Senior quarterback for Tulsa. 2020: 1,946 passing yards, 13 TD, 10 INT.
6′3″ · 227 lb · Grandview, TX
The story
4 quarterback for Tulsa. 2020: 1,946 passing yards, 13 TD, 10 INT.
The record fills in as he plays.
His career, year by yearZach Smith
Zach Smith has played for three head coaches across four seasons and two programs. The receipt: 325 pass yds, 3 pass TD against SMU — Week 11, 2020.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at Tulsa, 8,222 passing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 4 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2016–2020
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Philip Montgomery.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score percentiles
Concern: rush yards (6th percentile).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
5.83102 of 171 QBsSack rate
6.4%97 of 171 QBsSacked on 6.4% of dropbacks (97 of 171) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (102 of 171).
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 55.7% completion on 262 attempts · 23 deep completions averaging 34.5 yds.
Splits · Per-game
2020 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 198 | 1.7 | 6.1 | 1.0 |
| Road5g | 201 | 1.4 | 7.4 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-72g | 218 | 2.0 | 7.7 | 1.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 194 | 1.3 | 6.7 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Tre Lamb
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2020
Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 5 · 2020
W 34–26
at UCF
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2020 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 3 | L 7-16@ Oklahoma State | 18/28 | 164 | 1 | 1 | 5.9 | — | |
| Wk 5 | W 34-26@ UCF | 17/29 | 273 | 3 | 1 | 9.4 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | W 42-13@ South Florida | 16/24 | 233 | 1 | 1 | 9.7 | — | |
| Wk 9 | W 34-30vs East Carolina | 19/37 | 253 | 2 | 2 | 6.8 | — | |
| Wk 11 | W 28-24vs SMU | 26/38 | 325 | 3 | 1 | 8.6 | — | Season-high 325 yds |
| Wk 12 | W 30-24vs Tulane | 2/6 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 2.8 | — | |
| Wk 14 | W 19-6@ Navy | 10/25 | 168 | 1 | 0 | 6.7 | — | |
| Wk 16 | L 24-27@ Cincinnati | 13/30 | 166 | 1 | 2 | 5.5 | — | |
| Total | 121/217 | 1599 | 12 | 8 | 6.9 | — |
Q4 transformation · one-season descriptive
Fourth-quarter surge
3 times this season the team trailed entering the fourth quarter and won — and it shows in the tape: 0.079 → 0.532 EPA/dropback into the fourth.
t=2.11 (n=208/68), one season of descriptive data — never a predictive trait. Across ~200 QB-seasons screened at this threshold, expected false positives run near 5%.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
57.1% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 40.9% conversion-per-dropback — 25.0% 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. ~ our read: checkdown by design
Player DNA