Kent Myers

#2 · QB · Utah State6′0″ · 205 lb · Rowlett, TX · Sachse

Kent Myers: QB · Utah State · #2.

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Kent Myers

QB · Utah State · #2

Operates within the system without forcing anything. Fourth year in the same quarterback room at Utah State. On tape: 323 passing yards and 85 rushing yards against Idaho State, Week 2, 2017.

Style of play

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

54.2%Completion %

20.0%Conversion/dropback

53.8%Land short of sticks

0INTs

54.2% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 20.0% conversion-per-dropback — 53.8% 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

Fans

No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.

Utah State in the news

Utah State superfan Steve McBride diesNov 2

Where to follow

Career stats

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Season	Team
2017	Utah State	124	197	62.9%	1,278	6.5	8	7	123.7	34
2016	Utah State	212	362	58.6%	2,394	6.6	10	8	118.8	33
2015	Utah State	121	199	60.8%	1,593	8.0	16	3	151.6	54
2014	Utah State	79	119	66.4%	866	7.3	5	3	136.3	41
Career		536	877	61.1%	6,131	7.0	39	21	129.7	39

Season	Team
2017	Utah State	80	291	3.6	5	68
2016	Utah State	116	449	3.9	6	45
2015	Utah State	85	356	4.2	3	39
2014	Utah State	56	310	5.5	5	60
Career		337	1,406	4.2	19	68

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2017 season · 10 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	L 10-59@ No. 9 Wisconsin	25/41	219	0	3	5.3	8.9	3 INTs — rough day
Wk 2	W 51-13vs Idaho State	24/26	323	2	1	12.4	97.2	Season-high 323 yds
Wk 3	L 10-46@ Wake Forest	9/23	54	0	1	2.3	8.6
Wk 4	W 61-10@ San José State	18/24	181	2	1	7.5	73.0
Wk 5	W 40-24vs BYU	16/27	176	2	1	6.5	43.3
Wk 6	L 14-27vs Colorado State	17/29	152	1	0	5.2	18.1
Wk 7	L 23-28vs Wyoming	11/20	94	0	0	4.7	46.8
Wk 8	W 52-28@ UNLV	1/2	7	0	0	3.5	90.9
Wk 9	L 14-41vs Boise State	1/1	18	0	0	18.0	96.5
Wk 12	W 38-0vs Hawai'i	2/4	54	1	0	13.5	99.6
Total		124/197	1278	8	7	6.5	—

Signature game

Week 2 · 2017

W 51-13

vs Idaho State

323 yds · 2 TD · 1 INT · QBR 97.2 · 85 rush yds (8 car) · 2 TD

Dominant 38-point win at home against Idaho State.

With S. Scarver — 1 rec · 35 yds · J. Nathan — 6 rec · 63 yds · 1 TD

Signature plays

The plays that mattered most

Week 1 · Wisconsin · 3rd and 5 · Q4 · EPA −11.19Kent Myers pass intercepted for a TD Joe Ferguson return for 99 yds for a TD, (Rafael Gaglianone KICK)
Week 5 · BYU · 3rd and 1 · Q1 · EPA −9.09Kent Myers pass intercepted for a TD Micah Hannemann return for 46 yds for a TD, (Rhett Almond KICK)
Week 4 · San José State · 3rd and 2 · Q3 · EPA +6.35Kent Myers run for 68 yds for a TD, (Dominik Eberle KICK)
Week 4 · San José State · 4th and 3 · Q2 · EPA +5.51Kent Myers pass complete to Gerold Bright for 43 yds for a TD, (Dominik Eberle KICK)
Week 12 · Hawai'i · 2nd and 10 · Q2 · EPA +4.86Kent Myers pass complete to Braelon Roberts for 49 yds for a TD, (Dominik Eberle KICK)
Week 2 · Idaho State · 2nd and 19 · Q2 · EPA +4.72Kent Myers run for 36 yds for a TD, (Dominik Eberle KICK)

4 more plays

Week 4 · San José State · 1st and 10 · Q1 · EPA −3.65Kent Myers pass intercepted Andre Chachere return for 28 yds to the SJSt 46
Week 7 · Wyoming · 3rd and 16 · Q3 · EPA +3.63Kent Myers pass complete to Aaren Vaughns for 17 yds to the Wyom 34 for a
Week 4 · San José State · 3rd and 10 · Q1 · EPA +3.41Kent Myers pass complete to Braelon Roberts for 19 yds for a TD, (Dominik Eberle KICK)
Week 2 · Idaho State · 2nd and 9 · Q1 · EPA +3.38Kent Myers pass complete to Ron'quavion Tarver for 32 yds to the IdaSt 40 for a

Passing profile

Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)

Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from

124/197 (62.9%) · 8 TD · 7 INT

All 197 box-score attempts covered (play-by-play lists 199 passing plays)

Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 199 passing plays (125 completions) against the box score's 197 attempts (124 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.

