Shedeur Sanders

Former quarterback at Colorado. 2024: 4,134 passing yards, 37 TD, 10 INT.

QB · Colorado · Sr. · #2

6′2″ · 215 lb · Canton, TX

CFB Index 78 · #10 of 137 QBsHigh confidenceAll-Conf 1st teamCleveland — drafted 2025, Rd 5, Pick 6, #144 overall

Recruiting

4★

QB recruit

No. 247 nationally · Signed with Jackson State

Statement game438 yds · 5 TDvs Oklahoma State (FBS) · W 52-0

Top 1% passing yards game since 2021.

Coach Sanders is old school on accountability. press x to doubt..r/CFB game thread · ▲ 2His career numbers, season by season

The story

Former quarterback at Colorado. 2024: 4,134 passing yards, 37 TD, 10 INT.

Signed as a 4-star recruit to Jackson State in 2021.
Transferred from Jackson State to Colorado in 2023.
Drafted round 5 by the Cleveland in 2025.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Two seasons at Colorado, 7,364 passing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2024) — drafted at #144 overall by Cleveland.

His career

He arrived as a blue-chip recruit and played like one.

The week the volume broke through — put up 26 yds at Kansas.Kansas · L 21-372024

2021

Signed with Jackson State4-star out of Trinity Christian School

202311 games

The role got bigger.

Entered the portal

202413 games

All-Big 12first
Unitas Golden Armwinner
Big 12 Offensive Player of the Yearwinner

2025

Drafted by Clevelandround 5, pick 144

Career arc

Recruit

★★★★

#247 national

CFB

College

Colorado

2023–2024

NFL

NFL Draft

R5 · #144

Cleveland · 2025

Trophy case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

5 honors · 1 category

🥈

ALL-BIG 12 · 1ST TEAM

All-Big 12 1st team (2024)

Where He Ended Up · NFL

ClevelandEntering 2nd NFL season

#144Rd 5 · Pick 6

ClevelandEntering 2nd NFL season

View college career stats ↓

2024 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2 seasons under Deion Sanders, all pass-leaning offenses — 13-12 over that span.

2023Colorado4-8HC: Deion Sanders · Pass-leaning

2024Colorado9-4HC: Deion Sanders · Pass-leaning

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

78All-Conference level #10 of 137?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: success rate (83rd percentile). Strength: pass tds (99th percentile). Concern: sack rate (23rd percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Success rate#28 / 169 · 83rd pct

46.4%

EPA / dropback#54 / 169 · 68th pct

0.27

Explosive rate#58 / 169 · 66th pct

11.3%

Interception rate#74 / 169 · 57th pct

2.0%

Sack rate#130 / 169 · 23rd pct

8.0%

Box-score rates (8)

Pass TDs#2 / 165 · 99th pct

Completion %#3 / 165 · 98th pct

74.0%

Pass yards#4 / 165 · 98th pct

4134

Yards / att#17 / 165 · 90th pct

8.7

Fumbles lost#21 / 159 · 73rd pct

Rush TDs#50 / 165 · 66th pct

Interceptions#118 / 165 · 25th pct

Rush yards#152 / 165 · 8th pct

-50

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

56th → 68th percentile

Success rate

64th → 83rd percentile

Explosive rate

38th → 66th percentile

Sack rate

11th → 23rd percentile

Interception rate

53rd → 57th percentile

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season. Most bars are box-score rates; EPA / success-rate bars are computed from real play-by-play (offense only — no defensive EPA model exists yet).

Passing profile

Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)

Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from

337/461 (73.1%) · 37 TD · 10 INT

461 of 477 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

7.9631 of 205 QBs

Sack rate

7.7%159 of 205 QBs

Sacked 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 yds

55%of completions

184 comp3.9 yds avg9 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

30%of completions

101 comp13.3 yds avg4 TD

Deep

20+ yds

15%of completions

52 comp31.7 yds avg14 TD

Overall 73.1% completion on 461 attempts · 52 deep completions averaging 31.7 yds.

