Jalon Daniels

#6 · QB · Sr. · Kansas6′0″ · 220 lb · Lawndale, CA

Jalon Daniels is a quarterback who has not played this season; the last season with a stat line was 2025, at Kansas.

Daniels pushes it downfield on every look. Played for two head coaches in six seasons at Kansas. Named All-Big 12 two seasons running, most recently in 2023. One game to point at: 445 passing yards and 55 rushing yards against Cincinnati — Week 5, 2025.

Where to follow

Career stats

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Season	Team
2025	Kansas	198	319	62.1%	2,504	7.8	22	7	146.4	78
2024	Kansas	171	300	57.0%	2,454	8.2	14	12	133.1	77
2023	Kansas	56	75	74.7%	705	9.4	5	1	173.0	65
2022	Kansas	152	230	66.1%	2,014	8.8	18	4	162.0	81
2021	Kansas	81	117	69.2%	860	7.4	7	3	145.6	55
2020	Kansas	76	152	50.0%	718	4.7	1	4	86.6	15
Career		734	1,193	61.5%	9,255	7.8	67	31	140.0	69

Season	Team
2025	Kansas	117	423	3.6	4	38
2024	Kansas	93	447	4.8	6	33
2023	Kansas	27	74	2.7	0	17
2022	Kansas	77	419	5.4	7	37
2021	Kansas	33	83	2.5	3	21
2020	Kansas	74	24	0.3	3	13
Career		421	1,470	3.5	23	38

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 31-7vs Fresno State	18/20	176	3	0	8.8	87.6	4 TD passes
Wk 1	W 46-7vs Wagner	18/25	280	4	1	11.2	80.7	4 TD passes
Wk 2	L 31-42@ Missouri	18/30	223	2	1	7.4	66.3
Wk 4	W 41-10vs West Virginia	12/24	138	3	0	5.8	91.9	3 TD passes
Wk 5	L 34-37vs Cincinnati	19/28	445	4	0	15.9	59.4	Season-high 445 yds
Wk 6	W 27-20@ UCF	18/26	235	0	0	9.0	78.0
Wk 7	L 17-42@ No. 9 Texas Tech	27/33	228	2	0	6.9	72.5
Wk 9	L 17-42vs Kansas State	17/35	129	0	1	3.7	41.3
Wk 10	W 38-21vs Oklahoma State	13/19	110	2	0	5.8	85.4
Wk 11	L 20-24@ Arizona	15/29	199	1	0	6.9	57.4
Wk 13	L 14-38@ Iowa State	13/23	154	0	1	6.7	33.3
Wk 14	L 21-31vs No. 14 Utah	10/27	187	1	3	6.9	34.3	3 INTs — rough day
Total		198/319	2504	22	7	7.8	—

Highs and lows

Only games with 20 or more plays count for best and lowest.
Best by our grade	Cincinnati	L 34-37 · Graded great · Passing grade only · 445 yds, 4 TD, 0 INT · Rush 14 for 55 · Sacked 1
Lowest by our grade	Kansas State	L 17-42 · Graded rough · Passing grade only · 129 yds, 0 TD, 1 INT · Rush 17 for 44, 1 TD · The interception cost about 11 points of win chance · Sacked 2
Biggest game	at Texas Tech	No. 9 at kickoff · L 17-42 · Graded solid · Carried by the second quarter · 228 yds, 2 TD, 0 INT · Rush 15 for -13 · Sacked 4
Best play	Cincinnati	Completion, touchdown, Q3 8:44 · Win chance 22% to 58%
Costliest play	Utah	Interception, returned for a touchdown, Q4 7:52 · Win chance 35% to 5%

Passing profile

Pass Profile · True throw depth (charted plays)

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

198/319 (62.1%) · 22 TD · 7 INT

310 of 319 attempts matched to play-by-play

133 of 310 attempts charted for true throw depth

Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 310 passing plays (190 completions) against the box score's 319 attempts (198 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.

Adjusted ANY/A

7.5542 of 206 QBs

Sack rate

4.2%79 of 206 QBs

Rarely sacked (79 of 206 QBs) and still 42 of 206 in Adjusted ANY/A.

Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.

