Rocky Lombardi: QB · Northern Illinois · #12.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Rocky Lombardi
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Played for three head coaches across six seasons and two programs. A game that shows it: 298 passing yards and 31 rushing yards against Central Michigan — Week 10, 2023.
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
53.5% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 29.5% conversion-per-dropback — 43.5% 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
10 of 11 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (90.9%). 9 of the team's 19 inside-the-5 carries (47.4%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Northern Illinois | 189 | 327 | 57.8% | 2,274 | 7.0 | 11 | 7 | 123.0 | 31 |
| 2022 | Northern Illinois | 50 | 75 | 66.7% | 645 | 8.6 | 5 | 1 | 158.2 | 62 |
| 2021 | Northern Illinois | 200 | 343 | 58.3% | 2,597 | 7.6 | 15 | 8 | 131.7 | 63 |
| 2020 | Michigan State | 84 | 158 | 53.2% | 1,090 | 6.9 | 8 | 9 | 116.4 | 42 |
| 2019 | Michigan State | 7 | 21 | 33.3% | 74 | 3.5 | 0 | 2 | 43.9 | -- |
| 2018 | Michigan State | 68 | 154 | 44.2% | 738 | 4.8 | 3 | 3 | 86.9 | 26 |
| Career | 598 | 1,078 | 55.5% | 7,418 | 6.9 | 42 | 30 | 120.6 | 44 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Northern Illinois | 72 | 131 | 1.8 | 7 | 33 |
| 2022 | Northern Illinois | 6 | 1 | 0.2 | 1 | 8 |
| 2021 | Northern Illinois | 94 | 472 | 5.0 | 9 | 64 |
| 2020 | Michigan State | 31 | 49 | 1.6 | 0 | 21 |
| 2019 | Michigan State | 4 | −3 | −0.8 | 0 | 3 |
| 2018 | Michigan State | 38 | 134 | 3.5 | 0 | 47 |
| Career | 245 | 784 | 3.2 | 17 | 64 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 27-24@ Boston College | 13/28 | 165 | 0 | 0 | 5.9 | 49.4 | |
| Wk 2 | L 11-14vs Southern Illinois | 23/38 | 297 | 1 | 3 | 7.8 | 17.7 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 3 | L 11-35@ Nebraska | 11/28 | 73 | 0 | 1 | 2.6 | 7.4 | |
| Wk 4 | L 14-22vs Tulsa | 4/6 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 5.2 | 0.1 | |
| Wk 5 | L 33-35@ Toledo | 21/31 | 258 | 2 | 0 | 8.3 | 74.0 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 6 | W 55-14@ Akron | 10/15 | 191 | 2 | 0 | 12.7 | 92.8 | |
| Wk 7 | W 23-13vs Ohio | 15/23 | 172 | 1 | 0 | 7.5 | 62.9 | |
| Wk 8 | W 20-13vs Eastern Michigan | 21/33 | 173 | 0 | 0 | 5.2 | 32.5 | |
| Wk 10 | L 31-37@ Central Michigan | 20/35 | 298 | 3 | 1 | 8.5 | 28.3 | Season-high 298 yds |
| Wk 11 | L 17-20vs Ball State | 15/26 | 141 | 0 | 0 | 5.4 | 45.9 | |
| Wk 12 | W 24-0vs Western Michigan | 9/17 | 92 | 0 | 0 | 5.4 | 32.0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 37-27@ Kent State | 9/18 | 183 | 1 | 0 | 10.2 | 41.6 | |
 Bowl | W 21-19vs Arkansas State | 18/29 | 200 | 1 | 2 | 6.9 | 65.1 | |
| Total | 189/327 | 2274 | 11 | 7 | 7.0 | — |
Week 5 · 2023
L 33-35
at Toledo
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 315 passing plays (183 completions) against the box score's 327 attempts (189 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.14108 of 212 QBsSack rate
4.1%55 of 212 QBsRarely sacked (55 of 212), but Adjusted ANY/A hasn't followed (108 of 212).
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 327 attempts · 27 deep completions averaging 31.7 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2023 baseline
No situation moves him more than 28 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
2023 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 151 | 0.3 | 6.1 | 0.5 |
| Road6g | 195 | 1.3 | 8.0 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 173 | 0.9 | 7.1 | 0.8 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 177 | 0.8 | 6.9 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Thomas Hammock
Pass share
44.3%
363 pass / 456 run
Plays / game
63.0
13 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2023
327 pass attempts and 72 carries in 13 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
How it ended
Six seasons, at Michigan State and Northern Illinois, 7,418 passing yards — the college career is complete.
A stat line in 46 games over six seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2018–2023
3 coachesPlayed for 3 head coaches at 2 schools: Mark Dantonio, Mel Tucker and Thomas Hammock.
