Colby Kirkegaard

QB · Wyoming 2014 · #11

Last confirmed: Wyoming, 2014. No 2026 box-score games on record.

6′3″ · Phoenix, AZ

Colby Kirkegaard: QB · Wyoming · #11.

Players he’s like

Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.

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Colby Kirkegaard

QB · Wyoming · #11

Operates within the system without forcing anything. One game to point at: 372 passing yards and 1 passing TD against New Mexico — Week 14, 2014.

How he plays

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

55.9%Completion %

26.4%Conversion/dropback

42.4%Land short of sticks

3INTs

55.9% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 26.4% conversion-per-dropback — 42.4% 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

News and fans

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Where to follow him

Career stats

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Season	Team
2014	Wyoming	206	359	57.4%	2,660	7.4	12	9	125.6	37
Career		206	359	57.4%	2,660	7.4	12	9	125.6	37

Season	Team
2014	Wyoming	78	−110	−1.4	0
Career		78	−110	−1.4	0

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2014 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 17-12vs Montana	13/21	92	0	1	4.4	6.3
Wk 2	W 17-13vs Air Force	23/37	282	2	0	7.6	82.7	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 3	L 14-48@ No. 2 Oregon	19/33	284	2	2	8.6	42.1
Wk 4	W 20-19vs Florida Atlantic	10/23	161	0	0	7.0	15.9
Wk 5	L 14-56@ No. 9 Michigan State	16/24	188	1	1	7.8	32.9
Wk 7	L 28-38@ Hawai'i	19/30	221	2	2	7.4	53.9
Wk 8	L 20-27vs San José State	11/27	119	0	0	4.4	34.0
Wk 9	L 31-45@ Colorado State	24/38	335	2	0	8.8	68.3	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 10	W 45-17@ Fresno State	19/28	320	2	0	11.4	93.2	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 11	L 3-20vs Utah State	20/40	212	0	2	5.3	25.8
Wk 13	L 14-63vs Boise State	10/14	74	0	0	5.3	26.5
Wk 14	L 30-36@ New Mexico	22/44	372	1	1	8.5	44.6	Season-high 372 yds
Total		206/359	2660	12	9	7.4	—

Signature game

Week 9 · 2014

L 31-45

at Colorado State

335 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 68.3

With E. Wood — 40 yards per punt · 3 punts · 43 long · B. Hill — 121 rush yds (28 car) · 2 TD

Signature plays

The plays that mattered most

Week 14 · New Mexico · 3rd and 2 · Q1 · EPA −7.00Colby Kirkegaard pass intercepted for a TD Cranston Jones return for 19 yds for a TD, (Zack Rogers KICK)
Week 10 · Fresno State · 3rd and 2 · Q4 · EPA +6.24Colby Kirkegaard pass complete to Jacob Hollister for 66 yds for a TD, (Stuart Williams KICK)
Week 4 · Florida Atlantic · 1st and 10 · Q4 · EPA +5.16Colby Kirkegaard pass complete to Dominic Rufran for 88 yds to the FlAtl 4 for a
Week 5 · Michigan State · 3rd and 10 · Q2 · EPA +4.72Colby Kirkegaard pass complete to Jalen Claiborne for 52 yds to the MchSt 4 for a
Week 3 · Oregon · 3rd and 17 · Q4 · EPA +4.27Colby Kirkegaard pass complete to D.J. May for 37 yds to the Oregn 35 for a
Week 1 · Montana · 3rd and 6 · Q2 · EPA −4.18Colby Kirkegaard pass intercepted, touchback. Jeremiah Kose return for no gain

4 more plays

Week 11 · Utah State · 2nd and 10 · Q4 · EPA −4.17Colby Kirkegaard pass intercepted B.J. Larsen return for 5 yds to the UthSt 25
Week 3 · Oregon · 2nd and 8 · Q2 · EPA −4.16Colby Kirkegaard pass intercepted Erick Dargan return for no gain to the Oregn 15
Week 2 · Air Force · 3rd and 9 · Q3 · EPA +4.07Colby Kirkegaard pass complete to Dominic Rufran for 41 yds to the AFA 38 for a
Week 14 · New Mexico · 3rd and 10 · Q4 · EPA +4.01Colby Kirkegaard pass complete to Tanner Gentry for 44 yds to the NMex 5 for a

Passing profile

Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)

Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from

206/359 (57.4%) · 12 TD · 9 INT

356 of 359 attempts matched to play-by-play

Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 356 passing plays (203 completions) against the box score's 359 attempts (206 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.

