Last confirmed: California, 2016. No 2026 box-score games on record.
6′5″ · Prosper, TX
Davis Webb: QB · California · #7.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Davis Webb
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. He has played for two head coaches at two programs in three seasons: Kliff Kingsbury and Sonny Dykes. On tape: 522 passing yards and 5 passing TD against San Diego State, Week 2, 2016.
Play style
High-percentage passer who protects the ball. Loses the matchup on improvisation.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
53.8% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 32.4% conversion-per-dropback — 37.1% 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
8 of the team's 28 inside-the-5 carries (28.6%).
No outlet on our list has written about him by name this season.
Sports Illustrated Oct 9
The Washington Post Oct 7Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | California | 382 | 620 | 61.6% | 4,295 | 6.9 | 37 | 12 | 135.6 | 55 |
| 2015 | Texas Tech | 22 | 41 | 53.7% | 300 | 7.3 | 2 | 0 | 131.2 | -- |
| 2014 | Texas Tech | 211 | 345 | 61.2% | 2,539 | 7.4 | 24 | 13 | 138.4 | 60 |
| Career | 615 | 1,006 | 61.1% | 7,134 | 7.1 | 63 | 25 | 136.4 | 57 |
| Season | Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | California | 33 | −110 | −3.3 | 6 |
| 2015 | Texas Tech | 2 | 6 | 3.0 | 2 |
| 2014 | Texas Tech | 17 | 16 | 0.9 | 1 |
| Career | 52 | −88 | −1.7 | 9 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2016 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 51-31vs Hawai'i | 38/54 | 441 | 4 | 0 | 8.2 | 80.6 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | L 40-45@ San Diego State | 41/72 | 522 | 5 | 3 | 7.3 | 59.7 | Season-high 522 yds · 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 3 | W 50-43vs No. 11 Texas | 27/40 | 396 | 4 | 0 | 9.9 | 78.3 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | L 41-51@ Arizona State | 32/56 | 478 | 5 | 2 | 8.5 | 59.4 | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | W 28-23vs No. 18 Utah | 22/35 | 306 | 4 | 1 | 8.7 | 76.4 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 6 | L 44-47@ Oregon State | 23/44 | 113 | 0 | 1 | 2.6 | 16.9 | |
| Wk 8 | W 52-49vs Oregon | 42/61 | 325 | 5 | 0 | 5.3 | 68.8 | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 9 | L 24-45@ USC | 34/53 | 333 | 2 | 1 | 6.3 | 56.6 | |
| Wk 10 | L 27-66vs No. 4 Washington | 23/47 | 262 | 1 | 3 | 5.6 | 43.7 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 11 | L 21-56@ No. 23 Washington State | 34/53 | 425 | 3 | 1 | 8.0 | 65.9 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | L 31-45vs Stanford | 34/57 | 393 | 2 | 0 | 6.9 | 53.8 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 13 | W 36-10vs UCLA | 32/48 | 301 | 2 | 0 | 6.3 | 61.4 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Total | 382/620 | 4295 | 37 | 12 | 6.9 | — |
Week 8 · 2016
W 52-49
vs Oregon
325 yds · 5 TD · 0 INT · QBR 68.8
Edged out Oregon at home in a shootout.
With T. Watson — 154 rush yds (28 car) · 5 rec · 50 yds · 2 TD · K. Muhammad — 148 rush yds (23 car) · 3 rec · 19 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 609 passing plays (370 completions) against the box score's 620 attempts (382 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.9161 of 193 QBsSack rate
2.7%17 of 193 QBsRarely sacked (17 of 193 QBs) and still 61 of 193 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 61.6% completion on 620 attempts · 54 deep completions averaging 32.9 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2016 baseline
No situation moves him more than 34 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.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 330 | 3.0 | 7.1 | 0.7 |
| Road5g | 374 | 3.0 | 6.5 | 1.6 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 376 | 3.7 | 7.5 | 1.2 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 340 | 2.5 | 6.4 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Sonny Dykes
Pass share
60.3%
621 pass / 409 run
Plays / game
85.8
12 games
Scheme: Pass-leaning, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2016
620 pass attempts and 33 carries in 12 games, more passes and runs a game than nearly every FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Three seasons, at Texas Tech and California, 7,134 passing yards — drafted at #87 overall by the New York Giants.
His career
He has a stat line in 25 games over 3 seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 2 schools: Kliff Kingsbury and Sonny Dykes.
Where he ended up · NFL
New York GiantsEntering 10th NFL season
New York GiantsEntering 10th NFL season
