Parker Navarro

#13 · QB · Sr. · Ohio6′0″ · 205 lb · Phoenix, AZ · Desert Vista

Parker Navarro is a quarterback at Ohio who has not played in Ohio's 9 games this season; the last season with a stat line was 2025.

Where Navarro comes from

Phoenix, AZHometown
Desert VistaHigh school
About 1,700 miles from Peden StadiumDistance
Three-star, No. 1,448 in the 2020 class; signed with UCF.Recruiting profile
On the Ohio roster since 2022Roster

Where Navarro fits

The consensus depth chart of May 27 lists Navarro at QB, No. 1.

Ohio lists 8 quarterbacks this season.

Ohio quarterbacks with a game this season

Levi Davis6 games this season
Matt Vezza6 games this season
Nick Poulos6 games this season
Matthew Papas1 game this season

Ohio is 7-2. Next: at Miami (OH), Tue Nov 10.

Similar players

Same class and position

Noah KimEastern Michigan · QB · No. 1245 in the 2020 class
Dexter Williams IITulsa · QB · No. 1081 in the 2020 class
Reese PoffenbargerAkron · QB · No. 1926 in the 2020 class

From Desert Vista

Colby HumphreyWashington State · CB
Nick ThomasToledo · OL
Marlon HauckTulsa · PK
Noah PerezEast Carolina · PK

Also from Phoenix, AZ

Devon DampierUtah · QB
Luke MogaNew Mexico · QB
Ben FinleyAkron · QB
Braylen RooneyKansas · QB

Navarro extends plays on the move until something opens up. The five seasons span two programs and three head coaches: Gus Malzahn, Tim Albin and Brian Smith. That makes two straight seasons on the honors list: All-MAC again in 2025. On tape: 315 passing yards and 63 rushing yards against Eastern Michigan, Week 9, 2025.

Career stats

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Season	Team
2025	Ohio	188	303	62.0%	2,375	7.8	14	11	135.9	59
2024	Ohio	195	295	66.1%	2,423	8.2	13	11	142.2	62
2023	Ohio	18	26	69.2%	185	7.1	3	1	159.4	--
2022	Ohio	5	12	41.7%	43	3.6	0	0	71.8	--
2021	UCF	1	2	50.0%	4	2.0	0	0	66.8	--
Career		407	638	63.8%	5,030	7.9	30	23	138.3	60

Season	Team
2025	Ohio	161	886	5.5	9	44
2024	Ohio	160	1,047	6.5	18	55
2023	Ohio	25	178	7.1	0	52
2022	Ohio	9	−4	−0.4	0	8
2021	UCF	7	54	7.7	3	32
Career		362	2,161	6.0	30	55

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	L 31-34@ Rutgers	21/31	239	3	0	7.7	93.8	3 TD passes
Wk 2	W 17-10vs West Virginia	22/31	247	1	3	8.0	48.3	3 INTs — rough day
Wk 3	L 9-37@ No. 1 Ohio State	6/13	94	1	0	7.2	54.8
Wk 4	W 52-35vs Gardner-Webb	18/27	290	1	0	10.7	70.7
Wk 5	W 35-20vs Bowling Green	17/25	208	2	1	8.3	74.3
Wk 6	L 14-20@ Ball State	16/29	188	1	0	6.5	34.9
Wk 8	W 48-21vs Northern Illinois	17/23	205	0	1	8.9	86.0
Wk 9	W 28-21@ Eastern Michigan	23/28	315	2	2	11.3	50.9	Season-high 315 yds
Wk 11	W 24-20vs Miami (OH)	16/31	201	1	1	6.5	48.6
Wk 12	L 13-17@ Western Michigan	8/19	70	0	1	3.7	33.1
Wk 13	W 42-14vs Massachusetts	3/8	28	0	0	3.5	21.4
Wk 14	W 31-26@ Buffalo	10/23	147	2	1	6.4	78.1
Bowl	W 17-10vs UNLV	11/15	143	0	1	9.5	55.4
Total		188/303	2375	14	11	7.8	—

Highs and lows

Only games with 20 or more plays count for best and lowest.
Best by our grade	at Eastern Michigan	W 28-21 · Graded great · Passing grade only · 315 yds, 2 TD, 2 INT · Rush 17 for 63 · Interceptions cost about 17 points of win chance · Sacked 2
Lowest by our grade	at Western Michigan	L 13-17 · Graded shaky · Passing grade only · Carried by the fourth quarter · 70 yds, 0 TD, 1 INT · Rush 18 for 105, 1 TD · A first-quarter interception took the team's chance of winning from 54% to 26% · Sacked 2
Biggest game	at Ohio State	No. 1 at kickoff · L 9-37 · 94 yds, 1 TD, 0 INT · Rush 5 for 3 · Sacked 1
Costliest play	at Western Michigan	Interception, Q1 12:26 · Win chance 50% to 23%

Passing profile

Pass Profile · True throw depth (charted plays)

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

188/303 (62.0%) · 14 TD · 11 INT

300 of 303 attempts matched to play-by-play

98 of 300 attempts charted for true throw depth

Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 300 passing plays (185 completions) against the box score's 303 attempts (188 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.

