Kyron Drones

#1 · QB · Sr. · Virginia Tech6′2″ · 235 lb · Pearland, TX · Shadow Creek

Kyron Drones is a quarterback who has not played this season; the last season with a stat line was 2025, at Virginia Tech.

Drones extends plays on the move until something opens up. The four seasons span two programs and two head coaches: Dave Aranda and Brent Pry. The first one came in 2023: ACC Quarterback Player of the Week. On tape: 307 passing yards and 17 rushing yards against Wofford, Week 4, 2025.

Where to follow

Career stats

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Season	Team
2025	Virginia Tech	178	315	56.5%	1,919	6.1	17	9	119.8	24
2024	Virginia Tech	136	224	60.7%	1,562	7.0	10	6	128.7	45
2023	Virginia Tech	166	285	58.2%	2,084	7.3	17	3	137.2	46
2022	Baylor	14	23	60.9%	219	9.5	1	1	146.5	--
Career		494	847	58.3%	5,784	6.8	45	19	128.7	38

Season	Team
2025	Virginia Tech	170	644	3.8	9	33
2024	Virginia Tech	98	337	3.4	6	53
2023	Virginia Tech	166	818	4.9	5	59
2022	Baylor	8	49	6.1	2	17
Career		442	1,848	4.2	22	59

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	L 11-24vs No. 13 South Carolina	15/35	221	0	2	6.3	44.0
Wk 2	L 20-44vs Vanderbilt	17/29	134	1	0	4.6	62.7
Wk 3	L 26-45vs Old Dominion	26/39	266	3	1	6.8	32.6	3 TD passes
Wk 4	W 38-6vs Wofford	27/32	307	2	0	9.6	70.5	Season-high 307 yds
Wk 5	W 23-21@ NC State	20/34	177	2	0	5.2	53.3
Wk 6	L 23-30vs Wake Forest	14/28	111	1	1	4.0	27.0
Wk 7	L 20-35@ No. 13 Georgia Tech	13/21	181	2	1	8.6	67.7
Wk 9	W 42-34vs California	9/18	119	3	1	6.6	86.7	3 TD passes
Wk 10	L 16-28vs No. 16 Louisville	11/24	76	1	0	3.2	45.0
Wk 12	L 14-34@ Florida State	10/18	125	1	1	6.9	61.5
Wk 13	L 17-34vs No. 14 Miami	12/21	124	0	0	5.9	43.5
Wk 14	L 7-27@ No. 17 Virginia	4/16	78	1	2	4.9	10.6
Total		178/315	1919	17	9	6.1	—

Highs and lows

Only games with 20 or more plays count for best and lowest.
Best by our grade	Wofford	W 38-6 · Graded solid · Steady all game · 307 yds, 2 TD, 0 INT · Rush 9 for 17, 2 TD · Sacked 1
Lowest by our grade	at Virginia	L 7-27 · Graded rough · Steady all game · 78 yds, 1 TD, 2 INT · Rush 11 for 35 · Interceptions cost about 21 points of win chance · Sacked 2
Biggest game	at Georgia Tech	No. 13 at kickoff · L 20-35 · Graded solid · Passing grade only · 181 yds, 2 TD, 1 INT · Rush 16 for 83, 1 TD · Sacked 2
Best play	California	Completion for 44 yards, touchdown, Q3 5:06 · Win chance 36% to 64%

Passing profile

Pass Profile · True throw depth (charted plays)

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

178/315 (56.5%) · 17 TD · 9 INT

306 of 315 attempts matched to play-by-play

98 of 306 attempts charted for true throw depth

Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 306 passing plays (170 completions) against the box score's 315 attempts (178 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.

Adjusted ANY/A

5.03157 of 206 QBs

Sack rate

6.5%155 of 206 QBs

Sacked on 6.5% of dropbacks (155 of 206) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (157 of 206).

Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.

