Tyler Jones: QB · Texas State · #2.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Tyler Jones
Keeps the offense on schedule and doesn't lose the game. Played for two head coaches in three seasons at Texas State. A game that shows it: 475 passing yards and 16 rushing yards against Incarnate Word — Week 5, 2016.
Play style
Consistent underneath passer who protects the lead. Rarely loses games; rarely wins them alone.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
52.6% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 12.2% conversion-per-dropback — 70.0% 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
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
6 of the team's 17 inside-the-5 carries (35.3%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Texas State | 221 | 343 | 64.4% | 2,186 | 6.4 | 11 | 14 | 120.4 | 29 |
| 2015 | Texas State | 223 | 382 | 58.4% | 2,494 | 6.5 | 14 | 10 | 120.1 | 36 |
| 2014 | Texas State | 246 | 376 | 65.4% | 2,670 | 7.1 | 22 | 7 | 140.7 | 39 |
| Career | 690 | 1,101 | 62.7% | 7,350 | 6.7 | 47 | 31 | 127.2 | 35 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Texas State | 115 | 30 | 0.3 | 5 | 40 |
| 2015 | Texas State | 139 | 583 | 4.2 | 10 | 66 |
| 2014 | Texas State | 166 | 539 | 3.2 | 6 | 43 |
| Career | 420 | 1,152 | 2.7 | 21 | 66 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2016 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 56-54@ Ohio | 40/55 | 418 | 4 | 2 | 7.6 | 65.8 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | L 3-42@ No. 24 Arkansas | 11/26 | 83 | 0 | 1 | 3.2 | 5.6 | |
| Wk 4 | L 3-64vs No. 6 Houston | 18/31 | 102 | 0 | 1 | 3.3 | 5.5 | |
| Wk 5 | W 48-17vs Incarnate Word | 31/40 | 475 | 5 | 0 | 11.9 | 90.5 | Season-high 475 yds |
| Wk 6 | L 21-41@ Georgia State | 27/47 | 300 | 1 | 2 | 6.4 | 45.5 | |
| Wk 7 | L 34-40@ UL Monroe | 19/35 | 193 | 0 | 2 | 5.5 | 51.4 | |
| Wk 8 | L 3-27vs Louisiana | 20/28 | 142 | 0 | 1 | 5.1 | 17.8 | |
| Wk 10 | L 10-35@ App State | 28/38 | 183 | 0 | 1 | 4.8 | 14.0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 14-47vs Idaho | 12/16 | 175 | 1 | 0 | 10.9 | 28.1 | |
| Wk 12 | L 10-50@ New Mexico State | 13/22 | 97 | 0 | 3 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 14 | L 14-36vs Arkansas State | 2/5 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 3.6 | 1.5 | |
| Total | 221/343 | 2186 | 11 | 14 | 6.4 | — |
Week 5 · 2016
W 48-17
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 342 passing plays (220 completions) against the box score's 343 attempts (221 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
3.97176 of 193 QBsSack rate
9.7%169 of 193 QBsSacked on 9.7% of dropbacks (169 of 193) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (176 of 193).
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 64.4% completion on 343 attempts · 24 deep completions averaging 28.1 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2016 baseline
No situation moves him more than 23 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.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 182 | 1.2 | 7.0 | 0.6 |
| Road6g | 212 | 0.8 | 5.3 | 1.8 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 262 | 1.7 | 6.3 | 1.3 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 123 | 0.2 | 5.8 | 1.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Everett Withers
Pass share
49.6%
413 pass / 419 run
Plays / game
69.3
12 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2016
343 pass attempts, 115 carries and 1 catch in 11 games, more passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Texas State, 7,350 passing yards — the college career is complete.
A stat line in 35 games over three seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Dennis Franchione → Everett Withers. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
