Jared Goff: QB · California · #16.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Jared Goff
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Two seasons in the California quarterback room to date. The first career honor came in 2015: All-Pac-12. A game that shows it: 542 passing yards and 31 rushing yards against Arizona State — Week 13, 2015.
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
65.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 42.2% conversion-per-dropback — 26.9% 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. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
1 of the team's 25 inside-the-5 carries (4.0%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | California | 341 | 529 | 64.5% | 4,719 | 8.9 | 43 | 13 | 161.3 | 85 |
| 2014 | California | 316 | 509 | 62.1% | 3,973 | 7.8 | 35 | 7 | 147.6 | 71 |
| Career | 657 | 1,038 | 63.3% | 8,692 | 8.4 | 78 | 20 | 154.6 | 79 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | California | 56 | −8 | −0.1 | 0 | 20 |
| 2014 | California | 55 | −44 | −0.8 | 0 | 19 |
| Career | 111 | −52 | −0.5 | 0 | 20 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2015 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 73-14vs Grambling | 24/32 | 309 | 3 | 1 | 9.7 | 90.4 | 6 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 35-7vs San Diego State | 17/24 | 321 | 3 | 1 | 13.4 | 86.7 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | W 45-44@ Texas | 27/37 | 268 | 3 | 0 | 7.2 | 94.6 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | W 30-24@ Washington | 24/40 | 342 | 2 | 1 | 8.6 | 64.9 | |
| Wk 5 | W 34-28vs Washington State | 33/45 | 390 | 4 | 1 | 8.7 | 82.8 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 6 | L 24-30@ No. 5 Utah | 25/47 | 340 | 2 | 5 | 7.2 | 31.3 | 5 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 8 | L 24-40@ UCLA | 32/53 | 295 | 3 | 0 | 5.6 | 53.2 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 9 | L 21-27vs USC | 23/31 | 277 | 2 | 2 | 8.9 | 83.2 | |
| Wk 10 | L 28-44@ Oregon | 18/41 | 329 | 2 | 1 | 8.0 | 46.5 | |
| Wk 11 | W 54-24vs Oregon State | 26/37 | 453 | 6 | 1 | 12.2 | 78.5 | 6 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | L 22-35@ No. 15 Stanford | 37/54 | 386 | 2 | 0 | 7.1 | 78.1 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 13 | W 48-46vs Arizona State | 30/51 | 542 | 5 | 0 | 10.6 | 89.4 | Season-high 542 yds |
 Bowl | W 55-36vs Air Force | 25/37 | 467 | 6 | 0 | 12.6 | 97.1 | |
| Total | 341/529 | 4719 | 43 | 13 | 8.9 | — |
Week 13 · 2015
W 48-46
The plays that mattered most
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 514 passing plays (326 completions) against the box score's 529 attempts (341 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
8.7214 of 198 QBsSack rate
4.7%71 of 198 QBsRarely sacked (71 of 198 QBs) and still 14 of 198 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 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 64.5% completion on 529 attempts · 65 deep completions averaging 33.7 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2015 baseline
No situation moves him more than 45 percentile points from his baseline.
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.
2 seasons under Sonny Dykes, all pass-leaning, fast tempo offenses — 13-12 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2015 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 382 | 3.8 | 10.6 | 1.0 |
| Road6g | 327 | 2.3 | 7.3 | 1.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 348 | 3.3 | 9.6 | 1.3 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 380 | 3.3 | 8.7 | 0.7 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Sonny Dykes
Pass share
55.9%
548 pass / 433 run
Plays / game
75.5
13 games
Scheme: Pass-leaning, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2015
First team in his league at the position.
Career, closed
Gone at No. 1 overall.
How it ended
Two seasons at California, 8,692 passing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2015) — drafted at No. 1 overall by the Los Angeles Rams.
A blue-chip recruit with honors.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-PAC-12 · 1ST TEAM
All-Pac-12 1st team (2015)
Coaching lineage · 2013–2015
1 coachPlayed every college season under Sonny Dykes.
Next stop · NFL
Los Angeles RamsEntering 11th NFL season
Los Angeles RamsEntering 11th NFL season
