Last confirmed: Iowa, 2016. No 2026 box-score games on record.
6′2″ · Franklin, TN · Battle Ground Academy
C.J. Beathard: QB · Iowa · #16.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
C.J. Beathard
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Third year in the Iowa quarterback room. A game that shows it: 235 passing yards and 3 passing TD against Iowa State — Week 2, 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
60.5% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 19.6% conversion-per-dropback — 61.5% 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
11 of 12 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (91.7%). 5 of the team's 24 inside-the-5 carries (20.8%).
No outlet on our list has written about him by name this season.
The Des Moines Register Oct 15Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
Game log · Week-by-week
2016 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 45-21vs Miami (OH) | 13/20 | 192 | 1 | 0 | 9.6 | 60.6 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 2 | W 42-3vs Iowa State | 19/28 | 235 | 3 | 0 | 8.4 | 92.6 | Season-high 235 yds |
| Wk 3 | L 21-23vs North Dakota State | 11/22 | 152 | 3 | 1 | 6.9 | 40.3 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | W 14-7@ Rutgers | 12/23 | 162 | 1 | 0 | 7.0 | 32.8 | |
| Wk 5 | L 31-38vs Northwestern | 19/27 | 204 | 1 | 1 | 7.6 | 44.1 | |
| Wk 6 | W 14-7@ Minnesota | 17/31 | 142 | 0 | 2 | 4.6 | 32.0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 49-35@ Purdue | 10/17 | 140 | 2 | 0 | 8.2 | 92.7 | |
| Wk 8 | L 9-17vs No. 10 Wisconsin | 17/33 | 153 | 0 | 0 | 4.6 | 21.3 | |
| Wk 10 | L 14-41@ No. 20 Penn State | 18/26 | 204 | 2 | 1 | 7.8 | 38.2 | |
| Wk 11 | W 14-13vs No. 2 Michigan | 8/19 | 66 | 1 | 1 | 3.5 | 5.1 | |
| Wk 12 | W 28-0@ Illinois | 9/17 | 80 | 0 | 1 | 4.7 | 13.1 | |
| Wk 13 | W 40-10vs No. 17 Nebraska | 10/15 | 144 | 3 | 0 | 9.6 | 70.3 | 3 TD passes |
 Bowl | L 3-30vs No. 20 Florida | 7/23 | 55 | 0 | 3 | 2.4 | 8.5 | |
| Total | 170/301 | 1929 | 17 | 10 | 6.4 | — |
Week 2 · 2016
W 42-3
vs Iowa State
235 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 92.6
Dominant 39-point win at home against Iowa State.
With R. Coluzzi — 43.3 yards per punt · 4 punts · 48 long · M. VandeBerg — 7 rec · 129 yds · 1 TD · 25 rush yds (1 car)
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 297 passing plays (168 completions) against the box score's 301 attempts (170 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
4.97140 of 193 QBsSack rate
9.1%164 of 193 QBsSacked on 9.1% of dropbacks (164 of 193) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (140 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 56.5% completion on 301 attempts · 26 deep completions averaging 30.8 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2016 baseline
No situation moves him more than 16 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.
3 seasons under Kirk Ferentz — 27-13 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 164 | 1.7 | 7.2 | 0.4 |
| Road5g | 146 | 1.0 | 6.5 | 0.8 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 160 | 1.4 | 6.8 | 0.9 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 129 | 1.2 | 6.0 | 0.6 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Kirk Ferentz
Pass share
38.7%
310 pass / 492 run
Plays / game
61.7
13 games
Scheme: Run-heavy, slow tempo.
Player standing · 2016
301 pass attempts and 83 carries in 13 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Iowa, 5,383 passing yards — drafted at #104 overall by the San Francisco 49ers.
His career
He has a stat line in 35 games over 3 seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2016
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Kirk Ferentz.
Where he ended up · NFL
San Francisco 49ersEntering 10th NFL season
San Francisco 49ersEntering 10th NFL season