Behind LOS · Negative air yds

16% of attempts (16)

88%comp

Air -3.2 · YAC 11.0 avg

Short · 0–9 air yds

42% of attempts (41)

56%comp1 INT

Air 4.0 · YAC 5.1 avg

Middle · 10–19 air yds

19% of attempts (19)

32%comp

Air 12.6 · YAC 2.3 avg

Deep · 20+ air yds

22% of attempts (22)

18%comp3 INT

Air 32.2 · YAC 6.2 avg

Overall 56.5% completion on 315 attempts · 18% completion on 22 deep attempts (20+ air yds).

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2025 baseline

No situation moves him more than 28 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-28 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 4/101 (4.0%) · league sack rate 4.2%

Down 2

+5 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 4/83 (4.8%) · league sack rate 4.5%

Down 3+

+25 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 12/98 (12.2%) · league sack rate 7.8%

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.

Teams and coaches

2022Baylor6-7HC: Dave Aranda · Run-leaning

2023Virginia Tech7-6HC: Brent Pry · Run-leaning

2024Virginia Tech6-7HC: Brent Pry · Run-leaning

2025Virginia Tech3-9HC: Brent Pry and Philip Montgomery · Run-leaning

Our ratings

CFB Zeitgeist Score 44 (#80 of 146). Show the ratings

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles · 2025 season

44Rotational starter #80 of 146 · 2025?

13 metrics · season cumulative

2025 score: the 2026 sample is not big enough yet. The rows below are 2026 so far. Elite: rush yards (89th percentile). Strength: rush tds (86th percentile). Concern: success rate (13th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Explosive rate#107 / 183 · 42nd pct

8.5%

EPA / dropback#127 / 183 · 31st pct

0.12

Interception rate#132 / 183 · 28th pct

2.9%

Sack rate#139 / 183 · 24th pct

6.7%

Success rate#159 / 183 · 13th pct

34.1%

Box-score rates (8)

Rush yards#20 / 183 · 89th pct

644

Rush TDs#21 / 183 · 86th pct

Pass TDs#57 / 183 · 68th pct

Pass yards#97 / 183 · 47th pct

1919

Interceptions#135 / 183 · 22nd pct

Yards / att#150 / 183 · 16th pct

6.1

Completion %#155 / 183 · 16th pct

56.5%

Fumbles lost#154 / 174 · 8th pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

54th → 31st percentile

Success rate

35th → 13th percentile

Explosive rate

83rd → 42nd percentile

Sack rate

65th → 24th percentile

Interception rate

61st → 28th percentile

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps in 2025. 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).

Zeitgeist Passer Rating

2025 · our own passing-efficiency number, shown next to the 1979 formula it does not replace.

After 281 dropbacks

24Zeitgeist Passer Rating133rd of 142 FBS QBs

NCAA passer rating 119.8 126th of 142 FBS QBs

Positive-play rate weight 24%

41.1%16th pct of FBS QBs

share of dropbacks that gained expected points · +0.5% schedule adj.

Yards per attempt weight 56%

5.8512th pct of FBS QBs

sacks excluded · +0.2 schedule adj.

Sack rate weight 21% (penalty)

7.3%22nd pct of FBS QBs

the input passer rating cannot see · +0.2% schedule adj.

Opponent-adjusted; garbage time excluded (47 of 328 dropbacks dropped). 50 = FBS average; the number is pulled toward 50 when the sample is thin. How ZPR is built.

Splits

Home and road splits, scheme and staff

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home7g	162	1.6	5.8	0.4
Road4g	140	1.5	6.4	1.0

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-77g	200	1.6	6.4	0.7
Weeks 8+5g	104	1.2	5.5	0.8

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Brent Pry

Pass share

42.0%

319 pass / 441 run

Plays / game

63.3

12 games

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Impact starter

315 pass attempts and 170 carries in 12 games, more passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score

44 · #80 of 146 QBs · 2025

Former four-star. Now #80 at the position.

2026 outlook

Outside shot for All-ACC

Based on 2025: #12 of 17 ACC QBs

How the All-ACC base rate is computed

A base rate for the rank, not a forecast of this player: 22% of returning players who ranked #11–20 at their position in their conference made an all-conference team the next season (95% confidence interval 19–25%).