Michael Cummings: QB · Kansas · #14.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Michael Cummings
Operates within the system without forcing anything. One game to point at: 332 passing yards and 10 rushing yards against TCU — Week 12, 2014.
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
53.8% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 26.7% conversion-per-dropback — 42.9% 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
7 of the team's 18 inside-the-5 carries (38.9%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Kansas | 137 | 244 | 56.1% | 1,715 | 7.0 | 9 | 6 | 122.4 | 42 |
| Career | 137 | 244 | 56.1% | 1,715 | 7.0 | 9 | 6 | 122.4 | 42 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Kansas | 67 | 23 | 0.3 | 4 | 18 |
| Career | 67 | 23 | 0.3 | 4 | 18 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2014 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | W 34-28vs Southeast Missouri State | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 3 | L 3-41@ Duke | 1/2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 24-10vs Central Michigan | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 5 | L 0-23vs Texas | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 6 | L 14-33@ West Virginia | 8/17 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 3.8 | 4.8 | |
| Wk 7 | L 20-27vs No. 16 Oklahoma State | 20/37 | 288 | 0 | 1 | 7.8 | 32.1 | |
| Wk 8 | L 21-34@ Texas Tech | 20/32 | 235 | 2 | 1 | 7.3 | 75.4 | |
| Wk 10 | L 14-60@ No. 12 Baylor | 21/30 | 288 | 2 | 0 | 9.6 | 45.6 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 11 | W 34-14vs Iowa State | 24/40 | 278 | 1 | 0 | 6.9 | 78.8 | |
| Wk 12 | L 30-34vs No. 5 TCU | 19/37 | 332 | 2 | 1 | 9.0 | 64.1 | Season-high 332 yds |
| Wk 13 | L 7-44@ No. 23 Oklahoma | 8/22 | 84 | 0 | 1 | 3.8 | 2.8 | |
| Wk 14 | L 13-51@ No. 11 Kansas State | 16/27 | 139 | 2 | 2 | 5.1 | 27.2 | |
| Total | 137/244 | 1715 | 9 | 6 | 7.0 | — |
Week 12 · 2014
L 30-34
vs TCU
332 yds · 2 TD · 1 INT · QBR 64.1 · 10 rush yds (8 car) · 1 TD
With T. Pardula — 51 yards per punt · 6 punts · 1 inside the 20 · N. King — 5 rec · 128 yds · 1 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 240 passing plays (134 completions) against the box score's 244 attempts (137 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.0893 of 181 QBsSack rate
6.5%119 of 181 QBsSacked on 6.5% of dropbacks (119 of 181) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (93 of 181).
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 56.1% completion on 244 attempts · 23 deep completions averaging 34.3 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2014 baseline
No situation moves him more than 23 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.
Splits · Per-game
2014 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 150 | 0.5 | 7.9 | 0.3 |
| Road6g | 136 | 1.0 | 5.4 | 0.7 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 59.8 | 0.0 | 4.9 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 226 | 1.5 | 7.0 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Charlie Weis
Pass share
44.8%
376 pass / 464 run
Plays / game
70.0
12 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2014
244 pass attempts and 67 carries in 12 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
One season at Kansas, 1,715 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2015
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Charlie Weis → David Beaty. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
