Jaxson Dart

Former quarterback at Ole Miss. 2024: 4,279 passing yards, 29 TD, 6 INT.

QB · Ole Miss · Sr. · #2

6′2″ · 220 lb · Kaysville, UT

CFB Index 96 · #1 of 137 QBsHigh confidenceAll-Conf 1st teamNew York — drafted 2025, Rd 1, Pick 25, #25 overall

Recruiting

4★

QB recruit

No. 69 nationally · Signed with USC

Statement game515 yds · 6 TDat Arkansas (FBS) · W 63-31

Top 0.1% passing TDs game since 2021.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

Former quarterback at Ole Miss. 2024: 4,279 passing yards, 29 TD, 6 INT.

Signed as a 4-star recruit to USC in 2021.
Transferred from USC to Ole Miss in 2022.
Drafted round 1 by the New York in 2025.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Four seasons at Ole Miss, 11,971 passing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2024) — drafted at #25 overall by New York.

His career

He arrived as a blue-chip recruit and played like one.

20216 games

Signed with USC4-star out of Corner Canyon

202213 games

The role got bigger.

Entered the portal

202413 games

All-SECfirst

2025

Drafted by New Yorkround 1, pick 25

Career arc

Recruit

★★★★

#69 national

CFB

College

2 teams

2021–2024

NFL

NFL Draft

R1 · #25

New York · 2025

Trophy case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

1 honor

🥈

ALL-SEC · 1ST TEAM

All-SEC 1st team (2024)

Featured in The Canon

#58

The 100 Best Players of the CFP Era

Coaching lineage · 2021–2024

1 coach

2021–2024

Lane Kiffin

Ole Miss

Played his entire career under Lane Kiffin.

Where He Ended Up · NFL

New YorkEntering 2nd NFL season

#25Rd 1 · Pick 25

New YorkEntering 2nd NFL season

View college career stats ↓

2024 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2021USC4-8HC: Donte Williams · Balanced, fast tempo

2022Ole Miss8-5HC: Lane Kiffin · Run-heavy, fast tempo

2023Ole Miss11-2HC: Lane Kiffin · Run-leaning

2024Ole Miss10-3HC: Lane Kiffin · Balanced

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

96All-America level #1 of 137?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

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

Real play-by-play efficiency

EPA / dropback#2 / 169 · 99th pct

0.52

Explosive rate#2 / 169 · 99th pct

18.4%

Success rate#7 / 169 · 96th pct

51.0%

Interception rate#32 / 169 · 81st pct

1.3%

Sack rate#97 / 169 · 43rd pct

6.4%

Box-score rates (8)

Yards / att#1 / 165 · 100th pct

10.8

Pass yards#3 / 165 · 98th pct

4279

Fumbles lost#1 / 159 · 94th pct

Pass TDs#10 / 165 · 93rd pct

Completion %#13 / 165 · 92nd pct

69.3%

Rush yards#24 / 165 · 86th pct

495

Interceptions#49 / 165 · 62nd pct

Rush TDs#63 / 165 · 56th pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

87th → 99th percentile

Success rate

68th → 96th percentile

Explosive rate

98th → 99th percentile

Sack rate

38th → 43rd percentile

Interception rate

63rd → 81st 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

273/396 (68.9%) · 29 TD · 6 INT

396 of 398 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

10.511 of 205 QBs

Sack rate

6.4%125 of 205 QBs

Sacked on 6.4% of dropbacks (125 of 205) — and still 1 of 205 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

46%of completions

126 comp5.0 yds avg4 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

27%of completions

74 comp14.2 yds avg3 TD

Deep

20+ yds

27%of completions

73 comp34.5 yds avg19 TD

Overall 68.9% completion on 396 attempts · 73 deep completions averaging 34.5 yds.

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2024 baseline

No situation moves him more than 17 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-17 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 10/173 (5.8%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 2

+15 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 6/131 (4.6%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 3+

+13 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 9/80 (11.2%) · league sack rate 8.1% · ~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

2024 season · 13 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home8g	312	2.2	11.1	0.2
Road5g	357	2.2	10.6	0.8

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-78g	348	2.2	11.4	0.4
Weeks 8+5g	298	2.2	10.0	0.6

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Pete Golding

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

Awards

Player standing · 2024

All-Conference 1st team

First team in his league at the position.

our read the All-Conference 1st team honor is earned — and the box score backs it up emphatically: #1 of 137 FBS quarterbacks by CFB Index Score.2024 profile

