Senior quarterback for Virginia Tech. 2025: 1,919 passing yards, 17 TD, 9 INT.
6′2″ · 235 lb · Pearland, TX
CFB Index
A single number blending on-field production (an EPA-based value lane) with box-score output for this player's position.
0-100, scaled within each position's own cohort — not directly comparable across positions.
The numbers
passing yards · 2025
17 TD · 9 INT · 6.1 per attempt
Backed by 20 car · 176 yds · 1 TD -- top 1% rushing yards game.
The play that turned itSwung California from 24% to 77% to win.California at Virginia Tech · 42-34
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 quarterback for Virginia Tech. 2025: 1,919 passing yards, 17 TD, 9 INT.
How he plays
Extends plays with his feet until something opens up.
Explosive rate: 42nd percentile.
The full scouting readAura™ · Him Watch
+13aura tax
27th pctl our passing-value metric (wEPA) QBs · 160 qualified, n=42
— the discourse is fair.Buzz vs Tape
His own fans are far more bullish than the rival fanbase.
It’s over… I never have to watch Kyron Drones again. Congrats Hoos on the season and ACC title! Franklin please save us
Also worth knowing:
Fan claims · every quote verified verbatim
drones was straight doodoo, it seems like he left like 30 points off the board with the dumb pick, overthrowing people that were wide open, and that last drive where he somehow missed wide open receivers on four plays in a row
Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Sep 1, 2025 · via CFB
Kyron Drones
Extends plays with his feet until something opens up. Across four seasons and two programs, two head coaches: Dave Aranda and Brent Pry. 2023 brought the first one: ACC Quarterback Player of the Week. The receipt on tape: 307 pass yds, 17 rush yds against Wofford, Week 4, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
He arrived as a blue-chip recruit and played like one.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2022–2025
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Brent Pry.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: rush yards (89th percentile). Strength: rush tds (86th percentile). Concern: success rate (13th percentile).
Real play-by-play efficiency
Season trend
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).
Pass Profile · True throw depth (charted plays)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
5.03157 of 206 QBsSack rate
6.5%155 of 206 QBsSacked 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
Short · 0–9 air yds
Middle · 10–19 air yds
Deep · 20+ air yds
Overall 55.6% completion on 306 attempts · 18% completion on 22 deep attempts (20+ air yds).
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.
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
2025 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 162 | 1.6 | 5.8 | 0.4 |
| Road5g | 156 | 1.2 | 6.4 | 1.2 |
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
Head Coach
James Franklin
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2025
Producing measurably more than a replacement-level starter.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
Former four-star. Now #80 at the position.
2026 outlook
Outside shot for All-ACC
Based on 2025: #12 of 17 ACC QBs
22% estimated, 95% confidence interval 19–25%. Base rate measured from players who finished at a comparable rank in their conference and came back the next season. It is an estimate from a small sample, not a forecast of this player.
| 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 | -- |
| 2024 | Virginia Tech | 98 | 337 | 3.4 | 6 | -- |
| 2023 | Virginia Tech | 166 | 818 | 4.9 | 5 | -- |
| 2022 | Baylor | 8 | 49 | 6.1 | 2 | -- |
| Career | 442 | 1,848 | 4.2 | 22 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 5 · 2025
W 23–21
at NC State
177 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 53.3 · 14 rush yds (11 car)
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 2 on the road.
With T. Stewart — 174 rush yds (15 car) · N. Veltsistas — 44 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 52 LONG
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 12 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 11-24@ 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@ 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 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 Miami | 12/21 | 124 | 0 | 0 | 5.9 | 43.5 | |
| Wk 14 | L 7-27@ Virginia | 4/16 | 78 | 1 | 2 | 4.9 | 10.6 | |
| Total | 178/315 | 1919 | 17 | 9 | 6.1 | 50.4 |
Play style
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
CFB Index positional classification
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
45.7% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 18.9% conversion-per-dropback — 52.4% 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. ~ our read: checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
17 of 21 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (81.0%).
2026 Outlook
Virginia Tech
2026 Depth chart
Returning starter
Quarterback · Virginia Tech
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Virginia Tech · Last season: 3-9 · Talent rank #27 · 2026 recruiting class #30
Player DNA
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Kyron Drones’s 2024 season.
Matches Kyron on
Differs from Kyron on
Through 4 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Elijah Brown’s path through Stanford.
Matches Elijah on
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Brayden Schager's senior season at Hawai'i (2024).
Matches Brayden on
Differs from Brayden on
Player DNA
Heisman Trajectory · 2025
Peaked at #80 this season.