Travis Wilson: QB · Utah · #7.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Travis Wilson
Extends plays on the move until something opens up. Second year in the same quarterback room at Utah. A game that shows it: 297 passing yards and 2 passing TD against Arizona State — Week 7, 2015.
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
66.7% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 13.0% conversion-per-dropback — 76.9% 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
6 of the team's 24 inside-the-5 carries (25.0%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
The Salt Lake Tribune Nov 2
KJZZ Oct 29The Salt Lake Tribune Oct 27
KUTV Oct 23Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
Game log · Week-by-week
2015 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 24-17vs Michigan | 24/33 | 210 | 0 | 1 | 6.4 | 61.5 | |
| Wk 2 | W 24-14vs Utah State | 9/12 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 6.3 | 97.2 | |
| Wk 4 | W 62-20@ No. 13 Oregon | 18/30 | 227 | 4 | 0 | 7.6 | 96.9 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 6 | W 30-24vs No. 23 California | 16/26 | 170 | 1 | 2 | 6.5 | 22.1 | |
| Wk 7 | W 34-18vs Arizona State | 26/36 | 297 | 2 | 0 | 8.3 | 50.0 | Season-high 297 yds |
| Wk 8 | L 24-42@ USC | 24/36 | 254 | 2 | 4 | 7.1 | 14.0 | 4 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 9 | W 27-12vs Oregon State | 14/17 | 198 | 1 | 0 | 11.6 | 64.7 | |
| Wk 10 | W 34-23@ Washington | 12/25 | 155 | 0 | 1 | 6.2 | 32.0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 30-37@ Arizona | 20/31 | 219 | 2 | 1 | 7.1 | 39.9 | |
| Wk 12 | L 9-17vs UCLA | 13/26 | 110 | 0 | 0 | 4.2 | 40.2 | |
| Wk 13 | W 20-14vs Colorado | 10/26 | 108 | 1 | 1 | 4.2 | 27.2 | |
 Bowl | W 35-28vs BYU | 9/16 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 4.4 | 53.3 | |
| Total | 195/314 | 2095 | 13 | 10 | 6.7 | — |
Week 4 · 2015
W 62-20
at Oregon
227 yds · 4 TD · 0 INT · QBR 96.9 · 100 rush yds (6 car) · 1 TD
Dominant 42-point win on the road against Oregon.
With T. Hackett — 33 rush yds (1 car) · D. Booker — 98 rush yds (22 car) · 25 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 100.0
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 309 passing plays (193 completions) against the box score's 314 attempts (195 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.19122 of 198 QBsSack rate
6.8%129 of 198 QBsSacked on 6.8% of dropbacks (129 of 198) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (122 of 198).
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 62.1% completion on 314 attempts · 29 deep completions averaging 28.9 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2015 baseline
No situation moves him more than 31 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.
2 seasons under Kyle Whittingham — 19-7 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2015 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 167 | 0.7 | 6.8 | 0.6 |
| Road4g | 214 | 2.0 | 7.0 | 1.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 175 | 1.2 | 6.6 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 174 | 1.0 | 6.7 | 1.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Kyle Whittingham
Pass share
38.7%
352 pass / 557 run
Plays / game
69.9
13 games
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2015
314 pass attempts and 140 carries in 12 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Utah, 4,265 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2015
1 coachPlayed every college season under Kyle Whittingham.
