Kurtis Rourke

Former quarterback at Indiana. 2024: 3,042 passing yards, 29 TD, 5 INT.

QB · Indiana · Sr. · #9

6′5″ · 222 lb · Oakville, ON

CFB Index 78 · #11 of 137 QBsHigh confidencePOTY finalist (model)San Francisco — drafted 2025, Rd 7, Pick 11, #227 overall

On production he ranks #11 of 137 QBs; on reputation he is a projected national-award finalist. The gap between those two numbers is the story.

Recruiting

3★

PRO recruit

No. 2221 nationally · Signed with Ohio

Statement game349 yds · 6 TDvs Purdue (FBS) · W 66-0

Top 0.1% passing TDs game since 2021.

The hell are you doing Rourke?r/CFB game thread · ▲ 5His career numbers, season by season

The story

Former quarterback at Indiana. 2024: 3,042 passing yards, 29 TD, 5 INT.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Ohio in 2019.
Transferred from Ohio to Indiana in 2024.
Drafted round 7 by the San Francisco in 2025.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Six seasons at Indiana, 10,716 passing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2022) — drafted at #227 overall by San Francisco.

His career

Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.

2019

Signed with Ohio3-star out of Holy Trinity

202211 games

The role got bigger.

MAC Offensive Player of the Yearwinner
MAC Vern Smith Leadership Awardwinner
All-MACfirst

202311 games

All-MACsecond

202412 games

Entered the portal
All-Big Tensecond

2025

Drafted by San Franciscoround 7, pick 227

Career arc

Recruit

★★★

#2221 national

CFB

College

2 teams

2019–2024

NFL

NFL Draft

R7 · #227

San Francisco · 2025

Trophy case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

13 honors · 1 category

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ALL-BIG TEN · 2ND TEAM

All-Big Ten 2nd team (2024)

Coaching lineage · 2019–2024

2 coaches

2019–2023

Tom Allen

Indiana

2024

Curt Cignetti

Indiana

era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Tom Allen → Curt Cignetti. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

Where He Ended Up · NFL

San FranciscoEntering 2nd NFL season

#227Rd 7 · Pick 11

San FranciscoEntering 2nd NFL season

View college career stats ↓

2024 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2019Ohio7-6HC: Frank Solich · Run-heavy

2020Ohio2-1HC: Frank Solich · Run-heavy, slow tempo

2021Ohio3-9HC: Tim Albin · Run-leaning, slow tempo

2022Ohio10-4HC: Tim Albin · Balanced

2023Ohio10-3HC: Tim Albin · Run-leaning

2024Indiana11-2HC: Curt Cignetti · Run-leaning

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

78All-Conference level #11 of 137?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: success rate (100th percentile). Strength: epa / dropback (99th percentile). Concern: rush yards (11th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Success rate#1 / 169 · 100th pct

57.3%

EPA / dropback#3 / 169 · 99th pct

0.52

Explosive rate#13 / 169 · 92nd pct

13.9%

Interception rate#55 / 169 · 68th pct

1.6%

Sack rate#83 / 169 · 51st pct

6.0%

Box-score rates (8)

Yards / att#7 / 165 · 95th pct

9.5

Pass TDs#10 / 165 · 93rd pct

Completion %#12 / 165 · 93rd pct

69.4%

Pass yards#27 / 165 · 84th pct

3042

Interceptions#32 / 165 · 76th pct

Fumbles lost#68 / 159 · 44th pct

Rush TDs#83 / 165 · 44th pct

Rush yards#148 / 165 · 11th pct

-35

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

74th → 99th percentile

Success rate

91st → 100th percentile

Explosive rate

44th → 92nd percentile

Sack rate

66th → 51st percentile

Interception rate

84th → 68th percentile

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).

