Richard Lagow

#21 · QB · Indiana6′6″ · 240 lb · Plano, TX

Richard Lagow: QB · Indiana · #21.

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Richard Lagow

QB · Indiana · #21

Operates within the system without forcing anything. The two seasons at Indiana span two head coaches: Kevin Wilson and Tom Allen. On tape: 410 passing yards and 3 passing TD against Ohio State, Week 1, 2017.

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

66.0%Completion %

25.5%Conversion/dropback

60.6%Land short of sticks

0INTs

66.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 25.5% conversion-per-dropback — 60.6% 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

1/16Inside-5 share

1 of the team's 16 inside-the-5 carries (6.2%).

Fans

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

Indiana in the news

Josh Hoover benched for OT winNov 1
Indiana ends 56-year winless streak at MichiganThe Daily Hoosier Oct 28
Becker apologized to DayThe Herald-Times Oct 21
Indiana's historic win streak endsUSA Today Oct 17

Where to follow

Career stats

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Season	Team
2017	Indiana	172	295	58.3%	1,936	6.6	15	8	124.8	50
2016	Indiana	253	438	57.8%	3,362	7.7	19	17	128.8	64
Career		425	733	58.0%	5,298	7.2	34	25	127.2	59

Season	Team
2017	Indiana	37	−50	−1.4	0	14
2016	Indiana	41	−188	−4.6	2	9
Career		78	−238	−3.1	2	14

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2017 season · 10 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	L 21-49vs No. 2 Ohio State	40/65	410	3	2	6.3	54.6	Season-high 410 yds
Wk 2	W 34-17@ Virginia	3/10	24	0	1	2.4	5.2
Wk 4	W 52-17vs Georgia Southern	8/13	130	1	0	10.0	75.3
Wk 5	L 14-45@ No. 4 Penn State	7/15	97	0	0	6.5	26.6
Wk 7	L 20-27vs No. 17 Michigan	1/1	20	0	0	20.0	93.5
Wk 9	L 39-42@ Maryland	12/21	131	2	0	6.2	66.2
Wk 10	L 17-45vs No. 4 Wisconsin	20/34	226	2	2	6.6	—
Wk 11	W 24-14@ Illinois	32/48	289	2	1	6.0	47.2
Wk 12	W 41-0vs Rutgers	17/28	236	2	1	8.4	79.6
Wk 13	L 24-31@ Purdue	32/60	373	3	1	6.2	33.2	3 TD passes
Total		172/295	1936	15	8	6.6	—

Signature game

Week 1 · 2017

L 21-49

vs Ohio State

410 yds · 3 TD · 2 INT · QBR 54.6

With H. Whitehead — 41 yards per punt · 9 punts · 49 long · S. Cobbs Jr. — 11 rec · 149 yds · 1 TD

Signature plays

The plays that mattered most

Week 4 · Georgia Southern · 3rd and 6 · Q3 · EPA +6.84Richard Lagow pass complete to Ian Thomas for 71 yds for a TD, (Griffin Oakes KICK)
Week 5 · Penn State · 3rd and 10 · Q2 · EPA +5.20Richard Lagow pass complete to Ian Thomas for 54 yds to the PnSt 2 for a
Week 12 · Rutgers · 1st and 10 · Q1 · EPA +4.47Richard Lagow pass complete to Ian Thomas for 57 yds for a TD, (Griffin Oakes KICK)
Week 1 · Ohio State · 3rd and 5 · Q2 · EPA −4.07Richard Lagow pass intercepted Jordan Fuller return for 40 yds to the OhSt 40
Week 1 · Ohio State · 3rd and 10 · Q1 · EPA +3.57Richard Lagow pass complete to Simmie Cobbs Jr. for 28 yds to the OhSt 46 for a
Week 12 · Rutgers · 3rd and 6 · Q1 · EPA +3.39Richard Lagow pass complete to Whop Philyor for 36 yds to the Rutgr 49 for a

