Joe Fagnano

#2 · QB · Sr. · UConn6′4″ · 225 lb · Williamsport, PA

Joe Fagnano is a quarterback who has not played this season; the last season with a stat line was 2025, at UConn.

Fagnano picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. Played for two head coaches in three seasons at UConn. A game that shows it: 446 passing yards and 3 passing TD against Florida Atlantic — Week 13, 2025.

Where to follow

Career stats

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Season	Team
2025	UConn	284	412	68.9%	3,441	8.4	28	1	161.0	61
2024	UConn	120	207	58.0%	1,631	7.9	20	4	152.2	42
2023	UConn	18	35	51.4%	173	4.9	0	1	87.2	--
Career		422	654	64.5%	5,245	8.0	48	6	154.3	55

Season	Team
2025	UConn	47	131	2.8	3	38
2024	UConn	30	60	2.0	1	19
2023	UConn	16	32	2.0	0	13
Career		93	223	2.4	4	38

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 59-13vs Central Connecticut	18/25	260	3	0	10.4	84.7	3 TD passes
Wk 2	L 20-27@ Syracuse	24/43	259	0	0	6.0	38.2
Wk 3	L 41-44@ Delaware	28/38	346	2	0	9.1	80.9	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 4	W 31-25vs Ball State	20/30	181	1	0	6.0	54.2
Wk 5	W 20-17@ Buffalo	19/31	155	1	0	5.0	67.5
Wk 6	W 51-10vs Florida International	22/28	355	4	0	12.7	88.9	4 TD passes
Wk 8	W 38-23@ Boston College	23/31	362	4	0	11.7	90.4	4 TD passes
Wk 9	L 34-37@ Rice	32/48	344	3	0	7.2	59.7	3 TD passes
Wk 10	W 38-19vs UAB	23/30	267	4	0	8.9	71.6	4 TD passes
Wk 11	W 37-34vs Duke	27/39	311	3	0	8.0	75.3	3 TD passes
Wk 12	W 26-16vs Air Force	15/23	155	0	1	6.7	48.6
Wk 13	W 48-45@ Florida Atlantic	33/46	446	3	0	9.7	70.6	Season-high 446 yds
Total		284/412	3441	28	1	8.4	—

Highs and lows

Only games with 20 or more plays count for best and lowest.
Best by our grade	Florida International	W 51-10 · Graded great · 355 yds, 4 TD, 0 INT · Rush 6 for 4 · Sacked 2
Lowest by our grade	Air Force	W 26-16 · Graded shaky · Slow start, strong finish · 155 yds, 0 TD, 1 INT · Rush 1 for 10, 1 TD · The interception cost about 10 points of win chance · Sacked 0
Best play	Duke	Completion for 19 yards, touchdown, Q4 1:58 · Win chance 29% to 63%

Passing profile

Pass Profile · True throw depth (charted plays)

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

284/412 (68.9%) · 28 TD · 1 INT

396 of 412 attempts matched to play-by-play

180 of 396 attempts charted for true throw depth

Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 396 passing plays (270 completions) against the box score's 412 attempts (284 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.

Adjusted ANY/A

9.147 of 206 QBs

Sack rate

3.1%33 of 206 QBs

Rarely sacked (33 of 206 QBs) and still 7 of 206 in Adjusted ANY/A.

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

19% of attempts (35)

86%comp

Air -2.9 · YAC 9.5 avg

Short · 0–9 air yds

53% of attempts (96)

74%comp

Air 3.2 · YAC 5.2 avg

Middle · 10–19 air yds

18% of attempts (33)

64%comp

Air 13.6 · YAC 7.2 avg

Deep · 20+ air yds

9% of attempts (16)

12%comp1 INT

Air 28.0 · YAC 8.0 avg

Overall 68.9% completion on 412 attempts · 12% completion on 16 deep attempts (20+ air yds).

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2025 baseline

No situation moves him more than 41 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-25 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 5/166 (3.0%) · league sack rate 4.2%

Down 2

-3 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 4/117 (3.4%) · league sack rate 4.5%

Down 3+

+41 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 3/111 (2.7%) · league sack rate 7.8%

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.

Teams and coaches

3 seasons under Jim Mora — 21-17 over that span.

2023UConn3-9HC: Jim Mora · Balanced

2024UConn9-4HC: Jim Mora · Run-leaning

2025UConn9-4HC: Jim Mora · Balanced

Our ratings

CFB Zeitgeist Score 74 (#22 of 146). Show the ratings

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles · 2025 season

74Quality starter #22 of 146 · 2025?

Breakout13 metrics · season cumulative

2025 score: the 2026 sample is not big enough yet. The rows below are 2026 so far. Elite: interception rate (98th percentile). Strength: epa / dropback (93rd percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Interception rate#5 / 183 · 98th pct

0.3%

EPA / dropback#13 / 183 · 93rd pct

0.38

Sack rate#23 / 183 · 88th pct

3.2%

Success rate#24 / 183 · 87th pct

45.5%

Explosive rate#76 / 183 · 59th pct

9.6%

Box-score rates (8)

Interceptions#4 / 183 · 97th pct

Pass TDs#12 / 183 · 93rd pct

Completion %#16 / 183 · 92nd pct

68.9%

Fumbles lost#1 / 174 · 91st pct

Pass yards#19 / 183 · 90th pct

3441

Yards / att#24 / 183 · 87th pct

8.4

Rush yards#88 / 183 · 52nd pct

131

Rush TDs#86 / 183 · 49th pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

70th → 93rd percentile

Success rate

47th → 87th percentile

Explosive rate

49th → 59th percentile

Sack rate

97th → 88th percentile

Interception rate

54th → 98th percentile

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps in 2025. 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).

Zeitgeist Passer Rating

2025 · our own passing-efficiency number, shown next to the 1979 formula it does not replace.

After 391 dropbacks

61Zeitgeist Passer Rating42nd of 142 FBS QBs

NCAA passer rating 161.0 10th of 142 FBS QBs

ZPR ranks this quarterback 32 places lower than passer rating does: passer rating rewards the low interception count, which ZPR treats as mostly luck; and the schedule adjustment debits the defenses faced.

Positive-play rate weight 24%

48.9%75th pct of FBS QBs

share of dropbacks that gained expected points · -3.3% schedule adj.

Yards per attempt weight 56%

7.0751st pct of FBS QBs

sacks excluded · -0.9 schedule adj.

Sack rate weight 21% (penalty)

3.5%82nd pct of FBS QBs

the input passer rating cannot see · +0.5% schedule adj.

Opponent-adjusted; garbage time excluded (18 of 409 dropbacks dropped). 50 = FBS average; the number is pulled toward 50 when the sample is thin. How ZPR is built.

Splits

Home and road splits, scheme and staff

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home6g	255	2.5	8.8	0.2
Road6g	319	2.2	8.1	0.0

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-76g	259	1.8	8.2	0.0
Weeks 8+6g	314	2.8	8.7	0.2

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Gordon Sammis

Pass share

53.5%

451 pass / 392 run

Plays / game

64.8

13 games

Scheme: Balanced.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Heisman model top 25

Our Heisman model had this player inside its top 25 in 2025.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score

74 · #22 of 146 QBs · 2025

Unranked recruit. Now #22 at the position.