#13

Parker Navarro

Senior quarterback for Ohio. 2025: 2,375 passing yards, 14 TD, 11 INT.

QB · Ohio · Sr. · #13

6′0″ · 205 lb · Phoenix, AZ

CFB Index 59 · #44 of 146 QBsHigh confidenceAll-ConferenceIn transfer portal — destination TBD (from Ohio)

Next upSat Sep 19 · 7 pm ETat South AlabamaHancock Whitney StadiumSouth Alabama by 4.5

The numbers

2,375

passing yards · 2025

14 TD · 11 INT · 7.8 per attempt

Backed by 13 car · 106 yds · 4 TD -- top 1% rushing TDs game.

The play that turned itSwung Ball State from 30% to 93% to win.Ohio at Ball State · 20-14

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 quarterback for Ohio. 2025: 2,375 passing yards, 14 TD, 11 INT.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to UCF in 2020.
Transferred from Ohio to Professional in 2026.

The full story, with sources

How he plays

Extends plays with his feet until something opens up.

Success rate: 86th percentile.

The full scouting read

Parker Navarro

QB · Ohio · Sr · #13

Extends plays with his feet until something opens up. Across five seasons and two programs, three head coaches: Gus Malzahn, Tim Albin and Brian Smith. Two straight seasons of it now: All-MAC again in 2025. The receipt on tape: 315 pass yds, 63 rush yds against Eastern Michigan, Week 9, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
head-coach lineage
recognition record
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

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

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

59Quality starter #44 of 146?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

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 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

185/300 (61.7%) · 14 TD · 11 INT

300 of 303 attempts matched to play-by-play

98 of 300 attempts charted for true throw depth

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 61.7% completion on 300 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% · ~our read

Down 2

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

Down 3+

+10 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 8/80 (10.0%) · 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 · 13 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home7g	189	0.7	7.9	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

2026 season

Head Coach

John Hauser

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

Awards

Player standing · 2025

All-Conference

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

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

59 · #44 of 146 QBs

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

Career stats

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	--
2024	Ohio	160	1,047	6.5	18	--
2023	Ohio	25	178	7.1	0	--
2022	Ohio	9	-4	-0.4	0	--
2021	UCF	7	54	7.7	3	--
Career		362	2,161	6.0	30	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 4 · 2025

W 52–35

vs Gardner-Webb

290 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 70.7 · 72 rush yds (9 car)

Edged out Gardner-Webb at home in a shootout.

With C. Hendricks — 8 rec · 144 yds · 1 TD · D. Brune — 88 rush yds (16 car) · 3 TD

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 3 · Ohio State · 2&2 · Q3 · EPA +5.17Parker Navarro pass complete to Chase Hendricks for 67 yds for a TD (Brack Peacock PAT MISSED)
Week 11 · Miami (OH) · 2&10 · Q4 · EPA +4.86Rodney Harris II 49 Yd pass from Parker Navarro (David Dellenbach Kick)
Week 9 · Eastern Michigan · 1&10 · Q2 · EPA -4.41(01:05) No Huddle-Shotgun #13 P.Navarro pass intercepted by #22 T.Deener at EMU03, End Of Play
Week 1 · UNLV · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA -4.28(12:18) No Huddle-Shotgun #13 P.Navarro pass intercepted by #0 L.Welch at UNLV03, End Of Play
Week 5 · Bowling Green · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA -4.24Parker Navarro run for a loss of 6 yards to the BGSU 45 Parker Navarro fumbled, recovered by BGSU MJ Cannon
Week 2 · West Virginia · 2&7 · Q3 · EPA -4.11Parker Navarro pass intercepted Darrian Lewis return for 31 yds to the OHIO 49
Week 6 · Ball State · 3&15 · Q2 · EPA +4.07Parker Navarro pass complete to Rodney Harris II for 23 yds for a TD (David Dellenbach KICK)
Week 9 · Eastern Michigan · 4&2 · Q2 · EPA -3.79(10:11) No Huddle-Shotgun #13 P.Navarro rush right for 1 yard gain to the EMU14 (#4 J.Salas), TURNOVER ON DOWNS. The previous play is under automatic review - "Short of the line to gain". CALL OVERTURNED. (Original Play: (10:11) No Huddle-Shotgun #13 P.Navarro rush right for 2 yards gain to the EMU13 (#4 J.Salas), 1ST DOWN)
Week 1 · Rutgers · 3&7 · Q2 · EPA +3.56Parker Navarro run for 28 yds to the RUTG 33 for a 1ST down
Week 8 · Northern Illinois · 2&20 · Q2 · EPA +3.55Parker Navarro pass complete to Caleb Gossett for 21 yds to the NIU 43 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD

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@ 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	7.6	57.7

How he plays

Play style

Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

51.4%Completion %

18.6%Conversion/dropback

57.9%Land short of sticks

1INTs

51.4% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 18.6% conversion-per-dropback — 57.9% 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

Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration

Who gets the tough yard

fact

7/103rd/4th & short

6/37Inside-5 share

7 of 10 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (70.0%). 6 of the team's 37 inside-the-5 carries (16.2%).