4 more plays

Week 12 · Rutgers · 3rd and 9 · Q3 · EPA +3.35Richard Lagow pass complete to Ian Thomas for 20 yds to the Rutgr 44 for a
Week 1 · Ohio State · 3rd and 9 · Q3 · EPA +3.21Richard Lagow pass complete to Simmie Cobbs Jr. for 17 yds to the OhSt 44 for a
Week 12 · Rutgers · 3rd and 6 · Q3 · EPA +3.18Richard Lagow pass complete to Luke Timian for 20 yds for a TD, (Griffin Oakes KICK)
Week 13 · Purdue · 1st and 10 · Q4 · EPA +3.17Richard Lagow pass complete to Taysir Mack for 52 yds to the Prdue 19 for a

Passing profile

Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)

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

172/295 (58.3%) · 15 TD · 8 INT

291 of 295 attempts matched to play-by-play

Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 291 passing plays (169 completions) against the box score's 295 attempts (172 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.

Adjusted ANY/A

5.70127 of 205 QBs

Sack rate

5.1%81 of 205 QBs

Rarely sacked (81 of 205), but Adjusted ANY/A hasn't followed (127 of 205).

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

Short

0–9 yds

55%of completions

93 comp4.8 yds avg6 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

31%of completions

52 comp14.2 yds avg2 TD

Deep

20+ yds

14%of completions

24 comp30.1 yds avg4 TD

Overall 58.3% completion on 295 attempts · 24 deep completions averaging 30.1 yds.

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2017 baseline

+67

percentile points better on third down or later

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-37 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 6/98 (6.1%) · league sack rate 5.0%

Down 2

-22 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 6/98 (6.1%) · league sack rate 5.1%

Down 3+

+67 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 2/86 (2.3%) · 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

2016Indiana6-7HC: Kevin Wilson · Run-leaning, fast tempo

2017Indiana5-7HC: Tom Allen · Balanced, fast tempo

Our ratings

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Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles · 2017 season

13 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: explosive rate (27th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Sack rate#72 / 187 · 62nd pct

5.2%

Interception rate#80 / 187 · 57th pct

2.4%

EPA / dropback#82 / 187 · 56th pct

0.21

Success rate#136 / 187 · 28th pct

36.8%

Explosive rate#137 / 187 · 27th pct

8.2%

Box-score rates (8)

Fumbles lost#26 / 163 · 68th pct

Pass TDs#67 / 179 · 61st pct

Pass yards#76 / 179 · 58th pct

1936

Completion %#93 / 179 · 48th pct

58.3%

Interceptions#115 / 179 · 32nd pct

Yards / att#127 / 179 · 28th pct

6.6

Rush TDs#136 / 179 · 12th pct

Rush yards#158 / 179 · 12th pct

-50

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

61st → 56th percentile

Success rate

71st → 28th percentile

Explosive rate

62nd → 27th percentile

Sack rate

52nd → 62nd percentile

Interception rate

14th → 57th percentile

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps in 2017. 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

2017 · our own passing-efficiency number, shown next to the 1979 formula it does not replace.

After 282 dropbacks

50Zeitgeist Passer Rating69th of 142 FBS QBs

NCAA passer rating 124.8 96th of 142 FBS QBs

ZPR ranks this quarterback 27 places higher than passer rating does: the schedule adjustment credits the defenses faced.

Positive-play rate weight 24%

44.6%51st pct of FBS QBs

share of dropbacks that gained expected points · +1.3% schedule adj.

Yards per attempt weight 56%

6.9642nd pct of FBS QBs

sacks excluded · +0.5 schedule adj.

Sack rate weight 21% (penalty)

4.7%71st pct of FBS QBs

the input passer rating cannot see · -0.3% schedule adj.

Opponent-adjusted; garbage time excluded (25 of 307 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

2017 season · 10 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home5g	204	1.6	10.3	1.0
Road5g	183	1.4	5.5	0.6

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-75g	136	0.8	9.0	0.6
Weeks 8+5g	251	2.2	6.7	1.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2017 season

Head Coach

Tom Allen

Pass share

53.0%

502 pass / 445 run

Plays / game

78.9

12 games

Scheme: Balanced, fast tempo.

Awards

Player standing · 2017

Starter

295 pass attempts and 37 carries in 10 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Richard Lagow

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Style of play

Fans

Indiana 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

Two seasons at Indiana

2013

2016 13 games