Riley Neal: QB · Vanderbilt · #6.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Riley Neal
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Played for three head coaches at two programs in five seasons: Pete Lembo, Mike Neu and Derek Mason. On tape: 378 passing yards and 2 passing TD against Purdue, Week 2, 2019.
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
56.5% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 15.4% conversion-per-dropback — 69.2% 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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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Vanderbilt | 149 | 258 | 57.8% | 1,585 | 6.1 | 9 | 5 | 117.0 | 28 |
| 2018 | Ball State | 194 | 335 | 57.9% | 1,917 | 5.7 | 11 | 4 | 114.4 | 42 |
| 2017 | Ball State | 67 | 99 | 67.7% | 659 | 6.7 | 6 | 3 | 137.5 | 53 |
| 2016 | Ball State | 242 | 394 | 61.4% | 2,541 | 6.4 | 13 | 12 | 120.4 | 37 |
| 2015 | Ball State | 228 | 391 | 58.3% | 2,276 | 5.8 | 16 | 6 | 117.6 | 38 |
| Career | 880 | 1,477 | 59.6% | 8,978 | 6.1 | 55 | 30 | 118.9 | 38 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Vanderbilt | 53 | 47 | 0.9 | 0 | 27 |
| 2018 | Ball State | 86 | 357 | 4.2 | 5 | 31 |
| 2017 | Ball State | 24 | 67 | 2.8 | 0 | 12 |
| 2016 | Ball State | 127 | 540 | 4.3 | 8 | 46 |
| 2015 | Ball State | 88 | 399 | 4.5 | 2 | 41 |
| Career | 378 | 1,410 | 3.7 | 15 | 46 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2019 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 6-30vs No. 3 Georgia | 14/25 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 3.4 | 11.1 | |
| Wk 2 | L 24-42@ Purdue | 24/35 | 378 | 2 | 1 | 10.8 | 63.8 | Season-high 378 yds |
| Wk 4 | L 38-66vs No. 4 LSU | 15/31 | 206 | 1 | 1 | 6.6 | 34.3 | |
| Wk 5 | W 24-18vs Northern Illinois | 21/28 | 189 | 1 | 0 | 6.8 | 45.6 | |
| Wk 6 | L 6-31@ Ole Miss | 18/30 | 140 | 0 | 0 | 4.7 | 32.6 | |
| Wk 7 | L 10-34vs UNLV | 11/25 | 104 | 0 | 1 | 4.2 | 5.9 | |
| Wk 8 | W 21-14vs No. 22 Missouri | 3/8 | 45 | 1 | 1 | 5.6 | 39.3 | |
| Wk 10 | L 7-24@ South Carolina | 3/4 | 46 | 1 | 0 | 11.5 | — | |
| Wk 12 | L 14-38vs Kentucky | 10/19 | 74 | 0 | 1 | 3.9 | — | |
| Wk 13 | W 38-0vs East Tennessee State | 16/24 | 179 | 2 | 0 | 7.5 | — | |
| Wk 14 | L 10-28@ Tennessee | 14/29 | 139 | 1 | 0 | 4.8 | — | |
| Total | 149/258 | 1585 | 9 | 5 | 6.1 | — |
Week 13 · 2019
W 38-0
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 257 passing plays (148 completions) against the box score's 258 attempts (149 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.14150 of 205 QBsSack rate
6.9%131 of 205 QBsSacked on 6.9% of dropbacks (131 of 205) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (150 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 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 57.8% completion on 258 attempts · 22 deep completions averaging 33.2 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2019 baseline
No situation moves him more than 37 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
2019 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 126 | 0.7 | 5.4 | 0.6 |
| Road4g | 176 | 1.0 | 8.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 184 | 0.7 | 6.1 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 96.6 | 1.0 | 6.7 | 0.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Derek Mason
Pass share
51.6%
381 pass / 357 run
Plays / game
61.5
12 games
Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.
Player standing · 2019
258 pass attempts, 53 carries and 1 catch in 11 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
Five seasons, at Ball State and Vanderbilt, 8,978 passing yards — the college career is complete.
A stat line in 45 games over five seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2015–2019
3 coachesPlayed for 3 head coaches at 2 schools: Pete Lembo, Mike Neu and Derek Mason.
