Take Steven Angeli off Syracuse's roster and the first thing you'd miss is No.365 4★, national recruit.
6′3″ · 212 lb · Westfield, NJ
The numbers
passing yards · 2026
4 TD · 3 INT · 7.3 per attempt
2 games into 2026 so far -- Best game: 263 pass yds, 3 TD, -14 rush yds, vs New Hampshire
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 quarterback for Syracuse. 2026: 2 games with a box-score line.
Aura™ · Him Watch
+11aura tax
53rd pctl our passing-value metric (wEPA) QBs · 160 qualified, n=86
— the discourse is fair.Buzz vs Tape
Every angle we can check here reads about where you'd expect this season.
Steven Angeli
Steven Angeli is a cornerstone for Syracuse — measured against the line he joined.
4★ · NATIONAL RECRUIT
No.365
recruiting national rank
AI-generated narrative · may contain errors · not journalism · updated 2026-09-15
His career
He was on the field for 4 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Badges
Coaching lineage · 2023–2026
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Nunzio Campanile → Fran Brown. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: explosive rate (88th percentile). Strength: fumbles lost (91st percentile). Concern: sack rate (19th percentile).
Real play-by-play efficiency
Season trend
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).
Pass Profile · True throw depth (charted plays)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
5.8854 of 75 QBsSack rate
6.0%52 of 75 QBsSacked on 6.0% of dropbacks (52 of 75) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (54 of 75).
Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.
Behind LOS · Negative air yds
Short · 0–9 air yds
Middle · 10–19 air yds
Deep · 20+ air yds
Overall 57.7% completion on 78 attempts · 23% completion on 13 deep attempts (20+ air yds).
Splits
Per-game splits
Through 2 games: 284 YDS/g, 2.0 TD/g, 7.7 YPA, 1.5 INT/g — splits start at 3 games.
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Fran Brown
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2026
On the two-deep and pushing for snaps.
| Season | Team | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Syracuse | 44 | 78 | 56.4% | 569 | 7.3 | 4 | 3 | 126.9 | 37 | -- | -- |
| 2025 | Syracuse | 97 | 155 | 62.6% | 1,317 | 8.5 | 10 | 2 | 152.7 | 64 | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Notre Dame | 24 | 36 | 66.7% | 268 | 7.4 | 3 | 0 | 156.7 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Notre Dame | 34 | 44 | 77.3% | 504 | 11.5 | 7 | 1 | 221.4 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 199 | 313 | 63.6% | 2,658 | 8.5 | 24 | 6 | 156.4 | 55 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Syracuse | 9 | -18 | -2.0 | 0 | -- |
| 2025 | Syracuse | 23 | -32 | -1.4 | 1 | -- |
| 2024 | Notre Dame | 9 | 9 | 1.0 | 0 | -- |
| 2023 | Notre Dame | 8 | 27 | 3.4 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 49 | -14 | -0.3 | 1 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2026
W 66–3
263 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · -14 rush yds (3 car)
Dominant 63-point win at home against New Hampshire.
With D. Samuel Jr. — 2 SOLO · 2 TOT · 42 AVG · U. Hatcher — 11 rush yds (1 car)
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2026 season · 2 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 66-3vs New Hampshire | 20/29 | 263 | 3 | 0 | 9.1 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | L 18-21vs California | 24/49 | 306 | 1 | 3 | 6.2 | 25.2 | Season-high 306 yds · 3 INTs — rough day |
| Total | 44/78 | 569 | 4 | 3 | 7.7 | 25.2 |
Play style
Pushes it downfield on every look.
CFB Index positional classification
2026 Outlook
Syracuse
2026 Depth chart
Returning starter
Quarterback · Syracuse
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Syracuse · Last season: 3-9 · Talent rank #35 · 2026 recruiting class #35
Player DNA
Elite arm talent, pushing downfield. Completion rate is the variable.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Athan Kaliakmanis’s 2025 season.
Matches Athan on
Differs from Athan on
Through 3 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Lanorris Sellers’s path through South Carolina.
Matches Lanorris on
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Hudson Card's junior season at Texas (2022).
Matches Hudson on
Differs from Hudson on
Player DNA
Heisman Trajectory · 2026
Peaked at #42 this season.