Rakeem Cato: QB · Marshall · #12.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Rakeem Cato
Runs when the pocket breaks down. First career honor, 2014: All-Conference USA. One game to point at: 425 passing yards and 19 rushing yards against Ohio — Week 3, 2014.
Play style
Dangerous with both arm and legs — defenses can't just pin the ears back.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
48.7% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 26.1% conversion-per-dropback — 36.8% 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
5 of the team's 25 inside-the-5 carries (20.0%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Marshall | 267 | 451 | 59.2% | 3,903 | 8.7 | 40 | 13 | 155.4 | 75 |
| Career | 267 | 451 | 59.2% | 3,903 | 8.7 | 40 | 13 | 155.4 | 75 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Marshall | 94 | 482 | 5.1 | 8 | 63 |
| Career | 94 | 482 | 5.1 | 8 | 63 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2014 season · 14 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 42-27@ Miami (OH) | 20/32 | 261 | 3 | 0 | 8.2 | 67.4 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 48-7vs Rhode Island | 15/29 | 267 | 2 | 0 | 9.2 | 78.2 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 3 | W 44-14vs Ohio | 17/29 | 425 | 4 | 1 | 14.7 | 95.1 | Season-high 425 yds |
| Wk 4 | W 48-17@ Akron | 17/31 | 210 | 1 | 1 | 6.8 | 77.5 | |
| Wk 6 | W 56-14@ Old Dominion | 18/23 | 198 | 2 | 2 | 8.6 | 81.7 | |
| Wk 7 | W 49-24vs Middle Tennessee | 17/33 | 337 | 3 | 1 | 10.2 | 79.1 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | W 45-13@ Florida International | 15/27 | 214 | 4 | 1 | 7.9 | 78.9 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 9 | W 35-16vs Florida Atlantic | 13/24 | 218 | 1 | 0 | 9.1 | 75.8 | |
| Wk 11 | W 63-17@ Southern Miss | 13/19 | 186 | 2 | 0 | 9.8 | 97.2 | |
| Wk 12 | W 41-14vs Rice | 23/37 | 297 | 4 | 1 | 8.0 | 77.4 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 13 | W 23-18@ UAB | 20/38 | 284 | 2 | 1 | 7.5 | 74.2 | |
| Wk 14 | L 66-67vs Western Kentucky | 29/46 | 417 | 7 | 4 | 9.1 | 70.5 | 7 TD passes · 4 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 15 | W 26-23vs Louisiana Tech | 25/46 | 308 | 2 | 1 | 6.7 | 45.2 | |
 Bowl | W 52-23vs Northern Illinois | 25/37 | 281 | 3 | 0 | 7.6 | 86.7 | |
| Total | 267/451 | 3903 | 40 | 13 | 8.7 | — |
Bowl · 2014
W 52-23
vs Northern Illinois · neutral site
281 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 86.7 · 25 rush yds (10 car) · 2 TD
Dominant 29-point win at a neutral site against Northern Illinois.
With T. Shuler — 18 rec · 185 yds · 1 TD · D. Johnson — 131 rush yds (15 car) · 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 428 passing plays (250 completions) against the box score's 451 attempts (267 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
8.5315 of 181 QBsSack rate
4.2%51 of 181 QBsRarely sacked (51 of 181 QBs) and still 15 of 181 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 59.2% completion on 451 attempts · 63 deep completions averaging 31.3 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2014 baseline
No situation moves him more than 51 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
2014 season · 14 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 324 | 3.3 | 9.6 | 1.1 |
| Road6g | 226 | 2.3 | 8.1 | 0.8 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 283 | 2.6 | 9.3 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+7g | 275 | 3.1 | 8.3 | 1.1 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Doc Holliday
Pass share
46.3%
472 pass / 548 run
Plays / game
72.9
14 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2014
First team in his league at the position.
How it ended
One season at Marshall, 3,903 passing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2014) — the college career is complete.
Honored in a first season.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-CONFERENCE USA · 1ST TEAM
All-Conference USA 1st team (2014)
Coaching lineage · 2011–2014
1 coachPlayed every college season under Doc Holliday.