Behind LOS · Negative air yds

14% of attempts (18)

83%comp

Air -2.4 · YAC 7.3 avg

Short · 0–9 air yds

48% of attempts (64)

64%comp3 INT

Air 4.7 · YAC 5.2 avg

Middle · 10–19 air yds

18% of attempts (24)

12%comp2 INT

Air 13.2 · YAC 1.7 avg

Deep · 20+ air yds

20% of attempts (27)

33%comp

Air 29.4 · YAC 4.8 avg

Overall 62.1% completion on 319 attempts · 33% completion on 27 deep attempts (20+ air yds).

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2025 baseline

No situation moves him more than 25 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-7 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 4/110 (3.6%) · league sack rate 4.2%

Down 2

-11 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 2/110 (1.8%) · league sack rate 4.5%

Down 3+

+25 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 5/80 (6.2%) · league sack rate 7.8%

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.

Teams and coaches

2020Kansas0-9HC: Les Miles · Run-leaning

2021Kansas2-10HC: Lance Leipold · Run-leaning

2022Kansas6-7HC: Lance Leipold · Run-leaning, slow tempo

2023Kansas9-4HC: Lance Leipold · Run-heavy, slow tempo

2024Kansas5-7HC: Lance Leipold · Run-leaning

2025Kansas5-7HC: Lance Leipold · Run-leaning

Our ratings

CFB Zeitgeist Score 69 (#34 of 146). Show the ratings

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles · 2025 season

69Quality starter #34 of 146 · 2025?

13 metrics · season cumulative

2025 score: the 2026 sample is not big enough yet. The rows below are 2026 so far. Elite: explosive rate (93rd percentile). Strength: epa / dropback (83rd percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Explosive rate#13 / 183 · 93rd pct

12.9%

EPA / dropback#32 / 183 · 83rd pct

0.30

Success rate#34 / 183 · 81st pct

44.8%

Sack rate#64 / 183 · 65th pct

4.3%

Interception rate#76 / 183 · 59th pct

1.9%

Box-score rates (8)

Pass TDs#35 / 183 · 80th pct

Rush yards#41 / 183 · 78th pct

423

Yards / att#48 / 183 · 73rd pct

7.8

Pass yards#61 / 183 · 67th pct

2504

Rush TDs#67 / 183 · 59th pct

Completion %#96 / 183 · 47th pct

62.1%

Interceptions#92 / 183 · 44th pct

Fumbles lost#87 / 174 · 38th pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

90th → 83rd percentile

Success rate

87th → 81st percentile

Explosive rate

88th → 93rd percentile

Sack rate

94th → 65th percentile

Interception rate

53rd → 59th percentile

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps in 2025. 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).

Zeitgeist Passer Rating

2025 · our own passing-efficiency number, shown next to the 1979 formula it does not replace.

After 297 dropbacks

78Zeitgeist Passer Rating11th of 142 FBS QBs

NCAA passer rating 146.4 41st of 142 FBS QBs

ZPR ranks this quarterback 30 places higher than passer rating does: passer rating cannot see sacks, and a sack comes on only 3.7% of dropbacks.

Positive-play rate weight 24%

49.8%81st pct of FBS QBs

share of dropbacks that gained expected points · +1.0% schedule adj.

Yards per attempt weight 56%

8.4492nd pct of FBS QBs

sacks excluded · +0.3 schedule adj.

Sack rate weight 21% (penalty)

3.9%78th pct of FBS QBs

the input passer rating cannot see · +0.2% schedule adj.

Opponent-adjusted; garbage time excluded (27 of 324 dropbacks dropped). 50 = FBS average; the number is pulled toward 50 when the sample is thin. How ZPR is built.

Splits

Home and road splits, scheme and staff

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home7g	209	2.4	8.3	0.7
Road5g	208	1.0	7.4	0.4

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-77g	246	2.6	9.3	0.3
Weeks 8+5g	156	0.8	6.0	1.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Lance Leipold

Pass share

45.1%

344 pass / 419 run

Plays / game

63.6

12 games

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Impact starter

319 pass attempts and 117 carries in 12 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score

69 · #34 of 146 QBs · 2025

Three-star recruit. Now #34 at the position.

2026 outlook

In the mix to repeat All-Big 12

Based on 2025: #6 of 17 Big 12 QBs

How the All-Big 12 base rate is computed

A base rate for the rank, not a forecast of this player: 35% of returning players who ranked #4–10 at their position in their conference made an all-conference team the next season (95% confidence interval 31–38%).

Starter

The No. 2,278 recruit in the country is starting at quarterback in the Big 12 as a senior.