Jason Bean

Senior quarterback for Kansas. 2023: 2,130 passing yards, 18 TD, 7 INT.

QB · Kansas · Sr. · #9

6′3″ · 195 lb · Mansfield, TX

CFB Index 71 · #24 of 140 QBsHigh confidenceKansas 2023 alumnus

Recruiting

3★

PRO recruit

No. 2129 nationally · Signed with North Texas

Statement game449 yds · 6 TDvs UNLV (FBS) · W 49-36

Top 0.1% passing TDs game since 2021.

Jason Bean breaking the Big12 bowl record for touchdowns and giving Kansas its first bowl win since 2008, just as we all expected!r/CFB game thread · ▲ 36His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 quarterback for Kansas. 2023: 2,130 passing yards, 18 TD, 7 INT.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to North Texas in 2018.
Transferred from North Texas to Kansas in 2021.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Six seasons at Kansas, 5,969 passing yards — his college career is complete.

His career

Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.

2018

Signed with North Texas3-star out of Lake Ridge

202110 games

The role got bigger.

Entered the portal

Career arc

Recruit

★★★

#2129 national

CFB

College

2 teams

2018–2023

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Coaching lineage · 2018–2023

3 coaches

2018

David Beaty

Kansas

2019–2020

Les Miles

Kansas

era →

2021–2023

Lance Leipold

Kansas

era →

Played under 3 different head coaches: David Beaty, Les Miles, and Lance Leipold. Multi-era developmental context.

2023 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2018North Texas9-4HC: Seth Littrell · Balanced, fast tempo

2019North Texas4-8HC: Seth Littrell · Balanced

2020North Texas4-6HC: Seth Littrell · Run-leaning, fast tempo

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

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

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

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

71Quality starter #24 of 140?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: epa / dropback (99th percentile). Strength: explosive rate (96th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

EPA / dropback#3 / 177 · 99th pct

0.64

Explosive rate#8 / 177 · 96th pct

16.8%

Sack rate#19 / 177 · 90th pct

2.9%

Success rate#20 / 177 · 89th pct

48.8%

Interception rate#1 / 177 · 84th pct

0.0%

Box-score rates (8)

Yards / att#2 / 179 · 99th pct

10.7

Rush yards#49 / 179 · 73rd pct

282

Fumbles lost#24 / 167 · 71st pct

Pass TDs#60 / 179 · 66th pct

Completion %#74 / 179 · 59th pct

62.3%

Pass yards#75 / 179 · 58th pct

2130

Rush TDs#72 / 179 · 55th pct

Interceptions#98 / 179 · 42nd pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

98th → 99th percentile

Success rate

88th → 89th percentile

Explosive rate

100th → 96th percentile

Sack rate

91st → 90th percentile

Interception rate

13th → 84th 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 · Completions by yards gained (PBP)

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

123/194 (63.4%) · 18 TD · 7 INT

194 of 199 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

10.507 of 212 QBs

Sack rate

2.9%30 of 212 QBs

Rarely sacked (30 of 212 QBs) and still 7 of 212 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 yds

39%of completions

48 comp5.1 yds avg3 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

32%of completions

39 comp14.0 yds avg3 TD

Deep

20+ yds

29%of completions

36 comp36.1 yds avg11 TD

Overall 63.4% completion on 194 attempts · 36 deep completions averaging 36.1 yds.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2023 season · 10 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home4g	150	0.8	6.9	0.5
Road6g	255	2.5	12.4	0.8

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-76g	227	2.5	10.4	0.8
Weeks 8+4g	192	0.8	9.3	0.5

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 · 2023

Starter

A locked-in starting job.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

71 · #24 of 140 QBs

Three-star recruit. Now #24 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2023	Kansas	124	199	62.3%	2,130	10.7	18	7	175.0	83	--	--
2022	Kansas	87	136	64.0%	1,280	9.4	14	4	171.1	73	--	--
2021	Kansas	102	181	56.4%	1,252	6.9	6	6	118.8	38	--	--
2020	North Texas	79	145	54.5%	1,131	7.8	14	5	145.0	45	--	--
2019	North Texas	22	35	62.9%	176	5.0	3	3	116.2	--	--	--
2018	North Texas	--	2	0.0%	--	0.0	0	1	-100.0	--	--	--
Career		414	698	59.3%	5,969	8.6	55	26	149.7	61	--	--

