Mike Glass III: QB · Eastern Michigan · #9.
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Mike Glass III
Keeps the offense on schedule and doesn't lose the game. Second year in the Eastern Michigan quarterback room. The first one came in 2019: All-MAC. One game to point at: 386 passing yards and 37 rushing yards against Kent State — Week 14, 2019.
Play style
Consistent underneath passer who protects the lead. Rarely loses games; rarely wins them alone.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
55.3% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 30.0% 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
15 of 17 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (88.2%). 11 of the team's 24 inside-the-5 carries (45.8%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Eastern Michigan | 261 | 391 | 66.8% | 3,074 | 7.9 | 23 | 11 | 146.6 | 70 |
| 2018 | Eastern Michigan | 72 | 117 | 61.5% | 1,024 | 8.8 | 9 | 1 | 158.7 | 56 |
| Career | 333 | 508 | 65.6% | 4,098 | 8.1 | 32 | 12 | 149.4 | 67 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Eastern Michigan | 116 | 425 | 3.7 | 8 | 44 |
| 2018 | Eastern Michigan | 68 | 397 | 5.8 | 6 | 48 |
| Career | 184 | 822 | 4.5 | 14 | 48 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2019 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 30-23@ Coastal Carolina | 20/22 | 188 | 3 | 0 | 8.5 | 96.6 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | L 17-38@ Kentucky | 34/53 | 337 | 2 | 2 | 6.4 | 44.5 | |
| Wk 3 | W 34-31@ Illinois | 23/36 | 316 | 3 | 0 | 8.8 | 76.5 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | W 34-29vs Central Connecticut | 26/39 | 279 | 4 | 2 | 7.2 | 64.5 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 6 | L 16-42@ Central Michigan | 20/34 | 207 | 1 | 1 | 6.1 | 14.7 | |
| Wk 7 | L 23-29vs Ball State | 20/34 | 283 | 1 | 3 | 8.3 | 54.7 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 9 | L 34-37@ Toledo | 21/37 | 286 | 1 | 0 | 7.7 | 55.7 | |
| Wk 12 | W 42-14@ Akron | 20/25 | 246 | 0 | 0 | 9.8 | — | |
| Wk 13 | W 45-17@ Northern Illinois | 20/24 | 235 | 3 | 0 | 9.8 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 14 | L 26-34vs Kent State | 29/37 | 386 | 3 | 2 | 10.4 | — | Season-high 386 yds |
 Bowl | L 30-34vs Pittsburgh | 28/50 | 311 | 2 | 1 | 6.2 | — | |
| Total | 261/391 | 3074 | 23 | 11 | 7.9 | — |
Week 3 · 2019
W 34-31
at Illinois
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 389 passing plays (260 completions) against the box score's 391 attempts (261 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.3262 of 205 QBsSack rate
3.2%23 of 205 QBsRarely sacked (23 of 205 QBs) and still 62 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 66.8% completion on 391 attempts · 47 deep completions averaging 29.1 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2019 baseline
No situation moves him more than 16 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 Chris Creighton — 13-13 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2019 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 316 | 2.7 | 8.6 | 2.3 |
| Road7g | 259 | 1.9 | 8.2 | 0.4 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 274 | 2.3 | 7.4 | 1.3 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 288 | 1.8 | 9.4 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Chris Creighton
Pass share
52.7%
454 pass / 408 run
Plays / game
66.3
13 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2019
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
How it ended
Two seasons at Eastern Michigan, 4,098 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-MAC · 2ND TEAM
All-MAC 2nd team (2019)
Coaching lineage · 2016–2019
1 coachPlayed every college season under Chris Creighton.
