#13

Jeff Undercuffler

Senior quarterback for Akron. 2023: 1,378 passing yards, 4 TD, 9 INT.

QB · Akron · Sr. · #13

6′5″ · 240 lb · Burlington, NJ

CFB Index 23 · #136 of 140 QBsHigh confidenceAkron 2023 alumnus

The story

4 quarterback for Akron. 2023: 1,378 passing yards, 4 TD, 9 INT.

The record fills in as he plays.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Two seasons at Akron, 1,915 passing yards — his college career is complete.

Career arc

Recruit

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No recruit profile

CFB

College

Akron

2022–2023

NFL

NFL Draft

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Not drafted

2023 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2 seasons under Joe Moorhead, all pass-leaning offenses — 4-20 over that span.

2022Akron2-10HC: Joe Moorhead · Pass-leaning

2023Akron2-10HC: Joe Moorhead · Pass-leaning

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

23Below cohort / limited sample #136 of 140?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: interception rate (84th percentile). Concern: explosive rate (3rd percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Interception rate#1 / 177 · 84th pct

0.0%

Success rate#69 / 177 · 61st pct

43.8%

EPA / dropback#75 / 177 · 58th pct

0.29

Sack rate#147 / 177 · 17th pct

9.2%

Explosive rate#173 / 177 · 3rd pct

6.0%

Box-score rates (8)

Completion %#82 / 179 · 54th pct

61.6%

Fumbles lost#76 / 167 · 40th pct

Pass yards#119 / 179 · 34th pct

1378

Rush TDs#124 / 179 · 23rd pct

Interceptions#133 / 179 · 22nd pct

Yards / att#148 / 179 · 16th pct

6.2

Pass TDs#152 / 179 · 13th pct

Rush yards#179 / 179 · 0th pct

-201

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).

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2023 season · 10 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home4g	152	0.8	5.0	1.0
Road6g	128	0.2	5.8	0.8

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-75g	72.8	0.4	4.9	0.8
Weeks 8+5g	203	0.4	6.1	1.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Joe Moorhead

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

23 · #136 of 140 QBs

Career stats

Season	Team
2023	Akron	138	224	61.6%	1,378	6.2	4	9	111.1	35	--	--
2022	Akron	41	74	55.4%	537	7.3	3	3	121.6	50	--	--
Career		179	298	60.1%	1,915	6.4	7	12	113.7	39	--	--

Season	Team
2023	Akron	26	-201	-7.7	1	--
2022	Akron	11	-56	-5.1	0	--
Career		37	-257	-6.9	1	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2023

W 24–21

vs Morgan State

209 yds · 1 TD · 3 INT · QBR 5.6 · -17 rush yds (3 car)

A wire-to-wire battle — won by 3 at home.

With D. Jackson — 33 AVG · 3 IN 20 · 40 LONG · B. Hester — 1 FUM · 1 LOST · 45 AVG

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 12 · Eastern Michigan · 3&10 · Q2 · EPA +4.32Jeff Undercuffler Jr. pass complete to Daniel George for 46 yds to the EMU 31 for a 1ST down
Week 12 · Eastern Michigan · 3&15 · Q4 · EPA +4.14Jeff Undercuffler Jr. pass complete to Jasaiah Gathings for 31 yds to the EMU 31 for a 1ST down
Week 10 · Kent State · 2&10 · Q3 · EPA +3.73Jeff Undercuffler Jr. pass complete to Lorenzo Lingard for 39 yds to the KENT 40 for a 1ST down
Week 10 · Kent State · 3&10 · Q4 · EPA +3.57Jeff Undercuffler Jr. pass complete to Jasaiah Gathings for 13 yds to the KENT 39 Kent State Penalty, unsportsmanlike conduct (Capone Blue) to the KENT 46
Week 2 · Morgan State · 2&10 · Q2 · EPA +3.32Jeff Undercuffler Jr. pass complete to Alex Adams for 29 yds for a TD (Noah Perez KICK)
Week 13 · Ohio · 4&5 · Q1 · EPA +3.25Jeff Undercuffler Jr. pass complete to Jasaiah Gathings for 12 yds to the OHIO 40 for a 1ST down
Week 7 · Central Michigan · 3&10 · Q4 · EPA +3.20Jeff Undercuffler Jr. pass complete to Alex Adams for 14 yds for a TD (Noah Perez KICK)
Week 10 · Kent State · 2&10 · Q4 · EPA +3.05Jasaiah Gathings 22 Yd pass from Jeff Undercuffler Jr. (Owen Wiley Kick)
Week 10 · Kent State · 2&12 · Q1 · EPA +2.95Jeff Undercuffler Jr. pass complete to Daniel George for 14 yds for a TD (Owen Wiley KICK)
Week 3 · Kentucky · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA -2.84Jeff Undercuffler Jr. sacked by Tommy Ziesmer for a loss of 19 yards to the UK 31

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 2	W 24-21vs Morgan State	18/25	209	1	3	8.4	5.6	3 INTs — rough day
Wk 3	L 3-35@ Kentucky	6/7	60	0	0	8.6	73.0
Wk 4	L 27-29@ Indiana	4/7	17	0	1	2.4	2.7
Wk 5	L 10-13vs Buffalo	0/2	0	0	0	0.0	0.1
Wk 7	L 10-17@ Central Michigan	10/16	78	1	0	4.9	53.6
Wk 8	L 14-41@ Bowling Green	22/39	234	0	2	6.0	11.3
Wk 10	W 31-27vs Kent State	23/39	298	2	0	7.6	61.3	Season-high 298 yds
Wk 11	L 0-19@ Miami (OH)	20/36	156	0	2	4.3	15.1
Wk 12	L 27-30@ Eastern Michigan	19/26	223	0	0	8.6	86.1
Wk 13	L 14-25vs Ohio	16/27	103	0	1	3.8	12.7
Total		138/224	1378	4	9	5.5	32.1

How he plays

Play style

Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

79.2%Completion %

28.6%Conversion/dropback

57.9%Land short of sticks

0INTs

79.2% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 28.6% conversion-per-dropback — 57.9% 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. ~ our read: checkdown by design