Last confirmed: Duke, 2018. No 2026 box-score games on record.
6′5″ · 220 lb · Charlotte, NC · Charlotte Latin School
Daniel Jones: QB · Duke · #17.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Daniel Jones
Operates within the system without forcing anything. He arrived as a 2-star recruit and has three seasons of production at Duke behind him. One game to point at: 423 passing yards and 6 receiving yards against Temple — Bowl, 2018.
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
50.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 25.0% conversion-per-dropback — 42.1% 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
3 of the team's 29 inside-the-5 carries (10.3%).
No outlet on our list has written about him by name this season.
The Daily Progress Oct 23
Yahoo Sports Oct 19
Heavy Oct 18Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 34-14vs Army | 13/17 | 197 | 1 | 0 | 11.6 | — | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 21-7@ Northwestern | 16/22 | 192 | 3 | 0 | 8.7 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | L 14-31vs Virginia Tech | 23/35 | 226 | 1 | 1 | 6.5 | — | |
| Wk 7 | W 28-14@ Georgia Tech | 17/27 | 206 | 3 | 1 | 7.6 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | L 14-28vs Virginia | 22/40 | 240 | 1 | 2 | 6.0 | — | |
| Wk 9 | L 45-54@ Pittsburgh | 27/42 | 396 | 4 | 0 | 9.4 | — | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 10 | W 20-12@ Miami | 17/35 | 130 | 0 | 1 | 3.7 | — | |
| Wk 11 | W 42-35vs North Carolina | 31/54 | 361 | 3 | 1 | 6.7 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | L 6-35@ No. 2 Clemson | 24/43 | 158 | 0 | 0 | 3.7 | — | |
| Wk 13 | L 7-59vs Wake Forest | 17/36 | 145 | 1 | 1 | 4.0 | — | |
 Bowl | W 56-27vs Temple | 30/41 | 423 | 5 | 2 | 10.3 | — | |
| Total | 237/392 | 2674 | 22 | 9 | 6.8 | — |
Week 9 · 2018
L 45-54
at Pittsburgh
396 yds · 4 TD · 0 INT · 38 rush yds (15 car)
With D. Jackson — 162 rush yds (10 car) · 3 rec · 89 yds · 1 TD · J. Lloyd — 7 rec · 136 yds · 1 TD
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 391 passing plays (236 completions) against the box score's 392 attempts (237 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.05114 of 207 QBsSack rate
6.7%114 of 207 QBsSacked on 6.7% of dropbacks (114 of 207) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (114 of 207).
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 60.5% completion on 392 attempts · 29 deep completions averaging 37.8 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2018 baseline
-45
percentile points worse on first down
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 David Cutcliffe — 19-19 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 234 | 1.4 | 7.0 | 1.0 |
| Road5g | 216 | 2.0 | 6.6 | 0.4 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 249 | 2.6 | 8.9 | 0.8 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 238 | 1.5 | 5.6 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
David Cutcliffe
Pass share
50.0%
474 pass / 474 run
Plays / game
72.9
13 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2018
392 pass attempts, 104 carries and 1 catch in 11 games, more passes and runs a game than nearly every FBS quarterback who plays every week.
Career, closed
Gone at #6 overall.
How it ended
Three seasons at Duke, 8,160 passing yards — drafted at #6 overall by the New York Giants.
His career
He has a stat line in 35 games over 3 seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2015–2018
1 coachPlayed his entire career under David Cutcliffe.
Where he ended up · NFL
New York GiantsEntering 8th NFL season
New York GiantsEntering 8th NFL season
