TEAM
All-SEC 2nd team (2023)
Coaching lineage · 2021–2024
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Nick Saban → Kalen DeBoer. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Next stop · NFL
Seattle SeahawksEntering 2nd NFL season
Seattle SeahawksEntering 2nd NFL season
