Former quarterback at UCF. 2024: 1,012 passing yards, 7 TD, 4 INT.
6′3″ · 247 lb · Sardis, MS
CFB Index
A single number blending on-field production (an EPA-based value lane) with box-score output for this player's position.
0-100, scaled within each position's own cohort — not directly comparable across positions.
Recruiting
DUAL recruit
No. 320 nationally · Signed with Arkansas
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
Former quarterback at UCF. 2024: 1,012 passing yards, 7 TD, 4 INT.
KJ Jefferson
Beats you with his legs when the pocket breaks down. Across six seasons and two programs, three head coaches: Chad Morris, Sam Pittman and Gus Malzahn. In 2023 the league put his name on paper for the first time: All-SEC. One game to point at: 284 pass yds, 76 rush yds against Colorado — Week 5, 2024.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Six seasons at UCF, 8,935 passing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
He arrived as a blue-chip recruit and played like one.
The role got bigger.
The snaps went the other way.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2019–2024
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Josh Heupel → Gus Malzahn. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: explosive rate (97th percentile). Strength: yards / att (94th percentile). Concern: sack rate (5th percentile).
Real play-by-play efficiency
Season trend
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season. 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).
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
7.4053 of 205 QBsSack rate
10.7%193 of 205 QBsSacked on 10.7% of dropbacks (193 of 205) — and still 53 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 61.2% completion on 103 attempts · 18 deep completions averaging 35.2 yds.
Splits · Per-game
2024 season · 5 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 206 | 1.3 | 10.4 | 1.0 |
| Road2g | 198 | 1.5 | 9.0 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 202 | 1.4 | 9.8 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Scott Frost
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2024
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | UCF | 64 | 108 | 59.3% | 1,012 | 9.4 | 7 | 4 | 152.0 | 76 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Arkansas | 190 | 296 | 64.2% | 2,107 | 7.1 | 19 | 8 | 139.8 | 20 | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Arkansas | 204 | 300 | 68.0% | 2,648 | 8.8 | 24 | 5 | 165.2 | 79 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Arkansas | 198 | 294 | 67.3% | 2,676 | 9.1 | 21 | 4 | 164.7 | 77 | -- | -- |
| 2020 | Arkansas | 20 | 41 | 48.8% | 295 | 7.2 | 3 | 0 | 133.4 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2019 | Arkansas | 14 | 31 | 45.2% | 197 | 6.4 | 0 | 1 | 92.1 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 690 | 1,070 | 64.5% | 8,935 | 8.4 | 74 | 22 | 153.3 | 59 | -- | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 3 · 2024
W 35–34
at TCU
230 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 87.6 · 46 rush yds (9 car)
Edged out TCU on the road in a shootout.
With R. Harvey — 180 rush yds (29 car) · 2 TD · M. McCarthy — 50 AVG · 1 IN 20 · 51 LONG
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 5 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 57-3vs New Hampshire | 7/14 | 164 | 2 | 1 | 11.7 | 7.5 | |
| Wk 2 | W 45-14vs Sam Houston | 12/15 | 169 | 0 | 0 | 11.3 | 75.0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 35-34@ TCU | 13/22 | 230 | 3 | 0 | 10.5 | 87.6 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | L 21-48vs Colorado | 20/35 | 284 | 2 | 2 | 8.1 | 24.9 | Season-high 284 yds |
| Wk 6 | L 13-24@ Florida | 12/22 | 165 | 0 | 1 | 7.5 | 16.8 | |
| Total | 64/108 | 1012 | 7 | 4 | 9.8 | 42.4 |
Play style
Dangerous with both arm and legs — defenses can't just pin the ears back.
CFB Index positional classification
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
2 of the team's 24 inside-the-5 carries (8.3%).
Player DNA
Dangerous with both arm and legs — defenses can't just pin the ears back.
His 2024 production profile sits closest to Carlos Davis’s 2023 season.
Matches Carlos on
Differs from Carlos on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
Player DNA
Final Heisman position · 2024
KJ Jefferson finished 142nd in our Heisman model, with a 0% chance of a finalist trip.