Robby Ashford

#2 · QB · Sr. · Wake Forest6′2″ · 220 lb · Hoover, AL

Robby Ashford is a quarterback who has not played this season; the last season with a stat line was 2025, at Wake Forest.

Ashford extends plays on the move until something opens up. Played for four head coaches across four seasons and three programs. A game that shows it: 342 passing yards and 44 rushing yards against Duke — Week 14, 2025.

Where to follow

Career stats

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Season	Team
2025	Wake Forest	191	322	59.3%	2,472	7.7	12	8	131.1	42
2024	South Carolina	23	32	71.9%	324	10.1	2	0	177.6	--
2023	Auburn	14	27	51.9%	145	5.4	2	2	106.6	--
2022	Auburn	123	250	49.2%	1,613	6.5	7	7	107.0	30
Career		351	631	55.6%	4,554	7.2	23	17	122.9	37

Season	Team
2025	Wake Forest	130	554	4.3	9	43
2024	South Carolina	41	227	5.5	2	38
2023	Auburn	46	217	4.7	5	21
2022	Auburn	153	710	4.6	7	49
Career		370	1,708	4.6	23	49

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 10-9vs Kennesaw State	20/28	218	0	0	7.8	29.2	3 TD passes
Wk 2	W 42-10vs Western Carolina	13/22	227	1	1	10.3	62.6
Wk 3	L 24-34vs NC State	21/35	252	0	2	7.2	24.3
Wk 5	L 29-30vs No. 16 Georgia Tech	13/28	219	0	0	7.8	55.8
Wk 6	W 30-23@ Virginia Tech	24/39	256	1	1	6.6	53.0
Wk 9	W 13-12vs SMU	4/10	33	1	0	3.3	26.4
Wk 10	L 7-42@ Florida State	12/21	93	0	1	4.4	41.8
Wk 11	W 16-9@ No. 12 Virginia	7/16	46	0	0	2.9	50.4
Wk 12	W 28-12vs North Carolina	15/25	191	1	0	7.6	65.7
Wk 13	W 52-14vs Delaware	15/22	292	3	1	13.3	83.5	3 TD passes
Wk 14	L 32-49@ Duke	27/43	342	2	1	8.0	57.6	Season-high 342 yds
Bowl	W 43-29vs Mississippi State	20/33	303	3	1	9.2	76.4
Total		191/322	2472	12	8	7.7	—

Highs and lows

Only games with 20 or more plays count for best and lowest.
Best by our grade	Delaware	W 52-14 · Graded great · Carried by the third quarter · 292 yds, 3 TD, 1 INT · Rush 8 for 64, 1 TD · Sacked 0
Lowest by our grade	at Virginia	W 16-9 · Graded rough · Strong start, faded late · 46 yds, 0 TD, 0 INT · Rush 11 for 57 · Sacked 0
Biggest game	at Virginia	No. 12 at kickoff · W 16-9 · Graded rough · Strong start, faded late · 46 yds, 0 TD, 0 INT · Rush 11 for 57 · Sacked 0
Best play	Mississippi State	Run for 1 yards, touchdown, Q4 4:07 · Win chance 66% to 96%
Costliest play	NC State	Interception, returned for a touchdown, Q1 1:19 · Win chance 69% to 43%

Passing profile

Pass Profile · True throw depth (charted plays)

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

191/322 (59.3%) · 12 TD · 8 INT

308 of 322 attempts matched to play-by-play

136 of 308 attempts charted for true throw depth

Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 308 passing plays (180 completions) against the box score's 322 attempts (191 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.

Adjusted ANY/A

6.8972 of 206 QBs

Sack rate

3.3%39 of 206 QBs

Rarely sacked (39 of 206 QBs) and still 72 of 206 in Adjusted ANY/A.