Situational

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.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-36 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 14/186 (7.5%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 2

+6 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 10/150 (6.7%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 3+

+53 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 10/110 (9.1%) · league sack rate 8.1% · ~our read

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 & context

Splits · Per-game

2024 season · 13 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home7g	355	3.0	10.0	0.9
Road6g	275	2.7	7.4	0.7

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

2026 season

Head Coach

Deion Sanders

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2024

All-Conference 1st team

First team in his league at the position.

our read the All-Conference 1st team honor is earned — and the box score backs it up emphatically: #10 of 137 FBS quarterbacks by CFB Index Score.2024 profile

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

78 · #10 of 137 QBs

Former four-star. Now #10 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2024	Colorado	353	477	74.0%	4,134	8.7	37	10	168.2	58	--	--
2023	Colorado	298	430	69.3%	3,230	7.5	27	3	151.7	33	--	--
Career		651	907	71.8%	7,364	8.1	64	13	160.4	46	--	--

Season	Team
2024	Colorado	100	-50	-0.5	4	--
2023	Colorado	111	-77	-0.7	4	--
Career		211	-127	-0.6	8	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2024

W 31–26

vs North Dakota State

445 yds · 4 TD · 1 INT · QBR 81.8 · 17 rush yds (6 car)

A wire-to-wire battle — won by 5 at home.

With J. Horn Jr. — 7 rec · 198 yds · 1 TD · T. Hunter — 7 rec · 132 yds · 3 TD

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 14 · Oklahoma State · 3&4 · Q3 · EPA +6.61LaJohntay Wester 69 Yd pass from Shedeur Sanders (Alejandro Mata Kick)
Week 5 · UCF · 3&15 · Q1 · EPA +6.23Shedeur Sanders pass complete to Will Sheppard for 47 yds for a TD (Alejandro Mata KICK)
Week 12 · Utah · 3&12 · Q4 · EPA +5.94Shedeur Sanders pass complete to Drelon Miller for 47 yds for a TD (Alejandro Mata KICK)
Week 1 · North Dakota State · 2&4 · Q1 · EPA +5.74Jimmy Horn Jr. 69 Yd pass from Shedeur Sanders (Alejandro Mata Kick)
Week 12 · Utah · 4&5 · Q1 · EPA +5.49Shedeur Sanders pass complete to Will Sheppard for 40 yds for a TD (Alejandro Mata KICK)
Week 4 · Baylor · 3&10 · Q4 · EPA +5.35Shedeur Sanders pass complete to LaJohntay Wester for 43 yds for a TD (Alejandro Mata KICK)
Week 1 · BYU · 3&6 · Q3 · EPA +4.83Shedeur Sanders pass complete to Travis Hunter for 43 yds for a TD (Alejandro Mata KICK)
Week 13 · Kansas · 2&8 · Q2 · EPA +4.76Shedeur Sanders pass complete to Travis Hunter for 51 yds for a TD (Alejandro Mata KICK)
Week 7 · Kansas State · 2&28 · Q4 · EPA +4.64Shedeur Sanders pass complete to Omarion Miller for 51 yds to the KSU 21 for a 1ST down
Week 8 · Arizona · 3&15 · Q1 · EPA +4.61Shedeur Sanders pass complete to LaJohntay Wester for 46 yds to the ARIZ 5 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2024 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD

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	Season-high 445 yds
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 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 21-37@ 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 BYU	16/23	208	2	2	9.0	18.6
Total		353/477	4134	37	10	8.8	71.0

How he plays

Play style

High-percentage passer who protects the ball. Loses the matchup on improvisation.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

59.6%Completion %

28.1%Conversion/dropback

48.4%Land short of sticks

2INTs

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. ~ our read: checkdown by design

Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration

Who gets the tough yard

fact

5/17Inside-5 share

5 of the team's 17 inside-the-5 carries (29.4%).