Former quarterback at Ohio State. 2020: 2,100 passing yards, 22 TD, 6 INT.
6′3″ · 228 lb · Kennesaw, GA
The story
Former quarterback at Ohio State. 2020: 2,100 passing yards, 22 TD, 6 INT.
Justin Fields
Across three seasons and two programs, two head coaches: Kirby Smart and Ryan Day. His first career honor landed in 2020: Big Ten Graham-George Offensive Player of the Year. The receipt on tape: 318 pass yds, 4 pass TD against Penn State, Week 9, 2020.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at Ohio State, 5,701 passing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2020) — drafted at #11 overall by Chicago.
His career
Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.
Career arc
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-BIG TEN · 1ST TEAM
All-Big Ten 1st team (2020)
Coaching lineage · 2018–2020
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Urban Meyer → Ryan Day. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Where He Ended Up · NFL
ChicagoEntering 6th NFL season
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score percentiles
Elite: completion % (95th percentile). Strength: pass tds (90th percentile).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
8.6919 of 171 QBsSack rate
8.5%141 of 171 QBsSacked on 8.5% of dropbacks (141 of 171) — and still 19 of 171 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 69.7% completion on 221 attempts · 29 deep completions averaging 32.3 yds.
Splits · Per-game
2020 season · 6 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 251 | 2.2 | 9.6 | 1.2 |
| Road2g | 258 | 3.0 | 8.9 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 8+6g | 254 | 2.5 | 9.4 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Ryan Day
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2020
Our Heisman model has him in the top five; no finalist honor is on the books yet.
| Season | Team | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Ohio State | 158 | 225 | 70.2% | 2,100 | 9.3 | 22 | 6 | 175.6 | 81 | -- | -- |
| 2019 | Ohio State | 238 | 354 | 67.2% | 3,273 | 9.2 | 41 | 3 | 181.4 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2018 | Georgia | 27 | 39 | 69.2% | 328 | 8.4 | 4 | 0 | 173.7 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 423 | 618 | 68.4% | 5,701 | 9.2 | 67 | 9 | 178.8 | 81 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Ohio State | 81 | 383 | 4.7 | 5 | -- |
| 2019 | Ohio State | 137 | 484 | 3.5 | 10 | -- |
| 2018 | Georgia | 42 | 266 | 6.3 | 4 | -- |
| Career | 260 | 1,133 | 4.4 | 19 | -- |
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2020 season · 6 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 8 | W 52-17vs Nebraska | 20/21 | 276 | 2 | 0 | 13.1 | — | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 9 | W 38-25@ Penn State | 28/34 | 318 | 4 | 0 | 9.4 | — | Season-high 318 yds |
| Wk 10 | W 49-27vs Rutgers | 24/28 | 314 | 5 | 0 | 11.2 | — | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | W 42-35vs Indiana | 18/30 | 300 | 2 | 3 | 10.0 | — | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 14 | W 52-12@ Michigan State | 17/24 | 199 | 2 | 0 | 8.3 | — | |
| Wk 16 | W 22-10vs Northwestern | 12/27 | 114 | 0 | 2 | 4.2 | — | |
| Total | 119/164 | 1521 | 15 | 5 | 9.4 | — |
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
40.9% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 26.9% conversion-per-dropback — 22.2% 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. ~ our read: checkdown by design
Final Heisman position · 2020
Justin Fields finished 3rd in our Heisman model, with a 39% chance of a finalist trip.