Tommy DeVito: QB · Illinois · #3.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Tommy DeVito
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. Played for two head coaches across five seasons and two programs. A game that shows it: 329 passing yards and 3 passing TD against Chattanooga — Week 4, 2022.
Play style
High-percentage passer who protects the ball. Loses the matchup on improvisation.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
60.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 14.7% conversion-per-dropback — 72.2% 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. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
10 of the team's 34 inside-the-5 carries (29.4%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
LancasterOnline Oct 25
Yahoo Sports Oct 25Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
Game log · Week-by-week
2022 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 38-6vs Wyoming | 27/37 | 194 | 2 | 0 | 5.2 | 43.0 | |
| Wk 1 | L 20-23@ Indiana | 21/35 | 235 | 2 | 1 | 6.7 | 66.3 | |
| Wk 2 | W 24-3vs Virginia | 17/25 | 196 | 2 | 1 | 7.8 | 40.1 | |
| Wk 4 | W 31-0vs Chattanooga | 23/31 | 329 | 3 | 0 | 10.6 | 64.3 | Season-high 329 yds |
| Wk 5 | W 34-10@ Wisconsin | 18/24 | 167 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 86.6 | |
| Wk 6 | W 9-6vs Iowa | 6/11 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 3.8 | 86.5 | |
| Wk 7 | W 26-14vs Minnesota | 25/32 | 252 | 1 | 0 | 7.9 | 96.0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 26-9@ Nebraska | 20/22 | 179 | 2 | 0 | 8.1 | 84.4 | |
| Wk 10 | L 15-23vs Michigan State | 25/37 | 288 | 2 | 0 | 7.8 | 58.9 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 11 | L 24-31vs Purdue | 18/32 | 201 | 1 | 1 | 6.3 | 45.0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 17-19@ No. 3 Michigan | 21/30 | 178 | 0 | 0 | 5.9 | 61.4 | |
| Wk 13 | W 41-3@ Northwestern | 12/18 | 136 | 0 | 1 | 7.6 | 43.9 | |
 Bowl | L 10-19vs No. 24 Mississippi State | 22/33 | 222 | 0 | 0 | 6.7 | — | |
| Total | 255/367 | 2619 | 15 | 4 | 7.1 | — |
Week 7 · 2022
W 26-14
vs Minnesota
252 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 96.0 · 17 rush yds (3 car) · 1 TD
With C. Brown — 180 rush yds (41 car) · 3 rec · 53 yds · 1 TD · H. Robertson — 39.7 yards per punt · 3 punts · 47 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 325 passing plays (226 completions) against the box score's 367 attempts (255 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.5981 of 206 QBsSack rate
6.6%126 of 206 QBsSacked on 6.6% of dropbacks (126 of 206) — and still 81 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.
Short
0–9 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 69.5% completion on 367 attempts · 28 deep completions averaging 31.4 yds.
Splits · Per-game
2022 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 215 | 1.6 | 7.1 | 0.3 |
| Road5g | 179 | 0.8 | 7.1 | 0.4 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 205 | 1.2 | 7.0 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 196 | 1.0 | 7.1 | 0.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bret Bielema
Pass share
42.6%
393 pass / 530 run
Plays / game
71.0
13 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2022
367 pass attempts and 73 carries in 13 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
How it ended
Five seasons, at Syracuse and Illinois, 6,485 passing yards — the college career is complete.
A stat line in 39 games over five seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2018–2022
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 2 schools: Dino Babers and Bret Bielema.
