Spencer Rattler

Former quarterback at South Carolina. 2023: 3,186 passing yards, 19 TD, 8 INT.

QB · South Carolina · Sr. · #7

6′1″ · 217 lb · Phoenix, AZ

CFB Index 67 · #30 of 140 QBsHigh confidenceNew Orleans — drafted 2024, Rd 5, Pick 15, #150 overall

Recruiting

5★

PRO recruit

No. 11 nationally · Signed with Oklahoma

Statement game438 yds · 6 TDvs Tennessee (FBS) · W 63-38

Top 0.1% passing TDs game since 2021.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

Former quarterback at South Carolina. 2023: 3,186 passing yards, 19 TD, 8 INT.

Signed as a 5-star recruit to Oklahoma in 2019.
Transferred from Oklahoma to South Carolina in 2022.
Drafted round 5 by the New Orleans in 2024.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Five seasons at South Carolina, 10,792 passing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2020) — drafted at #150 overall by New Orleans.

His career

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

20193 games

Signed with Oklahoma5-star out of Pinnacle

202010 games

The role got bigger.

All-Big 12first

20219 games

All-Big 12

202213 games

Entered the portal

2024

Drafted by New Orleansround 5, pick 150

Career arc

Recruit

★★★★★

#11 national

CFB

College

2 teams

2019–2023

NFL

NFL Draft

R5 · #150

New Orleans · 2024

Trophy case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

2 honors · 1 category

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ALL-BIG 12 · 1ST TEAM

All-Big 12 1st team (2020)

Coaching lineage · 2019–2023

2 coaches

2019–2020

Will Muschamp

South Carolina

2021–2023

Shane Beamer

South Carolina

era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Will Muschamp → Shane Beamer. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

Where He Ended Up · NFL

New OrleansEntering 3rd NFL season

#150Rd 5 · Pick 15

New OrleansEntering 3rd NFL season

View college career stats ↓

2023 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2019Oklahoma12-2HC: Lincoln Riley · Run-leaning

2020Oklahoma9-2HC: Lincoln Riley · Run-leaning, fast tempo

2021Oklahoma11-2HC: Bob Stoops · Balanced

2022South Carolina8-5HC: Shane Beamer · Balanced

2023South Carolina5-7HC: Shane Beamer · Balanced

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

67Quality starter #30 of 140?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: interception rate (84th percentile). Strength: completion % (93rd percentile). Concern: sack rate (16th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Interception rate#1 / 177 · 84th pct

0.0%

EPA / dropback#64 / 177 · 64th pct

0.33

Explosive rate#75 / 177 · 58th pct

11.1%

Success rate#80 / 177 · 54th pct

42.7%

Sack rate#149 / 177 · 16th pct

9.6%

Box-score rates (8)

Completion %#12 / 179 · 93rd pct

68.9%

Fumbles lost#1 / 167 · 93rd pct

Pass yards#28 / 179 · 85th pct

3186

Yards / att#52 / 179 · 70th pct

8.0

Pass TDs#54 / 179 · 69th pct

Rush TDs#49 / 179 · 67th pct

Rush yards#99 / 179 · 45th pct

102

Interceptions#113 / 179 · 32nd pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

49th → 64th percentile

Success rate

30th → 54th percentile

Explosive rate

66th → 58th percentile

Sack rate

48th → 16th percentile

Interception rate

28th → 84th 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

272/388 (70.1%) · 19 TD · 8 INT

388 of 399 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

6.6089 of 212 QBs

Sack rate

9.3%185 of 212 QBs

Sacked 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 yds

55%of completions

149 comp4.3 yds avg5 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

29%of completions

80 comp13.8 yds avg4 TD

Deep

20+ yds

16%of completions

43 comp33.4 yds avg9 TD

Overall 70.1% completion on 388 attempts · 43 deep completions averaging 33.4 yds.

Situational

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.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-5 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 8/143 (5.6%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 2

+9 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 6/132 (4.5%) · league sack rate 5.2% · ~our read

Down 3+

-4 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 23/118 (19.5%) · league sack rate 9.1% · ~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

2023 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home7g	288	2.4	9.9	0.6
Road5g	234	0.4	6.1	0.8

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

2026 season

Head Coach

Shane Beamer

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

Awards

Player standing · 2023

Impact starter

Producing measurably more than a replacement-level starter.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

67 · #30 of 140 QBs

Former five-star. Now #30 at the position.

Career stats

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	--
2022	South Carolina	72	57	0.8	3	--
2021	Oklahoma	43	77	1.8	3	--
2020	Oklahoma	81	160	2.0	6	--
2019	Oklahoma	3	23	7.7	0	--
Career		297	419	1.4	16	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2023

W 47–21

vs Furman

345 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 93.5 · 8 rush yds (3 car) · 1 TD

Dominant 26-point win at home against Furman.

With K. Kroeger — 44 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 57 LONG · X. Legette — -1 rush yds (1 car)

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 4 · Mississippi State · 3&4 · Q1 · EPA +6.87Spencer Rattler pass complete to Xavier Legette for 76 yds for a TD (Mitch Jeter KICK)
Week 4 · Mississippi State · 1&10 · Q3 · EPA +6.08Spencer Rattler pass complete to Xavier Legette for 75 yds for a TD (Mitch Jeter KICK)
Week 10 · Jacksonville State · 1&10 · Q3 · EPA +5.24Spencer Rattler pass complete to Xavier Legette for 65 yds for a TD (Mitch Jeter KICK)
Week 2 · Furman · 3&8 · Q3 · EPA +5.00Spencer Rattler pass complete to Xavier Legette for 42 yds for a TD (Mitch Jeter KICK)
Week 11 · Vanderbilt · 3&15 · Q1 · EPA +4.71Spencer Rattler pass complete to Xavier Legette for 39 yds to the VAN 1 for a 1ST down
Week 10 · Jacksonville State · 2&10 · Q1 · EPA +3.96Spencer Rattler pass complete to Xavier Legette for 52 yds to the JVST 18 for a 1ST down
Week 5 · Tennessee · 2&10 · Q1 · EPA +3.94Spencer Rattler pass complete to Ahmarean Brown for 44 yds to the TENN 31 for a 1ST down
Week 3 · Georgia · 3&15 · Q4 · EPA +3.91Spencer Rattler pass complete to O'Mega Blake for 41 yds to the UGA 44 for a 1ST down
Week 3 · Georgia · 3&16 · Q1 · EPA +3.73Spencer Rattler pass complete to Antwane Wells Jr. for 17 yds for a TD (Mitch Jeter KICK)
Week 11 · Vanderbilt · 3&8 · Q4 · EPA +3.65Spencer Rattler pass complete to O'Mega Blake for 26 yds for a TD (Mitch Jeter PAT MISSED)

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2023 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	L 17-31@ 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@ 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@ 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@ 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	8.3	62.1

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

63.5%Completion %

25.4%Conversion/dropback

51.5%Land short of sticks

0INTs

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. ~ our read: checkdown by design

Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration

Who gets the tough yard

fact

6/17Inside-5 share

6 of the team's 17 inside-the-5 carries (35.3%).