Last confirmed: Florida, 2016. No 2026 box-score games on record.
6′5″ · North Canton, OH · Hoover
Austin Appleby: QB · Florida · #12.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Austin Appleby
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Two head coaches in three seasons, at two different programs. One game to point at: 296 passing yards and 24 rushing yards against Tennessee — Week 4, 2016.
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
62.5% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 23.1% conversion-per-dropback — 40.0% 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. checkdown by design
No outlet on our list has written about him by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2016 season · 9 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | W 45-7vs Kentucky | 0/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
| Wk 3 | W 32-0vs North Texas | 2/4 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 7.5 | 41.9 | |
| Wk 4 | L 28-38@ No. 14 Tennessee | 23/39 | 296 | 3 | 1 | 7.6 | 60.4 | Season-high 296 yds |
| Wk 5 | W 13-6@ Vanderbilt | 19/28 | 144 | 0 | 0 | 5.1 | 60.4 | |
| Wk 11 | W 20-7vs South Carolina | 17/21 | 201 | 2 | 1 | 9.6 | 86.8 | |
| Wk 12 | W 16-10@ No. 16 LSU | 7/17 | 144 | 1 | 0 | 8.5 | 3.2 | |
| Wk 13 | L 13-31@ No. 15 Florida State | 19/35 | 149 | 0 | 0 | 4.3 | 4.9 | |
| Wk 14 | L 16-54vs No. 1 Alabama | 26/39 | 261 | 2 | 3 | 6.7 | 30.7 | 3 INTs — rough day |
 Bowl | W 30-3@ No. 21 Iowa | 14/25 | 222 | 2 | 2 | 8.9 | 31.6 | |
| Total | 127/209 | 1447 | 10 | 7 | 6.9 | — |
Week 4 · 2016
L 28-38
at Tennessee
296 yds · 3 TD · 1 INT · QBR 60.4 · 24 rush yds (7 car)
With J. Townsend — 48.6 yards per punt · 8 punts · 59 long · A. Callaway — 4 rec · 134 yds
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 204 passing plays (123 completions) against the box score's 209 attempts (127 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.19135 of 193 QBsSack rate
8.7%163 of 193 QBsSacked on 8.7% of dropbacks (163 of 193) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (135 of 193).
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 60.8% completion on 209 attempts · 20 deep completions averaging 31.1 yds.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 77.0 | 0.7 | 5.7 | 0.3 |
| Road4g | 183 | 1.0 | 6.4 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 138 | 1.0 | 5.8 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 189 | 1.2 | 7.3 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jim McElwain
Pass share
48.1%
410 pass / 442 run
Plays / game
65.5
13 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2016
Fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
Three seasons, at Purdue and Florida, 4,156 passing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
He has a stat line in 24 games over 3 seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2016
3 coachesPlayed for 3 head coaches at 2 schools: Danny Hope, Darrell Hazell and Jim McElwain.
