Senior quarterback for Pittsburgh. 2023: 818 passing yards, 6 TD, 3 INT.
6′5″ · 235 lb · Pittsburgh, PA
CFB Index
A single number blending on-field production (an EPA-based value lane) with box-score output for this player's position.
0-100, scaled within each position's own cohort — not directly comparable across positions.
Recruiting
DUAL recruit
No. 83 nationally · Signed with Notre Dame
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 quarterback for Pittsburgh. 2023: 818 passing yards, 6 TD, 3 INT.
Phil Jurkovec
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Phil Jurkovec has played for three head coaches across six seasons and three programs. 2021 brought the first one: ACC Quarterback Player of the Week. The receipt on tape: 235 pass yds, 2 pass TD against Virginia Tech, Week 5, 2023.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Six seasons at Pittsburgh, 6,214 passing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
He arrived as a blue-chip recruit and played like one.
The role got bigger.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2018–2023
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Pat Narduzzi.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: interceptions (85th percentile). Concern: interception rate (3rd percentile).
Real play-by-play efficiency
Season trend
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).
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
5.56138 of 212 QBsSack rate
9.7%188 of 212 QBsSacked on 9.7% of dropbacks (188 of 212) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (138 of 212).
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 49.5% completion on 109 attempts · 14 deep completions averaging 31.9 yds.
Splits · Per-game
2023 season · 6 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 126 | 1.0 | 7.4 | 0.0 |
| Road2g | 158 | 1.0 | 7.4 | 1.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 164 | 1.2 | 7.4 | 0.6 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Pat Narduzzi
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2023
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Pittsburgh | 57 | 112 | 50.9% | 818 | 7.3 | 6 | 3 | 124.6 | 27 | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Boston College | 147 | 247 | 59.5% | 1,711 | 6.9 | 11 | 8 | 125.9 | 34 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Boston College | 52 | 96 | 54.2% | 914 | 9.5 | 7 | 4 | 149.9 | 50 | -- | -- |
| 2020 | Boston College | 205 | 336 | 61.0% | 2,558 | 7.6 | 17 | 5 | 138.7 | 62 | -- | -- |
| 2019 | Notre Dame | 12 | 15 | 80.0% | 222 | 14.8 | 2 | 0 | 248.3 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2018 | Notre Dame | 1 | 3 | 33.3% | -9 | -3.0 | 0 | 0 | 8.1 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 474 | 809 | 58.6% | 6,214 | 7.7 | 43 | 20 | 135.7 | 47 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Pittsburgh | 39 | 60 | 1.5 | 1 | -- |
| 2022 | Boston College | 68 | -34 | -0.5 | 1 | -- |
| 2021 | Boston College | 50 | 322 | 6.4 | 5 | -- |
| 2020 | Boston College | 77 | 150 | 1.9 | 3 | -- |
| 2019 | Notre Dame | 22 | 130 | 5.9 | 0 | -- |
| 2018 | Notre Dame | 3 | -1 | -0.3 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 259 | 627 | 2.4 | 10 | -- |
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 6 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 45-7vs Wofford | 17/23 | 214 | 1 | 0 | 9.3 | 73.6 | |
| Wk 2 | L 21-27vs Cincinnati | 10/32 | 179 | 3 | 0 | 5.6 | 42.3 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | L 6-17@ West Virginia | 8/20 | 81 | 0 | 3 | 4.1 | 10.3 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 4 | L 24-41vs North Carolina | 11/15 | 109 | 0 | 0 | 7.3 | 69.6 | |
| Wk 5 | L 21-38@ Virginia Tech | 11/22 | 235 | 2 | 0 | 10.7 | 27.3 | Season-high 235 yds |
| Wk 10 | L 7-24vs Florida State | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 57/112 | 818 | 6 | 3 | 7.4 | 44.6 |
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
CFB Index positional classification
Player DNA
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
His 2023 production profile sits closest to Kai Horton’s 2023 season.
Matches Kai on
Differs from Kai on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
Player DNA