Tyler Wiegers: QB · Eastern Michigan · #12.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Tyler Wiegers
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. The three seasons span two programs and two head coaches: Kirk Ferentz and Chris Creighton. One game to point at: 312 passing yards and 1 passing TD against Purdue — Week 2, 2018.
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
71.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 25.6% conversion-per-dropback — 54.5% 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
1 of the team's 25 inside-the-5 carries (4.0%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Eastern Michigan | 171 | 264 | 64.8% | 1,887 | 7.1 | 11 | 3 | 136.3 | 43 |
| 2017 | Iowa | 1 | 2 | 50.0% | 3 | 1.5 | 1 | 0 | 227.6 | -- |
| 2015 | Iowa | 3 | 4 | 75.0% | 32 | 8.0 | 0 | 0 | 142.2 | -- |
| Career | 175 | 270 | 64.8% | 1,922 | 7.1 | 12 | 3 | 137.1 | 43 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Eastern Michigan | 65 | 40 | 0.6 | 1 | 19 |
| 2017 | Iowa | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2015 | Iowa | 1 | −8 | −8.0 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 66 | 32 | 0.5 | 1 | 19 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 51-17vs Monmouth | 18/21 | 238 | 2 | 0 | 11.3 | — | |
| Wk 2 | W 20-19@ Purdue | 20/28 | 312 | 1 | 1 | 11.1 | — | Season-high 312 yds |
| Wk 3 | L 28-35@ Buffalo | 8/11 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 5.8 | — | |
| Wk 4 | L 20-23@ San Diego State | 8/11 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 7.5 | — | |
| Wk 5 | L 23-26vs Northern Illinois | 17/40 | 180 | 1 | 0 | 4.5 | — | |
| Wk 6 | L 24-27@ Western Michigan | 3/7 | 51 | 1 | 0 | 7.3 | — | |
| Wk 7 | W 28-26vs Toledo | 11/15 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 5.5 | — | |
| Wk 8 | W 42-20@ Ball State | 22/28 | 257 | 3 | 0 | 9.2 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 9 | L 22-37vs Army | 19/29 | 201 | 2 | 0 | 6.9 | — | |
| Wk 10 | W 17-7vs Central Michigan | 17/25 | 150 | 1 | 1 | 6.0 | 24.6 | |
| Wk 11 | W 27-7vs Akron | 15/23 | 129 | 0 | 0 | 5.6 | — | |
| Wk 13 | W 28-20@ Kent State | 13/26 | 139 | 0 | 1 | 5.3 | — | |
| Total | 171/264 | 1887 | 11 | 3 | 7.1 | — |
Week 1 · 2018
W 51-17
vs Monmouth
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 262 passing plays (169 completions) against the box score's 264 attempts (171 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.5295 of 207 QBsSack rate
8.0%152 of 207 QBsSacked on 8.0% of dropbacks (152 of 207) — and still 95 of 207 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 64.8% completion on 264 attempts · 22 deep completions averaging 33.5 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2018 baseline
No situation moves him more than 32 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
2018 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 164 | 1.0 | 6.6 | 0.2 |
| Road6g | 151 | 0.8 | 7.7 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 144 | 0.7 | 7.6 | 0.1 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 175 | 1.2 | 6.6 | 0.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Chris Creighton
Pass share
44.6%
387 pass / 481 run
Plays / game
66.8
13 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2018
264 pass attempts and 65 carries in 12 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
Three seasons, at Iowa and Eastern Michigan, 1,922 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2018
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 2 schools: Kirk Ferentz and Chris Creighton.
