Luke Altmyer

#9 · QB · Sr. · Illinois6′2″ · 205 lb · Starkville, MS

Luke Altmyer is a quarterback who has not played this season; the last season with a stat line was 2025, at Illinois.

Altmyer picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. Played for two head coaches across five seasons and two programs. The first one came in 2025: All-Big Ten. A game that shows it: 390 passing yards and 3 rushing yards against Purdue — Week 6, 2025.

Where to follow

Career stats

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Season	Team
2025	Illinois	246	365	67.4%	3,007	8.2	22	5	153.8	73
2024	Illinois	211	347	60.8%	2,717	7.8	22	6	144.0	51
2023	Illinois	175	270	64.8%	1,883	7.0	13	10	131.9	41
2022	Ole Miss	8	17	47.1%	125	7.4	2	1	135.9	--
2021	Ole Miss	20	37	54.1%	192	5.2	1	2	95.8	31
Career		660	1,036	63.7%	7,924	7.6	60	24	142.4	55

Season	Team
2025	Illinois	100	242	2.4	5	36
2024	Illinois	99	217	2.2	4	37
2023	Illinois	94	282	3.0	3	72
2022	Ole Miss	4	3	0.8	1	5
2021	Ole Miss	21	--	0.0	0	14
Career		318	744	2.3	13	72

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 52-3vs Western Illinois	17/21	217	3	0	10.3	89.7	3 TD passes
Wk 2	W 45-19@ Duke	22/31	296	3	0	9.5	85.9	3 TD passes
Wk 3	W 38-0vs Western Michigan	17/26	196	2	0	7.5	51.1
Wk 4	L 10-63@ No. 19 Indiana	14/22	146	1	0	6.6	42.9
Wk 5	W 34-32vs No. 21 USC	20/26	328	2	0	12.6	97.5	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 6	W 43-27@ Purdue	19/22	390	1	0	17.7	90.9	Season-high 390 yds
Wk 7	L 16-34vs No. 1 Ohio State	30/44	248	1	1	5.6	64.4
Wk 9	L 25-42@ Washington	22/34	199	2	2	5.9	83.5
Wk 10	W 35-13vs Rutgers	19/31	235	4	1	7.6	88.9	4 TD passes
Wk 12	W 24-6vs Maryland	15/25	172	2	1	6.9	80.5
Wk 13	L 10-27@ Wisconsin	21/35	248	0	0	7.1	66.0
Wk 14	W 20-13vs Northwestern	10/15	136	0	0	9.1	16.5
Bowl	W 30-28vs Tennessee	20/33	196	1	0	5.9	69.9
Total		246/365	3007	22	5	8.2	—

Highs and lows

Only games with 20 or more plays count for best and lowest.
Best by our grade	at Purdue	W 43-27 · Graded great · Carried by the second quarter · 390 yds, 1 TD, 0 INT · Rush 8 for 3 · Sacked 2
Lowest by our grade	at Wisconsin	L 10-27 · Graded shaky · 248 yds, 0 TD, 0 INT · Rush 13 for 20, 1 TD · Sacked 4
Biggest game	Ohio State	No. 1 at kickoff · L 16-34 · Graded solid · 248 yds, 1 TD, 1 INT · Rush 6 for -20 · Sacked 2
Best play	at Purdue	Completion, touchdown, Q2 12:50 · Win chance 43% to 73%

Passing profile

Pass Profile · True throw depth (charted plays)

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

246/365 (67.4%) · 22 TD · 5 INT

357 of 365 attempts matched to play-by-play

138 of 357 attempts charted for true throw depth

Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 357 passing plays (240 completions) against the box score's 365 attempts (246 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.

Adjusted ANY/A

7.6638 of 206 QBs

Sack rate

7.4%170 of 206 QBs

Sacked on 7.4% of dropbacks (170 of 206) — and still 38 of 206 in Adjusted ANY/A.

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

12% of attempts (16)

88%comp1 INT

Air -2.4 · YAC 11.7 avg

Short · 0–9 air yds

56% of attempts (77)

68%comp

Air 4.2 · YAC 3.6 avg

Middle · 10–19 air yds

20% of attempts (27)

41%comp1 INT

Air 14.1 · YAC 1.7 avg

Deep · 20+ air yds

13% of attempts (18)

44%comp2 INT

Air 26.3 · YAC 0.9 avg

Overall 67.4% completion on 365 attempts · 44% completion on 18 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 45 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-33 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 6/137 (4.4%) · league sack rate 4.2%

Down 2

+45 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 4/109 (3.7%) · league sack rate 4.5%

Down 3+

-4 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 14/92 (15.2%) · 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

2021Ole Miss10-3HC: Lane Kiffin · Run-leaning, fast tempo

2022Ole Miss8-5HC: Lane Kiffin · Run-heavy, fast tempo

2023Illinois5-7HC: Bret Bielema · Balanced

2024Illinois10-3HC: Bret Bielema · Run-leaning, slow tempo

2025Illinois9-4HC: Bret Bielema · Run-leaning

Our ratings

CFB Zeitgeist Score 76 (#21 of 146). Show the ratings

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

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

76All-Conference level #21 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: success rate (91st percentile). Strength: epa / dropback (90th percentile). Concern: sack rate (18th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Success rate#17 / 183 · 91st pct

47.2%

EPA / dropback#18 / 183 · 90th pct

0.36

Interception rate#37 / 183 · 80th pct

1.4%

Explosive rate#60 / 183 · 67th pct

10.1%

Sack rate#150 / 183 · 18th pct

7.5%

Box-score rates (8)

Completion %#23 / 183 · 87th pct

67.4%

Yards / att#32 / 183 · 83rd pct

8.2

Pass yards#36 / 183 · 81st pct

3007

Pass TDs#35 / 183 · 80th pct

Rush TDs#53 / 183 · 68th pct

Interceptions#53 / 183 · 67th pct

Rush yards#65 / 183 · 65th pct

242

Fumbles lost#87 / 174 · 38th pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

81st → 90th percentile

Success rate

67th → 91st percentile

Explosive rate

48th → 67th percentile

Sack rate

26th → 18th percentile

Interception rate

71st → 80th 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 334 dropbacks

73Zeitgeist Passer Rating22nd of 142 FBS QBs

NCAA passer rating 153.8 22nd of 142 FBS QBs

Positive-play rate weight 24%

51.4%89th pct of FBS QBs

share of dropbacks that gained expected points · -1.9% schedule adj.

Yards per attempt weight 56%

8.2589th pct of FBS QBs

sacks excluded · -0.1 schedule adj.

Sack rate weight 21% (penalty)

6.8%30th pct of FBS QBs

the input passer rating cannot see · -0.4% schedule adj.

Opponent-adjusted; garbage time excluded (52 of 386 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 · 13 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home7g	219	2.0	8.5	0.4
Road5g	256	1.4	9.4	0.4

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-78g	252	1.8	9.5	0.1
Weeks 8+5g	198	1.6	7.3	0.8

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Bret Bielema

Pass share

45.6%

372 pass / 444 run

Plays / game

62.8

13 games

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Impact starter

365 pass attempts, 100 carries and 1 catch in 13 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score

76 · #21 of 146 QBs · 2025

Former four-star. Now #21 at the position.

2026 outlook

In the mix for All-Big Ten

Based on 2025: #6 of 19 Big Ten QBs

How the All-Big Ten base rate is computed

A base rate for the rank, not a forecast of this player: 35% of returning players who ranked #4–10 at their position in their conference made an all-conference team the next season (95% confidence interval 31–38%).