Mason Rudolph: QB · Oklahoma State · #2.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Mason Rudolph
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. Fourth year in the same quarterback room at Oklahoma State. The first career honor came in 2017: Unitas Golden Arm. On tape: 497 passing yards and 5 passing TD against Pittsburgh, Week 3, 2017.
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
52.7% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 33.9% conversion-per-dropback — 34.5% 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
12 of the team's 40 inside-the-5 carries (30.0%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
The New York Times Nov 1
Sports Illustrated Oct 29
Oklahoma State University Athletics Oct 22
The Oklahoman Oct 22Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Oklahoma State | 318 | 489 | 65.0% | 4,904 | 10.0 | 37 | 9 | 170.6 | 85 |
| 2016 | Oklahoma State | 284 | 448 | 63.4% | 4,091 | 9.1 | 28 | 4 | 158.9 | 80 |
| 2015 | Oklahoma State | 264 | 424 | 62.3% | 3,770 | 8.9 | 21 | 9 | 149.1 | 59 |
| 2014 | Oklahoma State | 49 | 86 | 57.0% | 853 | 9.9 | 6 | 4 | 154.0 | 57 |
| Career | 915 | 1,447 | 63.2% | 13,618 | 9.4 | 92 | 26 | 159.7 | 74 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Oklahoma State | 61 | 35 | 0.6 | 10 | 19 |
| 2016 | Oklahoma State | 83 | 61 | 0.7 | 6 | 25 |
| 2015 | Oklahoma State | 67 | −35 | −0.5 | 1 | 40 |
| 2014 | Oklahoma State | 14 | −33 | −2.4 | 0 | 7 |
| Career | 225 | 28 | 0.1 | 17 | 40 |
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 59-24vs Tulsa | 20/24 | 303 | 3 | 0 | 12.6 | 97.1 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 2 | W 44-7@ South Alabama | 25/38 | 335 | 3 | 0 | 8.8 | 93.2 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | W 59-21@ Pittsburgh | 23/32 | 497 | 5 | 1 | 15.5 | 97.9 | Season-high 497 yds |
| Wk 4 | L 31-44vs No. 16 TCU | 22/41 | 398 | 2 | 2 | 9.7 | 63.5 | |
| Wk 5 | W 41-34@ Texas Tech | 27/38 | 376 | 3 | 1 | 9.9 | 91.0 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 7 | W 59-16vs Baylor | 19/31 | 459 | 3 | 0 | 14.8 | 97.3 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | W 13-10@ Texas | 25/38 | 282 | 0 | 0 | 7.4 | 39.4 | |
| Wk 9 | W 50-39@ No. 22 West Virginia | 20/34 | 216 | 3 | 1 | 6.4 | 74.3 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 10 | L 52-62vs No. 8 Oklahoma | 28/54 | 448 | 5 | 2 | 8.3 | — | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 11 | W 49-42@ No. 24 Iowa State | 25/31 | 376 | 3 | 0 | 12.1 | 96.7 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | L 40-45vs Kansas State | 32/53 | 425 | 3 | 2 | 8.0 | 48.1 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 13 | W 58-17vs Kansas | 31/43 | 438 | 2 | 0 | 10.2 | 92.2 | Clean 2-TD game |
 Bowl | W 30-21vs No. 22 Virginia Tech | 21/32 | 351 | 2 | 0 | 11.0 | 84.4 | |
| Total | 318/489 | 4904 | 37 | 9 | 10.0 | — |
Week 10 · 2017
L 52-62
vs Oklahoma
448 yds · 5 TD · 2 INT
With J. Hill — 228 rush yds (30 car) · 2 TD · T. Johnson — 4 rec · 118 yds · 2 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 474 passing plays (305 completions) against the box score's 489 attempts (318 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
10.064 of 205 QBsSack rate
4.1%51 of 205 QBsRarely sacked (51 of 205 QBs) and still 4 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 65.0% completion on 489 attempts · 62 deep completions averaging 37.0 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2017 baseline
No situation moves him more than 49 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.
4 seasons under Mike Gundy — 37-15 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 412 | 3.0 | 10.6 | 1.0 |
| Road6g | 347 | 2.8 | 10.0 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 388 | 3.0 | 11.8 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 364 | 2.7 | 8.7 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mike Gundy
Pass share
50.4%
503 pass / 495 run
Plays / game
76.8
13 games
Scheme: Balanced, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2017
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
How it ended
Four seasons at Oklahoma State, 13,618 passing yards, the Unitas Golden Arm Award (2017) — drafted at #76 overall by the Pittsburgh Steelers.
A blue-chip recruit with honors.
The role got bigger.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
National awards
Unitas Golden Arm
2017 season
ALL-BIG 12 · 2ND TEAM
All-Big 12 2nd team (2017)
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Mike Gundy.
Next stop · NFL
Pittsburgh SteelersEntering 9th NFL season
Pittsburgh SteelersEntering 9th NFL season
