Jeff Sims

Senior quarterback for Arizona State. 2025: 1,261 passing yards, 10 TD, 6 INT.

QB · Arizona State · Sr. · #2

6′4″ · 220 lb · Jacksonville, FL

CFB Index 39 · #92 of 146 QBsHigh confidenceReturning to Arizona State for 2026

The numbers

1,261

passing yards · 2025

10 TD · 6 INT · 6.7 per attempt

Backed by 29 car · 228 yds · 2 TD -- top 1% rushing yards game.

The play that turned itSwung Arizona State from 40% to 78% to win.Arizona State at Colorado · 42-17

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 quarterback for Arizona State. 2025: 1,261 passing yards, 10 TD, 6 INT.

Signed as a 4-star recruit to Georgia Tech in 2020.
Transferred from Nebraska to Arizona State in 2024.

The full story, with sources

How he plays

Extends plays with his feet until something opens up.

Sack rate: 67th percentile.

The full scouting read

Jeff Sims

QB · Arizona State · Sr · #2

Extends plays with his feet until something opens up. Across six seasons and three programs, four head coaches: Geoff Collins, Brent Key, Matt Rhule and Kenny Dillingham. Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week in 2025 was the second honor of his career. The receipt: 375 pass yds, 70 rush yds against Duke — Bowl, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
head-coach lineage
recognition record
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2020Georgia Tech3-7HC: Geoff Collins · Run-leaning

2021Georgia Tech3-9HC: Geoff Collins · Run-leaning

2022Georgia Tech5-7HC: Brent Key · Balanced

2023Nebraska5-7HC: Matt Rhule · Run-heavy, slow tempo

2024Arizona State11-3HC: Kenny Dillingham · Run-leaning

2025Arizona State8-5HC: Kenny Dillingham · Balanced

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

39Below cohort / limited sample #92 of 146?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: rush yards (82nd percentile). Concern: success rate (6th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Sack rate#60 / 183 · 67th pct

4.2%

Explosive rate#141 / 183 · 23rd pct

7.2%

Interception rate#152 / 183 · 17th pct

3.3%

EPA / dropback#158 / 183 · 14th pct

0.04

Success rate#172 / 183 · 6th pct

30.7%

Box-score rates (8)

Rush yards#34 / 183 · 82nd pct

522

Rush TDs#53 / 183 · 68th pct

Interceptions#70 / 183 · 56th pct

Pass TDs#105 / 183 · 40th pct

Yards / att#120 / 183 · 31st pct

6.7

Pass yards#130 / 183 · 29th pct

1261

Completion %#161 / 183 · 12th pct

55.9%

Fumbles lost#154 / 174 · 8th pct

Season trend

EPA / dropback— first qualifying season

Success rate— first qualifying season

Explosive rate— first qualifying season

Sack rate— first qualifying season

Interception rate— first qualifying season

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 · True throw depth (charted plays)

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

95/181 (52.5%) · 10 TD · 6 INT

181 of 188 attempts matched to play-by-play

112 of 181 attempts charted for true throw depth

Adjusted ANY/A

5.85123 of 206 QBs

Sack rate

4.1%77 of 206 QBs

Rarely sacked (77 of 206), but Adjusted ANY/A hasn't followed (123 of 206).

Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.

Behind LOS · Negative air yds

15% of attempts (17)

88%comp

Air -3.6 · YAC 5.6 avg

Short · 0–9 air yds

40% of attempts (45)

56%comp

Air 4.4 · YAC 8.2 avg

Middle · 10–19 air yds

24% of attempts (27)

52%comp3 INT

Air 13.7 · YAC 3.1 avg

Deep · 20+ air yds

21% of attempts (23)

26%comp2 INT

Air 27.2 · YAC 6.5 avg

Overall 52.5% completion on 181 attempts · 26% completion on 23 deep attempts (20+ air yds).

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 9 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home5g	75.8	0.8	5.8	0.6
Road4g	220	1.5	7.3	0.8

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-73g	166	1.0	6.6	0.3
Weeks 8+6g	127	1.2	6.7	0.8

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Kenny Dillingham

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

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Part-time starter

Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

39 · #92 of 146 QBs

Former four-star. Now #92 at the position.

