Nate Sudfeld: QB · Indiana · #7.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Nate Sudfeld
Pushes it downfield on every look. Second year in the same quarterback room at Indiana. Another came in 2022: Big Ten Dungy–Thompson Humanitarian Award. A game that shows it: 464 passing yards and 4 passing TD against Rutgers — Week 7, 2015.
Play style
Elite arm talent, pushing downfield. Completion rate is the variable.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
54.8% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 27.3% conversion-per-dropback — 47.8% 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 34 inside-the-5 carries (17.6%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
The Daily Hoosier Oct 28
The Herald-Times Oct 21
USA Today Oct 17Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
Game log · Week-by-week
2015 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 48-47vs Southern Illinois | 19/32 | 349 | 1 | 0 | 10.9 | 85.9 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 36-22vs Florida International | 19/33 | 234 | 1 | 1 | 7.1 | 64.2 | |
| Wk 3 | W 38-35vs Western Kentucky | 20/27 | 355 | 3 | 0 | 13.1 | 80.7 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | W 31-24@ Wake Forest | 19/34 | 205 | 2 | 0 | 6.0 | 51.2 | |
| Wk 5 | L 27-34vs No. 1 Ohio State | 10/21 | 134 | 0 | 0 | 6.4 | 46.2 | |
| Wk 7 | L 52-55vs Rutgers | 32/42 | 464 | 4 | 2 | 11.0 | 90.3 | Season-high 464 yds |
| Wk 8 | L 26-52@ No. 7 Michigan State | 23/37 | 308 | 3 | 1 | 8.3 | 73.4 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 10 | L 27-35vs No. 10 Iowa | 16/37 | 180 | 1 | 1 | 4.9 | 35.4 | |
| Wk 11 | L 41-48vs No. 15 Michigan | 20/34 | 220 | 1 | 0 | 6.5 | 37.7 | |
| Wk 12 | W 47-28@ Maryland | 23/35 | 385 | 4 | 0 | 11.0 | 90.5 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 13 | W 54-36@ Purdue | 18/29 | 350 | 4 | 0 | 12.1 | 96.7 | 4 TD passes |
 Bowl | L 41-44vs Duke | 28/51 | 389 | 3 | 2 | 7.6 | 62.9 | |
| Total | 247/412 | 3573 | 27 | 7 | 8.7 | — |
Week 12 · 2015
W 47-28
at Maryland
385 yds · 4 TD · 0 INT · QBR 90.5
Edged out Maryland on the road in a shootout.
With S. Cobbs Jr. — 9 rec · 192 yds · E. Toth — 39.5 yards per punt · 4 punts · 52 long
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 395 passing plays (236 completions) against the box score's 412 attempts (247 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
8.9311 of 198 QBsSack rate
2.1%14 of 198 QBsRarely sacked (14 of 198 QBs) and still 11 of 198 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 60.0% completion on 412 attempts · 54 deep completions averaging 32.2 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2015 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.
2 seasons under Kevin Wilson — 10-15 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2015 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 277 | 1.6 | 8.6 | 0.6 |
| Road4g | 312 | 3.2 | 9.3 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 304 | 2.0 | 8.9 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 289 | 2.6 | 8.6 | 0.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Kevin Wilson
Pass share
44.4%
461 pass / 577 run
Plays / game
79.8
13 games
Scheme: Run-leaning, fast tempo.
How it ended
Two seasons at Indiana, 4,724 passing yards — drafted at #187 overall by the Washington Redskins.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-BIG TEN
All-Big Ten mention (2015)
Coaching lineage · 2012–2015
1 coachPlayed every college season under Kevin Wilson.
Next stop · NFL
Washington RedskinsEntering 11th NFL season
Washington RedskinsEntering 11th NFL season
