Quarterback for Bowling Green. 2016: 636 passing yards, 3 TD, 9 INT.
6′2″ · Fort Wayne, IN
Recruiting
PRO recruit
No. 1405 nationally · Signed with Bowling Green
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
2016 quarterback for Bowling Green. 2016: 636 passing yards, 3 TD, 9 INT.
James Knapke
James Knapke has been at Bowling Green through two head coaches in three seasons. One game to point at: 315 pass yds, 3 pass TD against North Dakota — Week 2, 2016.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at Bowling Green, 3,982 passing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 3 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2014–2016
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Dino Babers → Mike Jinks. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score percentiles
Concern: yards / att (3rd percentile).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 6 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 111 | 0.8 | 4.0 | 1.0 |
| Road2g | 96.0 | 0.0 | 4.8 | 2.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 127 | 0.6 | 4.3 | 1.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Eddie George
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2016
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Bowling Green | 59 | 119 | 49.6% | 636 | 5.3 | 3 | 9 | 87.7 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2015 | Bowling Green | 14 | 20 | 70.0% | 173 | 8.7 | 1 | 0 | 159.2 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2014 | Bowling Green | 280 | 483 | 58.0% | 3,173 | 6.6 | 15 | 12 | 118.4 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 353 | 622 | 56.8% | 3,982 | 6.4 | 19 | 21 | 113.9 | -- | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Bowling Green | 14 | -39 | -2.8 | 0 | -- |
| 2015 | Bowling Green | 2 | 4 | 2.0 | 0 | -- |
| 2014 | Bowling Green | 67 | 136 | 2.0 | 2 | -- |
| Career | 83 | 101 | 1.2 | 2 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2016
W 27–26
vs North Dakota
315 yds · 3 TD · 2 INT · QBR 37.7 · -7 rush yds (6 car)
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 1 at home.
With S. Miller — 5 rec · 161 yds · 3 TD · J. Davidson — 48 AVG · 54 LONG · 6 NO
Game log · Week-by-week
2016 season · 6 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 10-77@ Ohio State | 12/33 | 110 | 0 | 2 | 3.3 | 20.4 | |
| Wk 2 | W 27-26vs North Dakota | 23/40 | 315 | 3 | 2 | 7.9 | 37.7 | Season-high 315 yds |
| Wk 3 | L 21-41vs Middle Tennessee | 18/32 | 129 | 0 | 2 | 4.0 | 9.6 | |
| Wk 4 | L 3-77@ Memphis | 6/13 | 82 | 0 | 3 | 6.3 | 3.0 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 5 | L 25-28vs Eastern Michigan | 0/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 84.9 | |
| Wk 13 | W 27-19vs Buffalo | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 59/119 | 636 | 3 | 9 | 4.3 | 31.1 |