Kaidon Salter is a quarterback who has not played this season; the last season with a stat line was 2025, at Colorado.
Salter extends plays on the move until something opens up. 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 passing yards and 86 rushing yards against Wyoming — Week 4, 2025.
Play style
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
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. checkdown by design
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 9 games
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| 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 No. 25 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 No. 22 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 | 6.9 | — |
| Best by our grade | Wyoming | W 37-20 · Graded great · Passing grade only · 304 yds, 3 TD, 0 INT · Rush 11 for 86, 1 TD · Sacked 1 |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest by our grade | Arizona | L 17-52 · Graded shaky · 49 yds, 1 TD, 1 INT · Rush 9 for 27 · Sacked 1 |
| Biggest game | Iowa State | No. 22 at kickoff · W 24-17 · Graded great · Slow start, strong finish · 255 yds, 2 TD, 0 INT · Rush 9 for 57 · Sacked 0 |
| Best play | Iowa State | Completion, touchdown, Q3 14:13 · Win chance 40% to 63% |
Pass Profile · True throw depth (charted plays)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 202 passing plays (124 completions) against the box score's 204 attempts (127 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.30148 of 206 QBsSack rate
7.7%176 of 206 QBsSacked 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
Short · 0–9 air yds
Middle · 10–19 air yds
Deep · 20+ air yds
Overall 62.3% completion on 204 attempts · 48% of attempts thrown 0–9 air yds.
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.
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
2025 season · 9 games
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
Head Coach
Deion Sanders
Pass share
45.6%
356 pass / 424 run
Plays / game
65.0
12 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2025
About as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
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
A base rate for the rank, not a forecast of this player: 22% of returning players who ranked #11–20 at their position in their conference made an all-conference team the next season (95% confidence interval 19–25%).
A blue-chip recruit with honors.
The role got bigger.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-CONFERENCE USA
All-Conference USA mention (2024)
Weekly recognition
4 weekly honors (2023)
Conference USA Offensive Player of the Week — a 4+ season has tracked to All-Conference ~83% of the time
Coaching lineage · 2021–2025
3 coachesPlayed for 3 head coaches at 2 schools: Hugh Freeze, Jamey Chadwell and Deion Sanders.