Passing profile

Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)

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

218/316 (69.0%) · 29 TD · 5 INT

316 of 320 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

9.587 of 205 QBs

Sack rate

5.9%106 of 205 QBs

Sacked 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 yds

44%of completions

97 comp5.7 yds avg10 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

35%of completions

77 comp13.5 yds avg7 TD

Deep

20+ yds

20%of completions

44 comp31.8 yds avg9 TD

Overall 69.0% completion on 316 attempts · 44 deep completions averaging 31.8 yds.

Situational

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.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-20 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 8/123 (6.5%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 2

-7 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 1/93 (1.1%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 3+

+39 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 10/79 (12.7%) · league sack rate 8.1% · ~our read

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 & context

Splits · Per-game

2024 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home7g	258	2.3	10.7	0.6
Road5g	247	2.6	8.0	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

2026 season

Head Coach

Curt Cignetti

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2024

POTY finalist (model)

Our Heisman model has him in the top five; no finalist honor is on the books yet.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

78 · #11 of 137 QBs

Three-star recruit. Now #11 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2024	Indiana	222	320	69.4%	3,042	9.5	29	5	176.0	90	--	--
2023	Ohio	195	307	63.5%	2,207	7.2	11	5	132.5	55	--	--
2022	Ohio	244	353	69.1%	3,256	9.2	25	4	167.7	82	--	--
2021	Ohio	171	261	65.5%	1,817	7.0	11	7	132.5	41	--	--
2020	Ohio	30	44	68.2%	394	9.0	3	0	165.9	46	--	--
2019	Ohio	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--
Career		862	1,285	67.1%	10,716	8.3	79	21	154.2	69	--	--

Season	Team
2024	Indiana	46	-35	-0.8	2	--
2023	Ohio	67	219	3.3	4	--
2022	Ohio	74	249	3.4	4	--
2021	Ohio	74	327	4.4	3	--
2020	Ohio	14	17	1.2	0	--
2019	Ohio	3	20	6.7	0	--
Career		278	797	2.9	13	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 11 · 2024

W 20–15

vs Michigan

206 yds · 2 TD · 1 INT · QBR 44.3 · -28 rush yds (5 car)

A wire-to-wire battle — won by 5 at home.

With J. Evans — 41 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 52 LONG · K. Williams — 6 rec · 70 yds

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 14 · Purdue · 2&8 · Q2 · EPA +6.93Kurtis Rourke pass complete to Elijah Sarratt for 84 yds for a TD (Nicolas Radicic KICK)
Week 2 · Western Illinois · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA +5.78Kurtis Rourke pass complete to Elijah Sarratt for 71 yds for a TD (Nicolas Radicic KICK)
Week 1 · Notre Dame · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA -4.42Kurtis Rourke pass intercepted Xavier Watts return for no gain to the ND 2
Week 1 · Florida International · 3&21 · Q2 · EPA +4.31Kurtis Rourke pass complete to Miles Cross for 30 yds to the FIU 29 for a 1ST down
Week 5 · Maryland · 3&7 · Q3 · EPA +4.09Kurtis Rourke pass complete to Myles Price for 41 yds to the MD 31 for a 1ST down
Week 3 · UCLA · 3&16 · Q1 · EPA +3.95Kurtis Rourke pass complete to Elijah Sarratt for 24 yds to the UCLA 34 for a 1ST down
Week 4 · Charlotte · 3&4 · Q2 · EPA +3.74Kurtis Rourke pass complete to Myles Price for 37 yds to the CLT 32 for a 1ST down
Week 11 · Michigan · 2&7 · Q2 · EPA +3.53Kurtis Rourke pass complete to Omar Cooper Jr. for 41 yds to the MICH 31 for a 1ST down
Week 5 · Maryland · 3&16 · Q1 · EPA +3.53Kurtis Rourke pass complete to Miles Cross for 18 yds to the MD 46 for a 1ST down
Week 6 · Northwestern · 2&10 · Q3 · EPA +3.53Kurtis Rourke pass complete to Ke'Shawn Williams for 52 yds to the NU 10 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week