Kenny Potter: QB · San José State · #5.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Kenny Potter
Extends plays on the move until something opens up. Two seasons in the San José State quarterback room to date. One game to point at: 340 passing yards and 52 rushing yards against Air Force — Week 12, 2016.
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
55.1% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 30.6% conversion-per-dropback — 29.6% 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
9 of the team's 26 inside-the-5 carries (34.6%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | San José State | 183 | 308 | 59.4% | 2,273 | 7.4 | 16 | 10 | 132.1 | 24 |
| 2015 | San José State | 182 | 270 | 67.4% | 1,984 | 7.3 | 15 | 7 | 142.3 | 55 |
| Career | 365 | 578 | 63.1% | 4,257 | 7.4 | 31 | 17 | 136.8 | 39 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | San José State | 138 | 330 | 2.4 | 7 | 28 |
| 2015 | San José State | 114 | 415 | 3.6 | 7 | 49 |
| Career | 252 | 745 | 3.0 | 14 | 49 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2016 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 10-45@ Tulsa | 16/28 | 234 | 1 | 1 | 8.4 | 23.2 | |
| Wk 2 | W 66-35vs Portland State | 14/20 | 233 | 3 | 0 | 11.6 | 92.0 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | L 17-34vs Utah | 10/18 | 65 | 1 | 1 | 3.6 | 21.6 | |
| Wk 5 | L 41-48@ New Mexico | 16/29 | 314 | 3 | 1 | 10.8 | 62.3 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 6 | L 17-34vs Hawai'i | 16/30 | 160 | 1 | 3 | 5.3 | 10.0 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 7 | W 14-10vs Nevada | 11/17 | 142 | 0 | 0 | 8.4 | 64.1 | |
| Wk 8 | L 3-42@ San Diego State | 13/29 | 104 | 0 | 0 | 3.6 | 20.3 | |
| Wk 9 | W 30-24vs UNLV | 24/39 | 292 | 2 | 0 | 7.5 | 68.7 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 10 | L 31-45@ No. 24 Boise State | 23/36 | 278 | 2 | 1 | 7.7 | 73.5 | |
| Wk 12 | L 38-41vs Air Force | 25/37 | 340 | 2 | 2 | 9.2 | 84.5 | Season-high 340 yds |
| Wk 13 | W 16-14@ Fresno State | 15/25 | 111 | 1 | 1 | 4.4 | 32.9 | |
| Total | 183/308 | 2273 | 16 | 10 | 7.4 | — |
Week 2 · 2016
W 66-35
233 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 92.0 · 49 rush yds (11 car) · 2 TD
Dominant 31-point win at home against Portland State.
With M. Carrizosa — 38.4 yards per punt · 5 punts · 56 long · Z. Zigler — 111 rush yds (15 car) · 2 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 303 passing plays (178 completions) against the box score's 308 attempts (183 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.59121 of 193 QBsSack rate
11.5%181 of 193 QBsSacked on 11.5% of dropbacks (181 of 193) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (121 of 193).
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 59.4% completion on 308 attempts · 32 deep completions averaging 31.5 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2016 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.
2 seasons under Ron Caragher, all run-leaning offenses — 10-15 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 205 | 1.5 | 7.6 | 1.0 |
| Road5g | 208 | 1.4 | 7.0 | 0.8 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 191 | 1.5 | 8.0 | 1.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 225 | 1.4 | 6.5 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Ron Caragher
Pass share
44.0%
371 pass / 473 run
Plays / game
70.3
12 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2016
308 pass attempts and 138 carries in 11 games, more passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at San José State, 4,257 passing yards — the college career is complete.
