Bo Nix: QB · Oregon · #10.
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Bo Nix
Extends plays on the move until something opens up. Second year in the Oregon quarterback room. The first career honor came in 2023: All-Pac-12. One game to point at: 412 passing yards and 5 rushing yards against USC — Week 11, 2023.
Play style
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
80.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 41.7% conversion-per-dropback — 46.4% 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
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
5 of the team's 22 inside-the-5 carries (22.7%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 14 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 81-7vs Portland State | 23/27 | 287 | 3 | 0 | 10.6 | 88.8 | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 38-30@ Texas Tech | 32/44 | 359 | 2 | 0 | 8.2 | 78.0 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 3 | W 55-10vs Hawai'i | 21/27 | 247 | 3 | 0 | 9.1 | 88.1 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | W 42-6vs No. 19 Colorado | 28/33 | 276 | 3 | 1 | 8.4 | 75.7 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | W 42-6@ Stanford | 27/32 | 290 | 4 | 0 | 9.1 | 91.8 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 7 | L 33-36@ No. 7 Washington | 33/44 | 337 | 2 | 0 | 7.7 | 82.0 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 8 | W 38-24vs Washington State | 18/25 | 293 | 2 | 0 | 11.7 | 85.9 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 9 | W 35-6@ No. 13 Utah | 24/31 | 248 | 2 | 0 | 8.0 | 95.2 | |
| Wk 10 | W 63-19vs California | 29/38 | 386 | 4 | 1 | 10.2 | 85.9 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 11 | W 36-27vs USC | 23/31 | 412 | 4 | 0 | 13.3 | 96.0 | Season-high 412 yds |
| Wk 12 | W 49-13@ Arizona State | 24/29 | 404 | 6 | 0 | 13.9 | 99.5 | 6 TD passes |
| Wk 13 | W 31-7vs No. 15 Oregon State | 33/40 | 367 | 2 | 0 | 9.2 | 97.4 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 14 | L 31-34vs No. 3 Washington | 21/34 | 239 | 3 | 1 | 7.0 | 89.0 | 3 TD passes |
 Bowl | W 45-6vs No. 18 Liberty | 28/35 | 363 | 5 | 0 | 10.4 | 93.6 | |
| Total | 364/470 | 4508 | 45 | 3 | 9.6 | — |
Bowl · 2023
W 45-6
vs Liberty · neutral site
363 yds · 5 TD · 0 INT · QBR 93.6
Dominant 39-point win at a neutral site against Liberty.
With T. Johnson — 11 rec · 172 yds · 1 TD · M. Irving — 117 rush yds (14 car) · 1 TD · 3 rec · 18 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 459 passing plays (354 completions) against the box score's 470 attempts (364 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
11.044 of 212 QBsSack rate
1.1%6 of 212 QBsRarely sacked (6 of 212 QBs) and still 4 of 212 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 77.4% completion on 470 attempts · 55 deep completions averaging 35.2 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2023 baseline
No situation moves him more than 45 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.
2 seasons under Dan Lanning — 22-5 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2023 season · 14 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 324 | 3.0 | 10.4 | 0.3 |
| Road5g | 328 | 3.2 | 9.4 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 308 | 3.1 | 9.1 | 0.1 |
| Weeks 8+7g | 336 | 3.3 | 10.5 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Dan Lanning
Pass share
54.8%
513 pass / 423 run
Plays / game
66.9
14 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2023
A finalist for the position's national player-of-the-year award.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
How it ended
Two seasons at Oregon, 8,102 passing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2023) — drafted at #12 overall by the Denver Broncos.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
National awards
Campbell
2023 season
ALL-PAC-12 · 1ST TEAM
All-Pac-12 1st team (2023)
Next stop · NFL
Denver BroncosEntering 3rd NFL season
Denver BroncosEntering 3rd NFL season
