Max Duggan: QB · TCU · #15.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Max Duggan
Pushes it downfield on every look. Played for two head coaches at TCU: Gary Patterson and Sonny Dykes. First career honor, 2022: Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year. A game that shows it: 390 passing yards and 5 passing TD against Tarleton State — Week 2, 2022.
Play style
Elite arm talent, pushing downfield. Completion rate is the variable.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
53.4% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 24.6% conversion-per-dropback — 51.6% 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
14 of 16 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (87.5%). 12 of the team's 36 inside-the-5 carries (33.3%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2022 season · 15 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 38-13@ Colorado | 2/3 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 9.0 | 99.9 | |
| Wk 2 | W 59-17vs Tarleton State | 23/29 | 390 | 5 | 0 | 13.4 | 92.3 | Season-high 390 yds |
| Wk 4 | W 42-34@ SMU | 22/29 | 278 | 3 | 0 | 9.6 | 64.4 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | W 55-24vs No. 18 Oklahoma | 23/33 | 302 | 3 | 0 | 9.2 | 96.1 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 6 | W 38-31@ No. 19 Kansas | 23/33 | 308 | 3 | 1 | 9.3 | 83.8 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 7 | W 43-40vs No. 8 Oklahoma State | 23/40 | 286 | 2 | 0 | 7.2 | 81.8 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 8 | W 38-28vs No. 17 Kansas State | 17/26 | 280 | 3 | 0 | 10.8 | 71.2 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 9 | W 41-31@ West Virginia | 16/28 | 341 | 3 | 1 | 12.2 | 73.9 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 10 | W 34-24vs Texas Tech | 12/23 | 195 | 2 | 0 | 8.5 | 49.7 | |
| Wk 11 | W 17-10@ No. 18 Texas | 19/29 | 124 | 1 | 0 | 4.3 | 32.6 | |
| Wk 12 | W 29-28@ Baylor | 24/35 | 327 | 1 | 1 | 9.3 | 89.0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 62-14vs Iowa State | 17/24 | 212 | 3 | 0 | 8.8 | 93.2 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 14 | L 28-31vs No. 13 Kansas State | 18/36 | 251 | 1 | 1 | 7.0 | — | |
 Bowl | W 51-45vs No. 2 Michigan | 14/29 | 225 | 2 | 2 | 7.8 | — | |
 Bowl | L 7-65vs No. 1 Georgia | 14/22 | 152 | 0 | 2 | 6.9 | — | |
| Total | 267/419 | 3698 | 32 | 8 | 8.8 | — |
Week 5 · 2022
W 55-24
vs Oklahoma
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 406 passing plays (257 completions) against the box score's 419 attempts (267 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
8.4322 of 206 QBsSack rate
6.5%118 of 206 QBsSacked on 6.5% of dropbacks (118 of 206) — and still 22 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.
Short
0–9 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 63.7% completion on 419 attempts · 54 deep completions averaging 34.7 yds.
Splits · Per-game
2022 season · 15 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 278 | 3.0 | 9.7 | 0.0 |
| Road6g | 234 | 1.8 | 9.0 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 246 | 2.2 | 9.1 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+7g | 247 | 2.0 | 8.7 | 0.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Sonny Dykes
Pass share
45.2%
453 pass / 550 run
Plays / game
66.9
15 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2022
A finalist for the position's national player-of-the-year award.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Former four-star. Now #8 at the position.
How it ended
Four seasons at TCU, 9,587 passing yards, the Davey O'Brien Award (2022) — drafted at #239 overall by the Los Angeles Chargers.
A blue-chip recruit with honors.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
National awards
Davey O'Brien, Unitas Golden Arm
2022 season
ALL-BIG 12 · 1ST TEAM
All-Big 12 1st team (2022)
Weekly recognition
2 weekly honors (2022)
Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week
Coaching lineage · 2019–2022
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Gary Patterson, Jerry Kill, and Sonny Dykes. Multi-era developmental context.
Next stop · NFL
Los Angeles ChargersEntering 4th NFL season
Los Angeles ChargersEntering 4th NFL season
