Senior quarterback for Northern Illinois. 2020: 1,365 passing yards, 10 TD, 2 INT.
6′2″ · 200 lb · Bothell, WA
The story
4 quarterback for Northern Illinois. 2020: 1,365 passing yards, 10 TD, 2 INT.
The record fills in as he plays.
His career, year by yearRoss Bowers
Three head coaches in five seasons, at two different programs. One game to point at: 300 pass yds, 1 pass TD against Ball State — Week 12, 2020.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Five seasons at Northern Illinois, 6,600 passing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 5 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2016–2020
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Rod Carey → Thomas Hammock. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score percentiles
Elite: interceptions (88th percentile). Concern: rush yards (2nd percentile).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
6.2684 of 171 QBsSack rate
5.8%77 of 171 QBsRarely sacked (77 of 171 QBs) and still 84 of 171 in Adjusted ANY/A.
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 211 attempts · 15 deep completions averaging 30.4 yds.
Splits · Per-game
2020 season · 6 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 205 | 1.0 | 6.2 | 0.3 |
| Road3g | 250 | 2.3 | 6.6 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 8+6g | 228 | 1.7 | 6.4 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Rob Harley
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2020
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Northern Illinois | 123 | 212 | 58.0% | 1,365 | 6.4 | 10 | 2 | 125.8 | 34 | -- | -- |
| 2019 | Northern Illinois | 166 | 287 | 57.8% | 2,140 | 7.5 | 7 | 8 | 122.9 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2018 | California | 8 | 17 | 47.1% | 56 | 3.3 | 0 | 0 | 74.7 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2017 | California | 272 | 461 | 59.0% | 3,039 | 6.6 | 18 | 12 | 122.1 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2016 | California | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 569 | 977 | 58.2% | 6,600 | 6.8 | 35 | 22 | 122.3 | 34 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Northern Illinois | 21 | -87 | -4.1 | 0 | -- |
| 2019 | Northern Illinois | 34 | -111 | -3.3 | 1 | -- |
| 2018 | California | 3 | -7 | -2.3 | 0 | -- |
| 2017 | California | 60 | -142 | -2.4 | 3 | -- |
| 2016 | California | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 119 | -345 | -2.9 | 4 | -- |
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2020 season · 6 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 10 | L 30-49vs Buffalo | 17/28 | 202 | 1 | 1 | 7.2 | — | |
| Wk 11 | L 10-40vs Central Michigan | 16/32 | 139 | 0 | 0 | 4.3 | — | |
| Wk 12 | L 25-31@ Ball State | 27/40 | 300 | 1 | 1 | 7.5 | — | Season-high 300 yds |
| Wk 13 | L 27-30@ Western Michigan | 22/36 | 230 | 3 | 0 | 6.4 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 14 | L 24-41vs Toledo | 19/39 | 273 | 2 | 0 | 7.0 | — | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 15 | L 33-41@ Eastern Michigan | 22/37 | 221 | 3 | 0 | 6.0 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Total | 123/212 | 1365 | 10 | 2 | 6.4 | — |
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
64.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 20.0% conversion-per-dropback — 62.5% 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. ~ our read: checkdown by design