JT Daniels: QB · Rice · #18.
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JT Daniels
Pushes it downfield on every look. Played for five head coaches across six seasons and four programs. AAC Offensive Player of the Week in 2023 was the second season with an honor. A game that shows it: 432 passing yards and 3 passing TD against South Florida — Week 4, 2023.
Play style
Elite arm talent, pushing downfield. Completion rate is the variable.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
62.5% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 39.3% conversion-per-dropback — 26.7% 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
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 9 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 10-37@ No. 11 Texas | 14/26 | 149 | 1 | 2 | 5.7 | 17.2 | |
| Wk 2 | W 43-41vs Houston | 28/42 | 401 | 3 | 1 | 9.5 | 89.9 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | W 59-7vs Texas Southern | 11/17 | 255 | 4 | 0 | 15.0 | 97.0 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | L 29-42@ South Florida | 27/40 | 432 | 3 | 0 | 10.8 | 85.2 | Season-high 432 yds |
| Wk 5 | W 24-17vs East Carolina | 18/32 | 232 | 2 | 1 | 7.3 | 56.9 | |
| Wk 6 | L 31-38vs UConn | 33/49 | 362 | 2 | 1 | 7.4 | 38.7 | |
| Wk 8 | W 42-10@ Tulsa | 24/37 | 342 | 2 | 0 | 9.2 | 74.9 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 9 | L 28-30vs No. 22 Tulane | 18/29 | 189 | 2 | 1 | 6.5 | 73.3 | |
| Wk 10 | L 31-36vs SMU | 8/15 | 81 | 2 | 1 | 5.4 | 19.4 | |
| Total | 181/287 | 2443 | 21 | 7 | 8.5 | — |
Week 3 · 2023
W 59-7
255 yds · 4 TD · 0 INT · QBR 97.0
Dominant 52-point win at home against Texas Southern.
With K. Campbell — 1 rec · 70 yds · 1 TD · C. Hunt — 50.5 yards per punt · 2 punts · 1 inside the 20
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 266 passing plays (178 completions) against the box score's 287 attempts (181 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
8.2336 of 212 QBsSack rate
4.7%76 of 212 QBsRarely sacked (76 of 212 QBs) and still 36 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 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 63.1% completion on 287 attempts · 39 deep completions averaging 32.4 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2023 baseline
+87
percentile points better on third down or later
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
2023 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 253 | 2.5 | 8.5 | 0.8 |
| Road3g | 308 | 2.0 | 8.6 | 0.7 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 305 | 2.5 | 9.3 | 0.8 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 204 | 2.0 | 7.0 | 0.7 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mike Bloomgren
Pass share
53.5%
430 pass / 373 run
Plays / game
61.8
13 games
Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.
Player standing · 2023
About as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Former five-star. Now #53 at the position.
How it ended
Six seasons, at USC, Georgia, West Virginia and Rice, 9,369 passing yards — the college career is complete.
A blue-chip recruit with honors.
The snaps went the other way.
The role got bigger.
Coaching lineage · 2018–2023
4 coachesPlayed for 4 head coaches at 4 schools: Clay Helton, Kirby Smart, Neal Brown and Mike Bloomgren.
