Kaidon Salter

Senior quarterback for Colorado. 2025: 1,414 passing yards, 10 TD, 7 INT.

QB · Colorado · Sr. · #3

6′1″ · 190 lb · Cedar Hill, TX

CFB Index 45 · #78 of 146 QBsHigh confidenceReturning to Colorado for 2026

The numbers

1,414

passing yards · 2025

10 TD · 7 INT · 6.9 per attempt

Backed by 344 yds · 5 TD -- top 1% passing TDs game. -- Best game: 255 pass yds, 2 TD, 57 rush yds, vs Iowa State

The play that turned itSwung Liberty from 40% to 94% to win.Louisiana Tech at Liberty · 56-30

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 quarterback for Colorado. 2025: 1,414 passing yards, 10 TD, 7 INT.

Signed as a 4-star recruit to Tennessee in 2021.
Transferred from Liberty to Colorado in 2025.
Named Conference USA Most Valuable Player in 2023.

The full story, with sources

How he plays

Extends plays with his feet until something opens up.

EPA / dropback: 63rd percentile.

The full scouting read

Kaidon Salter

QB · Colorado · Sr · #3

Extends plays with his feet until something opens up. Kaidon Salter has played for three head coaches across five seasons and two programs. All-Conference USA in 2024 made it two straight seasons on the honors list. One game to point at: 304 pass yds, 86 rush yds against Wyoming — Week 4, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
head-coach lineage
recognition record
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2021Liberty8-5HC: Hugh Freeze · Run-leaning

2022Liberty8-5HC: Hugh Freeze · Run-leaning

2023Liberty13-1HC: Jamey Chadwell · Run-heavy

2024Liberty8-4HC: Jamey Chadwell · Run-heavy

2025Colorado3-9HC: Deion Sanders · Run-leaning

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

45Rotational starter #78 of 146?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: sack rate (17th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

EPA / dropback#68 / 183 · 63rd pct

0.21

Success rate#95 / 183 · 48th pct

40.2%

Interception rate#133 / 183 · 28th pct

3.0%

Explosive rate#148 / 183 · 19th pct

6.9%

Sack rate#151 / 183 · 17th pct

7.8%

Box-score rates (8)

Rush yards#47 / 183 · 75th pct

357

Rush TDs#53 / 183 · 68th pct

Fumbles lost#32 / 174 · 66th pct

Completion %#91 / 183 · 50th pct

62.3%

Interceptions#92 / 183 · 44th pct

Yards / att#103 / 183 · 42nd pct

6.9

Pass TDs#105 / 183 · 40th pct

Pass yards#120 / 183 · 35th pct

1414

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

68th → 63rd percentile

Success rate

63rd → 48th percentile

Explosive rate

25th → 19th percentile

Sack rate

47th → 17th percentile

Interception rate

86th → 28th percentile

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season. Most bars are box-score rates; EPA / success-rate bars are computed from real play-by-play (offense only — no defensive EPA model exists yet).

Passing profile

Pass Profile · True throw depth (charted plays)

Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from

124/202 (61.4%) · 10 TD · 7 INT

202 of 204 attempts matched to play-by-play

60 of 202 attempts charted for true throw depth

Adjusted ANY/A

5.30148 of 206 QBs

Sack rate

7.7%176 of 206 QBs

Sacked on 7.7% of dropbacks (176 of 206) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (148 of 206).

Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.

Behind LOS · Negative air yds

20% of attempts (12)

83%comp

Air -4.2 · YAC 4.8 avg

Short · 0–9 air yds

48% of attempts (29)

66%comp1 INT

Air 3.6 · YAC 4.4 avg

Middle · 10–19 air yds

20% of attempts (12)

25%comp

Air 14.9 · YAC 0.0 avg

Deep · 20+ air yds

12% of attempts (7)

14%comp1 INT

Air 32.3 · YAC 8.0 avg

Overall 61.4% completion on 202 attempts · 48% of attempts thrown 0–9 air yds.

