Quinton Flowers: QB · South Florida · #9.
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Quinton Flowers
Extends plays on the move until something opens up. Played for two head coaches in four seasons at South Florida. On tape: 503 passing yards and 102 rushing yards against UCF, Week 13, 2017.
Play style
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
37.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 24.1% conversion-per-dropback — 30.0% 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
7 of the team's 33 inside-the-5 carries (21.2%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | South Florida | 188 | 354 | 53.1% | 2,911 | 8.2 | 25 | 6 | 142.1 | 36 |
| 2016 | South Florida | 207 | 331 | 62.5% | 2,812 | 8.5 | 24 | 7 | 153.6 | 52 |
| 2015 | South Florida | 163 | 276 | 59.1% | 2,296 | 8.3 | 22 | 8 | 149.4 | 46 |
| 2014 | South Florida | 8 | 20 | 40.0% | 111 | 5.5 | 0 | 2 | 66.6 | -- |
| Career | 566 | 981 | 57.7% | 8,130 | 8.3 | 71 | 23 | 146.5 | 44 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | South Florida | 196 | 1,078 | 5.5 | 11 | 44 |
| 2016 | South Florida | 198 | 1,530 | 7.7 | 18 | 63 |
| 2015 | South Florida | 191 | 991 | 5.2 | 12 | 71 |
| 2014 | South Florida | 14 | 66 | 4.7 | 0 | 22 |
| Career | 599 | 3,665 | 6.1 | 41 | 71 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2017 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 42-22@ San José State | 11/22 | 212 | 2 | 0 | 9.6 | 73.5 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 1 | W 31-17vs Stony Brook | 19/32 | 186 | 2 | 1 | 5.8 | 41.7 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | W 47-23vs Illinois | 15/27 | 280 | 4 | 1 | 10.4 | 68.5 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | W 43-7vs Temple | 8/20 | 96 | 0 | 0 | 4.8 | 23.4 | |
| Wk 5 | W 61-31@ East Carolina | 10/18 | 160 | 2 | 0 | 8.9 | 97.1 | |
| Wk 7 | W 33-3vs Cincinnati | 16/29 | 184 | 0 | 0 | 6.3 | 62.1 | |
| Wk 8 | W 34-28@ Tulane | 10/24 | 127 | 2 | 1 | 5.3 | 94.5 | |
| Wk 9 | L 24-28vs Houston | 23/38 | 325 | 0 | 0 | 8.6 | 47.5 | |
| Wk 10 | W 37-20@ UConn | 24/37 | 385 | 3 | 1 | 10.4 | 95.3 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | W 27-20vs Tulsa | 11/28 | 142 | 2 | 1 | 5.1 | 48.4 | |
| Wk 13 | L 42-49@ No. 13 UCF | 24/45 | 503 | 4 | 1 | 11.2 | 83.8 | Season-high 503 yds |
 Bowl | W 38-34vs Texas Tech | 17/34 | 311 | 4 | 0 | 9.1 | 89.8 | |
| Total | 188/354 | 2911 | 25 | 6 | 8.2 | — |
Week 13 · 2017
L 42-49
at UCF
503 yds · 4 TD · 1 INT · QBR 83.8 · 102 rush yds (20 car) · 1 TD
With J. Hernandez — 48.8 yards per punt · 6 punts · 59 long · T. McCants — 9 rec · 227 yds · 1 TD
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 345 passing plays (180 completions) against the box score's 354 attempts (188 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
8.1926 of 205 QBsSack rate
4.6%61 of 205 QBsRarely sacked (61 of 205 QBs) and still 26 of 205 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 53.1% completion on 354 attempts · 47 deep completions averaging 33.5 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2017 baseline
No situation moves him more than 36 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.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 202 | 1.3 | 6.8 | 0.5 |
| Road5g | 277 | 2.6 | 9.1 | 0.6 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 204 | 2.0 | 7.8 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 296 | 2.2 | 8.1 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Charlie Strong
Pass share
36.9%
366 pass / 626 run
Plays / game
82.7
12 games
Scheme: Run-heavy, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2017
354 pass attempts and 196 carries in 12 games, more passes and runs a game than nearly every FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Four seasons at South Florida, 8,130 passing yards — the college career is complete.
A stat line in 43 games over four seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Willie Taggart → Charlie Strong. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
