#10

Taylen Green

Former quarterback at Arkansas. 2025: 2,714 passing yards, 19 TD, 11 INT.

QB · Arkansas · Sr. · #10

6′6″ · 224 lb · Lewisville, TX

CFB Index 76 · #20 of 146 QBsHigh confidenceDrafted by Cleveland — Rd 6, Pick 1, #182 overall

How he plays

Beats you with his legs when the pocket breaks down.

Explosive rate: 94th percentile.

The full scouting read

The numbers

2,714

passing yards · 2025

19 TD · 11 INT · 8.3 per attempt

Backed by 322 yds · 6 TD -- top 0.1% passing TDs game.

The play that turned itSwung Arkansas from 52% to 92% to win.Arkansas State at Arkansas · 56-14

His career numbers, season by season

The story

Former quarterback at Arkansas. 2025: 2,714 passing yards, 19 TD, 11 INT.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Boise State in 2021.
Transferred from Boise State to Arkansas in 2024.
Drafted round 6 by the Cleveland in 2026.

The full story, with sources

How it ended

Five seasons at Arkansas, 9,642 passing yards — drafted at #182 overall by Cleveland.

His career

Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.

2021

Signed with Boise State3-star out of Lewisville

202211 games

The role got bigger.

All-Mountain Westhonorable_mention
Mountain West Freshman Player of the Yearwinner

202413 games

Entered the portal

2026

Drafted by Clevelandround 6, pick 182

Career arc

Recruit

★★★

#1224 national

CFB

College

2 teams

2021–2025

NFL

NFL Draft

R6 · #182

Cleveland · 2026

Trophy case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

8 honors · 2 categories

🎖

ALL-MOUNTAIN WEST

All-Mountain West mention (2022)

🎓

FRESHMAN HONORS

Freshman recognition (2022)

4 mention(s)

Coaching lineage · 2021–2025

1 coach

2021–2025

Sam Pittman

Arkansas

Played his entire career under Sam Pittman.

Where He Ended Up · NFL

Cleveland2026 NFL rookie season

#182Rd 6 · Pick 1

Cleveland2026 NFL rookie season

View college career stats ↓

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2021Boise State7-5HC: Andy Avalos · Balanced

2022Boise State10-4HC: Andy Avalos · Run-leaning

2023Boise State8-6HC: Spencer Danielson · Run-heavy

2024Arkansas7-6HC: Sam Pittman · Run-leaning

2025Arkansas2-10HC: Sam Pittman · Balanced

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

76All-Conference level #20 of 146?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: explosive rate (94th percentile). Strength: epa / dropback (84th percentile). Concern: interception rate (20th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Explosive rate#12 / 183 · 94th pct

13.3%

EPA / dropback#29 / 183 · 84th pct

0.30

Success rate#36 / 183 · 80th pct

44.7%

Sack rate#141 / 183 · 23rd pct

6.8%

Interception rate#146 / 183 · 20th pct

3.2%

Box-score rates (8)

Rush yards#12 / 183 · 94th pct

779

Yards / att#27 / 183 · 84th pct

8.3

Rush TDs#31 / 183 · 81st pct

Pass TDs#44 / 183 · 75th pct

Pass yards#52 / 183 · 72nd pct

2714

Completion %#111 / 183 · 39th pct

60.7%

Fumbles lost#87 / 174 · 38th pct

Interceptions#162 / 183 · 10th pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

80th → 84th percentile

Success rate

78th → 80th percentile

Explosive rate

72nd → 94th percentile

Sack rate

38th → 23rd percentile

Interception rate

60th → 20th 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 · True throw depth (charted plays)

Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from

189/315 (60.0%) · 19 TD · 11 INT

315 of 326 attempts matched to play-by-play

106 of 315 attempts charted for true throw depth

Adjusted ANY/A

6.9469 of 206 QBs

Sack rate

6.6%157 of 206 QBs

Sacked on 6.6% of dropbacks (157 of 206) — and still 69 of 206 in Adjusted ANY/A.

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

Behind LOS · Negative air yds

13% of attempts (14)

71%comp

Air -3.1 · YAC 7.0 avg

Short · 0–9 air yds

47% of attempts (50)

58%comp4 INT

Air 5.1 · YAC 6.3 avg

Middle · 10–19 air yds

25% of attempts (27)

52%comp1 INT

Air 13.2 · YAC 2.6 avg

Deep · 20+ air yds

14% of attempts (15)

47%comp1 INT

Air 25.1 · YAC 10.7 avg

Overall 60.0% completion on 315 attempts · 47% completion on 15 deep attempts (20+ air yds).

