Kurtis Rourke: QB · Indiana · #9.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Kurtis Rourke
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. Played for three head coaches across six seasons and two programs. All-Big Ten in 2024 made it three straight seasons on the honors list. On tape: 380 passing yards and 3 passing TD against Northwestern, Week 6, 2024.
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
58.8% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 41.0% conversion-per-dropback — 20.0% 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 38 inside-the-5 carries (5.3%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
The Daily Hoosier Oct 28
The Herald-Times Oct 21
USA Today Oct 17Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 31-7vs Florida International | 15/24 | 180 | 1 | 0 | 7.5 | 42.7 | |
| Wk 2 | W 77-3vs Western Illinois | 15/17 | 268 | 2 | 0 | 15.8 | 98.3 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 3 | W 42-13@ UCLA | 25/33 | 307 | 4 | 0 | 9.3 | 95.5 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | W 52-14vs Charlotte | 16/20 | 258 | 1 | 0 | 12.9 | 98.3 | |
| Wk 5 | W 42-28vs Maryland | 22/33 | 359 | 3 | 2 | 10.9 | 80.8 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 6 | W 41-24vs Northwestern | 25/33 | 380 | 3 | 0 | 11.5 | 96.0 | Season-high 380 yds |
| Wk 8 | W 56-7vs Nebraska | 17/21 | 189 | 1 | 1 | 9.0 | 89.8 | |
| Wk 10 | W 47-10@ Michigan State | 19/29 | 263 | 4 | 0 | 9.1 | 90.0 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 11 | W 20-15vs Michigan | 17/28 | 206 | 2 | 1 | 7.4 | 44.3 | |
| Wk 13 | L 15-38@ No. 2 Ohio State | 8/18 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 3.8 | 42.6 | |
| Wk 14 | W 66-0vs Purdue | 23/31 | 349 | 6 | 0 | 11.3 | 78.6 | 6 TD passes |
| Bowl | L 17-27@ No. 3 Notre Dame | 20/33 | 215 | 2 | 1 | 6.5 | 65.3 | |
| Total | 222/320 | 3042 | 29 | 5 | 9.5 | — |
Week 3 · 2024
W 42-13
at UCLA
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 316 passing plays (218 completions) against the box score's 320 attempts (222 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
9.587 of 205 QBsSack rate
5.9%106 of 205 QBsSacked on 5.9% of dropbacks (106 of 205) — and still 7 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 69.4% completion on 320 attempts · 44 deep completions averaging 31.8 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2024 baseline
No situation moves him more than 39 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
2024 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 258 | 2.3 | 10.7 | 0.6 |
| Road4g | 213 | 2.5 | 7.2 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 281 | 2.3 | 10.6 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 215 | 2.6 | 8.1 | 0.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Curt Cignetti
Pass share
43.4%
360 pass / 470 run
Plays / game
63.8
13 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2024
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Three-star recruit. Now #11 at the position.
How it ended
Six seasons, at Ohio and Indiana, 10,716 passing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2022) — drafted at #227 overall by the San Francisco 49ers.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
The role got bigger.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-BIG TEN · 2ND TEAM
All-Big Ten 2nd team (2024)
Weekly recognition
3 weekly honors (2022)
6 career weekly honors across 3 seasons
Coaching lineage · 2019–2024
3 coachesPlayed for 3 head coaches at 2 schools: Frank Solich, Tim Albin and Curt Cignetti.
Next stop · NFL
San Francisco 49ersEntering 2nd NFL season
San Francisco 49ersEntering 2nd NFL seasonFrom Oakville, ON.
