Tanner McKee: QB · Stanford · #18.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Tanner McKee
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Third year in the Stanford quarterback room. On tape: 320 passing yards against Arizona State, Week 8, 2022.
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
61.9% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 29.2% conversion-per-dropback — 46.2% 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
3 of the team's 25 inside-the-5 carries (12.0%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2022 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 41-10vs Colgate | 22/27 | 308 | 2 | 1 | 11.4 | 89.4 | |
| Wk 2 | L 28-41vs No. 10 USC | 20/35 | 220 | 1 | 2 | 6.3 | 53.9 | |
| Wk 4 | L 22-40@ No. 18 Washington | 17/26 | 286 | 3 | 1 | 11.0 | 24.9 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | L 27-45@ No. 13 Oregon | 19/33 | 166 | 2 | 0 | 5.0 | 20.3 | |
| Wk 6 | L 27-28vs Oregon State | 20/33 | 269 | 2 | 1 | 8.2 | 70.9 | |
| Wk 7 | W 16-14@ Notre Dame | 26/38 | 288 | 0 | 0 | 7.6 | 78.9 | |
| Wk 8 | W 15-14vs Arizona State | 33/57 | 320 | 0 | 1 | 5.6 | 37.0 | Season-high 320 yds |
| Wk 9 | L 13-38@ No. 12 UCLA | 13/29 | 115 | 1 | 1 | 4.0 | 12.6 | |
| Wk 10 | L 14-52vs Washington State | 23/40 | 236 | 0 | 0 | 5.9 | 49.6 | |
| Wk 11 | L 7-42@ No. 13 Utah | 11/23 | 155 | 0 | 0 | 6.7 | 58.0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 20-27@ California | 29/45 | 271 | 1 | 1 | 6.0 | 51.7 | |
| Wk 13 | L 26-35vs BYU | 31/40 | 313 | 1 | 0 | 7.8 | 78.8 | |
| Total | 264/426 | 2947 | 13 | 8 | 6.9 | — |
Week 4 · 2022
L 22-40
at Washington
286 yds · 3 TD · 1 INT · QBR 24.9
With M. Wilson — 6 rec · 176 yds · 2 TD · 12 rush yds (1 car) · R. Sanborn — 45.5 yards per punt · 4 punts · 1 inside the 20
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 419 passing plays (256 completions) against the box score's 426 attempts (264 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.74124 of 206 QBsSack rate
8.2%161 of 206 QBsSacked on 8.2% of dropbacks (161 of 206) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (124 of 206).
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 62.0% completion on 426 attempts · 34 deep completions averaging 29.7 yds.
3 seasons under David Shaw — 10-20 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2022 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 278 | 1.0 | 7.5 | 0.8 |
| Road6g | 214 | 1.2 | 6.7 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 256 | 1.7 | 8.2 | 0.8 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 235 | 0.5 | 6.0 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
David Shaw
Pass share
54.2%
441 pass / 373 run
Plays / game
67.8
12 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2022
426 pass attempts and 74 carries in 12 games, more passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
How it ended
Three seasons at Stanford, 5,336 passing yards — drafted at #188 overall by the Philadelphia Eagles.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
Coaching lineage · 2020–2022
1 coachPlayed every college season under David Shaw.
Next stop · NFL
Philadelphia EaglesEntering 4th NFL season
Philadelphia EaglesEntering 4th NFL season