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

96 · #1 of 137 QBs

Former four-star. Now #1 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2024	Ole Miss	276	398	69.3%	4,279	10.8	29	6	180.7	90	--	--
2023	Ole Miss	233	359	64.9%	3,364	9.4	23	5	162.0	75	--	--
2022	Ole Miss	226	361	62.6%	2,975	8.2	20	10	144.6	73	--	--
2021	USC	117	189	61.9%	1,353	7.2	9	5	132.5	56	--	--
Career		852	1,307	65.2%	11,971	9.2	81	26	158.6	77	--	--

Season	Team
2024	Ole Miss	124	495	4.0	3	--
2023	Ole Miss	119	391	3.3	8	--
2022	Ole Miss	128	613	4.8	1	--
2021	USC	22	43	2.0	2	--
Career		393	1,542	3.9	14	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 11 · 2024

W 28–10

vs Georgia

199 yds · 1 TD · 1 INT · QBR 89.6 · 50 rush yds (8 car)

With F. Masin — 54 AVG · 1 IN 20 · 65 LONG · A. Simmons — 64 yds · 0 TD · 0 INT · QBR 99.7

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 1 · Duke · 2&23 · Q4 · EPA +7.14Jaxson Dart pass complete to Jordan Watkins for 69 yds for a TD (Mike Baker KICK)
Week 3 · Wake Forest · 2&10 · Q1 · EPA +6.78Jaxson Dart pass complete to Jordan Watkins for 75 yds for a TD (Caden Davis KICK)
Week 5 · Kentucky · 4&7 · Q3 · EPA +6.35Tre Harris 48 Yd pass from Jaxson Dart (Caden Davis Kick)
Week 10 · Arkansas · 2&8 · Q2 · EPA +6.10Jaxson Dart pass complete to Jordan Watkins for 66 yds for a TD
Week 4 · Georgia Southern · 2&4 · Q2 · EPA +5.82Jaxson Dart pass complete to Tre Harris for 70 yds for a TD (Caden Davis KICK)
Week 10 · Arkansas · 2&8 · Q3 · EPA +5.79Jaxson Dart pass complete to Jordan Watkins for 62 yds for a TD (Caden Davis KICK)
Week 10 · Arkansas · 1&10 · Q2 · EPA +4.95Jaxson Dart pass complete to Jordan Watkins for 62 yds for a TD (Caden Davis KICK)
Week 1 · Furman · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA +4.86Jaxson Dart pass complete to Antwane Wells Jr. for 61 yds for a TD (Caden Davis KICK)
Week 1 · Furman · 1&10 · Q2 · EPA +4.86Jaxson Dart pass complete to Tre Harris for 61 yds for a TD (Caden Davis KICK)
Week 5 · Kentucky · 4&11 · Q4 · EPA +4.37Jaxson Dart pass complete to Caden Prieskorn for 42 yds to the UK 34 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2024 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 76-0vs Furman	22/27	418	5	0	15.5	97.3	4 TD passes
Wk 2	W 52-3vs Middle Tennessee	25/27	377	1	0	14.0	84.2
Wk 3	W 40-6@ Wake Forest	26/34	377	2	1	11.1	90.7
Wk 4	W 52-13vs Georgia Southern	22/31	382	4	1	12.3	77.3	4 TD passes
Wk 5	L 17-20vs Kentucky	18/27	261	1	0	9.7	79.5
Wk 6	W 27-3@ South Carolina	14/27	285	0	0	10.6	90.5
Wk 7	L 26-29@ LSU	24/42	284	1	1	6.8	52.2
Wk 9	W 26-14vs Oklahoma	22/30	311	1	0	10.4	88.8
Wk 10	W 63-31@ Arkansas	25/31	515	6	0	16.6	98.2	Season-high 515 yds
Wk 11	W 28-10vs Georgia	13/22	199	1	1	9.0	89.6
Wk 13	L 17-24@ Florida	24/41	323	2	2	7.9	86.3
Wk 14	W 26-14vs Mississippi State	14/24	143	1	0	6.0	58.5
Bowl	W 52-20vs Duke	27/35	404	4	0	11.5	95.2
Total		276/398	4279	29	6	10.9	83.7

How he plays

Play style

Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.

CFB Index positional classification

Q4 transformation · one-season descriptive

Fourth-quarter fade

fact

2Real games backing it up

0.544Q1-3 EPA/dropback

-0.190Q4 EPA/dropback

2 times this season the team led entering the fourth quarter and lost — and it shows in the tape: 0.544 → -0.190 EPA/dropback into the fourth.

t=-2.86 (n=340/41), one season of descriptive data — never a predictive trait. Across ~200 QB-seasons screened at this threshold, expected false positives run near 5%.

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

51.5%Completion %

24.3%Conversion/dropback

47.1%Land short of sticks

2INTs

51.5% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 24.3% conversion-per-dropback — 47.1% 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

2/27Inside-5 share

2 of the team's 27 inside-the-5 carries (7.4%).