#18

Tate Rodemaker

Former quarterback at Southern Miss. 2024: 985 passing yards, 7 TD, 7 INT.

QB · Southern Miss · Jr. · #18

6′4″ · 196 lb · Valdosta, GA

CFB Index 19 · #137 of 137 QBsHigh confidenceSouthern Miss 2024 — college career complete

Recruiting

3★

PRO recruit

No. 647 nationally · Signed with Valdosta

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

Former quarterback at Southern Miss. 2024: 985 passing yards, 7 TD, 7 INT.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Valdosta in 2020.
Transferred from Southern Miss to Western Carolina in 2025.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Five seasons at Southern Miss, 1,886 passing yards — his college career is complete.

His career

3 programs, one constant: he played.

20204 games

Recruited3-star out of Valdosta

20249 games

The role got bigger.

Entered the portal

2025

Entered the portal

Career arc

Recruit

★★★

#647 national

CFB

College

2 teams

2020–2024

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Coaching lineage · 2020–2024

3 coaches

2020

Scotty Walden

Southern Miss

2021–2023

Will Hall

Southern Miss

era →

2024

Reed Stringer

Southern Miss

era →

Played under 3 different head coaches: Scotty Walden, Will Hall, and Reed Stringer. Multi-era developmental context.

2024 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2020Florida State3-6HC: Mike Norvell · Run-leaning

2021Florida State5-7HC: Mike Norvell · Run-heavy, slow tempo

2022Florida State10-3HC: Mike Norvell · Run-leaning

2023Florida State13-1HC: Mike Norvell · Balanced

2024Southern Miss1-11HC: Reed Stringer · Run-leaning, slow tempo

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

19Below cohort / limited sample #137 of 137?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: epa / dropback (6th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Explosive rate#134 / 169 · 21st pct

7.5%

Sack rate#138 / 169 · 19th pct

8.6%

Interception rate#150 / 169 · 11th pct

3.8%

Success rate#154 / 169 · 9th pct

33.1%

EPA / dropback#160 / 169 · 6th pct

-0.03

Box-score rates (8)

Interceptions#78 / 165 · 49th pct

Fumbles lost#68 / 159 · 44th pct

Completion %#109 / 165 · 34th pct

59.4%

Pass TDs#130 / 165 · 19th pct

Pass yards#137 / 165 · 17th pct

985

Yards / att#150 / 165 · 9th pct

6.0

Rush TDs#137 / 165 · 9th pct

Rush yards#160 / 165 · 3rd pct

-90

Season trend

EPA / dropback— first qualifying season

Success rate— first qualifying season

Explosive rate— first qualifying season

Sack rate— first qualifying season

Interception rate— first qualifying season

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

95/160 (59.4%) · 7 TD · 7 INT

160 of 165 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

4.04183 of 205 QBs

Sack rate

8.3%168 of 205 QBs

Sacked on 8.3% of dropbacks (168 of 205) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (183 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 yds

63%of completions

60 comp4.0 yds avg4 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

24%of completions

23 comp13.7 yds avg1 TD

Deep

20+ yds

13%of completions

12 comp34.1 yds avg2 TD

Overall 59.4% completion on 160 attempts · 12 deep completions averaging 34.1 yds.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2024 season · 9 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home4g	137	1.2	6.0	0.0
Road5g	87.6	0.4	5.4	1.4

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-75g	116	0.8	5.9	0.8
Weeks 8+4g	101	0.8	5.3	0.8

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Blake Anderson

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

Awards

Player standing · 2024

Part-time starter

Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

19 · #137 of 137 QBs

Three-star recruit. Now #137 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2024	Southern Miss	98	165	59.4%	985	6.0	7	7	115.1	26	--	--
2023	Florida State	32	56	57.1%	510	9.1	5	0	163.1	41	--	--
2022	Florida State	18	31	58.1%	254	8.2	2	2	135.3	--	--	--
2021	Florida State	1	2	50.0%	7	3.5	0	0	79.4	--	--	--
2020	Florida State	17	29	58.6%	130	4.5	0	3	75.6	--	--	--
Career		166	283	58.7%	1,886	6.7	14	12	122.5	30	--	--

Season	Team
2024	Southern Miss	26	-90	-3.5	0	--
2023	Florida State	9	-18	-2.0	0	--
2022	Florida State	10	14	1.4	0	--
2021	Florida State	--	--	--	--	--
2020	Florida State	8	-13	-1.6	0	--
Career		53	-107	-2.0	0	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2024

W 35–10

vs SE Louisiana

179 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 32.7 · -4 rush yds (3 car)

Dominant 25-point win at home against SE Louisiana.

With B. Lofton — 47 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 55 LONG · E. Crawford — 59 yds · 0 TD · 0 INT · QBR 60.5 · 14 rush yds (3 car)

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 14 · Troy · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA -8.07Tate Rodemaker pass intercepted Ian Conerly-Goodly return for 31 yds for a TD (Scott Taylor Renfroe KICK)
Week 14 · Troy · 2&10 · Q3 · EPA +6.78Tate Rodemaker pass complete to Larry Simmons for 75 yds for a TD (Two-Point Conversion failed)
Week 9 · James Madison · 2&1 · Q3 · EPA -5.10Tate Rodemaker run for a loss of 5 yards to the JMU 6 Tate Rodemaker fumbled, recovered by JMU Chris Shearin C. Shearin return for 0 yds
Week 2 · SE Louisiana · 3&19 · Q2 · EPA +4.61Tate Rodemaker pass complete to Larry Simmons for 49 yds to the SELA 16 for a 1ST down
Week 1 · Kentucky · 3&5 · Q2 · EPA -4.19Tate Rodemaker pass intercepted, touchback. JQ Hardaway return for no gain
Week 3 · South Florida · 2&12 · Q1 · EPA +4.02Tate Rodemaker pass complete to Kenyon Clay for 37 yds for a TD (Andrew Stein KICK)
Week 3 · South Florida · 2&10 · Q1 · EPA +3.62Ethan Crawford pass complete to Tate Rodemaker for 42 yds to the USF 45 for a 1ST down
Week 4 · Jacksonville State · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA -3.24Tate Rodemaker pass intercepted Geimere Latimer return for 2 yds to the JVST 41
Week 13 · South Alabama · 4&8 · Q3 · EPA +2.96Tate Rodemaker pass complete to Javieon Butler for 18 yds to the USA 19 for a 1ST down
Week 1 · Kentucky · 3&18 · Q1 · EPA +2.91Tate Rodemaker pass complete to Kyirin Heath for 34 yds to the USM 43 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2024 season · 9 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	L 0-31@ Kentucky	13/19	126	0	2	6.6	23.7
Wk 2	W 35-10vs SE Louisiana	18/33	179	2	0	5.4	32.7
Wk 3	L 24-49vs South Florida	10/15	120	2	0	8.0	86.4
Wk 4	L 7-44@ Jacksonville State	3/5	15	0	2	3.0	2.6
Wk 6	L 13-23vs Louisiana	15/21	140	0	0	6.7	5.2
Wk 9	L 15-32@ James Madison	—	—	—	—	—	—
Wk 12	L 3-58@ Texas State	6/15	63	0	1	4.2	23.7
Wk 13	L 14-35vs South Alabama	15/27	108	1	0	4.0	28.9
Wk 14	L 20-52@ Troy	18/30	234	2	2	7.8	24.0	Season-high 234 yds
Total		98/165	985	7	7	5.7	28.4

How he plays

Play style

Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

54.8%Completion %

20.6%Conversion/dropback

58.8%Land short of sticks

0INTs

54.8% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 20.6% conversion-per-dropback — 58.8% 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