Kenny Hill: QB · TCU · #7.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Kenny Hill
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. Played for two head coaches across three seasons and two programs. A game that shows it: 365 passing yards and 4 passing TD against SMU — Week 3, 2017.
Play style
High-percentage passer who protects the ball. Loses the matchup on improvisation.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
60.9% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 36.2% conversion-per-dropback — 39.3% 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
4 of the team's 31 inside-the-5 carries (12.9%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2017 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 63-0vs Jackson State | 18/23 | 206 | 4 | 1 | 9.0 | 95.1 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 28-7@ Arkansas | 21/31 | 166 | 0 | 1 | 5.4 | 59.9 | |
| Wk 3 | W 56-36vs SMU | 24/30 | 365 | 4 | 0 | 12.2 | 97.9 | Season-high 365 yds |
| Wk 4 | W 44-31@ No. 6 Oklahoma State | 22/33 | 228 | 1 | 1 | 6.9 | 62.5 | |
| Wk 6 | W 31-24vs No. 23 West Virginia | 15/28 | 188 | 1 | 0 | 6.7 | 49.4 | |
| Wk 7 | W 26-6@ Kansas State | 27/37 | 297 | 0 | 0 | 8.0 | 82.4 | |
| Wk 8 | W 43-0vs Kansas | 19/26 | 278 | 5 | 0 | 10.7 | 96.6 | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 9 | L 7-14@ No. 25 Iowa State | 12/25 | 135 | 0 | 2 | 5.4 | 7.4 | |
| Wk 10 | W 24-7vs Texas | 18/26 | 146 | 0 | 0 | 5.6 | 47.0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 20-38@ No. 5 Oklahoma | 13/28 | 270 | 1 | 0 | 9.6 | — | |
| Wk 13 | W 45-22vs Baylor | 26/36 | 325 | 3 | 0 | 9.0 | 82.2 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 14 | L 17-41vs No. 2 Oklahoma | 27/37 | 234 | 2 | 1 | 6.3 | 75.9 | |
 Bowl | W 39-37vs No. 15 Stanford | 27/40 | 314 | 2 | 2 | 7.8 | 66.2 | |
| Total | 269/400 | 3152 | 23 | 8 | 7.9 | — |
Week 11 · 2017
L 20-38
at Oklahoma
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 391 passing plays (261 completions) against the box score's 400 attempts (269 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.6341 of 205 QBsSack rate
3.4%33 of 205 QBsRarely sacked (33 of 205 QBs) and still 41 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 67.2% completion on 400 attempts · 37 deep completions averaging 32.3 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2017 baseline
+59
percentile points better on third down or later
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
2017 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 251 | 2.8 | 8.9 | 0.2 |
| Road5g | 219 | 0.4 | 7.1 | 0.8 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 252 | 1.7 | 8.0 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 231 | 1.8 | 7.8 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Gary Patterson
Pass share
45.6%
430 pass / 513 run
Plays / game
67.4
14 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2017
Our Heisman model had this player inside its top 25 in 2017.
How it ended
Three seasons, at Texas A&M and TCU, 9,009 passing yards — the college career is complete.
A stat line in 34 games over three seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 2 schools: Kevin Sumlin and Gary Patterson.
