Thomas Woodson: QB · Akron · #4.
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Thomas Woodson
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Fourth year in the same quarterback room at Akron. One game to point at: 286 passing yards and 3 passing TD against Buffalo — Week 9, 2017.
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
52.6% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 28.6% 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
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
Akron Beacon Journal Oct 20Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
Game log · Week-by-week
2017 season · 10 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 0-52@ No. 6 Penn State | 12/23 | 71 | 0 | 1 | 3.1 | 14.4 | |
| Wk 2 | W 52-3vs Arkansas-Pine Bluff | 15/21 | 166 | 1 | 0 | 7.9 | 83.1 | |
| Wk 3 | L 14-41vs Iowa State | 25/40 | 240 | 2 | 1 | 6.0 | 49.6 | |
| Wk 4 | L 17-22@ Troy | 20/40 | 268 | 1 | 2 | 6.7 | 46.7 | |
| Wk 5 | W 34-23@ Bowling Green | 13/24 | 168 | 2 | 1 | 7.0 | 65.6 | |
| Wk 6 | W 31-3vs Ball State | 17/30 | 211 | 2 | 0 | 7.0 | 43.6 | |
| Wk 7 | W 14-13@ Western Michigan | 13/24 | 127 | 1 | 1 | 5.3 | 39.8 | |
| Wk 8 | L 21-48@ Toledo | 18/33 | 205 | 2 | 1 | 6.2 | 38.0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 21-20vs Buffalo | 21/29 | 286 | 3 | 1 | 9.9 | 75.1 | Season-high 286 yds |
| Wk 14 | L 28-45vs Toledo | 5/14 | 35 | 0 | 1 | 2.5 | 7.7 | |
| Total | 159/278 | 1777 | 14 | 9 | 6.4 | — |
Week 9 · 2017
W 21-20
vs Buffalo
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 269 passing plays (153 completions) against the box score's 278 attempts (159 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.35141 of 205 QBsSack rate
5.8%97 of 205 QBsRarely sacked (97 of 205), but Adjusted ANY/A hasn't followed (141 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 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 57.2% completion on 278 attempts · 18 deep completions averaging 29.2 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2017 baseline
No situation moves him more than 56 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 Terry Bowden — 25-26 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 10 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 226 | 2.0 | 7.7 | 0.5 |
| Road5g | 168 | 1.2 | 5.7 | 1.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 179 | 1.3 | 6.1 | 0.9 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 175 | 1.7 | 6.2 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Terry Bowden
Pass share
49.4%
447 pass / 457 run
Plays / game
64.6
14 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2017
278 pass attempts and 43 carries in 10 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
Four seasons at Akron, 6,864 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Terry Bowden.
