Rex Culpepper: QB · Syracuse · #17.
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Rex Culpepper
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Three seasons in the Syracuse quarterback room to date. One game to point at: 254 passing yards and 2 passing TD against NC State — Week 13, 2020.
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
48.6% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 17.5% conversion-per-dropback — 58.8% 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
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2020 season · 9 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | L 6-31@ North Carolina | 3/7 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 3.1 | — | |
| Wk 3 | L 10-21@ No. 25 Pittsburgh | 4/9 | 88 | 1 | 0 | 9.8 | — | |
| Wk 6 | L 24-38vs Duke | 1/3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | — | |
| Wk 7 | L 21-38vs Liberty | 19/40 | 211 | 3 | 1 | 5.3 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | L 21-47@ No. 1 Clemson | 10/26 | 175 | 1 | 3 | 6.7 | — | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 9 | L 14-38vs Wake Forest | 15/27 | 85 | 1 | 2 | 3.1 | — | |
| Wk 12 | L 0-30@ Louisville | 1/4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1.3 | — | |
| Wk 13 | L 29-36vs NC State | 23/45 | 254 | 2 | 0 | 5.6 | — | Season-high 254 yds |
| Wk 14 | L 21-45@ No. 2 Notre Dame | 18/29 | 185 | 1 | 1 | 6.4 | — | |
| Total | 94/190 | 1028 | 9 | 8 | 5.4 | — |
Week 7 · 2020
L 21-38
vs Liberty
211 yds · 3 TD · 1 INT
With N. Joseph Cooney — 46.5 yards per punt · 6 punts · 6 inside the 20 · N. Johnson — 2 rec · 17 yds
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 188 passing plays (92 completions) against the box score's 190 attempts (94 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
3.94152 of 171 QBsSack rate
4.5%46 of 171 QBsRarely sacked (46 of 171), but Adjusted ANY/A hasn't followed (152 of 171).
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 190 attempts · 8 deep completions averaging 35.9 yds.
3 seasons under Dino Babers — 10-25 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2020 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 138 | 1.5 | 3.8 | 0.8 |
| Road5g | 95.0 | 0.6 | 5.5 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 81.0 | 1.0 | 4.8 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 141 | 1.0 | 4.6 | 1.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Dino Babers
Pass share
51.4%
336 pass / 318 run
Plays / game
59.5
11 games
Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.
Player standing · 2020
Fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Syracuse, 1,546 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2017–2020
1 coachPlayed every college season under Dino Babers.
