Taylor Lamb: QB · App State · #11.
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Taylor Lamb
Extends plays on the move until something opens up. Fourth year in the App State quarterback room. On tape: 427 passing yards and 25 rushing yards against Coastal Carolina, Week 8, 2017.
Play style
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
48.6% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 17.5% conversion-per-dropback — 61.1% 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
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2017 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 10-31@ No. 15 Georgia | 18/27 | 128 | 0 | 0 | 4.7 | 47.9 | |
| Wk 2 | W 54-7vs Savannah State | 12/15 | 327 | 5 | 0 | 21.8 | 98.6 | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | W 20-13@ Texas State | 17/28 | 167 | 1 | 0 | 6.0 | 63.1 | |
| Wk 4 | L 19-20vs Wake Forest | 26/50 | 372 | 2 | 0 | 7.4 | 68.6 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 6 | W 45-31vs New Mexico State | 10/21 | 48 | 0 | 2 | 2.3 | 23.9 | |
| Wk 7 | W 23-20@ Idaho | 19/26 | 155 | 3 | 1 | 6.0 | 71.5 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | W 37-29vs Coastal Carolina | 23/39 | 427 | 2 | 0 | 10.9 | 83.8 | Season-high 427 yds |
| Wk 9 | L 27-30@ Massachusetts | 14/28 | 133 | 2 | 1 | 4.8 | 64.0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 45-52@ UL Monroe | 20/29 | 339 | 4 | 0 | 11.7 | 87.8 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 11 | W 27-6vs Georgia Southern | 7/13 | 161 | 2 | 0 | 12.4 | 94.6 | |
| Wk 13 | W 31-10@ Georgia State | 15/23 | 107 | 2 | 2 | 4.7 | 43.2 | |
| Wk 14 | W 63-14vs Louisiana | 17/22 | 242 | 4 | 0 | 11.0 | 99.4 | 4 TD passes |
 Bowl | W 34-0vs Toledo | 8/16 | 131 | 0 | 0 | 8.2 | 76.8 | |
| Total | 206/337 | 2737 | 27 | 6 | 8.1 | — |
Week 2 · 2017
W 54-7
327 yds · 5 TD · 0 INT · QBR 98.6
Dominant 47-point win at home against Savannah State.
With C. Reed — 3 rec · 106 yds · 2 TD · X. Subotsch — 38.3 yards per punt · 3 punts · 49 long
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 332 passing plays (201 completions) against the box score's 337 attempts (206 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
8.4919 of 205 QBsSack rate
2.6%22 of 205 QBsRarely sacked (22 of 205 QBs) and still 19 of 205 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 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 61.1% completion on 337 attempts · 42 deep completions averaging 34.7 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2017 baseline
No situation moves him more than 21 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.
4 seasons under Scott Satterfield, all run-heavy offenses — 37-14 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 263 | 2.5 | 11.0 | 0.3 |
| Road6g | 172 | 2.0 | 6.3 | 0.7 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 190 | 1.6 | 8.1 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 235 | 2.7 | 9.2 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Scott Satterfield
Pass share
38.0%
353 pass / 576 run
Plays / game
71.5
13 games
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2017
337 pass attempts and 78 carries in 13 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
Four seasons at App State, 9,786 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Scott Satterfield.
