Tanner Mordecai: QB · Wisconsin · #8.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Tanner Mordecai
Operates within the system without forcing anything. The six seasons span three programs and four head coaches: Lincoln Riley, Jim Leavitt, Rhett Lashlee and Luke Fickell. AAC Offensive Player of the Week in 2022 made it two straight seasons on the honors list. On tape: 378 passing yards and 3 passing TD against LSU, Bowl, 2023.
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
57.7% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 25.7% conversion-per-dropback — 40.0% 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
2 of the team's 22 inside-the-5 carries (9.1%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 10 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 38-17vs Buffalo | 24/31 | 189 | 1 | 2 | 6.1 | 20.8 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | L 22-31@ Washington State | 25/40 | 277 | 1 | 0 | 6.9 | 50.0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 35-14vs Georgia Southern | 19/30 | 236 | 0 | 0 | 7.9 | 47.3 | |
| Wk 4 | W 38-17@ Purdue | 17/27 | 174 | 0 | 1 | 6.4 | 66.4 | |
| Wk 6 | W 24-13vs Rutgers | 17/31 | 145 | 1 | 0 | 4.7 | 64.6 | |
| Wk 7 | L 6-15vs Iowa | 12/20 | 106 | 0 | 0 | 5.3 | 54.2 | |
| Wk 11 | L 10-24vs Northwestern | 31/45 | 255 | 0 | 0 | 5.7 | 44.4 | |
| Wk 12 | W 24-17vs Nebraska | 18/28 | 160 | 1 | 0 | 5.7 | 76.1 | |
| Wk 13 | W 28-14@ Minnesota | 14/22 | 145 | 2 | 1 | 6.6 | 87.4 | |
 Bowl | L 31-35vs No. 13 LSU | 27/40 | 378 | 3 | 0 | 9.5 | 61.6 | |
| Total | 204/314 | 2065 | 9 | 4 | 6.6 | — |
Bowl · 2023
L 31-35
vs LSU · neutral site
378 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 61.6
With A. Bertrams — 35.4 yards per punt · 5 punts · 3 inside the 20 · W. Pauling — 8 rec · 143 yds · 2 TD
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 306 passing plays (200 completions) against the box score's 314 attempts (204 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.07113 of 212 QBsSack rate
4.8%80 of 212 QBsRarely sacked (80 of 212), but Adjusted ANY/A hasn't followed (113 of 212).
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 65.0% completion on 314 attempts · 26 deep completions averaging 30.9 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2023 baseline
No situation moves him more than 13 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 · 10 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 182 | 0.5 | 5.9 | 0.3 |
| Road3g | 199 | 1.0 | 6.6 | 0.7 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 215 | 0.9 | 6.7 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 187 | 1.0 | 6.0 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Luke Fickell
Pass share
50.9%
467 pass / 450 run
Plays / game
70.5
13 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2023
314 pass attempts, 90 carries and 2 catches in 10 games, more passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Former four-star. Now #91 at the position.
How it ended
Six seasons, at Oklahoma, SMU and Wisconsin, 9,856 passing yards — the college career is complete.
A blue-chip recruit with honors.
The role got bigger.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-AAC · 2ND TEAM
All-AAC 2nd team (2021)
Weekly recognition
4 weekly honors (2021)
5 career weekly honors across 2 seasons — a 4+ season has tracked to All-Conference ~83% of the time
Coaching lineage · 2018–2023
4 coachesPlayed for 4 head coaches at 3 schools: Lincoln Riley, Sonny Dykes, Rhett Lashlee and Luke Fickell.