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2025 baseline

No situation moves him more than 52 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-27 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 2/67 (3.0%) · league sack rate 4.2% · ~our read

Down 2

-19 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 3/72 (4.2%) · league sack rate 4.5% · ~our read

Down 3+

+52 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 6/62 (9.7%) · league sack rate 7.8% · ~our read

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 & context

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 9 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home6g	165	1.3	7.3	0.3
Road3g	142	0.7	5.4	1.7

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-76g	193	1.5	8.0	0.7
Weeks 8+3g	86.0	0.3	4.0	1.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Deion Sanders

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Part-time starter

Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

45 · #78 of 146 QBs

Former four-star. Now #78 at the position.

2026 outlook

Outside shot for All-Big 12

Based on 2025: #12 of 17 Big 12 QBs

How the All-Big 12 estimate is computed

22% estimated, 95% confidence interval 19–25%. Base rate measured from players who finished at a comparable rank in their conference and came back the next season. It is an estimate from a small sample, not a forecast of this player.

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Colorado	127	204	62.3%	1,414	6.9	10	7	129.8	57	--	--
2024	Liberty	147	261	56.3%	1,886	7.2	15	6	131.4	39	--	--
2023	Liberty	177	290	61.0%	2,876	9.9	32	6	176.6	88	--	--
2022	Liberty	87	149	58.4%	1,086	7.3	8	5	130.6	53	--	--
2021	Liberty	1	2	50.0%	39	19.5	1	0	378.8	--	--	--
Career		539	906	59.5%	7,301	8.1	66	24	145.9	60	--	--

Season	Team
2025	Colorado	104	357	3.4	5	--
2024	Liberty	114	587	5.1	7	--
2023	Liberty	163	1,089	6.7	12	--
2022	Liberty	69	285	4.1	2	--
2021	Liberty	5	53	10.6	0	--
Career		455	2,371	5.2	26	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 7 · 2025

W 24–17

vs Iowa State

255 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 88.1 · 57 rush yds (9 car)

A wire-to-wire battle — won by 7 at home.

With D. Greaves — 41 AVG · 3 IN 20 · 47 LONG · Q. Gibson — 1 rec · 10 yds

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 4 · Wyoming · 3&9 · Q2 · EPA +6.91Kaidon Salter pass complete to Sincere Brown for 68 yds for a TD (Alejandro Mata KICK)
Week 7 · Iowa State · 2&7 · Q3 · EPA +6.25Kaidon Salter pass complete to Omarion Miller for 70 yds for a TD (Alejandro Mata KICK)
Week 6 · TCU · 1&2 · Q2 · EPA -5.79Kaidon Salter pass intercepted Namdi Obiazor return for 26 yds to the TCU 27
Week 14 · Kansas State · 3&17 · Q2 · EPA +4.84(00:41) Shotgun #3 K.Salter pass complete short right to #4 O.Miller caught at KSTATE39, for 38 yards to the KSTATE01 (#4 D.Cobbs), out of bounds, 1ST DOWN. The previous play is under automatic review - "Runner was out of bounds". CALL OVERTURNED. (Original Play: (00:41) Shotgun #3 K.Salter pass complete short right to #4 O.Miller caught at KSTATE39, for 37 yards to the KSTATE02 (#4 D.Cobbs), 1ST DOWN)
Week 7 · Iowa State · 3&16 · Q4 · EPA +4.31Kaidon Salter pass complete to Joseph Williams for 38 yds to the ISU 33 for a 1ST down
Week 1 · Georgia Tech · 3&10 · Q2 · EPA +4.12Kaidon Salter pass complete to Omarion Miller for 39 yds to the GT 25 for a 1ST down
Week 4 · Wyoming · 3&10 · Q2 · EPA +4.05Kaidon Salter pass complete to Omarion Miller for 29 yds for a TD (Alejandro Mata KICK)
Week 4 · Wyoming · 1&10 · Q3 · EPA +3.61Kaidon Salter pass complete to Joseph Williams for 47 yds for a TD (Alejandro Mata KICK)
Week 6 · TCU · 2&8 · Q1 · EPA -3.42Kaidon Salter pass intercepted Jamel Johnson return for 15 yds to the TCU 36
Week 4 · Wyoming · 2&6 · Q1 · EPA -3.32Kaidon Salter sacked by Brayden Wilson for a loss of 14 yards to the COLO 44

