Mike White: QB · Western Kentucky · #14.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Mike White
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. Played for three head coaches across three seasons and two programs. First career honor, 2017: All-Conference USA. On tape: 485 passing yards and 5 passing TD against Middle Tennessee, Week 12, 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 27.8% conversion-per-dropback — 43.6% 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
6 of the team's 30 inside-the-5 carries (20.0%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Western Kentucky | 368 | 560 | 65.7% | 4,177 | 7.5 | 26 | 8 | 140.8 | 55 |
| 2016 | Western Kentucky | 280 | 416 | 67.3% | 4,363 | 10.5 | 37 | 7 | 181.4 | 93 |
| 2014 | South Florida | 122 | 242 | 50.4% | 1,639 | 6.8 | 8 | 7 | 112.4 | 45 |
| Career | 770 | 1,218 | 63.2% | 10,179 | 8.4 | 71 | 22 | 149.0 | 65 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Western Kentucky | 64 | −268 | −4.2 | 6 | 10 |
| 2016 | Western Kentucky | 29 | −74 | −2.6 | 0 | 17 |
| 2014 | South Florida | 28 | −78 | −2.8 | 0 | 17 |
| Career | 121 | −420 | −3.5 | 6 | 17 |
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 31-17vs Eastern Kentucky | 20/31 | 264 | 1 | 0 | 8.5 | 92.1 | |
| Wk 2 | L 7-20@ Illinois | 28/43 | 238 | 0 | 1 | 5.5 | 30.5 | |
| Wk 3 | L 22-23vs Louisiana Tech | 25/35 | 226 | 0 | 0 | 6.5 | 71.2 | |
| Wk 4 | W 33-21vs Ball State | 28/44 | 319 | 1 | 2 | 7.3 | 44.8 | |
| Wk 6 | W 15-14@ UTEP | 24/37 | 208 | 0 | 0 | 5.6 | 54.4 | |
| Wk 7 | W 45-14vs Charlotte | 33/47 | 398 | 5 | 0 | 8.5 | 87.0 | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | W 35-31@ Old Dominion | 24/34 | 304 | 5 | 1 | 8.9 | 71.5 | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 9 | L 28-42vs Florida Atlantic | 32/56 | 371 | 2 | 2 | 6.6 | 67.3 | |
| Wk 10 | L 17-31@ Vanderbilt | 31/50 | 324 | 0 | 0 | 6.5 | 59.5 | |
| Wk 11 | L 23-30@ Marshall | 28/41 | 334 | 3 | 1 | 8.1 | 53.7 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | W 41-38vs Middle Tennessee | 39/54 | 485 | 5 | 0 | 9.0 | 56.6 | Season-high 485 yds |
| Wk 13 | L 17-41@ Florida International | 30/49 | 355 | 2 | 0 | 7.2 | 68.1 | Clean 2-TD game |
 Bowl | L 17-27vs Georgia State | 26/39 | 351 | 2 | 1 | 9.0 | 31.9 | |
| Total | 368/560 | 4177 | 26 | 8 | 7.5 | — |
Week 12 · 2017
W 41-38
485 yds · 5 TD · 0 INT · QBR 56.6
Edged out Middle Tennessee at home in a shootout.
With J. Collins — 41.2 yards per punt · 5 punts · 56 long · K. Towner — 4 rec · 105 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 555 passing plays (364 completions) against the box score's 560 attempts (368 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.7873 of 205 QBsSack rate
7.3%142 of 205 QBsSacked on 7.3% of dropbacks (142 of 205) — and still 73 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 65.7% completion on 560 attempts · 51 deep completions averaging 30.6 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2017 baseline
+50
percentile points better on third down or later
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
2017 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 344 | 2.3 | 7.7 | 0.7 |
| Road6g | 294 | 1.7 | 7.0 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 286 | 1.3 | 7.3 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 362 | 2.8 | 7.7 | 0.7 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mike Sanford Jr.
Pass share
59.9%
577 pass / 387 run
Plays / game
74.2
13 games
Scheme: Pass-leaning.
Player standing · 2017
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
How it ended
Three seasons, at South Florida and Western Kentucky, 10,179 passing yards — drafted at #171 overall by the Dallas Cowboys.
A stat line in 38 games over three seasons.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-CONFERENCE USA · 2ND TEAM
All-Conference USA 2nd team (2017)
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
3 coachesPlayed for 3 head coaches at 2 schools: Willie Taggart, Jeff Brohm and Mike Sanford Jr..
Next stop · NFL
Dallas CowboysEntering 9th NFL season
Dallas CowboysEntering 9th NFL season
