Steven Montez: QB · Colorado · #12.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Steven Montez
Keeps the offense on schedule and doesn't lose the game. Played for three head coaches in four seasons at Colorado. A game that shows it: 375 passing yards and 2 passing TD against Nebraska — Week 2, 2019.
Play style
Consistent underneath passer who protects the lead. Rarely loses games; rarely wins them alone.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
48.2% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 22.6% conversion-per-dropback — 48.1% 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
1 of the team's 15 inside-the-5 carries (6.7%).
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
2019 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 52-31vs Colorado State | 13/20 | 232 | 2 | 0 | 11.6 | 94.9 | |
| Wk 2 | W 34-31vs No. 25 Nebraska | 28/41 | 375 | 2 | 1 | 9.1 | 51.7 | Season-high 375 yds |
| Wk 3 | L 23-30vs Air Force | 26/43 | 220 | 2 | 1 | 5.1 | 39.8 | |
| Wk 4 | W 34-31@ No. 24 Arizona State | 23/30 | 337 | 3 | 0 | 11.2 | 95.3 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 6 | L 30-35vs Arizona | 28/42 | 299 | 1 | 0 | 7.1 | 56.6 | |
| Wk 7 | L 3-45@ No. 13 Oregon | 19/34 | 131 | 0 | 4 | 3.9 | 24.7 | 4 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 8 | L 10-41@ Washington State | 16/30 | 129 | 0 | 2 | 4.3 | 12.4 | |
| Wk 9 | L 31-35vs USC | 27/43 | 324 | 3 | 0 | 7.5 | 74.9 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 10 | L 14-31@ UCLA | 21/38 | 195 | 1 | 1 | 5.1 | — | |
| Wk 11 | W 16-13vs Stanford | 20/30 | 186 | 0 | 1 | 6.2 | — | |
| Wk 13 | W 20-14vs Washington | 17/28 | 223 | 1 | 0 | 8.0 | — | |
| Wk 14 | L 15-45@ No. 6 Utah | 17/26 | 157 | 2 | 0 | 6.0 | — | |
| Total | 255/405 | 2808 | 17 | 10 | 6.9 | — |
Week 9 · 2019
L 31-35
vs USC
324 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 74.9 · 45 rush yds (7 car) · 1 TD
With A. Kinney — 42.3 yards per punt · 6 punts · 60 long · L. Shenault Jr. — 9 rec · 172 yds · 1 TD · 17 rush yds (1 car)
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 401 passing plays (252 completions) against the box score's 405 attempts (255 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.04114 of 205 QBsSack rate
4.7%60 of 205 QBsRarely sacked (60 of 205), but Adjusted ANY/A hasn't followed (114 of 205).
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 63.0% completion on 405 attempts · 33 deep completions averaging 32.3 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2019 baseline
No situation moves him more than 19 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
2019 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 271 | 1.5 | 7.2 | 0.5 |
| Road5g | 190 | 1.2 | 6.1 | 1.4 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 266 | 1.7 | 8.0 | 1.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 202 | 1.2 | 6.2 | 0.7 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mel Tucker
Pass share
49.0%
410 pass / 427 run
Plays / game
69.8
12 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2019
405 pass attempts and 65 carries in 12 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Four seasons at Colorado, 9,709 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2016–2019
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Mike MacIntyre → Mel Tucker. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