Adjusted ANY/A

6.3291 of 206 QBs

Sack rate

6.5%153 of 206 QBs

Sacked on 6.5% of dropbacks (153 of 206) — and still 91 of 206 in Adjusted ANY/A.

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

6% of attempts (6)

83%comp

Air -2.0 · YAC 7.8 avg

Short · 0–9 air yds

55% of attempts (54)

59%comp2 INT

Air 4.4 · YAC 4.4 avg

Middle · 10–19 air yds

20% of attempts (20)

55%comp1 INT

Air 13.7 · YAC 0.7 avg

Deep · 20+ air yds

18% of attempts (18)

33%comp1 INT

Air 33.0 · YAC 2.0 avg

Overall 62.0% completion on 303 attempts · 33% completion on 18 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 11 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-11 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 8/135 (5.9%) · league sack rate 4.2%

Down 2

+7 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 4/104 (3.8%) · league sack rate 4.5%

Down 3+

+10 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 8/80 (10.0%) · league sack rate 7.8%

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.

Teams and coaches

2021UCF9-4HC: Gus Malzahn · Run-leaning

2022Ohio10-4HC: Tim Albin · Balanced

2023Ohio10-3HC: Tim Albin · Run-leaning

2024Ohio11-3HC: Tim Albin · Run-heavy

2025Ohio9-4HC: Brian Smith · Run-heavy

Our ratings

CFB Zeitgeist Score 59 (#44 of 146). Show the ratings

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles · 2025 season

59Quality starter #44 of 146 · 2025?

13 metrics · season cumulative

2025 score: the 2026 sample is not big enough yet. The rows below are 2026 so far. Elite: success rate (86th percentile). Strength: rush yards (95th percentile). Concern: sack rate (29th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Success rate#26 / 183 · 86th pct

45.2%

EPA / dropback#61 / 183 · 67th pct

0.23

Explosive rate#75 / 183 · 59th pct

9.7%

Interception rate#119 / 183 · 35th pct

2.7%

Sack rate#131 / 183 · 29th pct

6.5%

Box-score rates (8)

Rush yards#9 / 183 · 95th pct

886

Rush TDs#21 / 183 · 86th pct

Yards / att#48 / 183 · 73rd pct

7.8

Pass yards#73 / 183 · 60th pct

2375

Pass TDs#77 / 183 · 58th pct

Completion %#99 / 183 · 46th pct

62.0%

Interceptions#162 / 183 · 10th pct

Fumbles lost#168 / 174 · 2nd pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

65th → 67th percentile

Success rate

88th → 86th percentile

Explosive rate

54th → 59th percentile

Sack rate

57th → 29th percentile

Interception rate

24th → 35th percentile

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps in 2025. 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).

Zeitgeist Passer Rating

2025 · our own passing-efficiency number, shown next to the 1979 formula it does not replace.

After 318 dropbacks

59Zeitgeist Passer Rating49th of 142 FBS QBs

NCAA passer rating 135.9 71st of 142 FBS QBs

ZPR ranks this quarterback 22 places higher than passer rating does: positive plays and yards per attempt come at a higher rate than the box line suggests.

Positive-play rate weight 24%

48.4%72nd pct of FBS QBs

share of dropbacks that gained expected points · -1.9% schedule adj.

Yards per attempt weight 56%

7.5469th pct of FBS QBs

sacks excluded · -0.4 schedule adj.

Sack rate weight 21% (penalty)

6.6%32nd pct of FBS QBs

the input passer rating cannot see · +0.3% schedule adj.

Opponent-adjusted; garbage time excluded (3 of 321 dropbacks dropped). 50 = FBS average; the number is pulled toward 50 when the sample is thin. How ZPR is built.

Splits

Home and road splits, scheme and staff

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 13 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home6g	196	0.8	7.6	1.0
Road6g	176	1.5	7.1	0.7

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-77g	201	1.3	8.3	0.7
Weeks 8+6g	161	0.8	6.7	1.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Brian Smith

Pass share

36.6%

311 pass / 539 run

Plays / game

65.4

13 games

Scheme: Run-heavy.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

All-Conference

Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score

59 · #44 of 146 QBs · 2025

Three-star recruit. Now #44 at the position.

Starter

Returning starter at quarterback for a 9-4 Ohio team that went +3 in the portal. The No. 1,448 recruit in the country is starting at quarterback in the Mid-American as a senior.

Parker Navarro

Where Navarro comes from

Where Navarro fits

Ohio quarterbacks with a game this season

Similar players

Same class and position

From Desert Vista

Also from Phoenix, AZ

In the game threads

Where to follow

Career stats

Game log

Highs and lows

Passing profile

Situational

Teams and coaches

Our ratings

Splits

Awards

All-Conference

Starter

Seven seasons, two schools

Moves

2020

2022

2024 13 games

2025 13 games

2026