Quez Johnson

#32 · QB · Florida Atlantic6′1″ · Starkville, MS

Quez Johnson: QB · Florida Atlantic · #32.

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Quez Johnson

QB · Florida Atlantic · #32

Operates within the system without forcing anything. Second year in the same quarterback room at Florida Atlantic. One game to point at: 263 passing yards and 97 rushing yards against Tulsa — Week 1, 2015.

Style of play

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

52.6%Completion %

22.5%Conversion/dropback

55.0%Land short of sticks

2INTs

52.6% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 22.5% conversion-per-dropback — 55.0% 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

8/103rd/4th & short

3/27Inside-5 share

8 of 10 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (80.0%). 3 of the team's 27 inside-the-5 carries (11.1%).

Fans

No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.

Florida Atlantic in the news

Kittley makes abrupt coaching changeOct 27
FAU announces depth chartThe Roost Oct 20

Where to follow

Career stats

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Season	Team
2015	Florida Atlantic	129	239	54.0%	1,592	6.7	9	7	116.5	27
2014	Florida Atlantic	182	315	57.8%	2,215	7.0	17	5	131.5	52
Career		311	554	56.1%	3,807	6.9	26	12	125.0	39

Season	Team
2015	Florida Atlantic	101	286	2.8	2	20
2014	Florida Atlantic	120	513	4.3	7	40
Career		221	799	3.6	9	40

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2015 season · 10 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	L 44-47@ Tulsa	23/34	263	2	0	7.7	73.6	Season-high 263 yds
Wk 2	L 20-44vs Miami	2/4	11	0	0	2.8	17.7
Wk 4	W 17-7@ Charlotte	14/25	144	0	2	5.8	12.3
Wk 6	L 26-27vs Rice	15/29	249	2	0	8.6	52.6
Wk 8	L 17-27@ UTEP	14/22	219	0	1	10.0	43.7
Wk 9	W 31-17vs Florida International	10/19	113	0	0	5.9	71.9
Wk 10	L 19-35@ Western Kentucky	12/28	143	2	0	5.1	60.0
Wk 11	L 17-24vs Middle Tennessee	12/25	214	2	1	8.6	39.2
Wk 12	L 14-20@ No. 8 Florida	17/33	148	1	1	4.5	10.6
Wk 13	W 33-31@ Old Dominion	10/20	88	0	2	4.4	60.2
Total		129/239	1592	9	7	6.7	—

Signature game

Week 10 · 2015

L 19-35

at Western Kentucky

143 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 60.0 · 36 rush yds (10 car)

With D. Schomp — 64 yards per punt · 1 punts · 64 long · J. Stoshak — 4 rec · 101 yds · 1 TD

Signature plays

The plays that mattered most

Week 4 · Charlotte · 2nd and 4 · Q4 · EPA −7.78Jaquez Johnson pass intercepted for a TD Tank Norman return for 28 yds for a TD, (Blake Brewer KICK)
Week 6 · Rice · 2nd and 7 · Q2 · EPA +7.06Jaquez Johnson pass complete to Kamrin Solomon for 94 yds for a TD, (Greg Joseph KICK)
Week 11 · Middle Tennessee · 2nd and 16 · Q2 · EPA +5.33Jaquez Johnson pass complete to Marcus Clark for 46 yds for a TD, (Greg Joseph KICK)
Week 8 · UTEP · 2nd and 8 · Q3 · EPA −4.32Jaquez Johnson pass intercepted Nik Needham return for 27 yds to the UTEP 28
Week 8 · UTEP · 2nd and 9 · Q1 · EPA +4.27Jaquez Johnson pass complete to Kalib Woods for 55 yds to the UTEP 2 for a
Week 11 · Middle Tennessee · 4th and 3 · Q4 · EPA −4.08Jaquez Johnson sacked by TEAM for a loss of 10 yards to the MTnSt 13 Jaquez Johnson fumbled, recovered by FlAtl Jaquez Johnson , return for 0 yards

