Taulia Tagovailoa

Senior quarterback for Maryland. 2023: 3,377 passing yards, 25 TD, 11 INT.

QB · Maryland · Sr. · #3

5′11″ · 208 lb · Ewa Beach, HI

CFB Index 67 · #31 of 140 QBsHigh confidenceAll-ConferenceMaryland 2023 alumnus

Recruiting

4★

PRO recruit

No. 180 nationally · Signed with Alabama

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 quarterback for Maryland. 2023: 3,377 passing yards, 25 TD, 11 INT.

Signed as a 4-star recruit to Alabama in 2019.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Five seasons at Maryland, 11,356 passing yards — his college career is complete.

His career

He arrived as a blue-chip recruit and played like one.

20193 games

Signed with Alabama4-star out of Thompson

202212 games

The role got bigger.

All-Big Tensecond

202312 games

All-Big Tensecond

Career arc

Recruit

★★★★

#180 national

CFB

College

2 teams

2019–2023

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Trophy case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

6 honors · 1 category

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ALL-BIG TEN · 2ND TEAM

All-Big Ten 2nd team (2023)

Coaching lineage · 2019–2023

1 coach

2019–2023

Mike Locksley

Maryland

Played his entire career under Mike Locksley.

2023 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2019Alabama11-2HC: Nick Saban · Balanced

2020Maryland2-3HC: Mike Locksley · Balanced, slow tempo

2021Maryland7-6HC: Mike Locksley · Balanced, fast tempo

2022Maryland8-5HC: Mike Locksley · Balanced

2023Maryland8-5HC: Mike Locksley · Pass-leaning

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

67Quality starter #31 of 140?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: success rate (84th percentile). Strength: pass yards (89th percentile). Concern: interceptions (9th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Success rate#29 / 177 · 84th pct

47.0%

Sack rate#54 / 177 · 70th pct

4.5%

Explosive rate#58 / 177 · 68th pct

11.6%

EPA / dropback#63 / 177 · 65th pct

0.33

Interception rate#108 / 177 · 39th pct

0.7%

Box-score rates (8)

Pass yards#20 / 179 · 89th pct

3377

Pass TDs#19 / 179 · 89th pct

Completion %#28 / 179 · 85th pct

66.4%

Rush TDs#37 / 179 · 77th pct

Yards / att#60 / 179 · 66th pct

7.7

Rush yards#131 / 179 · 27th pct

Fumbles lost#125 / 167 · 20th pct

Interceptions#159 / 179 · 9th pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

57th → 65th percentile

Success rate

59th → 84th percentile

Explosive rate

38th → 68th percentile

Sack rate

22nd → 70th percentile

Interception rate

62nd → 39th percentile

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

283/423 (66.9%) · 25 TD · 11 INT

423 of 437 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

7.0873 of 212 QBs

Sack rate

4.4%68 of 212 QBs

Rarely sacked (68 of 212 QBs) and still 73 of 212 in Adjusted ANY/A.

Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.

Short

0–9 yds

52%of completions

148 comp4.5 yds avg7 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

30%of completions

86 comp13.3 yds avg8 TD

Deep

20+ yds

17%of completions

49 comp31.6 yds avg10 TD

Overall 66.9% completion on 423 attempts · 49 deep completions averaging 31.6 yds.

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2023 baseline

No situation moves him more than 47 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-23 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 5/186 (2.7%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 2

-1 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 6/140 (4.3%) · league sack rate 5.2% · ~our read

Down 3+

+47 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 7/92 (7.6%) · league sack rate 9.1% · ~our read

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 & context

Splits · Per-game

2023 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home7g	291	2.0	8.5	0.7
Road5g	267	2.2	7.1	1.2

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-77g	275	2.3	7.9	0.7
Weeks 8+5g	290	1.8	8.0	1.2

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Mike Locksley

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

Awards

Player standing · 2023

All-Conference

Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

67 · #31 of 140 QBs

Former four-star. Now #31 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2023	Maryland	290	437	66.4%	3,377	7.7	25	11	145.1	69	--	--
2022	Maryland	262	391	67.0%	3,008	7.7	18	8	142.7	54	--	--
2021	Maryland	328	474	69.2%	3,860	8.1	26	11	151.1	78	--	--
2020	Maryland	75	122	61.5%	1,011	8.3	7	7	138.5	65	--	--
2019	Alabama	9	12	75.0%	100	8.3	1	0	172.5	--	--	--
Career		964	1,436	67.1%	11,356	7.9	77	37	146.1	67	--	--

