Jordan McCloud: QB · Texas State · #3.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Jordan McCloud
Keeps the offense on schedule and doesn't lose the game. Played for four head coaches across five seasons and three programs. All-Sun Belt in 2024 made it two straight seasons on the honors list. On tape: 335 passing yards and 22 rushing yards against Southern Miss, Week 12, 2024.
Play style
Consistent underneath passer who protects the lead. Rarely loses games; rarely wins them alone.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
64.7% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 18.9% conversion-per-dropback — 68.2% 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. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
3 of the team's 28 inside-the-5 carries (10.7%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Texas State | 272 | 389 | 69.9% | 3,222 | 8.3 | 30 | 13 | 158.3 | 72 |
| 2023 | James Madison | 282 | 413 | 68.3% | 3,670 | 8.9 | 35 | 10 | 166.0 | 79 |
| 2021 | South Florida | 48 | 73 | 65.8% | 481 | 6.6 | 2 | 5 | 116.4 | 52 |
| 2020 | South Florida | 120 | 194 | 61.9% | 1,341 | 6.9 | 9 | 2 | 133.2 | 28 |
| 2019 | South Florida | 124 | 224 | 55.4% | 1,429 | 6.4 | 12 | 8 | 119.5 | 20 |
| Career | 846 | 1,293 | 65.4% | 10,143 | 7.8 | 88 | 38 | 147.9 | 57 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Texas State | 74 | 278 | 3.8 | 7 | 42 |
| 2023 | James Madison | 96 | 276 | 2.9 | 8 | 47 |
| 2021 | South Florida | 18 | 75 | 4.2 | 0 | 19 |
| 2020 | South Florida | 62 | 74 | 1.2 | 1 | 18 |
| 2019 | South Florida | 105 | 283 | 2.7 | 4 | 31 |
| Career | 355 | 986 | 2.8 | 20 | 47 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 34-27vs Lamar | 21/30 | 238 | 3 | 1 | 7.9 | 63.9 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 49-10vs UTSA | 18/27 | 309 | 2 | 1 | 11.4 | 93.9 | |
| Wk 3 | L 28-31vs Arizona State | 29/44 | 268 | 4 | 1 | 6.1 | 79.4 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | L 39-40vs Sam Houston | 29/39 | 326 | 3 | 0 | 8.4 | 88.6 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 6 | W 38-17@ Troy | 20/29 | 252 | 3 | 2 | 8.7 | 91.8 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 7 | W 41-9vs Arkansas State | 24/29 | 320 | 4 | 0 | 11.0 | 90.8 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | L 14-24@ Old Dominion | 17/33 | 173 | 1 | 2 | 5.2 | 48.4 | |
| Wk 10 | L 17-23vs Louisiana | 12/18 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 4.9 | 30.3 | |
| Wk 11 | W 38-17@ UL Monroe | 4/5 | 56 | 1 | 0 | 11.2 | 87.4 | |
| Wk 12 | W 58-3vs Southern Miss | 23/28 | 335 | 4 | 1 | 12.0 | 86.7 | Season-high 335 yds |
| Wk 13 | L 44-52vs Georgia State | 28/44 | 302 | 3 | 2 | 6.9 | 45.3 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 14 | W 45-38@ South Alabama | 21/28 | 248 | 1 | 2 | 8.9 | 81.9 | |
 Bowl | W 30-28vs North Texas | 26/35 | 307 | 1 | 1 | 8.8 | 56.3 | |
| Total | 272/389 | 3222 | 30 | 13 | 8.3 | — |
Week 3 · 2024
L 28-31
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 370 passing plays (254 completions) against the box score's 389 attempts (272 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.9332 of 205 QBsSack rate
4.0%55 of 205 QBsRarely sacked (55 of 205 QBs) and still 32 of 205 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 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 69.9% completion on 389 attempts · 40 deep completions averaging 31.2 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2024 baseline
No situation moves him more than 41 percentile points from his baseline.
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.
Splits · Per-game
2024 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 266 | 2.9 | 8.6 | 0.9 |
| Road4g | 182 | 1.5 | 8.5 | 1.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 289 | 2.9 | 8.9 | 0.9 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 200 | 1.7 | 8.2 | 1.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
G.J. Kinne
Pass share
45.1%
428 pass / 521 run
Plays / game
73.0
13 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2024
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
How it ended
Five seasons, at South Florida, James Madison and Texas State, 10,143 passing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2023) — the college career is complete.
Played for four programs.
The role got bigger.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-SUN BELT
All-Sun Belt mention (2024)
Weekly recognition
3 weekly honors (2023)
5 career weekly honors across 2 seasons
Coaching lineage · 2019–2024
5 coachesPlayed for 5 head coaches at 4 schools: Charlie Strong, Jeff Scott, Jedd Fisch, Curt Cignetti and G.J. Kinne.
