Senior quarterback for Florida Atlantic. 2025: 323 passing yards, 3 TD, 3 INT.
6′2″ · 200 lb · Alpharetta, GA
The numbers
passing yards · 2025
3 TD · 3 INT · 6.1 per attempt
Best game: 82 pass yds, 2 TD, 6 rush yds, at Navy
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 quarterback for Florida Atlantic. 2025: 323 passing yards, 3 TD, 3 INT.
Zach Gibson
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Across six seasons and four programs, five head coaches: Tom Arth, Oscar Rodriguez, Brent Key, Dell McGee and Zach Kittley. The receipt: 116 pass yds, 1 tackles against East Carolina — Week 14, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
He was on the field for 6 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2019–2025
4 coachesPlayed under 4 different head coaches: Lane Kiffin, Willie Taggart, Chad Lunsford, and Zach Kittley. Multi-era developmental context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score percentiles
Elite: interceptions (82nd percentile). Concern: pass yards (0th percentile).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Pass Profile · True throw depth (charted plays)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
4.68168 of 206 QBsSack rate
0.0%1 of 206 QBsRarely sacked (1 of 206), but Adjusted ANY/A hasn't followed (168 of 206).
Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.
Behind LOS · Negative air yds
Short · 0–9 air yds
Middle · 10–19 air yds
Deep · 20+ air yds
Overall 58.8% completion on 51 attempts · 64% of attempts thrown 0–9 air yds.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 6 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 48.0 | 0.2 | 9.8 | 0.2 |
| Road2g | 65.5 | 1.0 | 4.8 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 28.7 | 0.0 | 8.1 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 79.0 | 1.0 | 8.2 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Zach Kittley
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2025
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Florida Atlantic | 31 | 53 | 58.5% | 323 | 6.1 | 3 | 3 | 117.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Georgia State | 102 | 151 | 67.5% | 1,004 | 6.6 | 7 | 2 | 136.1 | 55 | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Georgia Tech | 57 | 104 | 54.8% | 589 | 5.7 | 1 | 2 | 101.7 | 28 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Akron | 109 | 157 | 69.4% | 1,262 | 8.0 | 10 | 0 | 158.0 | 63 | -- | -- |
| 2020 | Akron | 76 | 132 | 57.6% | 784 | 5.9 | 4 | 5 | 109.9 | 23 | -- | -- |
| 2019 | Akron | 41 | 81 | 50.6% | 425 | 5.2 | 1 | 3 | 91.4 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 416 | 678 | 61.4% | 4,387 | 6.5 | 26 | 15 | 123.9 | 44 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Florida Atlantic | 2 | 3 | 1.5 | 0 | -- |
| 2024 | Georgia State | 43 | 53 | 1.2 | 1 | -- |
| 2022 | Georgia Tech | 23 | -14 | -0.6 | 0 | -- |
| 2021 | Akron | 43 | 57 | 1.3 | 0 | -- |
| 2020 | Akron | 48 | -43 | -0.9 | 0 | -- |
| 2019 | Akron | 14 | -72 | -5.1 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 173 | -16 | -0.1 | 1 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2025
W 56–14
vs Florida A&M
33 yds · 0 TD · 0 INT · QBR 92.8
Dominant 42-point win at home against Florida A&M.
With C. Veltkamp — 309 yds · 5 TD · 0 INT · QBR 85.0 · 13 rush yds (5 car) · L. Lupo — 47 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 55 LONG
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 6 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 7-39@ Maryland | 6/13 | 49 | 0 | 2 | 3.8 | 47.7 | |
| Wk 2 | W 56-14vs Florida A&M | 1/2 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 16.5 | 92.8 | |
| Wk 5 | L 26-55vs Memphis | 1/1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | 26.9 | |
| Wk 9 | L 32-42@ Navy | 9/14 | 82 | 2 | 0 | 5.9 | 90.7 | |
| Wk 11 | W 40-21vs Tulsa | 2/3 | 39 | 1 | 0 | 13.0 | 99.7 | |
| Wk 14 | L 3-42vs East Carolina | 12/20 | 116 | 0 | 1 | 5.8 | 3.4 | Season-high 116 yds |
| Total | 31/53 | 323 | 3 | 3 | 8.2 | 60.2 |
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
CFB Index positional classification
2026 Outlook
Florida Atlantic
2026 Depth chart
Returning starter
Quarterback · Florida Atlantic
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Florida Atlantic · Last season: 4-8 · Talent rank #98 · 2026 recruiting class #130
Player DNA
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
His 2024 production profile sits closest to Drew Plitt’s 2021 season.
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Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Maverick McIvor's graduate season at Western Kentucky (2025).
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Player DNA