Senior quarterback for Akron. 2023: 722 passing yards, 3 TD, 3 INT.
6′4″ · 215 lb · Lawrenceville, GA
CFB Index
A single number blending on-field production (an EPA-based value lane) with box-score output for this player's position.
0-100, scaled within each position's own cohort — not directly comparable across positions.
Recruiting
QB recruit
No. 65 nationally · Joined Akron
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 quarterback for Akron. 2023: 722 passing yards, 3 TD, 3 INT.
DJ Irons
Extends plays with his feet until something opens up. DJ Irons has played for two head coaches in three seasons at Akron. MAC Offensive Player of the Week in 2023 made it three straight seasons on the honors list. One game to point at: 205 pass yds, 2 pass TD against Temple — Week 1, 2023.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at Akron, 4,201 passing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
He was winning awards before he was old enough to be a story.
Career arc
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-MAC
All-MAC mention (2022)
Coaching lineage · 2021–2023
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Oscar Rodriguez → Joe Moorhead. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: interception rate (84th percentile). Strength: interceptions (85th percentile). Concern: epa / dropback (6th percentile).
Real play-by-play efficiency
Season trend
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).
Splits · Per-game
2023 season · 5 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home2g | 96.5 | 0.5 | 5.8 | 0.0 |
| Road3g | 176 | 0.7 | 5.5 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 144 | 0.6 | 5.6 | 0.6 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Joe Moorhead
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2023
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2023
W 24–21
vs Morgan State
57 yds · 0 TD · 0 INT · QBR 2.8 · -26 rush yds (6 car)
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 3 at home.
With J. Undercuffler — 209 yds · 1 TD · 3 INT · QBR 5.6 · -17 rush yds (3 car) · D. Jackson — 33 AVG · 3 IN 20 · 40 LONG
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 5 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 21-24@ Temple | 17/29 | 205 | 2 | 1 | 7.1 | 20.9 | Season-high 205 yds |
| Wk 2 | W 24-21vs Morgan State | 7/9 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 6.3 | 2.8 | |
| Wk 3 | L 3-35@ Kentucky | 23/34 | 130 | 0 | 0 | 3.8 | 41.7 | |
| Wk 4 | L 27-29@ Indiana | 22/35 | 194 | 0 | 2 | 5.5 | 69.6 | |
| Wk 5 | L 10-13vs Buffalo | 19/26 | 136 | 1 | 0 | 5.2 | 26.3 | |
| Total | 88/133 | 722 | 3 | 3 | 5.6 | 32.3 |
Play style
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
CFB Index positional classification
Player DNA
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
His 2023 production profile sits closest to Jeff Sims’s 2022 season.
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Through 3 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to JaCobian Morgan’s path through Jackson State.
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As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Jeff Sims's junior season at Georgia Tech (2022).
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Player DNA