Season	Team
2023	Kansas	47	282	6.0	3	--
2022	Kansas	38	222	5.8	4	--
2021	Kansas	92	402	4.4	2	--
2020	North Texas	56	346	6.2	5	--
2019	North Texas	14	80	5.7	0	--
2018	North Texas	4	14	3.5	0	--
Career		251	1,346	5.4	14	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 9 · 2023

W 38–33

vs Oklahoma

218 yds · 0 TD · 2 INT · QBR 75.8 · 62 rush yds (4 car) · 1 TD

Edged out Oklahoma at home in a shootout.

With D. Neal — 112 rush yds (25 car) · 1 TD · D. Greaves — 43 AVG · 49 LONG · 2 NO

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 10 · Iowa State · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA +6.39Jason Bean pass complete to Lawrence Arnold for 80 yds for a TD (Owen Piepergerdes KICK)
Week 5 · Texas · 2&9 · Q3 · EPA +5.58Jason Bean pass complete to Trevor Wilson for 58 yds for a TD (Seth Keller KICK)
Week 1 · UNLV · 2&5 · Q2 · EPA +5.13Jason Bean pass complete to Luke Grimm for 60 yds for a TD (Seth Keller KICK)
Week 7 · Oklahoma State · 3&4 · Q2 · EPA +5.12Jason Bean pass complete to Quentin Skinner for 49 yds for a TD (Two-Point Conversion failed)
Week 1 · UNLV · 3&7 · Q4 · EPA +4.97Luke Grimm 43 Yd pass from Jason Bean (Seth Keller Kick)
Week 1 · UNLV · 4&1 · Q4 · EPA +4.95Jason Bean pass complete to Lawrence Arnold for 40 yds for a TD (Seth Keller KICK)
Week 1 · UNLV · 2&5 · Q4 · EPA +4.74Jason Bean pass complete to Lawrence Arnold for 56 yds for a TD (Seth Keller KICK)
Week 1 · UNLV · 3&10 · Q2 · EPA +4.34Jason Bean pass complete to Luke Grimm for 51 yds to the UNLV 15 for a 1ST down
Week 1 · UNLV · 2&11 · Q2 · EPA -3.89Jason Bean pass intercepted, touchback. Jaxen Turner return for no gain
Week 9 · Oklahoma · 4&6 · Q4 · EPA +3.69Jason Bean pass complete to Lawrence Arnold for 37 yds to the OU 9 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2023 season · 10 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 48-17vs Missouri State	22/28	276	2	0	9.9	82.5	Season-high 449 yds · 3 INTs — rough day
Wk 3	W 31-24@ Nevada	—	—	—	—	—	—
Wk 5	L 14-40@ Texas	9/21	136	1	0	6.5	17.2
Wk 6	W 51-22vs UCF	8/12	91	1	0	7.6	83.4
Wk 7	L 32-39@ Oklahoma State	23/34	410	5	2	12.1	75.6	5 TD passes
Wk 9	W 38-33vs Oklahoma	15/32	218	0	2	6.8	75.8
Wk 10	W 28-21@ Iowa State	14/23	287	1	0	12.5	92.1
Wk 11	L 13-16vs Texas Tech	1/4	13	0	0	3.3	11.1
Wk 13	W 49-16@ Cincinnati	13/17	250	2	0	14.7	99.5	Clean 2-TD game
Bowl	W 49-36@ UNLV	19/28	449	6	3	16.0	90.1
Total		124/199	2130	18	7	9.9	69.7

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

Jason Bean

2018

202110 games

2023 snapshot

Passing profile

Splits & context

Awards

Starter

Career stats

Signature game

Signature plays

Game log

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