Kyle McCord: QB · Syracuse · #6.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Kyle McCord
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Played for two head coaches at two programs in four seasons: Ryan Day and Fran Brown. All-ACC in 2024 was the third season with an honor. One game to point at: 470 passing yards and 2 passing TD against UConn — Week 13, 2024.
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
57.9% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 33.3% conversion-per-dropback — 36.4% 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
17 of 18 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (94.4%). 4 of the team's 33 inside-the-5 carries (12.1%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Syracuse | 391 | 592 | 66.0% | 4,779 | 8.1 | 34 | 12 | 148.8 | 86 |
| 2023 | Ohio State | 229 | 348 | 65.8% | 3,170 | 9.1 | 24 | 6 | 161.6 | 93 |
| 2022 | Ohio State | 16 | 20 | 80.0% | 190 | 9.5 | 1 | 0 | 176.3 | -- |
| 2021 | Ohio State | 25 | 38 | 65.8% | 416 | 10.9 | 2 | 2 | 164.6 | -- |
| Career | 661 | 998 | 66.2% | 8,555 | 8.6 | 61 | 20 | 154.4 | 88 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Syracuse | 67 | −65 | −1.0 | 3 | 29 |
| 2023 | Ohio State | 32 | −65 | −2.0 | 0 | 9 |
| 2022 | Ohio State | 3 | 4 | 1.3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2021 | Ohio State | 9 | −16 | −1.8 | 0 | 7 |
| Career | 111 | −142 | −1.3 | 3 | 29 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 38-22vs Ohio | 27/39 | 354 | 4 | 1 | 9.1 | 82.1 | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 31-28vs No. 23 Georgia Tech | 32/46 | 381 | 4 | 0 | 8.3 | 82.0 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | L 24-26vs Stanford | 27/42 | 339 | 2 | 2 | 8.1 | 49.3 | |
| Wk 5 | W 42-14vs Holy Cross | 28/50 | 385 | 4 | 2 | 7.7 | 50.7 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 6 | W 44-41@ No. 25 UNLV | 40/63 | 355 | 3 | 1 | 5.6 | 84.3 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 7 | W 24-17@ NC State | 31/42 | 346 | 2 | 0 | 8.2 | 82.1 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 9 | L 13-41@ No. 19 Pittsburgh | 35/64 | 321 | 0 | 5 | 5.0 | 22.1 | 5 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 10 | W 38-31vs Virginia Tech | 24/35 | 280 | 2 | 1 | 8.0 | 66.0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 31-37@ Boston College | 31/48 | 392 | 2 | 0 | 8.2 | 68.3 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 12 | W 33-25@ California | 29/46 | 323 | 1 | 0 | 7.0 | 92.2 | |
| Wk 13 | W 31-24vs UConn | 37/47 | 470 | 2 | 0 | 10.0 | 87.5 | Season-high 470 yds |
| Wk 14 | W 42-38vs No. 8 Miami | 26/36 | 380 | 3 | 0 | 10.6 | 90.9 | 3 TD passes |
 Bowl | W 52-35vs Washington State | 24/34 | 453 | 5 | 0 | 13.3 | 94.3 | |
| Total | 391/592 | 4779 | 34 | 12 | 8.1 | — |
Week 14 · 2024
W 42-38
vs Miami
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 581 passing plays (384 completions) against the box score's 592 attempts (391 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.6640 of 205 QBsSack rate
4.2%62 of 205 QBsRarely sacked (62 of 205 QBs) and still 40 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 66.0% completion on 592 attempts · 70 deep completions averaging 30.2 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2024 baseline
No situation moves him more than 30 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 · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 370 | 3.0 | 8.8 | 0.9 |
| Road5g | 347 | 1.6 | 6.8 | 1.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 373 | 3.4 | 8.6 | 0.9 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 361 | 1.7 | 8.1 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Fran Brown
Pass share
60.5%
596 pass / 389 run
Plays / game
75.8
13 games
Scheme: Pass-leaning, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2024
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Former five-star. Now #13 at the position.
How it ended
Four seasons, at Ohio State and Syracuse, 8,555 passing yards — drafted at #181 overall by the Philadelphia Eagles.
Honored in a first season.
The role got bigger.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-ACC · 2ND TEAM
All-ACC 2nd team (2024)
Weekly recognition
1 weekly honor (2021)
Big Ten Freshman Player of the Week
Coaching lineage · 2021–2024
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 2 schools: Ryan Day and Fran Brown.
Next stop · NFL
Philadelphia EaglesEntering 2nd NFL season
Philadelphia EaglesEntering 2nd NFL season
