Spencer Rattler: QB · South Carolina · #7.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Spencer Rattler
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. Played for three head coaches at two programs in five seasons: Lincoln Riley, Bob Stoops and Shane Beamer. That makes two straight seasons on the honors list: All-Big 12 again in 2021. A game that shows it: 399 passing yards and 2 passing TD against Jacksonville State — Week 10, 2023.
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
63.5% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 25.4% conversion-per-dropback — 51.5% 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. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
6 of the team's 17 inside-the-5 carries (35.3%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
On3 Oct 24
247Sports Oct 20Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | South Carolina | 275 | 399 | 68.9% | 3,186 | 8.0 | 19 | 8 | 147.7 | 57 |
| 2022 | South Carolina | 262 | 394 | 66.5% | 3,011 | 7.6 | 18 | 12 | 139.7 | 51 |
| 2021 | Oklahoma | 140 | 187 | 74.9% | 1,483 | 7.9 | 11 | 5 | 155.5 | 49 |
| 2020 | Oklahoma | 214 | 317 | 67.5% | 3,031 | 9.6 | 28 | 7 | 172.6 | 81 |
| 2019 | Oklahoma | 7 | 11 | 63.6% | 81 | 7.4 | 1 | 0 | 155.5 | -- |
| Career | 898 | 1,308 | 68.7% | 10,792 | 8.3 | 77 | 32 | 152.5 | 60 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | South Carolina | 98 | 102 | 1.0 | 4 | 28 |
| 2022 | South Carolina | 72 | 57 | 0.8 | 3 | 18 |
| 2021 | Oklahoma | 43 | 77 | 1.8 | 3 | 22 |
| 2020 | Oklahoma | 81 | 160 | 2.0 | 6 | 25 |
| 2019 | Oklahoma | 3 | 23 | 7.7 | 0 | 8 |
| Career | 297 | 419 | 1.4 | 16 | 28 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 17-31vs No. 21 North Carolina | 30/39 | 353 | 0 | 0 | 9.1 | 46.6 | |
| Wk 2 | W 47-21vs Furman | 25/27 | 345 | 3 | 0 | 12.8 | 93.5 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | L 14-24@ No. 1 Georgia | 22/42 | 256 | 1 | 2 | 6.1 | 72.1 | |
| Wk 4 | W 37-30vs Mississippi State | 18/20 | 288 | 3 | 0 | 14.4 | 96.7 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | L 20-41@ No. 21 Tennessee | 24/35 | 169 | 0 | 1 | 4.8 | 33.6 | |
| Wk 7 | L 39-41vs Florida | 23/30 | 313 | 4 | 1 | 10.4 | 92.8 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | L 12-34@ No. 20 Missouri | 23/40 | 217 | 0 | 1 | 5.4 | 19.4 | |
| Wk 9 | L 17-30@ Texas A&M | 20/33 | 176 | 1 | 0 | 5.3 | 38.9 | |
| Wk 10 | W 38-28vs Jacksonville State | 27/38 | 399 | 2 | 1 | 10.5 | 66.2 | Season-high 399 yds |
| Wk 11 | W 47-6vs Vanderbilt | 28/36 | 351 | 3 | 1 | 9.8 | 76.8 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | W 17-14vs Kentucky | 19/27 | 207 | 2 | 0 | 7.7 | 72.8 | |
| Wk 13 | L 7-16vs Clemson | 16/32 | 112 | 0 | 1 | 3.5 | 35.6 | |
| Total | 275/399 | 3186 | 19 | 8 | 8.0 | — |
Week 7 · 2023
L 39-41
vs Florida
313 yds · 4 TD · 1 INT · QBR 92.8 · 46 rush yds (7 car)
With K. Kroeger — 41.5 yards per punt · 4 punts · 1 inside the 20 · X. Legette — 5 rec · 110 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 388 passing plays (272 completions) against the box score's 399 attempts (275 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.6089 of 212 QBsSack rate
9.3%185 of 212 QBsSacked on 9.3% of dropbacks (185 of 212) — and still 89 of 212 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 68.9% completion on 399 attempts · 43 deep completions averaging 33.4 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2023 baseline
No situation moves him more than 9 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.
Splits · Per-game
2023 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 288 | 2.4 | 9.9 | 0.6 |
| Road4g | 204 | 0.5 | 5.4 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 287 | 1.8 | 9.6 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 244 | 1.3 | 7.0 | 0.7 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Shane Beamer
Pass share
53.4%
411 pass / 358 run
Plays / game
64.1
12 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2023
399 pass attempts and 98 carries in 12 games, more passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Former five-star. Now #30 at the position.
How it ended
Five seasons, at Oklahoma and South Carolina, 10,792 passing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2020) — drafted at #150 overall by the New Orleans Saints.
A blue-chip recruit with honors.
The role got bigger.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-BIG 12 · 1ST TEAM
All-Big 12 1st team (2020)
Coaching lineage · 2019–2023
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 2 schools: Lincoln Riley and Shane Beamer.
Next stop · NFL
New Orleans SaintsEntering 3rd NFL season
New Orleans SaintsEntering 3rd NFL season
