Mac Jones: QB · Alabama · #10.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Mac Jones
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. Three seasons in the Alabama quarterback room to date. First career honor, 2020: All-America (Consensus). On tape: 435 passing yards and 4 passing TD against Texas A&M, Week 5, 2020.
Play style
High-percentage passer who protects the ball. Loses the matchup on improvisation.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
64.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 30.8% conversion-per-dropback — 50.0% 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
10 of 10 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (100.0%). 1 of the team's 41 inside-the-5 carries (2.4%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
Yahoo Sports Oct 28
Heavy Oct 28
Saturday Down South Oct 24
The Tuscaloosa News Oct 15Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
Game log · Week-by-week
2020 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 4 | W 38-19@ Missouri | 18/24 | 249 | 2 | 0 | 10.4 | — | |
| Wk 5 | W 52-24vs No. 13 Texas A&M | 20/27 | 435 | 4 | 1 | 16.1 | — | Season-high 435 yds |
| Wk 6 | W 63-48@ Ole Miss | 28/32 | 417 | 2 | 0 | 13.0 | — | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 7 | W 41-24vs No. 3 Georgia | 24/32 | 417 | 4 | 1 | 13.0 | — | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | W 48-17@ Tennessee | 25/31 | 387 | 0 | 0 | 12.5 | — | |
| Wk 9 | W 41-0vs Mississippi State | 24/31 | 291 | 4 | 0 | 9.4 | — | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | W 63-3vs Kentucky | 16/24 | 230 | 2 | 1 | 9.6 | — | |
| Wk 13 | W 42-13vs No. 22 Auburn | 18/26 | 302 | 5 | 0 | 11.6 | — | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 14 | W 55-17@ LSU | 20/28 | 385 | 4 | 0 | 13.8 | — | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 15 | W 52-3@ Arkansas | 24/29 | 208 | 0 | 0 | 7.2 | — | |
| Wk 16 | W 52-46vs No. 11 Florida | 33/43 | 418 | 5 | 1 | 9.7 | — | 5 TD passes |
| Total | 250/327 | 3739 | 32 | 4 | 11.4 | — |
Week 16 · 2020
W 52-46
vs Florida · neutral site
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 390 passing plays (299 completions) against the box score's 402 attempts (311 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
12.211 of 171 QBsSack rate
3.1%19 of 171 QBsRarely sacked (19 of 171 QBs) and still 1 of 171 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 77.4% completion on 402 attempts · 61 deep completions averaging 32.9 yds.
3 seasons under Nick Saban — 38-3 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2020 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 335 | 3.8 | 11.9 | 0.6 |
| Road5g | 329 | 1.6 | 11.4 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 380 | 3.0 | 13.1 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+7g | 317 | 2.9 | 10.5 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Nick Saban
Pass share
47.6%
424 pass / 466 run
Plays / game
80.9
11 games
Scheme: Balanced, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2020
A finalist for the position's national player-of-the-year award.
Selector Grid · 2020
Named Consensus All-American — recognized on 3+ of the 5 NCAA-recognized selector lists.
How it ended
Three seasons at Alabama, 6,126 passing yards, the Davey O'Brien Award (2020) — drafted at #15 overall by the New England Patriots.
A stat line in 28 games over three seasons.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-AMERICA · CONSENSUS
Consensus AA (2020)
7 first-team selectors
National awards
Davey O'Brien, Manning, Unitas Golden Arm
2020 season
ALL-SEC · 1ST TEAM
All-SEC 1st team (2020)
Weekly recognition
4 weekly honors (2020)
SEC Offensive Player of the Week — a 4+ season has tracked to All-Conference ~83% of the time
Coaching lineage · 2018–2020
1 coachPlayed every college season under Nick Saban.
Next stop · NFL
New England PatriotsEntering 6th NFL season
New England PatriotsEntering 6th NFL season