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

Behind LOS · Negative air yds

27% of attempts (37)

81%comp

Air -3.6 · YAC 9.4 avg

Short · 0–9 air yds

40% of attempts (55)

58%comp

Air 3.7 · YAC 5.7 avg

Middle · 10–19 air yds

18% of attempts (25)

48%comp1 INT

Air 13.3 · YAC 5.4 avg

Deep · 20+ air yds

14% of attempts (19)

26%comp2 INT

Air 29.3 · YAC 9.0 avg

Overall 59.3% completion on 322 attempts · 26% completion on 19 deep attempts (20+ air yds).

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2025 baseline

No situation moves him more than 57 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-11 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 4/112 (3.6%) · league sack rate 4.2%

Down 2

-37 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 1/106 (0.9%) · league sack rate 4.5%

Down 3+

+57 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 5/92 (5.4%) · league sack rate 7.8%

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

2022Auburn5-7HC: Bryan Harsin and Cadillac Williams · Run-heavy

2023Auburn6-7HC: Hugh Freeze · Run-heavy

2024South Carolina9-4HC: Shane Beamer · Run-heavy

2025Wake Forest9-4HC: Jake Dickert · Balanced

Our ratings

CFB Zeitgeist Score 53 (#57 of 146). Show the ratings

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles · 2025 season

53Rotational starter #57 of 146 · 2025?

Ascending13 metrics · season cumulative

2025 score: the 2026 sample is not big enough yet. The rows below are 2026 so far. Elite: sack rate (84th percentile). Strength: rush tds (86th percentile). Concern: success rate (25th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Sack rate#29 / 183 · 84th pct

3.4%

Explosive rate#68 / 183 · 63rd pct

9.7%

EPA / dropback#96 / 183 · 48th pct

0.17

Interception rate#96 / 183 · 47th pct

2.3%

Success rate#137 / 183 · 25th pct

36.5%

Box-score rates (8)

Rush TDs#21 / 183 · 86th pct

Rush yards#28 / 183 · 85th pct

554

Yards / att#54 / 183 · 70th pct

7.7

Pass yards#65 / 183 · 65th pct

2472

Pass TDs#88 / 183 · 49th pct

Fumbles lost#87 / 174 · 38th pct

Interceptions#115 / 183 · 32nd pct

Completion %#125 / 183 · 32nd pct

59.3%

Season trend

EPA / dropback— first qualifying season

Success rate— first qualifying season

Explosive rate— first qualifying season

Sack rate— first qualifying season

Interception rate— first qualifying season

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps in 2025. 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

2025 · our own passing-efficiency number, shown next to the 1979 formula it does not replace.

After 307 dropbacks

42Zeitgeist Passer Rating96th of 142 FBS QBs

NCAA passer rating 131.1 91st of 142 FBS QBs

Positive-play rate weight 24%

41.0%16th pct of FBS QBs

share of dropbacks that gained expected points · -2.0% schedule adj.

Yards per attempt weight 56%

6.6334th pct of FBS QBs

sacks excluded · -0.4 schedule adj.

Sack rate weight 21% (penalty)

3.6%81st pct of FBS QBs

the input passer rating cannot see · +0.4% schedule adj.

Opponent-adjusted; garbage time excluded (12 of 319 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

2025 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home7g	205	0.9	8.2	0.6
Road4g	184	0.8	5.5	0.8

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-76g	246	0.8	8.2	0.8
Weeks 8+6g	166	1.2	6.6	0.5

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Jake Dickert

Pass share

48.0%

405 pass / 439 run

Plays / game

64.9

13 games

Scheme: Balanced.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Impact starter

322 pass attempts and 130 carries in 12 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score

53 · #57 of 146 QBs · 2025

Former four-star. Now #57 at the position.

2026 outlook

In the mix for All-ACC

Based on 2025: #9 of 17 ACC QBs

How the All-ACC base rate is computed

A base rate for the rank, not a forecast of this player: 35% of returning players who ranked #4–10 at their position in their conference made an all-conference team the next season (95% confidence interval 31–38%).

Robby Ashford

Where to follow

Career stats

Game log

Highs and lows

Passing profile

Situational

Teams and coaches

Our ratings

Splits

Awards

Impact starter

Six seasons, four schools

Moves

2020

2022 12 games

2024 8 games

2025 12 games