Marquise Williams: QB · North Carolina · #12.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Marquise Williams
Extends plays on the move until something opens up. Two seasons in the North Carolina quarterback room to date. A game that shows it: 494 passing yards and 30 rushing yards against Duke — Week 10, 2015.
Play style
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
51.4% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 24.4% conversion-per-dropback — 47.4% 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. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
8 of the team's 37 inside-the-5 carries (21.6%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
247Sports Nov 3
Syracuse.com Oct 22Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | North Carolina | 219 | 357 | 61.3% | 3,072 | 8.6 | 24 | 10 | 150.2 | 65 |
| 2014 | North Carolina | 270 | 428 | 63.1% | 3,068 | 7.2 | 21 | 9 | 135.3 | 57 |
| Career | 489 | 785 | 62.3% | 6,140 | 7.8 | 45 | 19 | 142.1 | 61 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | North Carolina | 158 | 948 | 6.0 | 13 | 46 |
| 2014 | North Carolina | 193 | 788 | 4.1 | 13 | 52 |
| Career | 351 | 1,736 | 4.9 | 26 | 52 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2015 season · 14 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 13-17vs South Carolina | 19/31 | 232 | 1 | 3 | 7.5 | 15.1 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 53-14vs North Carolina A&T | 15/20 | 211 | 2 | 0 | 10.6 | 98.9 | |
| Wk 3 | W 48-14vs Illinois | 17/24 | 203 | 3 | 1 | 8.5 | 86.4 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | W 41-14vs Delaware | 6/12 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 5.4 | 60.3 | |
| Wk 5 | W 38-31@ Georgia Tech | 13/24 | 134 | 0 | 0 | 5.6 | 95.3 | |
| Wk 7 | W 50-14vs Wake Forest | 14/20 | 282 | 3 | 2 | 14.1 | 85.6 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | W 26-13vs Virginia | 21/26 | 226 | 0 | 1 | 8.7 | 65.8 | |
| Wk 9 | W 26-19@ No. 23 Pittsburgh | 14/23 | 270 | 2 | 0 | 11.7 | 87.7 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 10 | W 66-31vs Duke | 23/35 | 494 | 4 | 0 | 14.1 | 92.8 | Season-high 494 yds |
| Wk 11 | W 59-21vs Miami | 12/17 | 109 | 1 | 0 | 6.4 | 73.4 | |
| Wk 12 | W 30-27@ Virginia Tech | 13/26 | 205 | 1 | 0 | 7.9 | 43.3 | |
| Wk 13 | W 45-34@ NC State | 19/30 | 174 | 1 | 1 | 5.8 | 64.4 | |
| Wk 14 | L 37-45vs No. 1 Clemson | 11/33 | 224 | 3 | 1 | 6.8 | 27.0 | 3 TD passes |
 Bowl | L 38-49vs No. 18 Baylor | 22/36 | 243 | 3 | 1 | 6.8 | 83.3 | |
| Total | 219/357 | 3072 | 24 | 10 | 8.6 | — |
Bowl · 2015
L 38-49
vs Baylor · neutral site
243 yds · 3 TD · 1 INT · QBR 83.3 · 81 rush yds (17 car) · 2 TD
With E. Hood — 118 rush yds (13 car) · J. Mangili — 41 yards per punt · 3 punts · 48 long
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 347 passing plays (210 completions) against the box score's 357 attempts (219 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
8.0124 of 198 QBsSack rate
4.5%68 of 198 QBsRarely sacked (68 of 198 QBs) and still 24 of 198 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 61.3% completion on 357 attempts · 46 deep completions averaging 34.3 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2015 baseline
No situation moves him more than 20 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.
2 seasons under Larry Fedora — 17-10 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2015 season · 14 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 227 | 1.9 | 9.7 | 0.6 |
| Road4g | 196 | 1.0 | 7.8 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 196 | 1.7 | 8.4 | 1.0 |
| Weeks 8+7g | 243 | 1.7 | 8.8 | 0.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Larry Fedora
Pass share
44.2%
409 pass / 517 run
Plays / game
66.1
14 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2015
Our Heisman model had this player inside its top 25 in 2015.
How it ended
Two seasons at North Carolina, 6,140 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2011–2015
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Everett Withers → Larry Fedora. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
