Sawyer Robertson spent five college seasons building the resume of a guy NFL teams quietly respect: durable, volume-ready, and hard to sack. He left Baylor as one of the Big 12's most productive passers, earned Davey O'Brien QB Class recognition mid-season, and signed with the Las Vegas Raiders as a UDFA after the 2026 draft. The story is just moving to a different league.
Robertson's 2025 season was workmanlike in the best sense. He completed 304 of 503 attempts for 3,681 yards and 31 touchdowns against 12 interceptions — a 60.4 percent completion rate on a high-volume offense that asked him to push the ball. The play-by-play numbers tell a more textured story than the surface line: a 70th-percentile sack rate (he processed and got the ball out) and a 62nd-percentile average depth of target (he was willing to throw past the sticks). The interception rate — 20th percentile — is the thing to watch; it tracks with a passer who occasionally forces windows, but it also reflects a scheme that asked him to take chances.
The Davey O'Brien QB Class nod in late October came when Robertson was leading the country in passing yards (2,513 at that point) and ranked second nationally in touchdown passes. That kind of production mid-season, in the Big 12, against a brutal schedule, is not nothing. It is also not what gets you drafted. The completion percentage — 25th percentile in play-by-play context, with a PBP-adjusted rate of 54.3 percent — and a pedestrian touchdown rate (36th percentile) told evaluators there were efficiency ceilings alongside the obvious volume floor.
The Raiders UDFA signing is the right landing spot for the story he's telling. Robertson is a pro-ready frame at 6-3, 200 pounds out of Lubbock, with the pocket awareness to survive NFL pressure and the arm strength to challenge all three levels. The 2026 camp competition will determine whether he sticks on a practice squad or transitions. Either way, he closed a college career — Mississippi State to Baylor, three seasons as the starter — with more production than most four-stars manage.
How he plays
Robertson's defining trait is staying clean. A 70th-percentile sack rate means he reads pressure, steps up, and releases before the pocket collapses — a pocket-passer baseline the NFL scouts for. He pairs that with a willingness to push the ball downfield: 62nd-percentile average depth of target says he is not a checkdown artist. The tension in his profile is the interception rate (20th percentile) and the completion percentage under play-by-play context (25th percentile) — he will take the shot and sometimes lose the gamble. The EPA per dropback sits at the 52nd percentile, essentially median, which is the honest summary: a high-floor, volume-accumulator who plays within a system but can stress a defense vertically when needed.