Adjusted ANY/A

5.58106 of 181 QBs

Sack rate

10.5%173 of 181 QBs

Sacked on 10.5% of dropbacks (173 of 181) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (106 of 181).

Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.

Short

0–9 yds

50%of completions

102 comp5.5 yds avg2 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

33%of completions

68 comp13.1 yds avg3 TD

Deep

20+ yds

16%of completions

33 comp35.6 yds avg5 TD

Overall 57.4% completion on 359 attempts · 33 deep completions averaging 35.6 yds.

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2014 baseline

No situation moves him more than 35 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

+4 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 6/106 (5.7%) · league sack rate 4.8%

Down 2

-35 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 12/123 (9.8%) · league sack rate 5.3%

Down 3+

+30 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 17/130 (13.1%) · league sack rate 8.1%

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.

Teams and coaches

2014Wyoming4-8HC: Craig Bohl · Run-leaning

Our ratings

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Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

12 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: sack rate (5th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Interception rate#76 / 163 · 54th pct

2.5%

Explosive rate#90 / 163 · 45th pct

9.3%

EPA / dropback#96 / 163 · 41st pct

0.17

Success rate#106 / 163 · 35th pct

37.9%

Sack rate#155 / 163 · 5th pct

10.6%

Box-score rates (7)

Pass yards#54 / 157 · 66th pct

2660

Yards / att#65 / 157 · 57th pct

7.4

Completion %#94 / 157 · 40th pct

57.4%

Interceptions#90 / 157 · 39th pct

Pass TDs#91 / 157 · 39th pct

Rush TDs#127 / 157 · 10th pct

Rush yards#150 / 157 · 5th pct

-110

Season trend

EPA / dropback— first qualifying season

Success rate— first qualifying season

Explosive rate— first qualifying season

Sack rate— first qualifying season

Interception rate— first qualifying season

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season. Most bars are box-score rates; EPA / success-rate bars are computed from real play-by-play (offense only — no defensive EPA model exists yet).

Zeitgeist Passer Rating

2014 · our own passing-efficiency number, shown next to the 1979 formula it does not replace.

High confidence: 359 dropbacks

37Zeitgeist Passer Rating105th of 142 FBS QBs

NCAA passer rating 125.6 83rd of 142 FBS QBs

ZPR ranks him 22 places lower than passer rating does: passer rating cannot see sacks, and he takes one on 9.7% of dropbacks.

Positive-play rate weight 24%

44.4%51th pct of FBS QBs

share of dropbacks that gained expected points · +0.1% schedule adj.

Yards per attempt weight 56%

6.7543th pct of FBS QBs

sacks excluded · -0.2 schedule adj.

Sack rate weight 21% (penalty)

9.7%4th pct of FBS QBs

the input passer rating cannot see

Opponent-adjusted; garbage time excluded (39 of 398 dropbacks dropped). 50 = FBS average; the number is pulled toward 50 when the sample is thin. How ZPR is built.

Splits

Home and road splits, scheme and staff

Splits · Per-game

2014 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home6g	157	0.3	5.7	0.5
Road6g	287	1.7	8.8	1.0

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-76g	205	1.2	7.1	1.0
Weeks 8+6g	239	0.8	7.3	0.5

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2014 season

Head Coach

Craig Bohl

Pass share

45.9%

374 pass / 440 run

Plays / game

67.8

12 games

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Awards

Player standing · 2014

Impact starter

359 pass attempts and 78 carries in 12 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.

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