Lamar Jackson: QB · Louisville · #8.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Lamar Jackson
Runs when the pocket breaks down. Three seasons in the Louisville quarterback room to date. First career honor, 2016: Maxwell. A game that shows it: 393 passing yards and 132 rushing yards against North Carolina — Week 2, 2017.
Play style
Dangerous with both arm and legs — defenses can't just pin the ears back.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
58.5% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 39.1% conversion-per-dropback — 25.0% 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
9 of 11 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (81.8%). 7 of the team's 18 inside-the-5 carries (38.9%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Louisville | 254 | 430 | 59.1% | 3,660 | 8.5 | 27 | 10 | 146.6 | 82 |
| 2016 | Louisville | 230 | 409 | 56.2% | 3,543 | 8.7 | 30 | 9 | 148.8 | 68 |
| 2015 | Louisville | 135 | 247 | 54.7% | 1,840 | 7.4 | 12 | 8 | 126.8 | 46 |
| Career | 619 | 1,086 | 57.0% | 9,043 | 8.3 | 69 | 27 | 142.9 | 68 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Louisville | 232 | 1,601 | 6.9 | 18 | 75 |
| 2016 | Louisville | 260 | 1,571 | 6.0 | 21 | 72 |
| 2015 | Louisville | 163 | 960 | 5.9 | 11 | 73 |
| Career | 655 | 4,132 | 6.3 | 50 | 75 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2017 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 35-28vs Purdue | 30/46 | 378 | 2 | 0 | 8.2 | 62.4 | 4 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 2 | W 47-35@ North Carolina | 25/39 | 393 | 3 | 0 | 10.1 | 95.5 | Season-high 393 yds |
| Wk 3 | L 21-47vs No. 3 Clemson | 21/42 | 317 | 3 | 1 | 7.5 | 27.2 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | W 42-3vs Kent State | 18/22 | 299 | 2 | 2 | 13.6 | 78.7 | |
| Wk 5 | W 55-10vs Murray State | 18/26 | 249 | 3 | 0 | 9.6 | 98.7 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 6 | L 25-39@ No. 24 NC State | 26/47 | 354 | 1 | 1 | 7.5 | 64.6 | |
| Wk 7 | L 42-45vs Boston College | 19/39 | 332 | 2 | 1 | 8.5 | 81.8 | |
| Wk 8 | W 31-28@ Florida State | 13/21 | 156 | 1 | 0 | 7.4 | 85.6 | |
| Wk 9 | L 32-42@ Wake Forest | 27/44 | 330 | 1 | 1 | 7.5 | 63.4 | |
| Wk 11 | W 38-21vs Virginia | 15/26 | 195 | 3 | 0 | 7.5 | 94.6 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | W 56-10vs Syracuse | 14/26 | 270 | 2 | 0 | 10.4 | 92.5 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 13 | W 44-17@ Kentucky | 15/21 | 216 | 2 | 0 | 10.3 | 70.9 | |
 Bowl | L 27-31vs No. 24 Mississippi State | 13/31 | 171 | 2 | 4 | 5.5 | 47.4 | |
| Total | 254/430 | 3660 | 27 | 10 | 8.5 | — |
Week 2 · 2017
W 47-35
393 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 95.5 · 132 rush yds (19 car) · 3 TD
Edged out North Carolina on the road in a shootout.
With M. Williams — 149 rush yds (13 car) · 2 rec · 18 yds · J. Smith — 9 rec · 183 yds · 1 TD
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 426 passing plays (253 completions) against the box score's 430 attempts (254 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.9630 of 205 QBsSack rate
6.1%110 of 205 QBsSacked on 6.1% of dropbacks (110 of 205) — and still 30 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 59.1% completion on 430 attempts · 56 deep completions averaging 30.6 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2017 baseline
No situation moves him more than 36 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.
3 seasons under Bobby Petrino — 25-14 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 277 | 2.5 | 9.5 | 0.7 |
| Road5g | 290 | 1.6 | 8.6 | 0.4 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 312 | 2.2 | 8.8 | 1.1 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 233 | 1.8 | 8.6 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bobby Petrino
Pass share
48.5%
464 pass / 492 run
Plays / game
73.5
13 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2017
A finalist for the position's national player-of-the-year award.
How it ended
Three seasons at Louisville, 9,043 passing yards, the Maxwell Award (2016) — drafted at #32 overall by the Baltimore Ravens.
A stat line in 38 games over three seasons.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
National awards
Maxwell, Walter Camp
2016 season
Coaching lineage · 2015–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Bobby Petrino.
Next stop · NFL
Baltimore RavensEntering 9th NFL season
Baltimore RavensEntering 9th NFL season