Adjusted ANY/A

4.64166 of 205 QBs

Sack rate

9.2%171 of 205 QBs

Sacked on 9.2% of dropbacks (171 of 205) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (166 of 205).

Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.

Short

0–9 yds

60%of completions

75 comp4.3 yds avg1 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

30%of completions

37 comp14.4 yds avg2 TD

Deep

20+ yds

10%of completions

13 comp32.6 yds avg5 TD

Overall 62.9% completion on 197 attempts · 13 deep completions averaging 32.6 yds.

Teams and coaches

4 seasons under Matt Wells — 25-27 over that span.

2014Utah State10-4HC: Matt Wells · Run-leaning

2015Utah State6-7HC: Matt Wells · Run-leaning

2016Utah State3-9HC: Matt Wells · Balanced

2017Utah State6-7HC: Matt Wells · Balanced

Our ratings

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Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles · 2017 season

13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: fumbles lost (92nd percentile). Concern: explosive rate (7th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Success rate#111 / 187 · 41st pct

38.8%

Interception rate#137 / 187 · 27th pct

3.5%

Sack rate#155 / 187 · 17th pct

9.1%

EPA / dropback#157 / 187 · 16th pct

0.04

Explosive rate#174 / 187 · 7th pct

6.5%

Box-score rates (8)

Fumbles lost#1 / 163 · 92nd pct

Completion %#45 / 179 · 75th pct

62.9%

Rush TDs#39 / 179 · 75th pct

Rush yards#49 / 179 · 73rd pct

291

Interceptions#97 / 179 · 41st pct

Pass yards#117 / 179 · 35th pct

1278

Pass TDs#115 / 179 · 33rd pct

Yards / att#134 / 179 · 25th pct

6.5

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

31st → 16th percentile

Success rate

29th → 41st percentile

Explosive rate

40th → 7th percentile

Sack rate

32nd → 17th percentile

Interception rate

63rd → 27th percentile

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps in 2017. Most bars are box-score rates; EPA / success-rate bars are computed from real play-by-play (offense only — no defensive EPA model exists yet).

Zeitgeist Passer Rating

2017 · our own passing-efficiency number, shown next to the 1979 formula it does not replace.

After 167 dropbacks

34Zeitgeist Passer Rating114th of 142 FBS QBs

NCAA passer rating 123.7 100th of 142 FBS QBs

ZPR ranks this quarterback 14 places lower than passer rating does: passer rating cannot see sacks, and a sack comes on 8.4% of dropbacks.

Positive-play rate weight 24%

43.2%40th pct of FBS QBs

share of dropbacks that gained expected points · -0.5% schedule adj.

Yards per attempt weight 56%

6.2719th pct of FBS QBs

sacks excluded · -0.1 schedule adj.

Sack rate weight 21% (penalty)

8.8%14th pct of FBS QBs

the input passer rating cannot see · +0.5% schedule adj.

Opponent-adjusted; garbage time excluded (52 of 219 dropbacks dropped). 50 = FBS average; the number is pulled toward 50 when the sample is thin. How ZPR is built.

Splits

Home and road splits, scheme and staff

Splits · Per-game

2017 season · 10 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home6g	136	1.0	10.0	0.3
Road4g	115	0.5	4.7	1.2

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-77g	171	1.0	6.3	1.0
Weeks 8+3g	26.3	0.3	11.7	0.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2017 season

Head Coach

Matt Wells

Pass share

47.6%

435 pass / 479 run

Plays / game

70.3

13 games

Scheme: Balanced.

Awards

Player standing · 2017

Starter

197 pass attempts and 80 carries in 10 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Kent Myers

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Style of play

Fans

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Where to follow

Career stats

Game log

Signature game

Signature plays

Passing profile

Teams and coaches

Our ratings

Splits

Awards

Starter

Four seasons at Utah State

2014 7 games