Shane Carden: QB · East Carolina · #5.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Shane Carden
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. One game to point at: 445 passing yards and 32 rushing yards against UConn — Week 9, 2014.
Play style
High-percentage passer who protects the ball. Loses the matchup on improvisation.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
64.2% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 33.9% conversion-per-dropback — 41.2% 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
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
9 of the team's 23 inside-the-5 carries (39.1%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | East Carolina | 392 | 617 | 63.5% | 4,736 | 7.7 | 30 | 10 | 140.8 | 70 |
| Career | 392 | 617 | 63.5% | 4,736 | 7.7 | 30 | 10 | 140.8 | 70 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | East Carolina | 96 | 76 | 0.8 | 6 | 23 |
| Career | 96 | 76 | 0.8 | 6 | 23 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2014 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 52-7vs North Carolina Central | 26/37 | 283 | 3 | 0 | 7.6 | 84.3 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | L 23-33@ No. 21 South Carolina | 32/46 | 321 | 1 | 2 | 7.0 | 60.1 | |
| Wk 3 | W 28-21@ No. 17 Virginia Tech | 23/47 | 427 | 3 | 0 | 9.1 | 52.3 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | W 70-41vs North Carolina | 30/48 | 438 | 4 | 1 | 9.1 | 69.0 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 6 | W 45-24vs SMU | 31/41 | 410 | 4 | 0 | 10.0 | 90.8 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 7 | W 28-17@ South Florida | 24/33 | 250 | 1 | 1 | 7.6 | 82.6 | |
| Wk 9 | W 31-21vs UConn | 38/64 | 445 | 2 | 1 | 7.0 | 60.6 | Season-high 445 yds |
| Wk 10 | L 10-20@ Temple | 24/41 | 217 | 0 | 0 | 5.3 | 33.3 | |
| Wk 12 | L 46-54@ Cincinnati | 35/61 | 425 | 2 | 0 | 7.0 | 71.9 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 13 | W 34-6vs Tulane | 31/44 | 358 | 1 | 0 | 8.1 | 69.8 | |
| Wk 14 | W 49-32@ Tulsa | 28/41 | 338 | 4 | 1 | 8.2 | 71.1 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 15 | L 30-32vs UCF | 36/48 | 397 | 3 | 2 | 8.3 | 64.6 | 3 TD passes |
 Bowl | L 20-28vs Florida | 34/66 | 427 | 2 | 2 | 6.5 | 31.0 | |
| Total | 392/617 | 4736 | 30 | 10 | 7.7 | — |
Week 3 · 2014
W 28-21
427 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 52.3 · 13 rush yds (12 car) · 1 TD
A close one, won by 7 on the road.
With W. Gregory — 47.1 yards per punt · 8 punts · 1 inside the 20 · C. Worthy — 6 rec · 224 yds
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 611 passing plays (387 completions) against the box score's 617 attempts (392 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.1749 of 181 QBsSack rate
4.9%70 of 181 QBsRarely sacked (70 of 181 QBs) and still 49 of 181 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 63.5% completion on 617 attempts · 72 deep completions averaging 28.1 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2014 baseline
-33
percentile points worse on first down
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
2014 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 388 | 2.8 | 8.3 | 0.7 |
| Road6g | 330 | 1.8 | 7.4 | 0.7 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 365 | 2.6 | 8.1 | 0.9 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 363 | 2.0 | 7.3 | 0.7 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Ruffin McNeill
Pass share
59.6%
633 pass / 429 run
Plays / game
81.7
13 games
Scheme: Pass-leaning, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2014
617 pass attempts, 96 carries and 1 catch in 13 games, more passes and runs a game than nearly every FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
One season at East Carolina, 4,736 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2010–2014
1 coachPlayed every college season under Ruffin McNeill.
