Kaleb Barker: QB · Troy · #7.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Kaleb Barker
Operates within the system without forcing anything. The four seasons at Troy span two head coaches: Neal Brown and Chip Lindsey. First career honor, 2019: All-Sun Belt. On tape: 504 passing yards and 4 passing TD against Southern Miss, Week 3, 2019.
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
61.5% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 30.2% conversion-per-dropback — 45.8% 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
2 of the team's 21 inside-the-5 carries (9.5%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2019 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 43-14vs Campbell | 18/29 | 282 | 2 | 0 | 9.7 | 83.5 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 3 | L 42-47vs Southern Miss | 29/43 | 504 | 4 | 0 | 11.7 | 84.7 | Season-high 504 yds |
| Wk 4 | W 35-7@ Akron | 27/37 | 214 | 3 | 1 | 5.8 | 89.5 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | L 43-50vs Arkansas State | 34/58 | 384 | 4 | 1 | 6.6 | 54.7 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 6 | L 10-42@ Missouri | 15/26 | 92 | 1 | 2 | 3.5 | 19.1 | |
| Wk 8 | W 37-13vs South Alabama | 20/30 | 194 | 2 | 2 | 6.5 | 71.0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 33-52@ Georgia State | 34/45 | 421 | 2 | 0 | 9.4 | 70.3 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 10 | L 35-36@ Coastal Carolina | 26/35 | 385 | 3 | 0 | 11.0 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 11 | W 49-28vs Georgia Southern | 27/41 | 330 | 3 | 1 | 8.0 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | W 63-27@ Texas State | 30/43 | 363 | 6 | 0 | 8.4 | — | 6 TD passes |
| Wk 13 | L 3-53@ Louisiana | 15/32 | 178 | 0 | 2 | 5.6 | — | |
| Wk 14 | L 13-48vs No. 22 App State | 24/41 | 281 | 0 | 1 | 6.9 | — | |
| Total | 299/460 | 3628 | 30 | 10 | 7.9 | — |
Week 3 · 2019
L 42-47
504 yds · 4 TD · 0 INT · QBR 84.7
With T. Sumpter — 37.8 yards per punt · 5 punts · 42 long · K. Geiger — 6 rec · 118 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 458 passing plays (297 completions) against the box score's 460 attempts (299 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.5352 of 205 QBsSack rate
5.2%73 of 205 QBsRarely sacked (73 of 205 QBs) and still 52 of 205 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 65.0% completion on 460 attempts · 48 deep completions averaging 32.8 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2019 baseline
No situation moves him more than 43 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
2019 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 329 | 2.5 | 8.2 | 0.8 |
| Road6g | 276 | 2.5 | 7.3 | 0.8 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 295 | 2.8 | 7.5 | 0.8 |
| Weeks 8+7g | 307 | 2.3 | 8.0 | 0.9 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Chip Lindsey
Pass share
55.5%
491 pass / 394 run
Plays / game
73.8
12 games
Scheme: Pass-leaning.
Player standing · 2019
First team in his league at the position.
How it ended
Four seasons at Troy, 4,793 passing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2019) — the college career is complete.
Recruited as a two-star, and honored since.
The role got bigger.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-SUN BELT · 1ST TEAM
All-Sun Belt 1st team (2019)
Coaching lineage · 2016–2019
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Neal Brown → Chip Lindsey. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
