Jonathan Banks: QB · Tulane · #1.
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Jonathan Banks
Extends plays on the move until something opens up. Second year in the same quarterback room at Tulane. A game that shows it: 281 passing yards and 38 rushing yards against Wake Forest — Week 1, 2018.
Play style
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
41.7% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 23.3% conversion-per-dropback — 30.0% 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. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
3 of the team's 16 inside-the-5 carries (18.8%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 7 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 17-23vs Wake Forest | 18/37 | 281 | 2 | 0 | 7.6 | — | Season-high 281 yds |
| Wk 2 | W 42-17vs Nicholls | 12/16 | 190 | 1 | 0 | 11.9 | — | |
| Wk 3 | L 24-31@ UAB | 7/24 | 180 | 2 | 1 | 7.5 | — | |
| Wk 4 | L 6-49@ No. 4 Ohio State | 8/14 | 141 | 0 | 0 | 10.1 | — | |
| Wk 5 | W 40-24vs Memphis | 12/21 | 127 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | — | |
| Wk 6 | L 21-37@ Cincinnati | 1/5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | — | |
| Wk 8 | L 23-27vs SMU | 14/22 | 153 | 0 | 1 | 7.0 | — | |
| Total | 72/139 | 1074 | 5 | 2 | 7.7 | — |
Week 1 · 2018
L 17-23
vs Wake Forest
281 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · 38 rush yds (15 car)
With Z. Block — 37.4 yards per punt · 9 punts · 3 inside the 20 · T. Encalade — 8 rec · 189 yds · 2 TD · 38 rush yds (1 car)
The plays that mattered most
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 138 passing plays (71 completions) against the box score's 139 attempts (72 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.85124 of 207 QBsSack rate
14.2%203 of 207 QBsSacked on 14.2% of dropbacks (203 of 207) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (124 of 207).
Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.
Short
0–9 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 51.8% completion on 139 attempts · 18 deep completions averaging 32.2 yds.
2 seasons under Willie Fritz, all run-heavy offenses — 12-13 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 7 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 188 | 0.8 | 8.1 | 0.2 |
| Road3g | 108 | 0.7 | 6.0 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 154 | 0.8 | 7.2 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+1g | 153 | 0.0 | 7.0 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Willie Fritz
Pass share
33.7%
299 pass / 589 run
Plays / game
68.3
13 games
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2018
Fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Tulane, 2,871 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2015–2018
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Curtis Johnson → Willie Fritz. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
