#10

John Rhys Plumlee

Senior quarterback for UCF. 2023: 2,271 passing yards, 15 TD, 8 INT.

QB · UCF · Sr. · #10

6′0″ · 200 lb · Hattiesburg, MS

CFB Index 66 · #33 of 140 QBsHigh confidenceUCF 2023 alumnus

The story

4 quarterback for UCF. 2023: 2,271 passing yards, 15 TD, 8 INT.

Transferred from UCF to UCF in 2022.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Five seasons at UCF, 5,824 passing yards — his college career is complete.

His career

Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.

202213 games

Entered the portal

Career arc

Recruit

—

No recruit profile

CFB

College

2 teams

2019–2023

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Coaching lineage · 2019–2023

2 coaches

2019–2020

Josh Heupel

UCF

2021–2023

Gus Malzahn

UCF

era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Josh Heupel → Gus Malzahn. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

2023 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2019Ole Miss4-8HC: Matt Luke · Run-heavy

2020Ole Miss5-5HC: Lane Kiffin · Run-leaning, fast tempo

2021Ole Miss10-3HC: Lane Kiffin · Run-leaning, fast tempo

2022UCF9-5HC: Gus Malzahn · Run-leaning, fast tempo

2023UCF6-7HC: Gus Malzahn · Run-leaning

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

66Quality starter #33 of 140?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: epa / dropback (98th percentile). Strength: explosive rate (94th percentile). Concern: fumbles lost (20th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

EPA / dropback#4 / 177 · 98th pct

0.60

Explosive rate#12 / 177 · 94th pct

15.2%

Success rate#25 / 177 · 86th pct

47.6%

Sack rate#34 / 177 · 81st pct

3.8%

Interception rate#86 / 177 · 52nd pct

0.5%

Box-score rates (8)

Yards / att#17 / 179 · 90th pct

8.9

Rush yards#19 / 179 · 90th pct

505

Rush TDs#37 / 179 · 77th pct

Pass yards#66 / 179 · 63rd pct

2271

Completion %#67 / 179 · 63rd pct

62.9%

Pass TDs#69 / 179 · 60th pct

Interceptions#113 / 179 · 32nd pct

Fumbles lost#125 / 167 · 20th pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

28th → 98th percentile

Success rate

58th → 86th percentile

Explosive rate

42nd → 94th percentile

Sack rate

25th → 81st percentile

Interception rate

45th → 52nd 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

155/231 (67.1%) · 15 TD · 8 INT

231 of 256 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

8.0143 of 212 QBs

Sack rate

4.1%58 of 212 QBs

Rarely sacked (58 of 212 QBs) and still 43 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

53%of completions

82 comp4.8 yds avg3 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

26%of completions

40 comp14.4 yds avg4 TD

Deep

20+ yds

21%of completions

33 comp36.6 yds avg6 TD

Overall 67.1% completion on 231 attempts · 33 deep completions averaging 36.6 yds.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2023 season · 10 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home5g	261	2.4	10.0	1.0
Road5g	193	0.6	7.9	0.6

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-74g	196	1.2	8.1	1.0
Weeks 8+6g	248	1.7	9.5	0.7

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Scott Frost

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

66 · #33 of 140 QBs

Career stats

Season	Team
2023	UCF	161	256	62.9%	2,271	8.9	15	8	150.5	65	--	--
2022	UCF	218	346	63.0%	2,586	7.5	14	8	134.5	48	--	--
2021	Ole Miss	1	1	100.0%	6	6.0	0	0	150.4	--	--	--
2020	Ole Miss	4	6	66.7%	51	8.5	1	0	193.1	--	--	--
2019	Ole Miss	79	149	53.0%	910	6.1	4	2	110.5	--	--	--
Career		463	758	61.1%	5,824	7.7	34	18	135.7	56	--	--

Season	Team
2023	UCF	106	505	4.8	5	--
2022	UCF	158	848	5.4	11	--
2021	Ole Miss	9	72	8.0	0	--
2020	Ole Miss	25	94	3.8	0	--
2019	Ole Miss	154	1,020	6.6	12	--
Career		452	2,539	5.6	28	--

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 8 · Oklahoma · 2&10 · Q2 · EPA +7.08John Rhys Plumlee pass complete to Javon Baker for 86 yds for a TD (Colton Boomer KICK)
Week 11 · Oklahoma State · 3&3 · Q2 · EPA +6.77John Rhys Plumlee pass complete to Kobe Hudson for 75 yds for a TD (Colton Boomer KICK)
Week 12 · Texas Tech · 2&6 · Q4 · EPA +6.19John Rhys Plumlee pass complete to Javon Baker for 71 yds for a TD (Colton Boomer PAT BLOCKED)
Week 2 · Boise State · 3&14 · Q4 · EPA +4.56John Rhys Plumlee pass complete to Kobe Hudson for 53 yds to the BOIS 16 for a 1ST down
Week 8 · Oklahoma · 3&15 · Q4 · EPA +4.33John Rhys Plumlee pass complete to Randy Pittman for 39 yds to the OU 31 for a 1ST down
Week 13 · Houston · 4&4 · Q2 · EPA +4.22John Rhys Plumlee pass complete to Xavier Townsend for 28 yds for a TD (Colton Boomer KICK)
Week 9 · West Virginia · 3&6 · Q1 · EPA +4.01John Rhys Plumlee pass complete to Kobe Hudson for 34 yds for a TD (Colton Boomer KICK)
Week 1 · Georgia Tech · 3&11 · Q2 · EPA +3.87John Rhys Plumlee pass complete to Kobe Hudson for 30 yds to the GT 40 for a 1ST down
Week 1 · Kent State · 1&10 · Q3 · EPA +3.84John Rhys Plumlee pass complete to RJ Harvey for 50 yds for a TD (Colton Boomer KICK)
Week 1 · Kent State · 3&7 · Q2 · EPA +3.76John Rhys Plumlee pass complete to Xavier Townsend for 32 yds to the KENT 39 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 56-6vs Kent State	22/30	281	3	2	9.4	87.9	3 TD passes
Wk 2	W 18-16@ Boise State	16/24	272	0	2	11.3	53.9
Wk 6	L 22-51@ Kansas	3/7	33	0	0	4.7	13.5
Wk 8	L 29-31@ Oklahoma	16/30	248	2	0	8.3	66.6
Wk 9	L 28-41vs West Virginia	25/36	274	3	3	7.6	68.8	3 TD passes · 3 INTs — rough day
Wk 10	W 28-26@ Cincinnati	13/23	165	0	0	7.2	74.2
Wk 11	W 45-3vs Oklahoma State	11/18	299	3	0	16.6	96.4	Season-high 299 yds
Wk 12	L 23-24@ Texas Tech	16/32	248	1	1	7.8	73.8
Wk 13	W 27-13vs Houston	23/27	253	1	0	9.4	91.0
Bowl	L 17-30vs Georgia Tech	16/29	198	2	0	6.8	45.5
Total		161/256	2271	15	8	8.9	67.2

How he plays

Play style

Dangerous with both arm and legs — defenses can't just pin the ears back.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

56.5%Completion %

32.0%Conversion/dropback

38.5%Land short of sticks

0INTs

56.5% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 32.0% conversion-per-dropback — 38.5% 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

3/31Inside-5 share

3 of the team's 31 inside-the-5 carries (9.7%).