Phillip Walker: QB · Temple · #8.
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Phillip Walker
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Third year in the Temple quarterback room. On tape: 445 passing yards and 30 rushing yards against Memphis, Week 6, 2016.
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
58.8% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 28.2% conversion-per-dropback — 50.0% 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. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
2 of the team's 29 inside-the-5 carries (6.9%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2016 season · 14 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 13-28vs Army | 12/26 | 168 | 0 | 3 | 6.5 | 7.2 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 2 | W 38-0vs Stony Brook | 11/23 | 124 | 3 | 1 | 5.4 | 51.5 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | L 27-34@ Penn State | 25/34 | 286 | 0 | 1 | 8.4 | 67.9 | |
| Wk 4 | W 48-20vs Charlotte | 15/26 | 268 | 2 | 0 | 10.3 | 82.8 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 5 | W 45-20vs SMU | 7/18 | 124 | 1 | 2 | 6.9 | 23.3 | |
| Wk 6 | L 27-34@ Memphis | 36/59 | 445 | 2 | 2 | 7.5 | 52.1 | Season-high 445 yds |
| Wk 7 | W 26-25@ UCF | 12/24 | 167 | 2 | 1 | 7.0 | 16.3 | |
| Wk 8 | W 46-30vs South Florida | 14/21 | 209 | 1 | 0 | 10.0 | 64.5 | |
| Wk 9 | W 34-13vs Cincinnati | 12/19 | 199 | 2 | 0 | 10.5 | 84.6 | |
| Wk 10 | W 21-0@ UConn | 12/18 | 215 | 3 | 2 | 11.9 | 90.0 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | W 31-0@ Tulane | 18/33 | 337 | 2 | 0 | 10.2 | 89.2 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 13 | W 37-10vs East Carolina | 12/20 | 158 | 0 | 0 | 7.9 | 86.7 | |
| Wk 14 | W 34-10@ No. 20 Navy | 16/25 | 199 | 2 | 0 | 8.0 | 88.4 | |
 Bowl | L 26-34vs Wake Forest | 28/49 | 396 | 2 | 1 | 8.1 | 45.9 | |
| Total | 230/395 | 3295 | 22 | 13 | 8.3 | — |
Week 6 · 2016
L 27-34
at Memphis
445 yds · 2 TD · 2 INT · QBR 52.1 · 30 rush yds (10 car)
With J. Thomas — 6 rec · 121 yds · 2 TD · 37 rush yds (13 car) · A. Starzyk — 32 yards per punt · 5 punts · 37 long
The plays that mattered most
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 393 passing plays (228 completions) against the box score's 395 attempts (230 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.9957 of 193 QBsSack rate
6.6%121 of 193 QBsSacked on 6.6% of dropbacks (121 of 193) — and still 57 of 193 in Adjusted ANY/A.
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 58.2% completion on 395 attempts · 54 deep completions averaging 31.4 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2016 baseline
No situation moves him more than 37 percentile points from his baseline.
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.
3 seasons under Matt Rhule — 26-14 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 14 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 179 | 1.3 | 8.2 | 0.9 |
| Road6g | 275 | 1.8 | 8.8 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 247 | 1.5 | 7.5 | 1.4 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 220 | 1.7 | 9.8 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Matt Rhule
Pass share
41.3%
403 pass / 572 run
Plays / game
69.6
14 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2016
395 pass attempts and 65 carries in 14 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Temple, 8,585 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Matt Rhule.
