Tyler Huntley: QB · Utah · #1.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Tyler Huntley
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. Four seasons in the Utah quarterback room to date. A game that shows it: 335 passing yards and 2 passing TD against UCLA — Week 12, 2019.
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
75.6% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 40.4% conversion-per-dropback — 44.1% 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
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
4 of 12 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (33.3%). 7 of the team's 33 inside-the-5 carries (21.2%).
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
2019 season · 14 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 30-12@ BYU | 13/16 | 106 | 0 | 0 | 6.6 | 41.9 | |
| Wk 2 | W 35-17vs Northern Illinois | 14/19 | 214 | 1 | 0 | 11.3 | 98.9 | |
| Wk 3 | W 31-0vs Idaho State | 15/19 | 282 | 3 | 0 | 14.8 | 94.4 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | L 23-30@ USC | 22/30 | 210 | 1 | 0 | 7.0 | 47.9 | |
| Wk 5 | W 38-13vs Washington State | 21/30 | 334 | 2 | 0 | 11.1 | 96.6 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 7 | W 52-7@ Oregon State | 14/17 | 247 | 2 | 0 | 14.5 | 99.4 | |
| Wk 8 | W 21-3vs No. 17 Arizona State | 12/19 | 171 | 0 | 1 | 9.0 | 80.1 | |
| Wk 9 | W 35-0vs California | 11/17 | 214 | 1 | 0 | 12.6 | 96.2 | |
| Wk 10 | W 33-28@ Washington | 19/24 | 284 | 1 | 0 | 11.8 | — | |
| Wk 12 | W 49-3vs UCLA | 14/18 | 335 | 2 | 0 | 18.6 | — | Season-high 335 yds |
| Wk 13 | W 35-7@ Arizona | 19/23 | 211 | 1 | 1 | 9.2 | — | |
| Wk 14 | W 45-15vs Colorado | 14/17 | 165 | 2 | 0 | 9.7 | — | |
| Wk 15 | L 15-37vs No. 13 Oregon | 17/29 | 193 | 2 | 2 | 6.7 | — | |
 Bowl | L 10-38vs Texas | 15/23 | 126 | 1 | 0 | 5.5 | — | |
| Total | 220/301 | 3092 | 19 | 4 | 10.3 | — |
Week 5 · 2019
W 38-13
334 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 96.6 · 31 rush yds (6 car) · 2 TD
Dominant 25-point win at home against Washington State.
With B. Thompson — 4 rec · 111 yds · S. Nacua — 5 rec · 90 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 299 passing plays (218 completions) against the box score's 301 attempts (220 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
9.7410 of 205 QBsSack rate
7.1%136 of 205 QBsSacked on 7.1% of dropbacks (136 of 205) — and still 10 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 73.1% completion on 301 attempts · 45 deep completions averaging 33.9 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2019 baseline
+103
percentile points better on third down or later
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 Kyle Whittingham — 36-18 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2019 season · 14 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 245 | 1.6 | 12.4 | 0.1 |
| Road5g | 212 | 1.0 | 9.8 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 217 | 1.4 | 10.1 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+7g | 225 | 1.3 | 11.1 | 0.6 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Kyle Whittingham
Pass share
35.5%
321 pass / 583 run
Plays / game
64.6
14 games
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2019
Our Heisman model had this player inside its top 25 in 2019.
How it ended
Four seasons at Utah, 7,325 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
Coaching lineage · 2016–2019
1 coachPlayed every college season under Kyle Whittingham.