Season	Team
2023	Maryland	68	18	0.3	5	--
2022	Maryland	87	64	0.7	4	--
2021	Maryland	80	77	1.0	2	--
2020	Maryland	26	49	1.9	2	--
2019	Alabama	1	-2	-2.0	0	--
Career		262	206	0.8	13	--

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 5 · Indiana · 3&19 · Q3 · EPA +5.19Taulia Tagovailoa pass complete to Tai Felton for 46 yds to the IU 3 for a 1ST down
Week 3 · Virginia · 1&10 · Q3 · EPA +5.15Taulia Tagovailoa pass complete to Jeshaun Jones for 64 yds for a TD (Jack Howes KICK)
Week 13 · Rutgers · 1&10 · Q2 · EPA -4.41Taulia Tagovailoa pass complete to Colby McDonald for a loss of 1 yard Colby McDonald fumbled, recovered by RUTG Isaiah Iton [NHSG] TAGOVAILOA, Taulia pass to the right complete for -1 yard to MCDONALD, Colby caught at the RU20, MCDONALD, Colby fumbled at RU20 forced by DIXON, Flip, recovered by RU ITON, Isaiah at the RU19, returned 0 yards to the RU19, End of Play, clock 03:56.
Week 13 · Rutgers · 1&20 · Q2 · EPA +4.32Taulia Tagovailoa pass complete to Tai Felton for 57 yds to the RUTG 18 for a 1ST down
Week 10 · Penn State · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA -4.13Taulia Tagovailoa pass complete to Tai Felton for 9 yds Tai Felton fumbled, recovered by PSU Zane Durant [NHSG] TAGOVAILOA, Taulia pass to the left complete for 9 yards to FELTON, Tai caught at the PSU33, FELTON, Tai fumbled at PSU23 forced by ISAAC, Adisa, recovered by PSU DURANT, Zane at the PSU23, returned 14 yards to the PSU37 (PURCELL, Mike;ISAAC, Adisa), clock 07:12.
Week 4 · Michigan State · 4&1 · Q4 · EPA +4.11Taulia Tagovailoa pass complete to Octavian Smith Jr. for 31 yds for a TD (Jack Howes KICK)
Week 7 · Illinois · 3&1 · Q2 · EPA -3.70Taulia Tagovailoa pass complete to Kaden Prather for 6 yds Kaden Prather fumbled, recovered by ILL Kenenna Odeluga
Week 10 · Penn State · 2&18 · Q2 · EPA +3.69Taulia Tagovailoa pass complete to Kaden Prather for 28 yds to the PSU 43 for a 1ST down
Week 11 · Nebraska · 3&15 · Q3 · EPA +3.66Taulia Tagovailoa pass complete to Jeshaun Jones for 18 yds to the NEB 38 for a 1ST down
Week 11 · Nebraska · 3&16 · Q1 · EPA +3.60Taulia Tagovailoa pass complete to Kaden Prather for 17 yds to the NEB 33 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2023 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 38-6vs Towson	22/33	260	3	0	7.9	86.3	3 TD passes
Wk 2	W 38-20vs Charlotte	25/36	287	1	2	8.0	42.5
Wk 3	W 42-14vs Virginia	19/30	342	1	0	11.4	79.5
Wk 4	W 31-9@ Michigan State	21/36	223	3	1	6.2	78.6	3 TD passes
Wk 5	W 44-17vs Indiana	24/34	352	5	0	10.4	95.0	5 TD passes
Wk 6	L 17-37@ Ohio State	21/41	196	1	2	4.8	67.2
Wk 7	L 24-27vs Illinois	27/39	266	2	0	6.8	72.1	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 9	L 27-33@ Northwestern	30/47	274	3	1	5.8	43.3	3 TD passes
Wk 10	L 15-51vs Penn State	29/39	286	2	1	7.3	80.3
Wk 11	W 13-10@ Nebraska	27/40	283	1	1	7.1	79.6
Wk 12	L 24-31vs Michigan	21/31	247	0	2	8.0	50.2
Wk 13	W 42-24@ Rutgers	24/31	361	3	1	11.6	96.0	Season-high 361 yds
Total		290/437	3377	25	11	7.9	72.5

How he plays

Play style

Consistent underneath passer who protects the lead. Rarely loses games; rarely wins them alone.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

51.1%Completion %

22.0%Conversion/dropback

54.2%Land short of sticks

2INTs

51.1% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 22.0% conversion-per-dropback — 54.2% 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. ~ our read: checkdown by design

Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration

Who gets the tough yard

fact

3/29Inside-5 share

3 of the team's 29 inside-the-5 carries (10.3%).