Will Rogers: QB · Washington · #7.
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Will Rogers
Keeps the offense on schedule and doesn't lose the game. The three seasons span two programs and three head coaches: Mike Leach, Greg Knox and Jedd Fisch. One game to point at: 314 passing yards and 1 passing TD against Washington State — Week 3, 2024.
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
71.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 19.4% conversion-per-dropback — 72.7% 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 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Washington | 220 | 311 | 70.7% | 2,458 | 7.9 | 14 | 7 | 147.5 | 68 |
| 2023 | Mississippi State | 142 | 237 | 59.9% | 1,626 | 6.9 | 12 | 4 | 130.9 | 31 |
| 2022 | Mississippi State | 414 | 610 | 67.9% | 3,963 | 6.5 | 35 | 8 | 138.8 | 52 |
| Career | 776 | 1,158 | 67.0% | 8,047 | 6.9 | 61 | 19 | 139.5 | 52 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Washington | 34 | −79 | −2.3 | 0 | 20 |
| 2023 | Mississippi State | 29 | −13 | −0.4 | 1 | 15 |
| 2022 | Mississippi State | 44 | −165 | −3.8 | 0 | 15 |
| Career | 107 | −257 | −2.4 | 1 | 20 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 35-3vs Weber State | 20/26 | 250 | 1 | 0 | 9.6 | 35.8 | |
| Wk 2 | W 30-9vs Eastern Michigan | 21/26 | 261 | 4 | 0 | 10.0 | 92.4 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | L 19-24vs Washington State | 23/31 | 314 | 1 | 0 | 10.1 | 66.6 | Season-high 314 yds |
| Wk 4 | W 24-5vs Northwestern | 20/28 | 223 | 2 | 0 | 8.0 | 70.4 | |
| Wk 5 | L 18-21@ Rutgers | 26/36 | 306 | 2 | 0 | 8.5 | 52.7 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 6 | W 27-17vs No. 10 Michigan | 21/31 | 271 | 2 | 1 | 8.7 | 85.0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 16-40@ Iowa | 22/34 | 195 | 1 | 1 | 5.7 | 59.4 | |
| Wk 9 | L 17-31@ No. 13 Indiana | 19/26 | 202 | 0 | 2 | 7.8 | 14.6 | |
| Wk 10 | W 26-21vs USC | 25/39 | 262 | 0 | 0 | 6.7 | 64.7 | |
| Wk 11 | L 6-35@ No. 6 Penn State | 10/13 | 59 | 0 | 1 | 4.5 | 49.8 | |
| Wk 12 | W 31-19vs UCLA | 13/21 | 115 | 1 | 2 | 5.5 | 33.1 | |
| Total | 220/311 | 2458 | 14 | 7 | 7.9 | — |
Week 5 · 2024
L 18-21
at Rutgers
306 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 52.7
With J. Coleman — 148 rush yds (16 car) · J. McCallister — 51 yards per punt · 2 punts · 2 inside the 20
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 296 passing plays (209 completions) against the box score's 311 attempts (220 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.2164 of 205 QBsSack rate
4.6%73 of 205 QBsRarely sacked (73 of 205 QBs) and still 64 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 70.7% completion on 311 attempts · 22 deep completions averaging 31.3 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2024 baseline
No situation moves him more than 21 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
2024 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 230 | 1.7 | 8.1 | 0.5 |
| Road4g | 190 | 0.8 | 6.6 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 260 | 1.9 | 8.7 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 160 | 0.2 | 6.1 | 1.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jedd Fisch
Pass share
49.9%
416 pass / 417 run
Plays / game
64.1
13 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2024
311 pass attempts and 34 carries in 11 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
How it ended
Three seasons, at Mississippi State and Washington, 8,047 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2020–2024
3 coachesPlayed for 3 head coaches at 2 schools: Mike Leach, Zach Arnett and Jedd Fisch.
