N'Kosi Perry

Senior quarterback for Florida Atlantic. 2022: 2,701 passing yards, 25 TD, 5 INT.

QB · Florida Atlantic · Sr. · #7

6′4″ · 198 lb · Ocala, FL

CFB Index 60 · #43 of 140 QBsHigh confidenceFlorida Atlantic 2022 alumnus

The story

4 quarterback for Florida Atlantic. 2022: 2,701 passing yards, 25 TD, 5 INT.

Transferred from Miami to Florida Atlantic in 2021.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Five seasons at Florida Atlantic, 7,956 passing yards — his college career is complete.

His career

Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.

202112 games

Entered the portal

Career arc

Recruit

—

No recruit profile

CFB

College

2 teams

2018–2022

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Coaching lineage · 2018–2022

2 coaches

2018–2019

Lane Kiffin

Florida Atlantic

2020–2022

Willie Taggart

Florida Atlantic

era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Lane Kiffin → Willie Taggart. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

2022 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2018Miami7-6HC: Mark Richt · Run-leaning

2019Miami6-7HC: Manny Diaz · Balanced

2020Miami8-3HC: Manny Diaz · Balanced, fast tempo

2021Florida Atlantic5-7HC: Willie Taggart · Balanced, slow tempo

2022Florida Atlantic5-7HC: Willie Taggart · Run-leaning

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

60Quality starter #43 of 140?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: explosive rate (95th percentile). Strength: epa / dropback (94th percentile). Concern: fumbles lost (0th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Explosive rate#9 / 169 · 95th pct

15.0%

EPA / dropback#11 / 169 · 94th pct

0.45

Success rate#21 / 169 · 88th pct

51.9%

Interception rate#37 / 169 · 78th pct

1.4%

Sack rate#46 / 169 · 73rd pct

4.2%

Box-score rates (8)

Pass TDs#25 / 177 · 85th pct

Rush TDs#30 / 177 · 80th pct

Pass yards#53 / 177 · 70th pct

2701

Rush yards#55 / 177 · 69th pct

244

Interceptions#52 / 177 · 65th pct

Yards / att#84 / 177 · 51st pct

7.3

Completion %#119 / 177 · 33rd pct

58.1%

Fumbles lost#169 / 169 · 0th pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

66th → 94th percentile

Success rate

73rd → 88th percentile

Explosive rate

85th → 95th percentile

Sack rate

13th → 73rd percentile

Interception rate

58th → 78th percentile

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season. Most bars are box-score rates; EPA / success-rate bars are computed from real play-by-play (offense only — no defensive EPA model exists yet).

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2022 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home6g	203	1.8	7.2	0.3
Road6g	247	2.3	7.4	0.5

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-77g	234	2.3	7.3	0.7
Weeks 8+5g	213	1.8	7.4	0.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Zach Kittley

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2022

Impact starter

Producing measurably more than a replacement-level starter.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

60 · #43 of 140 QBs

Career stats

Season	Team
2022	Florida Atlantic	215	370	58.1%	2,701	7.3	25	5	139.0	47	--	--
2021	Florida Atlantic	210	345	60.9%	2,771	8.0	20	7	143.4	44	--	--
2020	Miami	26	47	55.3%	348	7.4	3	1	134.3	--	--	--
2019	Miami	85	159	53.5%	1,045	6.6	8	3	121.5	--	--	--
2018	Miami	97	191	50.8%	1,091	5.7	13	6	114.9	--	--	--
Career		633	1,112	56.9%	7,956	7.2	69	22	133.5	46	--	--

Season	Team
2022	Florida Atlantic	91	244	2.7	6	--
2021	Florida Atlantic	107	149	1.4	4	--
2020	Miami	11	12	1.1	0	--
2019	Miami	38	44	1.2	2	--
2018	Miami	61	169	2.8	1	--
Career		308	618	2.0	13	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2022

W 42–9

vs SE Louisiana

259 yds · 3 TD · 2 INT · QBR 37.4 · 14 rush yds (4 car) · 1 TD

Dominant 33-point win at home against SE Louisiana.

With Z. Mobley — 146 rush yds (20 car) · 1 TD · L. Wester — 2 rush yds (1 car)

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 12 · Middle Tennessee · 3&14 · Q3 · EPA +5.98N'Kosi Perry pass complete to Jahmal Edrine for 45 yds for a TD, (Carter Davis KICK)
Week 2 · SE Louisiana · 2&15 · Q4 · EPA +4.82LaJohntay Wester 42 Yd pass from N'Kosi Perry (Morgan Suarez Kick)
Week 9 · UAB · 4&3 · Q1 · EPA +4.74N.Perry pass complete to UAB 35. Catch made by J.Ford at UAB 35. Gain of 35 yards. J.Ford for 35 yards, TOUCHDOWN.
Week 5 · North Texas · 3&10 · Q2 · EPA +4.58Larry McCammon 35 Yd pass from N'Kosi Perry (Morgan Suarez Kick)
Week 3 · UCF · 1&10 · Q2 · EPA -4.43N'Kosi Perry run for a loss of 1 yard to the UCF 17 N'Kosi Perry fumbled, recovered by UCF Branden Jennings
Week 8 · UTEP · 3&3 · Q2 · EPA -4.38N'Kosi Perry run for a loss of 5 yards to the UTEP 34 N'Kosi Perry fumbled, recovered by UTEP Ty'Reke James fumbled, recovered by FlAtl
Week 12 · Middle Tennessee · 3&8 · Q1 · EPA +3.92N'Kosi Perry pass complete to Je'Quan Burton for 43 yds to the MTnSt 3 for a 1ST down
Week 12 · Middle Tennessee · 3&14 · Q3 · EPA +3.83N'Kosi Perry pass complete to LaJohntay Wester for 31 yds to the MTnSt 1 for a 1ST down
Week 1 · Ohio · 2&11 · Q3 · EPA +3.74N'Kosi Perry pass complete to Tony Johnson for 37 yds to the Ohio 39 for a 1ST down
Week 12 · Middle Tennessee · 2&10 · Q3 · EPA +3.68N'Kosi Perry pass complete to Jahmal Edrine for 37 yds to the MTnSt 39 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2022 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 43-13vs Charlotte	16/22	256	1	0	11.6	63.0	Season-high 364 yds
Wk 1	L 38-41@ Ohio	24/42	364	5	0	8.7	61.8	Season-high 364 yds
Wk 2	W 42-9vs SE Louisiana	18/30	259	3	2	8.6	37.4	3 TD passes
Wk 3	L 14-40vs UCF	13/29	108	1	0	3.7	33.7
Wk 4	L 26-28@ Purdue	18/30	230	3	1	7.7	78.4	3 TD passes
Wk 5	L 28-45@ North Texas	26/50	295	2	2	5.9	36.2
Wk 7	W 17-14vs Rice	14/26	126	1	0	4.8	26.2
Wk 8	L 21-24@ UTEP	12/20	164	1	0	8.2	4.5
Wk 9	W 24-17vs UAB	14/25	187	3	0	7.5	84.1	3 TD passes
Wk 11	W 52-7@ Florida International	14/21	104	2	0	5.0	50.4
Wk 12	L 21-49@ Middle Tennessee	19/36	325	1	0	9.0	48.9
Wk 13	L 31-32vs Western Kentucky	27/39	283	2	0	7.3	60.9	Clean 2-TD game
Total		215/370	2701	25	5	7.3	48.8

How he plays

Play style

Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

65.5%Completion %

43.8%Conversion/dropback

26.3%Land short of sticks

0INTs

65.5% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 43.8% conversion-per-dropback — 26.3% 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