4 more plays

Week 1 · Tulsa · 2nd and 16 · Q2 · EPA +4.05Jaquez Johnson pass complete to Jenson Stoshak for 45 yds to the Tulsa 18 for a
Week 4 · Charlotte · 1st and 10 · Q1 · EPA −3.46Jaquez Johnson pass intercepted Devin Pearson return for no gain to the Charl 33
Week 12 · Florida · 3rd and 10 · Q3 · EPA +3.37Jaquez Johnson pass complete to Kamrin Solomon for 26 yds to the Fla 49 for a
Week 10 · Western Kentucky · 2nd and 17 · Q1 · EPA +3.32Jaquez Johnson pass complete to Nate Terry for 20 yds to the WKent 45 for a

Passing profile

Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)

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

129/239 (54.0%) · 9 TD · 7 INT

236 of 239 attempts matched to play-by-play

Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 236 passing plays (125 completions) against the box score's 239 attempts (129 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.

Adjusted ANY/A

5.49112 of 198 QBs

Sack rate

6.6%122 of 198 QBs

Sacked on 6.6% of dropbacks (122 of 198) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (112 of 198).

Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.

Short

0–9 yds

52%of completions

65 comp5.0 yds avg1 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

31%of completions

39 comp13.5 yds avg3 TD

Deep

20+ yds

17%of completions

21 comp35.3 yds avg2 TD

Overall 54.0% completion on 239 attempts · 21 deep completions averaging 35.3 yds.

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2015 baseline

No situation moves him more than 34 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-28 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 7/99 (7.1%) · league sack rate 4.8%

Down 2

+34 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 4/72 (5.6%) · league sack rate 5.0%

Down 3+

+4 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 6/81 (7.4%) · league sack rate 8.3%

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

2 seasons under Charlie Partridge, all run-leaning offenses — 6-18 over that span.

2014Florida Atlantic3-9HC: Charlie Partridge · Run-leaning

2015Florida Atlantic3-9HC: Charlie Partridge · Run-leaning

Our ratings

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Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles · 2015 season

12 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: epa / dropback (23rd percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Explosive rate#105 / 176 · 41st pct

8.9%

Interception rate#105 / 176 · 41st pct

3.0%

Sack rate#110 / 176 · 38th pct

6.7%

Success rate#117 / 176 · 34th pct

36.9%

EPA / dropback#136 / 176 · 23rd pct

0.05

Box-score rates (7)

Rush yards#49 / 167 · 71st pct

286

Interceptions#69 / 167 · 53rd pct

Rush TDs#70 / 167 · 50th pct

Pass yards#97 / 167 · 42nd pct

1592

Yards / att#103 / 167 · 36th pct

6.7

Pass TDs#103 / 167 · 36th pct

Completion %#120 / 167 · 28th pct

54.0%

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

76th → 23rd percentile

Success rate

61st → 34th percentile

Explosive rate

37th → 41st percentile

Sack rate

80th → 38th percentile

Interception rate

99th → 41st percentile

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps in 2015. 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

2015 · our own passing-efficiency number, shown next to the 1979 formula it does not replace.

After 252 dropbacks

27Zeitgeist Passer Rating122nd of 137 FBS QBs

NCAA passer rating 116.5 110th of 137 FBS QBs

ZPR ranks this quarterback 12 places lower than passer rating does: the schedule adjustment debits the defenses faced.

Positive-play rate weight 24%

38.7%13th pct of FBS QBs

share of dropbacks that gained expected points · -1.4% schedule adj.

Yards per attempt weight 56%

5.9014th pct of FBS QBs

sacks excluded · -0.6 schedule adj.

Sack rate weight 21% (penalty)

7.3%32nd pct of FBS QBs

the input passer rating cannot see · +0.6% schedule adj.

Opponent-adjusted; garbage time excluded (0 of 252 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

2015 season · 10 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home4g	147	1.0	6.5	0.2
Road6g	168	0.8	6.2	1.0

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-74g	167	1.0	6.2	0.5
Weeks 8+6g	154	0.8	6.4	0.8

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2015 season

Head Coach

Charlie Partridge

Pass share

44.7%

392 pass / 485 run

Plays / game

73.1

12 games

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Awards

Player standing · 2015

Starter

239 pass attempts and 101 carries in 10 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Quez Johnson

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Style of play

Fans

Florida Atlantic in the news

Where to follow

Career stats

Game log

Signature game

Signature plays

Passing profile

Situational

Teams and coaches

Our ratings

Splits

Awards

Starter

Three seasons at Florida Atlantic

Moves

2013