Jared Curtis

#2 · QB · Fr. · Vanderbilt6′3″ · 230 lb · Nashville, TN · Nashville Christian

ZPR4571st of 119 QBsLast gameL 17–34at Kentucky · Oct 24
Nextat Mississippi StateSat Nov 7 · 4:15 pm ET

Graded Solid or better in each of the last two games.

Last game: L 17-34 at No. 12 Kentucky, Oct 24 · 27 of 36 for 247 yards, 2 touchdowns, an interception, a lost fumble · 8 carries for 6 yards

Vanderbilt’s next game: at Mississippi State, Sat Nov 7, 4:15 p.m. ET · SEC Network

Vanderbilt has lost four straight in the games with 10 or more passes thrown. A mobile passer.

Weakest: an interception on 4.0% of throws, tied for 16th highest of 158 starters.

Passing yards

1,489

128 of 197, 65%

TD–INT

8–8

7.6 per throw

NCAA rating

133.7

79th of 119

ZPR

45

71st of 119

How ZPR works

Solid or better in 4 of 6 graded games.

  • 0-2 against ranked teams, 234 passing yards a game.

Best by our grade: Arkansas. Lowest: at Auburn, with 1 interception and sacked 3 times. Biggest game: Ole Miss, No. 9. Costliest play: Interception, against NC State, Q4 1:04. Win chance 60% to 37%.

Tap a game for its plays

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at Georgia

L 14–38·Ranked #2

Did not play

Haven't been following the news this week, but why isn't Curtis starting?

Vanderbilt fan

Season

Steady through the game

How to read this

Each column is a quarter. Blue and up is a good stretch for the quarterback, red and down a bad one, hatched means the game was already decided. A red cross is a turnover and a black dot a touchdown. The word on the right grades the whole game; on games with a lot of running it grades the passing only. A gold line means the r/CFB game thread kept naming the quarterback. Tap a game to open its plays: each bar is one of the quarterback’s plays, up helped the team’s chance of winning and down hurt it, and the grey line is that chance.

The word grades the game against every FBS quarterback start, from Rough to Great, using the same throws as the season Zeitgeist Passer Rating and adjusting for the defense faced. Bars are points added per throw in that quarter. The Season row leaves out quarters after a game was decided.

Style of play

Mobile passer

Why this word
Runs5.9 a gameRarelyA lot
Throws9.4 yards past the lineShortDeep
Completes65%FewerMore
Takes sacks6% of dropbacksRarelyOften

The dot is this quarterback, among this season’s starters; the tick is the middle.

Throws at a middling depth and runs some. 5.9 carries a game. Closest matches: Weaver, Hayes, Nelson, Vasko ’25.

Where the throws go

Behind the line16%typical 17%
Short51%typical 47%
Middle13%typical 22%
Deep19%typical 14%

Runs 5.9 times a game; 66% of starters run less.

Closest in style

WeaverHayesNelsonVasko ’25This QB

Nearer the middle means more alike.

  • Weaver San José State · Balanced
    1,810 yards, 11 TD, 8 INT so far. Both throw interceptions.
  • Hayes North Dakota State · Gunslinger
    1,710 yards, 13 TD, 8 INT so far. Both throw interceptions.
  • Nelson Syracuse · Balanced
    532 yards, 3 TD, 2 INT so far. Both throw interceptions.
  • Vasko ’25 Liberty 2025 · Gunslinger
    1,961 yards, 10 TD, 12 INT. Both throw interceptions.

Compared with the 158 FBS starters this season for throws and running, and with 219 quarterbacks across 2 seasons for the matches, on how they play and how they have done.

This week

  • RecordVanderbilt is 3-5.
  • Fans after Kentucky

    Maybe Tim Beck has finally figured out how to call plays for Curtis? Only took until the 8th game

    Vanderbilt fan

What’s being said

3 stories this week, from 3 outlets.

Nov 1: 1Nov 2: 1Nov 3: 1Oct 29Nov 4Most in a day: 1
Nov 1: 1Nov 2: 1Nov 3: 1Oct 29Nov 4Most in a day: 1
Stories per day.

How Vanderbilt football, Jared Curtis could face former QB AJ Swann vs Mississippi State

The Tennessean +1 Nov 2

All 227 stories this season

His most important play this season

  1. Q4, 6:18 · Vanderbilt down 10Jared Curtis finds Junior Sherrill for a 43-yard touchdownNC State at Vanderbilt, week 3Q4, 6:18 · Vanderbilt 28, NC State 31Junior Sherrill's first 100-yard receiving game of 2026Junior Sherrill's first 100-yard receiving game of 2026Junior Sherrill 43 yd pass from Jared Curtis (Brock Taylor Kick)Watch from this playESPN College Football

All 8 of his plays on video

Jared Curtis

QB · Vanderbilt · Fr · #2

Filling the Shoesas of Nov 4

Curtis posted 1,489 passing yards and 8 TDs in 2025, inheriting the job Diego Pavia made famous.

1,489passing yards8passing TD150rushing yards

PERCEPTION ABOVE TAPE · PCTL GAP

-32

perception vs production percentile · 2026

The name carries 89th-percentile weight; the snaps grade out 57th. The gap is the open question.

Read the story so far

Curtis stepped into one of the SEC's harder inheritance situations last season, following a quarterback who had become the program's identity. The numbers, 1,489 passing yards, 8 touchdowns, 150 rushing yards, are modest but real. The -32 perception-above-tape gap is the number that sticks: scouts and fans see him below what the film reportedly shows. With 2026 approaching, the question Vanderbilt fans keep circling is whether the staff will give Curtis the same offensive latitude that made Pavia work.

That perception gap either closes in 2026 or it becomes the story of his tenure.

QB successionleap of faith
  • Inherited fromDiego Pavia 2★

AI-generated narrative · may contain errors · not journalism · updated 2026-11-04