Senior quarterback for Northwestern. 2020: 1,742 passing yards, 12 TD, 8 INT.
216 lb · Cincinnati, OH
The story
4 quarterback for Northwestern. 2020: 1,742 passing yards, 12 TD, 8 INT.
The record fills in as he plays.
His career, year by yearPeyton Ramsey
Across four seasons and two programs, two head coaches: Tom Allen and Pat Fitzgerald. His first career honor landed in 2020: All-Big Ten. The receipt on tape: 224 pass yds, 44 rush yds against Ohio State, Week 16, 2020.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at Northwestern, 8,318 passing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.
Career arc
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-BIG TEN
All-Big Ten mention (2020)
Coaching lineage · 2017–2020
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Pat Fitzgerald.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score percentiles
Concern: yards / att (17th percentile).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
5.38123 of 171 QBsSack rate
4.1%33 of 171 QBsRarely sacked (33 of 171), but Adjusted ANY/A hasn't followed (123 of 171).
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 60.9% completion on 281 attempts · 18 deep completions averaging 24.3 yds.
Splits · Per-game
2020 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 166 | 1.5 | 6.2 | 0.5 |
| Road4g | 196 | 0.8 | 6.1 | 1.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 8+8g | 181 | 1.1 | 6.2 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
David Braun
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 1 game in so far.
Player standing · 2020
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
| Season | Team | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Northwestern | 171 | 281 | 60.9% | 1,742 | 6.2 | 12 | 8 | 121.3 | 43 | -- | -- |
| 2019 | Indiana | 204 | 300 | 68.0% | 2,454 | 8.2 | 13 | 5 | 147.7 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2018 | Indiana | 294 | 446 | 65.9% | 2,870 | 6.4 | 19 | 13 | 128.2 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2017 | Indiana | 134 | 205 | 65.4% | 1,252 | 6.1 | 10 | 5 | 127.9 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 803 | 1,232 | 65.2% | 8,318 | 6.8 | 54 | 31 | 131.3 | 43 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Northwestern | 83 | 263 | 3.2 | 3 | -- |
| 2019 | Indiana | 97 | 252 | 2.6 | 7 | -- |
| 2018 | Indiana | 111 | 354 | 3.2 | 5 | -- |
| 2017 | Indiana | 92 | 226 | 2.5 | 2 | -- |
| Career | 383 | 1,095 | 2.9 | 17 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 12 · 2020
W 17–7
vs Wisconsin
203 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · 6 rush yds (7 car)
With D. Adams — 37 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 48 LONG · K. McGowan — 7 rec · 80 yds
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2020 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 8 | W 43-3vs Maryland | 23/30 | 212 | 1 | 0 | 7.1 | — | |
| Wk 9 | W 21-20@ Iowa | 11/18 | 130 | 0 | 1 | 7.2 | — | |
| Wk 10 | W 21-13vs Nebraska | 16/27 | 169 | 2 | 2 | 6.3 | — | |
| Wk 11 | W 27-20@ Purdue | 23/36 | 212 | 3 | 1 | 5.9 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | W 17-7vs Wisconsin | 23/44 | 203 | 2 | 0 | 4.6 | — | |
| Wk 13 | L 20-29@ Michigan State | 20/42 | 219 | 0 | 2 | 5.2 | — | |
| Wk 15 | W 28-10vs Illinois | 7/12 | 82 | 1 | 0 | 6.8 | — | |
| Wk 16 | L 10-22@ Ohio State | 24/37 | 224 | 0 | 2 | 6.1 | — | Season-high 224 yds |
| Total | 147/246 | 1451 | 9 | 8 | 6.2 | — |
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
48.7% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 34.1% conversion-per-dropback — 26.3% 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
Final Heisman position · 2020
Peyton Ramsey finished 51st in our Heisman model, with a 0% chance of a finalist trip.