Jalen Milroe

Former quarterback at Alabama. 2024: 2,844 passing yards, 16 TD, 11 INT.

QB · Alabama · Jr. · #4

6′2″ · 225 lb · Katy, TX

CFB Index 80 · #7 of 137 QBsHigh confidencePOTY finalist (model)Seattle — drafted 2025, Rd 3, Pick 28, #92 overall

Recruiting

4★

QB recruit

No. 82 nationally · Signed with Alabama

Statement game12 car · 185 yds · 4 TDat LSU (FBS) · W 42-13

Top 1% rushing TDs game since 2021.

Don’t forget Milroe sacked.r/CFB game thread · ▲ 2His career numbers, season by season

The story

Former quarterback at Alabama. 2024: 2,844 passing yards, 16 TD, 11 INT.

Signed as a 4-star recruit to Alabama in 2021.
Drafted round 3 by the Seattle in 2025.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Four seasons at Alabama, 6,016 passing yards — drafted at #92 overall by Seattle.

His career

He arrived as a blue-chip recruit and played like one.

20214 games

Signed with Alabama4-star out of Katy Tompkins

202313 games

The role got bigger.

All-SECsecond

202413 games

All-SEC
Campbellwinner

2025

Drafted by Seattleround 3, pick 92

Career arc

Recruit

★★★★

#82 national

CFB

College

Alabama

2021–2024

NFL

NFL Draft

R3 · #92

Seattle · 2025

Trophy case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

4 honors · 1 category

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ALL-SEC · 2ND TEAM

All-SEC 2nd team (2023)

Coaching lineage · 2021–2024

2 coaches

2021–2023

Nick Saban

Alabama

2024

Kalen DeBoer

Alabama

era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Nick Saban → Kalen DeBoer. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

Where He Ended Up · NFL

SeattleEntering 2nd NFL season

#92Rd 3 · Pick 28

SeattleEntering 2nd NFL season

View college career stats ↓

2024 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2021Alabama13-2HC: Nick Saban · Balanced, fast tempo

2022Alabama11-2HC: Nick Saban · Balanced

2023Alabama12-2HC: Nick Saban · Run-heavy

2024Alabama9-4HC: Kalen DeBoer · Run-leaning

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

80All-Conference level #7 of 137?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: success rate (85th percentile). Strength: rush tds (99th percentile). Concern: interception rate (18th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Success rate#26 / 169 · 85th pct

46.6%

Explosive rate#39 / 169 · 77th pct

11.9%

Sack rate#93 / 169 · 45th pct

6.3%

EPA / dropback#108 / 169 · 36th pct

0.18

Interception rate#138 / 169 · 18th pct

3.2%

Box-score rates (8)

Rush TDs#2 / 165 · 99th pct

Rush yards#12 / 165 · 93rd pct

726

Yards / att#16 / 165 · 91st pct

8.9

Pass yards#40 / 165 · 76th pct

2844

Completion %#50 / 165 · 70th pct

64.3%

Pass TDs#67 / 165 · 57th pct

Interceptions#132 / 165 · 16th pct

Fumbles lost#156 / 159 · 1st pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

90th → 36th percentile

Success rate

82nd → 85th percentile

Explosive rate

99th → 77th percentile

Sack rate

4th → 45th percentile

Interception rate

36th → 18th percentile

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season. 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).

Passing profile

Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)

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

197/311 (63.3%) · 16 TD · 11 INT

311 of 319 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

7.4150 of 205 QBs

Sack rate

6.2%116 of 205 QBs

Sacked 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 yds

49%of completions

97 comp4.6 yds avg1 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

32%of completions

63 comp13.5 yds avg1 TD

Deep

20+ yds

19%of completions

37 comp29.3 yds avg3 TD

Overall 63.3% completion on 311 attempts · 37 deep completions averaging 29.3 yds.

Situational

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.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

+12 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 5/130 (3.8%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 2

-13 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 5/97 (5.2%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 3+

-3 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 11/86 (12.8%) · league sack rate 8.1% · ~our read

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 & context

Splits · Per-game

2024 season · 13 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home7g	233	1.4	11.5	0.6
Road6g	202	1.0	8.0	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

2026 season

Head Coach

Kalen DeBoer

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2024

POTY finalist (model)

Our Heisman model has him in the top five; no finalist honor is on the books yet.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

80 · #7 of 137 QBs

Former four-star. Now #7 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2024	Alabama	205	319	64.3%	2,844	8.9	16	11	148.8	57	--	--
2023	Alabama	187	284	65.8%	2,834	10.0	23	6	172.2	68	--	--
2022	Alabama	31	53	58.5%	297	5.6	5	3	125.4	--	--	--
2021	Alabama	3	7	42.9%	41	5.9	1	0	139.2	--	--	--
Career		426	663	64.3%	6,016	9.1	45	20	156.8	63	--	--

Season	Team
2024	Alabama	168	726	4.3	20	--
2023	Alabama	161	531	3.3	12	--
2022	Alabama	31	265	8.5	1	--
2021	Alabama	15	57	3.8	0	--
Career		375	1,579	4.2	33	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · 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 AVG · 1 IN 20 · 48 LONG

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 1 · Western Kentucky · 3&13 · Q1 · EPA +7.30Ryan Williams 84 Yd pass from Jalen Milroe (Graham Nicholson Kick)
Week 6 · Vanderbilt · 3&6 · Q1 · EPA -7.16Jalen Milroe pass intercepted Randon Fontenette return for 29 yds for a TD (Brock Taylor PAT MISSED)
Week 11 · LSU · 3&9 · Q4 · EPA +7.03Jalen Milroe run for 72 yds for a TD (Graham Nicholson KICK)
Week 6 · Vanderbilt · 3&7 · Q3 · EPA +6.27Jalen Milroe pass complete to Ryan Williams for 58 yds for a TD (Graham Nicholson KICK)
Week 5 · Georgia · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA +6.08Ryan Williams 75 Yd pass from Jalen Milroe (Jalen Milroe Pass to Germie Bernard for Two-Point Conversion)
Week 1 · Western Kentucky · 2&10 · Q2 · EPA +5.44Ryan Williams 55 Yd pass from Jalen Milroe (Graham Nicholson Kick)
Week 8 · Tennessee · 2&3 · Q1 · EPA -4.79Jalen Milroe pass intercepted Jermod McCoy return for 54 yds to the ALA 46
Week 5 · Georgia · 4&1 · Q2 · EPA +4.56Jalen Milroe 36 Yd Run (Graham Nicholson Kick)
Week 7 · South Carolina · 3&10 · Q4 · EPA +4.49Germie Bernard 34 Yd pass from Jalen Milroe (Graham Nicholson Kick)
Week 5 · Georgia · 2&11 · Q2 · EPA -4.11Jalen Milroe pass intercepted Dan Jackson return for no gain to the UGA 5

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2024 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD

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 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@ Tennessee	25/45	239	1	2	5.3	65.3
Wk 9	W 34-0vs Missouri	16/26	215	0	0	8.3	71.7
Wk 11	W 42-13@ 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 13-19@ Michigan	16/32	192	1	1	6.0	26.5
Total		205/319	2844	16	11	9.9	73.2

How he plays

Play style

Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

40.5%Completion %

21.3%Conversion/dropback

41.2%Land short of sticks

2INTs

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. ~ our read: checkdown by design

Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration

Who gets the tough yard

fact

13/163rd/4th & short

7/25Inside-5 share

13 of 16 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (81.2%). 7 of the team's 25 inside-the-5 carries (28.0%).