Kyle Shurmur: QB · Vanderbilt · #14.
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Kyle Shurmur
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. Four seasons in the Vanderbilt quarterback room to date. A game that shows it: 367 passing yards and 3 passing TD against Tennessee — Week 13, 2018.
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
66.7% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 35.6% conversion-per-dropback — 41.7% 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
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
On3 Oct 25
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Vanderbilt | 254 | 406 | 62.6% | 3,130 | 7.7 | 24 | 6 | 143.9 | 69 |
| 2017 | Vanderbilt | 220 | 380 | 57.9% | 2,823 | 7.4 | 26 | 10 | 137.6 | 73 |
| 2016 | Vanderbilt | 204 | 375 | 54.4% | 2,409 | 6.4 | 9 | 10 | 110.9 | 35 |
| 2015 | Vanderbilt | 44 | 103 | 42.7% | 503 | 4.9 | 5 | 3 | 93.9 | 30 |
| Career | 722 | 1,264 | 57.1% | 8,865 | 7.0 | 64 | 29 | 128.2 | 56 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Vanderbilt | 39 | −80 | −2.1 | 0 | 9 |
| 2017 | Vanderbilt | 34 | −84 | −2.5 | 3 | 14 |
| 2016 | Vanderbilt | 50 | −129 | −2.6 | 0 | 14 |
| 2015 | Vanderbilt | 14 | −33 | −2.4 | 0 | 15 |
| Career | 137 | −326 | −2.4 | 3 | 15 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 35-7vs Middle Tennessee | 10/17 | 170 | 2 | 0 | 10.0 | — | |
| Wk 2 | W 41-10vs Nevada | 23/32 | 258 | 2 | 0 | 8.1 | — | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 3 | L 17-22@ No. 8 Notre Dame | 26/43 | 326 | 1 | 1 | 7.6 | — | |
| Wk 4 | L 14-37vs South Carolina | 18/38 | 180 | 1 | 1 | 4.7 | — | |
| Wk 5 | W 31-27vs Tennessee State | 22/29 | 297 | 3 | 2 | 10.2 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 6 | L 13-41@ No. 2 Georgia | 14/28 | 169 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | — | |
| Wk 7 | L 27-37vs No. 14 Florida | 18/36 | 229 | 2 | 1 | 6.4 | — | |
| Wk 8 | L 7-14@ No. 14 Kentucky | 15/23 | 216 | 1 | 0 | 9.4 | — | |
| Wk 9 | W 45-31@ Arkansas | 13/19 | 192 | 2 | 0 | 10.1 | — | |
| Wk 11 | L 28-33@ Missouri | 24/35 | 249 | 3 | 0 | 7.1 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | W 36-29vs Ole Miss | 22/34 | 191 | 3 | 1 | 5.6 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 13 | W 38-13vs Tennessee | 31/35 | 367 | 3 | 0 | 10.5 | — | Season-high 367 yds |
 Bowl | L 38-45vs Baylor | 18/37 | 286 | 1 | 0 | 7.7 | — | |
| Total | 254/406 | 3130 | 24 | 6 | 7.7 | — |
Week 11 · 2018
L 28-33
at Missouri
The plays that mattered most
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
7.5452 of 207 QBsSack rate
4.7%56 of 207 QBsRarely sacked (56 of 207 QBs) and still 52 of 207 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 62.6% completion on 406 attempts · 47 deep completions averaging 30.9 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2018 baseline
No situation moves him more than 41 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.
4 seasons under Derek Mason — 21-29 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 242 | 2.3 | 7.9 | 0.7 |
| Road5g | 230 | 1.4 | 8.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 239 | 1.5 | 7.6 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 243 | 2.4 | 8.5 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Derek Mason
Pass share
49.2%
413 pass / 427 run
Plays / game
64.6
13 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2018
406 pass attempts and 39 carries in 13 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Four seasons at Vanderbilt, 8,865 passing yards — the college career is complete.
A stat line in 43 games over four seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2015–2018
1 coachPlayed every college season under Derek Mason.
