Luke Falk: QB · Washington State · #4.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Luke Falk
Keeps the offense on schedule and doesn't lose the game. Arrived as a two-star recruit; four seasons of production at Washington State since. The first one came in 2015: All-Pac-12. One game to point at: 478 passing yards and 5 passing TD against Nevada — Week 4, 2017.
Play style
Consistent underneath passer who protects the lead. Rarely loses games; rarely wins them alone.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
46.4% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 23.4% conversion-per-dropback — 42.3% 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
2 of the team's 18 inside-the-5 carries (11.1%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Washington State | 357 | 534 | 66.9% | 3,593 | 6.7 | 30 | 13 | 137.0 | 34 |
| 2016 | Washington State | 443 | 633 | 70.0% | 4,468 | 7.1 | 38 | 11 | 145.6 | 62 |
| 2015 | Washington State | 448 | 645 | 69.5% | 4,566 | 7.1 | 38 | 8 | 145.9 | 39 |
| 2014 | Washington State | 156 | 243 | 64.2% | 1,859 | 7.7 | 13 | 7 | 140.4 | 58 |
| Career | 1,404 | 2,055 | 68.3% | 14,486 | 7.0 | 119 | 39 | 142.8 | 47 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Washington State | 67 | −147 | −2.2 | 0 | 16 |
| 2016 | Washington State | 66 | −68 | −1.0 | 0 | 10 |
| 2015 | Washington State | 82 | −115 | −1.4 | 3 | 14 |
| 2014 | Washington State | 36 | −70 | −1.9 | 1 | 9 |
| Career | 251 | −400 | −1.6 | 4 | 16 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2017 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 31-0vs Montana State | 33/39 | 311 | 3 | 0 | 8.0 | 90.9 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 47-44vs Boise State | 24/34 | 193 | 0 | 1 | 5.7 | 41.7 | |
| Wk 3 | W 52-23vs Oregon State | 37/49 | 396 | 6 | 0 | 8.1 | 86.7 | 6 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | W 45-7vs Nevada | 36/47 | 478 | 5 | 0 | 10.2 | 88.3 | Season-high 478 yds |
| Wk 5 | W 30-27vs No. 5 USC | 34/51 | 340 | 2 | 1 | 6.7 | 51.8 | |
| Wk 6 | W 33-10@ Oregon | 24/42 | 282 | 3 | 0 | 6.7 | 49.6 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 7 | L 3-37@ California | 28/43 | 286 | 0 | 5 | 6.7 | 11.0 | 5 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 8 | W 28-0vs Colorado | 17/34 | 197 | 3 | 0 | 5.8 | 61.3 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 9 | L 37-58@ Arizona | 13/23 | 93 | 1 | 0 | 4.0 | 28.4 | |
| Wk 10 | W 24-21vs No. 18 Stanford | 34/48 | 337 | 3 | 1 | 7.0 | 61.4 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 11 | W 33-25@ Utah | 40/69 | 311 | 3 | 2 | 4.5 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 13 | L 14-41@ No. 15 Washington | 37/55 | 369 | 1 | 3 | 6.7 | 17.4 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Total | 357/534 | 3593 | 30 | 13 | 6.7 | — |
Week 10 · 2017
W 24-21
vs Stanford
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 529 passing plays (352 completions) against the box score's 534 attempts (357 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.87120 of 205 QBsSack rate
6.6%124 of 205 QBsSacked on 6.6% of dropbacks (124 of 205) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (120 of 205).
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 66.9% completion on 534 attempts · 48 deep completions averaging 29.1 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2017 baseline
+65
percentile points better on third down or later
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 Mike Leach, all pass-heavy, fast tempo offenses — 29-22 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 322 | 3.1 | 7.4 | 0.4 |
| Road5g | 268 | 1.6 | 5.7 | 2.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 327 | 2.7 | 7.4 | 1.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 261 | 2.2 | 5.6 | 1.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mike Leach
Pass share
70.5%
713 pass / 299 run
Plays / game
77.8
13 games
Scheme: Pass-heavy, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2017
534 pass attempts and 67 carries in 12 games, more passes and runs a game than nearly every FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Four seasons at Washington State, 14,486 passing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2015) — drafted at #199 overall by the Tennessee Titans.
Recruited as a two-star, and honored since.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-PAC-12 · 1ST TEAM
All-Pac-12 1st team (2015)
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Mike Leach.
Next stop · NFL
Tennessee TitansEntering 9th NFL season
Tennessee TitansEntering 9th NFL season
