Jalon Daniels

Senior quarterback for Kansas. 2025: 2,504 passing yards, 22 TD, 7 INT.

QB · Kansas · Sr. · #6

6′0″ · 220 lb · Lawndale, CA

CFB Index 69 · #34 of 146 QBsHigh confidenceReturning to Kansas for 2026

How he plays

Pushes it downfield on every look.

Explosive rate: 93rd percentile.

The full scouting read

The numbers

2,504

passing yards · 2025

22 TD · 7 INT · 7.8 per attempt

Backed by 544 yds · 5 TD -- top 0.1% passing yards game.

The play that turned itSwung Kansas from 17% to 60% to win.Cincinnati at Kansas · 37-34

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 quarterback for Kansas. 2025: 2,504 passing yards, 22 TD, 7 INT.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Kansas in 2020.
2,454 passing yards in 2024. Then 2,504 in 2025.

The full story, with sources

Jalon Daniels

QB · Kansas · Sr · #6

Pushes it downfield on every look. Jalon Daniels has played for two head coaches in six seasons at Kansas. He has been named All-Big 12 two seasons running, most recently in 2023. One game to point at: 445 pass yds, 55 rush yds against Cincinnati — Week 5, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
head-coach lineage
recognition record
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

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

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

69Quality starter #34 of 146?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

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 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 · True throw depth (charted plays)

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

190/310 (61.3%) · 22 TD · 7 INT

310 of 319 attempts matched to play-by-play

133 of 310 attempts charted for true throw depth

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 61.3% completion on 310 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% · ~our read

Down 2

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

Down 3+

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

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

2026 season

Head Coach

Lance Leipold

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

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Impact starter

Producing measurably more than a replacement-level starter.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

69 · #34 of 146 QBs

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 estimate is computed

35% estimated, 95% confidence interval 31–38%. Base rate measured from players who finished at a comparable rank in their conference and came back the next season. It is an estimate from a small sample, not a forecast of this player.

Career stats

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	--
2024	Kansas	93	447	4.8	6	--
2023	Kansas	27	74	2.7	0	--
2022	Kansas	77	419	5.4	7	--
2021	Kansas	33	83	2.5	3	--
2020	Kansas	74	24	0.3	3	--
Career		421	1,470	3.5	23	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2025

W 46–7

vs Wagner

280 yds · 4 TD · 1 INT · QBR 80.7 · 18 rush yds (3 car)

Dominant 39-point win at home against Wagner.

With T. Nagy — 2 rec · 20 yds · G. Addison — 43 AVG · 49 LONG · 3 NO

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 5 · Cincinnati · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA +6.87Jalon Daniels pass complete to Emmanuel Henderson Jr. for 93 yds for a TD (Laith Marjan KICK)
Week 5 · Cincinnati · 1&10 · Q3 · EPA +6.08Jalon Daniels pass complete to Emmanuel Henderson Jr. for 75 yds for a TD (Laith Marjan KICK)
Week 4 · West Virginia · 4&1 · Q1 · EPA +5.05Jalon Daniels pass complete to Levi Wentz for 41 yds for a TD (Laith Marjan KICK)
Week 1 · Wagner · 1&10 · Q3 · EPA +4.95Jalon Daniels pass complete to Emmanuel Henderson Jr. for 62 yds for a TD (Laith Marjan KICK)
Week 2 · Missouri · 3&9 · Q1 · EPA +4.82Jalon Daniels pass complete to Levi Wentz for 50 yds to the MIZ 2 for a 1ST down
Week 5 · Cincinnati · 1&7 · Q4 · EPA -4.80Jalon Daniels run for 6 yds to the CIN 1 Jalon Daniels fumbled, recovered by CIN Antwan Peek Jr.
Week 13 · Iowa State · 2&6 · Q4 · EPA -4.43(07:11) Shotgun #6 J.Daniels pass intercepted by #31 M.Neal at ISU00 #31 M.Neal return 16 yards to the ISU16 (#61 B.Foster; #75 C.Clements)
Week 14 · Utah · 3&3 · Q4 · EPA +4.13(06:01) No Huddle-Shotgun #6 J.Daniels pass complete deep left to #1 E.Henderson Jr. caught at UTAH42, for 54 yards to the UTAH21 (#16 B.Cotton), out of bounds, 1ST DOWN
Week 14 · Utah · 2&12 · Q4 · EPA -4.09(13:45) No Huddle-Shotgun #6 J.Daniels pass intercepted by #23 J.Bennee at UTAH00, Touchback
Week 7 · Texas Tech · 3&13 · Q2 · EPA +3.96Jalon Daniels pass complete to Boden Groen for 24 yds for a TD (Laith Marjan KICK)

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

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@ 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 Utah	10/27	187	1	3	6.9	34.3	3 INTs — rough day
Total		198/319	2504	22	7	7.9	65.7

How he plays

Play style

Elite arm talent, pushing downfield. Completion rate is the variable.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

40.0%Completion %

14.7%Conversion/dropback

58.3%Land short of sticks

1INTs

40.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 14.7% conversion-per-dropback — 58.3% 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

11/133rd/4th & short

4/27Inside-5 share

11 of 13 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (84.6%). 4 of the team's 27 inside-the-5 carries (14.8%).

2026 Outlook

Kansas

Preseason read · May 27

2026 Depth chart

Returning starter

Quarterback · Kansas · editorial

Returning around him

18% of 2024 offensive production back (Heavy turnover)
2 Kansas players drafted to NFL
Transfer portal: +5 net (31 in / 26 out)

2026 Award watch

Davey O'Brien
Heisman Watch

Kansas · Last season: 5-7 · Talent rank #62 · 2026 recruiting class #61

DNA match

Player DNA

Vertical Passer

Elite arm talent, pushing downfield. Completion rate is the variable.

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Todd Centeio’s 2022 season.

Todd Centeio

75%match

James Madison · 2022

All-Sun Belt

Diego Pavia

New Mexico State · 2023

All-Conference USA

72%

John Mateer

Washington State · 2024

69%

Jalon Daniels

Kansas · 2022

All-Big 12

68%

Brett Gabbert

Miami (OH) · 2021

All-MAC

66%

Matches Todd on

INT rate

Differs from Todd on

Recruiting rating (lower)

Yards / attempt (lower)

Class year (higher)

Through 6 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to John Rhys Plumlee’s path through UCF.

John Rhys Plumlee

95%match

UCF · 2023

Ian Book

Notre Dame · 2020

All-ACCNFL Rd 4

94%

Tyler Huff

Jacksonville State · 2024

All-Conference USA

85%

Malik Cunningham

Louisville · 2022

85%

Jack Abraham

Southern Miss · 2020

All-Conference USA

83%

Matches John on

Height

Completion %

Yards per attempt

Player DNA

Players who play like Jalon Daniels

Todd Centeio

James Madison · 2022

72%

Jalon Daniels

Kansas · 2025

68%

Jordan Travis

Florida State · 2022

67%

Spencer Rattler

Oklahoma · 2021

61%

Chandler Rogers

UL Monroe · 2022

61%

Heisman trajectory

Heisman Trajectory · 2025

Peak #62

Final rank

#88

Avg #76.3

Finalist prob 0%

Peaked at #62 this season.

Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology

Jalon Daniels

Fans hotter than the country

20207 games

20229 games

20233 games

Program memory

2025 snapshot

Passing profile

Situational

Splits & context

Awards

Impact starter

Career stats

Signature game

Signature plays

Game log

How he plays

DNA match

Vertical Passer

Players who play like Jalon Daniels

Heisman trajectory

Peak #62