Senior quarterback for UNLV. 2020: 786 passing yards, 5 TD, 4 INT.
6′3″ · 200 lb · Thousand Oaks, CA
The story
4 quarterback for UNLV. 2020: 786 passing yards, 5 TD, 4 INT.
The record fills in as he plays.
His career, year by yearMax Gilliam
Max Gilliam has played for two head coaches in two seasons at UNLV. The receipt on tape: 207 pass yds, 20 rush yds against Nevada, Week 9, 2020.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Two seasons at UNLV, 2,180 passing yards — his college career is complete.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2018–2020
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Tony Sanchez → Marcus Arroyo. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score percentiles
Concern: yards / att (4th percentile).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
3.47159 of 171 QBsSack rate
11.9%165 of 171 QBsSacked on 11.9% of dropbacks (165 of 171) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (159 of 171).
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 60.5% completion on 152 attempts · 8 deep completions averaging 27.0 yds.
Splits · Per-game
2020 season · 6 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 144 | 1.0 | 4.6 | 1.0 |
| Road3g | 118 | 0.7 | 6.0 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 8+6g | 131 | 0.8 | 5.3 | 0.7 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Dan Mullen
Pass share
41.6%
87 pass / 122 run
Plays / game
69.7
3 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2020
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2020 season · 6 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 8 | L 6-34@ San Diego State | 13/21 | 105 | 1 | 0 | 5.0 | — | |
| Wk 9 | L 19-37vs Nevada | 27/40 | 207 | 2 | 0 | 5.2 | — | Season-high 207 yds |
| Wk 10 | L 27-40vs Fresno State | 15/31 | 160 | 1 | 2 | 5.2 | — | |
| Wk 11 | L 17-34@ San José State | 7/10 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 6.2 | — | |
| Wk 13 | L 14-45vs Wyoming | 11/19 | 65 | 0 | 1 | 3.4 | — | |
| Wk 15 | L 21-38@ Hawai'i | 16/27 | 187 | 1 | 1 | 6.9 | — | |
| Total | 89/148 | 786 | 5 | 4 | 5.3 | — |
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
61.1% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 16.0% conversion-per-dropback — 63.6% 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. ~ our read: checkdown by design