Will Gardner: QB · Louisville · #11.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Will Gardner
Operates within the system without forcing anything. On tape: 330 passing yards and 1 passing TD against Florida State, Week 10, 2014.
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
41.9% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 11.8% conversion-per-dropback — 69.2% 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
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Louisville | 127 | 221 | 57.5% | 1,669 | 7.6 | 12 | 3 | 136.1 | 60 |
| Career | 127 | 221 | 57.5% | 1,669 | 7.6 | 12 | 3 | 136.1 | 60 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Louisville | 22 | −106 | −4.8 | 0 | 10 |
| Career | 22 | −106 | −4.8 | 0 | 10 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2014 season · 8 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 31-13vs Miami | 20/28 | 206 | 2 | 0 | 7.4 | 52.5 | |
| Wk 2 | W 66-21vs Murray State | 13/22 | 133 | 2 | 0 | 6.0 | 88.3 | |
| Wk 3 | L 21-23@ Virginia | 14/34 | 164 | 2 | 2 | 4.8 | 16.3 | |
| Wk 4 | W 34-3@ Florida International | 16/28 | 295 | 2 | 0 | 10.5 | 60.5 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 7 | L 17-23@ Clemson | 10/16 | 150 | 1 | 0 | 9.4 | 57.6 | |
| Wk 8 | W 30-18vs NC State | 21/36 | 203 | 2 | 0 | 5.6 | 45.8 | |
| Wk 10 | L 31-42vs No. 2 Florida State | 20/38 | 330 | 1 | 1 | 8.7 | 59.3 | Season-high 330 yds |
| Wk 11 | W 38-19@ Boston College | 13/19 | 188 | 0 | 0 | 9.9 | 78.0 | |
| Total | 127/221 | 1669 | 12 | 3 | 7.6 | — |
Week 1 · 2014
W 31-13
vs Miami
206 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 52.5
With R. Johnson — 44.4 yards per punt · 5 punts · 1 inside the 20 · D. Brown — 143 rush yds (33 car) · 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 216 passing plays (123 completions) against the box score's 221 attempts (127 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.1054 of 181 QBsSack rate
5.6%94 of 181 QBsSacked on 5.6% of dropbacks (94 of 181) — and still 54 of 181 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 57.5% completion on 221 attempts · 27 deep completions averaging 30.0 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2014 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
2014 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 218 | 1.8 | 6.9 | 0.2 |
| Road4g | 199 | 1.2 | 8.7 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 190 | 1.8 | 7.6 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 240 | 1.0 | 8.1 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bobby Petrino
Pass share
46.0%
427 pass / 501 run
Plays / game
71.4
13 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2014
Fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
One season at Louisville, 1,669 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2015
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Charlie Strong → Bobby Petrino. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
