Jordan Ta'amu: QB · Ole Miss · #10.
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Jordan Ta'amu
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Second year in the same quarterback room at Ole Miss. A game that shows it: 457 passing yards and 10 rushing yards against Vanderbilt — Week 12, 2018.
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
58.3% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 27.9% conversion-per-dropback — 42.9% 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. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
3 of the team's 23 inside-the-5 carries (13.0%).
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 · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 47-27vs Texas Tech | 22/32 | 336 | 2 | 0 | 10.5 | — | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 2 | W 76-41vs Southern Illinois | 23/33 | 448 | 5 | 0 | 13.6 | — | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | L 7-62vs No. 1 Alabama | 7/22 | 133 | 1 | 2 | 6.0 | — | |
| Wk 4 | W 38-17vs Kent State | 28/38 | 442 | 2 | 1 | 11.6 | — | |
| Wk 5 | L 16-45@ No. 5 LSU | 19/38 | 178 | 0 | 1 | 4.7 | — | |
| Wk 6 | W 70-21vs UL Monroe | 21/24 | 374 | 3 | 0 | 15.6 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 7 | W 37-33@ Arkansas | 26/35 | 387 | 2 | 1 | 11.1 | — | |
| Wk 8 | L 16-31vs Auburn | 23/40 | 291 | 1 | 0 | 7.3 | — | |
| Wk 10 | L 44-48vs South Carolina | 31/46 | 379 | 0 | 0 | 8.2 | — | |
| Wk 11 | L 24-38@ Texas A&M | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 12 | L 29-36@ Vanderbilt | 32/51 | 457 | 2 | 2 | 9.0 | — | Season-high 457 yds |
| Wk 13 | L 3-35vs No. 22 Mississippi State | 8/17 | 87 | 0 | 1 | 5.1 | — | |
| Total | 240/376 | 3512 | 18 | 8 | 9.3 | — |
Week 2 · 2018
W 76-41
448 yds · 5 TD · 0 INT
Dominant 35-point win at home against Southern Illinois.
With A. Brown — 8 rec · 158 yds · 2 TD · B. Sanders — 4 rec · 133 yds · 1 TD
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 381 passing plays (243 completions) against the box score's 376 attempts (240 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
8.3821 of 207 QBsSack rate
6.2%101 of 207 QBsRarely sacked (101 of 207 QBs) and still 21 of 207 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 63.8% completion on 376 attempts · 53 deep completions averaging 36.4 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2018 baseline
No situation moves him more than 35 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.
2 seasons under Matt Luke, all balanced offenses — 11-13 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 308 | 1.7 | 9.6 | 0.6 |
| Road4g | 256 | 1.0 | 8.3 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 328 | 2.1 | 10.4 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 243 | 0.6 | 7.4 | 0.6 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Matt Luke
Pass share
51.2%
433 pass / 412 run
Plays / game
70.4
12 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2018
376 pass attempts and 106 carries in 12 games, more passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Ole Miss, 5,194 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2015–2018
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Hugh Freeze → Matt Luke. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
