Nathan Rourke: QB · Ohio · #12.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Nathan Rourke
Extends plays on the move until something opens up. Three seasons in the Ohio quarterback room to date. Named All-MAC two seasons running, most recently in 2019. On tape: 342 passing yards and 79 rushing yards against Kent State, Week 8, 2019.
Play style
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
60.5% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 33.3% conversion-per-dropback — 39.1% 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 27 inside-the-5 carries (22.2%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
Eleven Warriors Oct 27
The Columbus Dispatch Oct 20Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
Game log · Week-by-week
2019 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 41-20vs Rhode Island | 16/22 | 188 | 2 | 0 | 8.5 | 95.5 | |
| Wk 2 | L 10-20@ Pittsburgh | 15/27 | 177 | 0 | 0 | 6.6 | 15.7 | |
| Wk 3 | L 31-33@ Marshall | 15/25 | 215 | 3 | 0 | 8.6 | 93.2 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | L 25-45vs Louisiana | 18/38 | 277 | 1 | 3 | 7.3 | 26.7 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 6 | W 21-20@ Buffalo | 12/19 | 155 | 0 | 1 | 8.2 | 52.0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 36-39vs Northern Illinois | 19/31 | 258 | 2 | 0 | 8.3 | 78.3 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 8 | W 45-38vs Kent State | 19/28 | 342 | 2 | 0 | 12.2 | 94.6 | Season-high 342 yds |
| Wk 9 | W 34-21@ Ball State | 8/16 | 131 | 0 | 1 | 8.2 | 93.8 | |
| Wk 11 | L 21-24vs Miami (OH) | 15/27 | 133 | 1 | 0 | 4.9 | — | |
| Wk 12 | L 34-37vs Western Michigan | 20/29 | 225 | 2 | 0 | 7.8 | — | |
| Wk 13 | W 66-24@ Bowling Green | 14/21 | 267 | 3 | 0 | 12.7 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 14 | W 52-3@ Akron | 20/28 | 308 | 4 | 0 | 11.0 | — | 4 TD passes |
 Bowl | W 30-21vs Nevada | 9/17 | 144 | 0 | 0 | 8.5 | — | |
| Total | 200/328 | 2820 | 20 | 5 | 8.6 | — |
Week 3 · 2019
L 31-33
at Marshall
215 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 93.2 · 118 rush yds (9 car) · 1 TD
With M. Farkas — 37.8 yards per punt · 5 punts · 41 long · J. Buckner — 1 rec · 32 yds
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 326 passing plays (198 completions) against the box score's 328 attempts (200 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
8.1729 of 205 QBsSack rate
6.0%105 of 205 QBsSacked on 6.0% of dropbacks (105 of 205) — and still 29 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 61.0% completion on 328 attempts · 48 deep completions averaging 30.6 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2019 baseline
No situation moves him more than 32 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.
3 seasons under Frank Solich, all run-heavy offenses — 25-14 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2019 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 237 | 1.7 | 8.2 | 0.5 |
| Road6g | 209 | 1.7 | 9.2 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 202 | 1.1 | 8.0 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 234 | 2.0 | 9.5 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Frank Solich
Pass share
39.2%
334 pass / 517 run
Plays / game
65.5
13 games
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2019
First team in his league at the position.
How it ended
Three seasons at Ohio, 7,454 passing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2019) — the college career is complete.
A stat line in 39 games over three seasons.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-MAC · 1ST TEAM
All-MAC 1st team (2019)
Coaching lineage · 2016–2019
1 coachPlayed every college season under Frank Solich.
From Oakville, ON.