2026 outlook

Outside shot for All-Big 12

Based on 2025: #13 of 17 Big 12 QBs

How the All-Big 12 estimate is computed

22% estimated, 95% confidence interval 19–25%. Base rate measured from players who finished at a comparable rank in their conference and came back the next season. It is an estimate from a small sample, not a forecast of this player.

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Arizona State	105	188	55.9%	1,261	6.7	10	6	123.4	41	--	--
2024	Arizona State	13	25	52.0%	168	6.7	0	0	108.4	--	--	--
2023	Nebraska	28	47	59.6%	282	6.0	1	6	91.5	41	--	--
2022	Georgia Tech	110	188	58.5%	1,115	5.9	5	3	113.9	32	--	--
2021	Georgia Tech	113	188	60.1%	1,468	7.8	12	7	139.3	40	--	--
2020	Georgia Tech	141	257	54.9%	1,881	7.3	13	13	122.9	38	--	--
Career		510	893	57.1%	6,175	6.9	41	35	122.5	38	--	--

Season	Team
2025	Arizona State	100	522	5.2	5	--
2024	Arizona State	24	101	4.2	1	--
2023	Nebraska	42	189	4.5	1	--
2022	Georgia Tech	87	288	3.3	1	--
2021	Georgia Tech	70	372	5.3	4	--
2020	Georgia Tech	120	495	4.1	6	--
Career		443	1,967	4.4	18	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 8 · 2025

W 26–22

vs Texas Tech

3 rush yds (2 car)

A wire-to-wire battle — won by 4 at home.

With S. Leavitt — 319 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 70.6 · 3 rush yds (12 car) · K. Floyd — 1 SOLO · 1 TOT · 39 AVG

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 10 · Iowa State · 3&4 · Q3 · EPA +7.11(07:58) No Huddle-Shotgun #2 J.Sims rush middle for 88 yards gain to the ISU00 TOUCHDOWN, clock 07:47, 1ST DOWN #35 J.Gomez kick attempt good (H: #31 K.Floyd, LS: #39 T.Wigglesworth)
Week 13 · Colorado · 3&3 · Q3 · EPA +6.47(10:45) No Huddle-Shotgun #2 J.Sims pass complete short middle to #83 D.Eusebio caught at ASU39, for 68 yards to the COLO00 TOUCHDOWN, clock 10:35, 1ST DOWN #15 K.Anderson pass attempt Successful
Week 1 · Duke · 2&11 · Q3 · EPA +4.56Shotgun #2 J.Sims pass complete short to #23 D.Robinson caught at ASU28, for 68 yards to the DUKE08 (#3 C.Weaver), 1ST DOWN
Week 1 · Duke · 3&13 · Q1 · EPA +4.53No Huddle-Shotgun #2 J.Sims pass complete deep right to #18 J.Moss caught at DUKE29, for 51 yards to the DUKE23 (#8 D.Stone), 1ST DOWN
Week 13 · Colorado · 4&2 · Q2 · EPA +4.42(03:26) No Huddle-Shotgun #2 J.Sims pass complete deep right to #3 R.Brown caught at COLO10, for 33 yards to the COLO00 TOUCHDOWN, clock 03:19, 1ST DOWN #35 J.Gomez kick attempt good (H: #31 K.Floyd, LS: #39 T.Wigglesworth)
Week 12 · West Virginia · 3&10 · Q2 · EPA +4.40(01:48) No Huddle-Shotgun #2 J.Sims pass complete short middle to #3 R.Brown caught at WVU26, for 33 yards to the WVU00 QB hurried by #5 F.Perry TOUCHDOWN, clock 01:41, 1ST DOWN #35 J.Gomez kick attempt good (H: #31 K.Floyd, LS: #39 T.Wigglesworth)
Week 13 · Colorado · 3&8 · Q1 · EPA +4.01(10:18) No Huddle-Shotgun #2 J.Sims pass complete deep right to #0 J.Tyson caught at COLO31, for 42 yards to the COLO21 (#13 J.Slaughter), out of bounds, 1ST DOWN
Week 1 · Duke · 2&9 · Q2 · EPA +3.76No Huddle-Shotgun #2 J.Sims rush right for 38 yards gain to the DUKE00 TOUCHDOWN, clock 03:49, 1ST DOWN #35 J.Gomez kick attempt good (H: #31 K.Floyd, LS: #39 T.Wigglesworth)
Week 9 · Houston · 3&8 · Q4 · EPA +3.71(05:18) No Huddle-Shotgun #2 J.Sims pass complete short left to #7 C.Metayer caught at UH 12, for 27 yards to the UH 00 TOUCHDOWN, clock 05:12, 1ST DOWN, PENALTY UH Holding declined #35 J.Gomez kick attempt good (H: #31 K.Floyd, LS: #90 C.Davis)
Week 1 · Duke · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA +3.41No Huddle-Shotgun #2 J.Sims pass complete deep middle to #18 J.Moss caught at DUKE13, for 44 yards to the DUKE00 TOUCHDOWN, clock 05:05, 1ST DOWN #35 J.Gomez kick attempt good (H: #31 K.Floyd, LS: #39 T.Wigglesworth)