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2025 baseline

No situation moves him more than 45 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-40 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 9/136 (6.6%) · league sack rate 4.2% · ~our read

Down 2

+45 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 3/101 (3.0%) · league sack rate 4.5% · ~our read

Down 3+

+13 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 8/74 (10.8%) · league sack rate 7.8% · ~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

2025 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home7g	221	2.1	8.2	0.9
Road5g	234	0.8	8.2	1.0

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-76g	276	2.3	8.8	0.8
Weeks 8+6g	177	0.8	7.6	1.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Ryan Silverfield

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

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Impact starter

Producing measurably more than a replacement-level starter.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

76 · #20 of 146 QBs

Three-star recruit. Now #20 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Arkansas	198	326	60.7%	2,714	8.3	19	11	143.2	74	--	--
2024	Arkansas	230	381	60.4%	3,153	8.3	15	9	138.2	70	--	--
2023	Boise State	121	212	57.1%	1,752	8.3	11	9	135.1	58	--	--
2022	Boise State	166	272	61.0%	2,023	7.4	14	6	136.1	75	--	--
2021	Boise State	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--
Career		715	1,191	60.0%	9,642	8.1	59	35	138.5	70	--	--

Season	Team
2025	Arkansas	138	779	5.6	8	--
2024	Arkansas	156	602	3.9	8	--
2023	Boise State	78	436	5.6	9	--
2022	Boise State	80	581	7.3	10	--
2021	Boise State	5	2	0.4	0	--
Career		457	2,400	5.3	35	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2025

W 52–7

vs Alabama A&M

322 yds · 6 TD · 0 INT · QBR 86.4 · 41 rush yds (9 car)

Dominant 45-point win at home against Alabama A&M.

With D. Bale — 1 REC · 45 AVG · 2 IN 20 · M. Washington — 79 rush yds (9 car)

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 9 · Auburn · 2&10 · Q2 · EPA +5.71(08:45) No Huddle-Shotgun #10 T.Green pass complete short right to #6 R.Sharpe caught at ARK48, for 58 yards to the AUB00 TOUCHDOWN, clock 08:36, 1ST DOWN #80 S.Starzyk kick attempt good (H: #37 D.Bale, LS: #30 A.Ngo)
Week 2 · Arkansas State · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA +5.15Taylen Green 64 Yd Run (Scott Starzyk Kick)
Week 4 · Memphis · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA +4.95Taylen Green pass complete to Rohan Jones for 62 yds for a TD (Scott Starzyk KICK)
Week 3 · Ole Miss · 3&16 · Q1 · EPA +4.80Taylen Green pass complete to O'Mega Blake for 30 yds for a TD (Scott Starzyk KICK)
Week 8 · Texas A&M · 2&33 · Q4 · EPA +4.43Taylen Green pass complete to O'Mega Blake for 36 yds to the TA&M 15 for a 1ST down
Week 12 · LSU · 2&9 · Q2 · EPA -4.26(00:37) Shotgun #10 T.Green pass intercepted by #4 M.Delane at LSU00, Touchback
Week 10 · Mississippi State · 3&20 · Q2 · EPA +4.23(00:17) No Huddle-Shotgun #10 T.Green pass complete deep middle to #6 R.Sharpe caught at MSU30, for 38 yards to the MSU12 (#21 H.Washington), 1ST DOWN
Week 12 · LSU · 4&1 · Q3 · EPA -4.21(08:58) #10 T.Green rush middle for 0 yards to the LSU01 (#90 J.Guillory; #33 W.Weeks), TURNOVER ON DOWNS
Week 2 · Arkansas State · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA -4.19Taylen Green pass intercepted Terry Kirksey return for 18 yds to the ARST 38
Week 8 · Texas A&M · 4&5 · Q4 · EPA +4.16Taylen Green run for 49 yds to the TA&M 39 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 52-7vs Alabama A&M	24/31	322	6	0	10.4	86.4	6 TD passes
Wk 2	W 56-14vs Arkansas State	17/26	239	4	2	9.2	95.5	4 TD passes
Wk 3	L 35-41@ Ole Miss	22/35	305	1	0	8.7	96.0
Wk 4	L 31-32@ Memphis	18/34	325	1	2	9.6	78.0	Season-high 325 yds
Wk 5	L 13-56vs Notre Dame	17/32	207	0	1	6.5	51.3
Wk 7	L 31-34@ Tennessee	21/31	256	2	0	8.3	94.5	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 8	L 42-45vs Texas A&M	19/32	256	3	0	8.0	95.4	3 TD passes
Wk 9	L 24-33vs Auburn	14/22	268	1	3	12.2	67.5	3 INTs — rough day
Wk 10	L 35-38vs Mississippi State	19/31	194	1	0	6.3	54.0
Wk 12	L 22-23@ LSU	11/19	165	0	2	8.7	67.6
Wk 13	L 37-52@ Texas	10/20	118	0	1	5.9	82.7
Wk 14	L 17-31vs Missouri	6/13	59	0	0	4.5	44.3
Total		198/326	2714	19	11	8.2	76.1

How he plays

Play style

Dangerous with both arm and legs — defenses can't just pin the ears back.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

57.9%Completion %

27.3%Conversion/dropback

45.5%Land short of sticks

1INTs

57.9% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 27.3% conversion-per-dropback — 45.5% 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

5/23Inside-5 share

5 of the team's 23 inside-the-5 carries (21.7%).