#11

Nick Vattiato

Senior quarterback for Middle Tennessee. 2025: 2,157 passing yards, 16 TD, 7 INT.

QB · Middle Tennessee · Sr. · #11

6′0″ · 212 lb · Plantation, FL

CFB Index 23 · #137 of 146 QBsHigh confidenceReturning to Middle Tennessee for 2026

The numbers

2,157

passing yards · 2025

16 TD · 7 INT · 6 per attempt

Backed by 456 yds · 3 TD -- top 1% passing yards game.

The play that turned itSwung Middle Tennessee from 21% to 53% to win.Florida International at Middle Tennessee · 56-30

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 quarterback for Middle Tennessee. 2025: 2,157 passing yards, 16 TD, 7 INT.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Middle Tennessee in 2021.

His career, year by year

How he plays

Operates within the system without forcing anything.

Interception rate: 63rd percentile.

The full scouting read

Nick Vattiato

QB · Middle Tennessee · Sr · #11

Operates within the system without forcing anything. Nick Vattiato has played for two head coaches in five seasons at Middle Tennessee. The receipt: 299 pass yds, 2 pass TD against Marshall — Week 4, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
head-coach lineage
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2021Middle Tennessee7-6HC: Rick Stockstill · Balanced, fast tempo

2022Middle Tennessee8-5HC: Rick Stockstill · Balanced

2023Middle Tennessee4-8HC: Rick Stockstill · Balanced

2024Middle Tennessee3-9HC: Derek Mason · Pass-leaning

2025Middle Tennessee3-9HC: Derek Mason · Pass-leaning

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

23Below cohort / limited sample #137 of 146?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: explosive rate (16th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Interception rate#68 / 183 · 63rd pct

1.8%

Success rate#93 / 183 · 49th pct

40.3%

Sack rate#104 / 183 · 43rd pct

5.4%

EPA / dropback#139 / 183 · 24th pct

0.09

Explosive rate#155 / 183 · 16th pct

6.6%

Box-score rates (8)

Fumbles lost#32 / 174 · 66th pct

Pass TDs#63 / 183 · 64th pct

Pass yards#80 / 183 · 57th pct

2157

Interceptions#92 / 183 · 44th pct

Completion %#108 / 183 · 41st pct

61.3%

Rush TDs#101 / 183 · 39th pct

Rush yards#135 / 183 · 27th pct

Yards / att#158 / 183 · 13th pct

6.0

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

41st → 24th percentile

Success rate

49th → 49th percentile

Explosive rate

56th → 16th percentile

Sack rate

44th → 43rd percentile

Interception rate

38th → 63rd 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).

Passing profile

Pass Profile · True throw depth (charted plays)

Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from

196/331 (59.2%) · 16 TD · 7 INT

331 of 357 attempts matched to play-by-play

114 of 331 attempts charted for true throw depth

Adjusted ANY/A

5.45141 of 206 QBs

Sack rate

5.1%110 of 206 QBs

Sacked on 5.1% of dropbacks (110 of 206) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (141 of 206).

Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.

Behind LOS · Negative air yds

12% of attempts (14)

79%comp

Air -2.8 · YAC 8.2 avg

Short · 0–9 air yds

56% of attempts (64)

80%comp1 INT

Air 4.4 · YAC 4.5 avg

Middle · 10–19 air yds

18% of attempts (20)

40%comp

Air 13.2 · YAC 3.2 avg

Deep · 20+ air yds

14% of attempts (16)

6%comp2 INT

Air 29.5 · YAC 20.0 avg

Overall 59.2% completion on 331 attempts · 6% completion on 16 deep attempts (20+ air yds).

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2025 baseline

No situation moves him more than 13 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-13 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 6/138 (4.3%) · league sack rate 4.2% · ~our read

Down 2

+8 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 3/103 (2.9%) · league sack rate 4.5% · ~our read

Down 3+

+10 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 7/93 (7.5%) · league sack rate 7.8% · ~our read

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 & context

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 9 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home5g	229	2.2	6.1	0.6
Road4g	252	1.2	6.2	1.0

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-76g	233	1.3	6.2	0.7
Weeks 8+3g	253	2.7	5.9	1.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Derek Mason

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

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Part-time starter

Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

23 · #137 of 146 QBs

Three-star recruit. Now #137 at the position.

2026 outlook

Outside shot for All-Conference USA

Based on 2025: #15 of 16 Conference USA QBs

How the All-Conference USA estimate is computed

22% estimated, 95% confidence interval 19–25%. Base rate measured from players who finished at a comparable rank in their conference and came back the next season. It is an estimate from a small sample, not a forecast of this player.