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 9 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	L 20-27vs Georgia Tech	17/28	159	1	0	5.7	57.6
Wk 2	W 31-7vs Delaware	13/16	102	0	0	6.4	72.2
Wk 4	W 37-20vs Wyoming	18/28	304	3	0	10.9	93.8	Season-high 304 yds
Wk 5	L 21-24vs BYU	11/16	119	1	1	7.4	65.0
Wk 6	L 21-35@ TCU	18/29	217	2	3	7.5	63.4	3 INTs — rough day
Wk 7	W 24-17vs Iowa State	16/25	255	2	0	10.2	88.1	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 9	L 7-53@ Utah	9/22	37	0	1	1.7	10.7
Wk 10	L 17-52vs Arizona	11/15	49	1	1	3.3	49.1
Wk 14	L 14-24@ Kansas State	14/25	172	0	1	6.9	77.1
Total		127/204	1414	10	7	6.7	64.1

How he plays

Play style

Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

66.7%Completion %

34.4%Conversion/dropback

38.9%Land short of sticks

0INTs

66.7% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 34.4% conversion-per-dropback — 38.9% 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. ~ our read: checkdown by design

2026 Outlook

Colorado

Preseason read · May 27

2026 Depth chart

Returning starter

Quarterback · Colorado · editorial

Returning around him

14% of 2024 offensive production back (Heavy turnover)
Transfer portal: +4 net (42 in / 38 out)

2026 Award watch

Davey O'Brien

Colorado · Last season: 3-9 · Talent rank #39 · 2026 recruiting class #67

DNA match

Player DNA

Scrambler

Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Luke Altmyer’s 2023 season.

Luke Altmyer

68%match

Illinois · 2023

Kaidon Salter

Liberty · 2022

67%

Austin Kendall

Louisiana Tech · 2021

66%

Zevi Eckhaus

Washington State · 2025

65%

Malik Cunningham

Louisville · 2022

65%

Matches Luke on

Height

Differs from Luke on

EPA / dropback (adj) (higher)

Weight (lower)

Rush usage (higher)

Through 4 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Malik Willis’s path through Liberty.

Malik Willis

89%match

Liberty · 2021

Sam Ehlinger

Texas · 2020

All-Big 12NFL Rd 6

87%

Brock Domann

Louisville · 2022

85%

Dequan Finn

Miami (OH) · 2025

All-MAC

85%

Carlos Davis

Towson · 2024

84%

Matches Malik on

Height

Yards per attempt

Completion %

As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Zevi Eckhaus's graduate season at Washington State (2025).

Zevi Eckhaus

62%match

Washington State · 2025

Parker Navarro

Ohio · 2025

All-MAC

60%

Garrett Greene

West Virginia · 2024

54%

Ta'Quan Roberson

Buffalo · 2025

52%

Blake Shapen

Mississippi State · 2025

49%

Matches Zevi on

Yards / attempt

Height

Differs from Zevi on

Weight (lower)

EPA / dropback (adj) (higher)

Rush usage (higher)

Player DNA

Players who play like Kaidon Salter

Malik Cunningham

Louisville · 2022

72%

Kaidon Salter

Colorado · 2025

67%

Mitch Griffis

Wake Forest · 2023

67%

Marcel Reed

Texas A&M · 2024

66%

John Rhys Plumlee

UCF · 2022

62%

Heisman trajectory

Heisman Trajectory · 2025

Peak #203

Final rank

#275

Avg #246.7

Finalist prob 0%

Peaked at #203 this season.

Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology

Kaidon Salter

Fans warmer than rivals

2021

202314 games

202411 games

20259 games

2025 snapshot

Passing profile

Situational

Splits & context

Awards

Part-time starter

Career stats

Signature game

Signature plays

Game log

How he plays

DNA match

Scrambler

Players who play like Kaidon Salter

Heisman trajectory

Peak #203