Shedeur Sanders: QB · Colorado · #2.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Shedeur Sanders
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. Arrived at Colorado from Jackson State. Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year in 2024 was the second season with an honor. One game to point at: 445 passing yards and 17 rushing yards against North Dakota State — Week 1, 2024.
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
59.6% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 28.1% conversion-per-dropback — 48.4% 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
5 of the team's 17 inside-the-5 carries (29.4%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
BroBible Oct 27
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Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 31-26vs North Dakota State | 26/34 | 445 | 4 | 1 | 13.1 | 81.8 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | L 10-28@ Nebraska | 23/38 | 244 | 1 | 1 | 6.4 | 24.4 | |
| Wk 3 | W 28-9@ Colorado State | 36/49 | 310 | 4 | 0 | 6.3 | 67.5 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | W 38-31vs Baylor | 25/41 | 341 | 2 | 0 | 8.3 | 64.6 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 5 | W 48-21@ UCF | 28/35 | 290 | 3 | 1 | 8.3 | 89.1 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 7 | L 28-31vs No. 18 Kansas State | 34/40 | 388 | 3 | 1 | 9.7 | 80.4 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | W 34-7@ Arizona | 23/33 | 250 | 2 | 2 | 7.6 | 81.2 | |
| Wk 9 | W 34-23vs Cincinnati | 25/30 | 323 | 2 | 0 | 10.8 | 91.2 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 11 | W 41-27@ Texas Tech | 30/43 | 291 | 3 | 0 | 6.8 | 78.0 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | W 49-24vs Utah | 30/41 | 340 | 3 | 1 | 8.3 | 86.8 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 13 | L 21-37vs Kansas | 23/29 | 266 | 3 | 0 | 9.2 | 93.2 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 14 | W 52-0vs Oklahoma State | 34/41 | 438 | 5 | 1 | 10.7 | 66.3 | 5 TD passes |
 Bowl | L 14-36vs No. 17 BYU | 16/23 | 208 | 2 | 2 | 9.0 | 18.6 | |
| Total | 353/477 | 4134 | 37 | 10 | 8.7 | — |
Week 4 · 2024
W 38-31
vs Baylor
341 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 64.6 · 26 rush yds (19 car) · 1 TD
Edged out Baylor at home in a shootout.
With M. Vassett — 46.7 yards per punt · 7 punts · 1 inside the 20 · T. Hunter — 7 rec · 130 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 461 passing plays (337 completions) against the box score's 477 attempts (353 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.9631 of 205 QBsSack rate
7.7%159 of 205 QBsSacked on 7.7% of dropbacks (159 of 205) — and still 31 of 205 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 74.0% completion on 477 attempts · 52 deep completions averaging 31.7 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2024 baseline
No situation moves him more than 53 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.
2 seasons under Deion Sanders, all pass-leaning offenses — 13-12 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2024 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 379 | 3.2 | 10.2 | 0.7 |
| Road5g | 277 | 2.6 | 7.1 | 0.8 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 318 | 2.7 | 8.7 | 0.9 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 318 | 3.0 | 8.9 | 0.7 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Deion Sanders
Pass share
59.2%
481 pass / 331 run
Plays / game
62.5
13 games
Scheme: Pass-leaning.
Player standing · 2024
First team in his league at the position.
The All-Conference 1st team honor is earned — and the box score backs it up emphatically: #10 of 137 FBS quarterbacks by CFB Zeitgeist Score.2024 profile
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Former four-star. Now #10 at the position.
How it ended
Two seasons at Colorado, 7,364 passing yards, the Unitas Golden Arm Award (2024) — drafted at #144 overall by the Cleveland Browns.
Honored in a first season.
The role got bigger.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
National awards
Unitas Golden Arm
2024 season
ALL-BIG 12 · 1ST TEAM
All-Big 12 1st team (2024)
FRESHMAN HONORS
Freshman recognition (2021)
1 mention(s)
Weekly recognition
1 weekly honor (2024)
Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week
Next stop · NFL
Cleveland BrownsEntering 2nd NFL season
Cleveland BrownsEntering 2nd NFL season