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 9 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 3	W 34-15vs Texas State	—	—	—	—	—	—
Wk 7	L 10-42@ Utah	18/38	124	0	0	3.3	66.5
Wk 8	W 26-22vs Texas Tech	—	—	—	—	—	—
Wk 9	L 16-24vs Houston	6/11	58	1	0	5.3	83.2
Wk 10	W 24-19@ Iowa State	13/24	177	1	1	7.4	66.1
Wk 12	W 25-23vs West Virginia	19/28	207	3	0	7.4	75.0	3 TD passes
Wk 13	W 42-17@ Colorado	11/24	206	2	1	8.6	41.6
Wk 14	L 7-23vs Arizona	11/25	114	0	3	4.6	31.8	3 INTs — rough day
Bowl	L 39-42@ Duke	27/38	375	3	1	9.9	85.0
Total		105/188	1261	10	6	6.6	64.2

How he plays

Play style

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

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

59.3%Completion %

37.9%Conversion/dropback

31.2%Land short of sticks

2INTs

59.3% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 37.9% conversion-per-dropback — 31.2% 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

9/103rd/4th & short

2/23Inside-5 share

9 of 10 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (90.0%). 2 of the team's 23 inside-the-5 carries (8.7%).

2026 Outlook

Arizona State

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Quarterback · Arizona State

Returning around him

16% of 2024 offensive production back (Heavy turnover)
4 Arizona State players drafted to NFL
Transfer portal: +3 net (24 in / 21 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

Arizona State · Last season: 8-5 (AP #24) · Talent rank #45 · 2026 recruiting class #40

DNA match

Player DNA

Scrambler

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

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Jeff Sims’s 2021 season.

Jeff Sims

72%match

Georgia Tech · 2021

Gerry Bohannon

South Florida · 2022

68%

Grant Wilson

Old Dominion · 2023

66%

Ethan Vasko

Coastal Carolina · 2024

64%

Ben Wooldridge

Louisiana · 2022

63%

Matches Jeff on

Total pass EPA (college ability)

Rush usage

INT rate

Differs from Jeff on

Completion % (lower)

Yards / attempt (lower)

Through 6 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to N'Kosi Perry’s path through Florida Atlantic.

N'Kosi Perry

88%match

Florida Atlantic · 2022

Sam Noyer

Oregon State · 2021

All-Pac-12

87%

Rocky Lombardi

Northern Illinois · 2023

85%

Cornelious Brown

Alabama A&M · 2025

80%

Zach Smith

Tulsa · 2020

80%

Matches N'Kosi on

Height

Completion %

Yards per attempt

Player DNA

Players who play like Jeff Sims

Garrett Shrader

Syracuse · 2023

74%

Hunter Watson

Sam Houston · 2025

73%

Jeff Sims

Arizona State · 2025

72%

Tyler Shough

Texas Tech · 2022

68%

DJ Irons

Akron · 2023

64%

Heisman trajectory

Heisman Trajectory · 2025

Peak #43

Final rank

#113

Avg #88.3

Finalist prob 6%

Peaked at #43 this season.

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

Jeff Sims

202010 games

20235 games

20244 games

2025 snapshot

Passing profile

Splits & context

Awards

Part-time starter

Career stats

Signature game

Signature plays

Game log

How he plays

DNA match

Scrambler

Players who play like Jeff Sims

Heisman trajectory

Peak #43