Trace McSorley: QB · Penn State · #9.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Trace McSorley
Extends plays on the move until something opens up. Four seasons in the Penn State quarterback room to date. That makes three straight seasons on the honors list: All-Big Ten again in 2018. One game to point at: 286 passing yards and 175 rushing yards against Ohio State — Week 5, 2018.
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
35.1% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 14.3% conversion-per-dropback — 53.8% 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
8 of the team's 32 inside-the-5 carries (25.0%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Penn State | 192 | 361 | 53.2% | 2,513 | 7.0 | 18 | 7 | 124.2 | 38 |
| 2017 | Penn State | 284 | 427 | 66.5% | 3,570 | 8.4 | 28 | 10 | 153.7 | 81 |
| 2016 | Penn State | 224 | 387 | 57.9% | 3,614 | 9.3 | 29 | 8 | 156.9 | 86 |
| 2015 | Penn State | 20 | 40 | 50.0% | 185 | 4.6 | 2 | 0 | 105.3 | -- |
| Career | 720 | 1,215 | 59.3% | 9,882 | 8.1 | 77 | 25 | 144.4 | 69 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Penn State | 169 | 799 | 4.7 | 12 | 51 |
| 2017 | Penn State | 144 | 491 | 3.4 | 11 | 36 |
| 2016 | Penn State | 146 | 365 | 2.5 | 7 | 26 |
| 2015 | Penn State | 13 | 43 | 3.3 | 0 | 14 |
| Career | 472 | 1,698 | 3.6 | 30 | 51 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 45-38vs App State | 21/36 | 230 | 1 | 0 | 6.4 | 73.3 | |
| Wk 2 | W 51-6@ Pittsburgh | 14/30 | 145 | 2 | 0 | 4.8 | — | |
| Wk 3 | W 63-10vs Kent State | 11/22 | 229 | 2 | 1 | 10.4 | — | |
| Wk 4 | W 63-24@ Illinois | 12/19 | 160 | 3 | 1 | 8.4 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | L 26-27vs No. 4 Ohio State | 16/32 | 286 | 2 | 0 | 8.9 | — | Season-high 286 yds |
| Wk 7 | L 17-21vs Michigan State | 19/32 | 192 | 1 | 0 | 6.0 | — | |
| Wk 8 | W 33-28@ Indiana | 19/36 | 220 | 0 | 1 | 6.1 | — | |
| Wk 9 | W 30-24vs No. 18 Iowa | 11/25 | 167 | 1 | 1 | 6.7 | — | |
| Wk 10 | L 7-42@ No. 5 Michigan | 5/13 | 83 | 0 | 1 | 6.4 | — | |
| Wk 11 | W 22-10vs Wisconsin | 19/25 | 160 | 1 | 0 | 6.4 | 67.0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 20-7@ Rutgers | 17/37 | 183 | 2 | 1 | 4.9 | — | |
| Wk 13 | W 38-3vs Maryland | 12/22 | 230 | 1 | 0 | 10.5 | — | |
 Bowl | L 24-27vs No. 16 Kentucky | 16/32 | 228 | 2 | 1 | 7.1 | — | |
| Total | 192/361 | 2513 | 18 | 7 | 7.0 | — |
Week 5 · 2018
L 26-27
vs Ohio State
286 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · 175 rush yds (25 car)
With B. Gillikin — 39 yards per punt · 8 punts · 3 inside the 20 · K. Hamler — 4 rec · 138 yds · 1 TD
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 358 passing plays (189 completions) against the box score's 361 attempts (192 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.23107 of 207 QBsSack rate
6.7%120 of 207 QBsSacked on 6.7% of dropbacks (120 of 207) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (107 of 207).
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 53.2% completion on 361 attempts · 43 deep completions averaging 27.9 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2018 baseline
No situation moves him more than 3 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 James Franklin — 38-15 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 213 | 1.3 | 7.9 | 0.3 |
| Road5g | 158 | 1.4 | 6.1 | 0.8 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 210 | 1.9 | 7.4 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 174 | 0.8 | 6.8 | 0.7 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
James Franklin
Pass share
42.6%
379 pass / 510 run
Plays / game
68.4
13 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2018
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
How it ended
Four seasons at Penn State, 9,882 passing yards — drafted at #197 overall by the Baltimore Ravens.
A stat line in 46 games over four seasons.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-BIG TEN · 2ND TEAM
All-Big Ten 2nd team (2018)
Coaching lineage · 2014–2018
1 coachPlayed every college season under James Franklin.
Next stop · NFL
Baltimore RavensEntering 8th NFL season
Baltimore RavensEntering 8th NFL season