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Middle Tennessee	219	357	61.3%	2,157	6.0	16	7	123.0	24	--	--
2024	Middle Tennessee	269	418	64.4%	3,092	7.4	16	10	134.3	50	--	--
2023	Middle Tennessee	286	428	66.8%	3,087	7.2	23	13	139.1	38	--	--
2022	Middle Tennessee	30	46	65.2%	293	6.4	0	1	114.4	29	--	--
2021	Middle Tennessee	115	171	67.3%	1,047	6.1	7	6	125.2	44	--	--
Career		919	1,420	64.7%	9,676	6.8	62	37	131.2	38	--	--

Season	Team
2025	Middle Tennessee	62	20	0.3	2	--
2024	Middle Tennessee	86	77	0.9	1	--
2023	Middle Tennessee	139	402	2.9	2	--
2022	Middle Tennessee	24	13	0.5	0	--
2021	Middle Tennessee	25	27	1.1	0	--
Career		336	539	1.6	5	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 3 · 2025

W 14–13

at Nevada

247 yds · 1 TD · 1 INT · QBR 40.4 · 8 rush yds (13 car) · 1 TD

A wire-to-wire battle — won by 1 on the road.

With A. Logan — 46 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 59 LONG · J. Middlebrook — 67 rush yds (10 car)

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 5 · Kennesaw State · 3&2 · Q2 · EPA -4.46Nicholas Vattiato pass intercepted Five Hamilton return for no gain to the KENN 1
Week 9 · Delaware · 1&10 · Q3 · EPA -4.44No Huddle-Shotgun #11 N.Vattiato pass intercepted by #7 K.Seay at DEL06 broken up by #14 K.Ali #7 K.Seay return 2 yards to the DEL08, out of bounds at DEL08
Week 7 · Missouri State · 1&10 · Q2 · EPA +4.01Cam'ron Lacy 52 Yd pass from Nicholas Vattiato (Jacob Hathaway Kick)
Week 3 · Nevada · 2&12 · Q2 · EPA +3.99Nicholas Vattiato pass complete to Cam'ron Lacy for 42 yds to the NEV 35 for a 1ST down
Week 4 · Marshall · 3&4 · Q2 · EPA +3.97Nicholas Vattiato pass complete to Nahzae Cox for 43 yds to the MRSH 32 for a 1ST down
Week 10 · Jacksonville State · 3&12 · Q3 · EPA +3.79(09:37) No Huddle-Shotgun #11 N.Vattiato pass complete short middle to #82 H.Tipton caught at MTSU34, for 28 yards to the JSU42 (#31 M.Woods; #1 C.Nix), 1ST DOWN
Week 5 · Kennesaw State · 3&14 · Q4 · EPA +3.74Nicholas Vattiato pass complete to Cam'ron Lacy for 27 yds to the KENN 24 for a 1ST down
Week 11 · Florida International · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA +3.69(07:39) No Huddle-Shotgun #11 N.Vattiato pass complete deep middle to #9 J.Middlebrook caught at FIU20, for 48 yards to the FIU00 TOUCHDOWN, clock 07:32, 1ST DOWN #99 J.Hathaway kick attempt good (H: #32 A.Logan, LS: #41 M.Stone)
Week 2 · Wisconsin · 3&10 · Q1 · EPA +3.47Nicholas Vattiato pass complete to Nahzae Cox for 37 yds to the WIS 4 for a 1ST down
Week 2 · Wisconsin · 2&9 · Q1 · EPA +3.25Nicholas Vattiato pass complete to Nahzae Cox for 31 yds to the WIS 35 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 9 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	L 14-34vs Austin Peay	15/36	104	2	0	2.9	3.6
Wk 2	L 10-42@ Wisconsin	20/31	197	1	1	6.4	69.9
Wk 3	W 14-13@ Nevada	27/44	247	1	1	5.6	40.4
Wk 4	L 28-42vs Marshall	19/32	299	2	1	9.3	35.7	Season-high 299 yds
Wk 5	L 16-24@ Kennesaw State	28/42	285	0	1	6.8	17.8
Wk 7	L 20-22vs Missouri State	30/42	267	2	0	6.4	35.1	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 9	L 28-31@ Delaware	31/48	281	3	1	5.9	41.4	3 TD passes
Wk 10	L 21-24vs Jacksonville State	23/45	235	2	1	5.2	31.2
Wk 11	L 30-56vs Florida International	26/37	242	3	1	6.5	50.6	3 TD passes
Total		219/357	2157	16	7	6.1	36.2

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

50.0%Completion %

20.5%Conversion/dropback

55.6%Land short of sticks

1INTs

50.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 20.5% conversion-per-dropback — 55.6% 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. ~ our read: checkdown by design

2026 Outlook

Middle Tennessee

Preseason read · May 27

2026 Depth chart

Returning starter

Quarterback · Middle Tennessee

Returning around him