Keegan Shoemaker: QB · Sam Houston · #5.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Keegan Shoemaker
Operates within the system without forcing anything. On tape: 306 passing yards and 30 rushing yards against Florida International, Week 8, 2023.
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
50.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 18.9% conversion-per-dropback — 60.0% 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 23 inside-the-5 carries (8.7%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
The New York Times Oct 28Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Sam Houston | 264 | 419 | 63.0% | 2,504 | 6.0 | 15 | 11 | 119.8 | 29 |
| Career | 264 | 419 | 63.0% | 2,504 | 6.0 | 15 | 11 | 119.8 | 29 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Sam Houston | 93 | 254 | 2.7 | 1 | 29 |
| Career | 93 | 254 | 2.7 | 1 | 29 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 0-14@ BYU | 18/33 | 147 | 0 | 3 | 4.5 | 13.2 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 2 | L 3-13vs Air Force | 8/14 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 3.1 | 6.5 | |
| Wk 5 | L 28-35vs Jacksonville State | 22/38 | 285 | 2 | 1 | 7.5 | 45.4 | |
| Wk 6 | L 16-21@ Liberty | 27/41 | 255 | 2 | 1 | 6.2 | 66.6 | |
| Wk 7 | L 13-27@ New Mexico State | 32/48 | 285 | 2 | 0 | 5.9 | 38.2 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 8 | L 27-33vs Florida International | 31/47 | 306 | 2 | 1 | 6.5 | 33.7 | Season-high 306 yds |
| Wk 9 | L 34-37vs UTEP | 22/39 | 202 | 2 | 1 | 5.2 | 34.9 | |
| Wk 10 | W 24-21vs Kennesaw State | 30/38 | 242 | 3 | 1 | 6.4 | 20.2 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 11 | W 42-27@ Louisiana Tech | 18/28 | 269 | 1 | 0 | 9.6 | 83.8 | |
| Wk 12 | L 23-28@ Western Kentucky | 25/45 | 271 | 1 | 2 | 6.0 | 43.2 | |
| Wk 13 | W 23-20vs Middle Tennessee | 31/48 | 198 | 0 | 1 | 4.1 | 33.4 | |
| Total | 264/419 | 2504 | 15 | 11 | 6.0 | — |
Week 7 · 2023
L 13-27
285 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 38.2 · 42 rush yds (7 car)
With J. Cardell — 42.3 yards per punt · 6 punts · 1 inside the 20 · M. Phillips — 10 rec · 118 yds
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 404 passing plays (260 completions) against the box score's 419 attempts (264 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.19154 of 212 QBsSack rate
2.8%29 of 212 QBsRarely sacked (29 of 212), but Adjusted ANY/A hasn't followed (154 of 212).
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 63.0% completion on 419 attempts · 30 deep completions averaging 27.8 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2023 baseline
No situation moves him more than 34 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
2023 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 247 | 1.8 | 5.9 | 1.0 |
| Road5g | 245 | 1.2 | 6.4 | 1.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 203 | 1.2 | 5.4 | 1.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 248 | 1.5 | 6.3 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
K.C. Keeler
Pass share
55.0%
446 pass / 365 run
Plays / game
67.6
12 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2023
419 pass attempts, 93 carries and 1 catch in 11 games, more passes and runs a game than nearly every FBS quarterback who plays every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
How it ended
One season at Sam Houston, 2,504 passing yards — the college career is complete.
