Dustin Crum

Senior quarterback for Kent State. 2021: 3,238 passing yards, 20 TD, 6 INT.

QB · Kent State · Sr. · #7

6′3″ · 207 lb · Grafton, OH

CFB Index 64 · #32 of 126 QBsHigh confidenceAll-Conf 1st teamKent State 2021 alumnus

The story

4 quarterback for Kent State. 2021: 3,238 passing yards, 20 TD, 6 INT.

Named MAC Vern Smith Leadership Award in 2021.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Five seasons at Kent State, 7,449 passing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2020) — his college career is complete.

His career

Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.

20204 games

All-MACfirst

202113 games

The role got bigger.

MAC Vern Smith Leadership Awardwinner
All-MACfirst

Career arc

Recruit

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No recruit profile

CFB

College

Kent State

2017–2021

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Trophy case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

10 honors · 1 category

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ALL-MAC · 1ST TEAM

All-MAC 1st team (2021)

Program memory

Kent State

First-ever bowl win (2019)

Coaching lineage · 2017–2021

2 coaches

2017

Paul Haynes

Kent State

2018–2021

Sean Lewis

Kent State

era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Paul Haynes → Sean Lewis. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

2021 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2017Kent State2-10HC: Paul Haynes · Run-heavy

2018Kent State2-10HC: Sean Lewis · Run-leaning, fast tempo

2019Kent State7-6HC: Sean Lewis · Run-heavy

2020Kent State3-1HC: Sean Lewis · Run-heavy, fast tempo

2021Kent State7-7HC: Sean Lewis · Run-heavy, fast tempo

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

64Quality starter #32 of 126?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: rush tds (97th percentile). Strength: rush yards (96th percentile). Concern: sack rate (12th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Success rate#39 / 167 · 77th pct

50.3%

Interception rate#40 / 167 · 76th pct

1.5%

Explosive rate#56 / 167 · 67th pct

11.1%

EPA / dropback#87 / 167 · 48th pct

0.26

Sack rate#148 / 167 · 12th pct

9.3%

Box-score rates (8)

Rush TDs#5 / 169 · 97th pct

Rush yards#8 / 169 · 96th pct

703

Pass yards#24 / 169 · 86th pct

3238

Yards / att#31 / 169 · 81st pct

8.5

Pass TDs#41 / 169 · 74th pct

Fumbles lost#23 / 159 · 68th pct

Completion %#55 / 169 · 67th pct

64.1%

Interceptions#63 / 169 · 56th pct

Season trend

EPA / dropback— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Success rate— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Explosive rate— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Sack rate— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Interception rate— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

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).

Passing profile

Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)

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

239/371 (64.4%) · 20 TD · 6 INT

371 of 382 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

7.6754 of 204 QBs

Sack rate

8.6%174 of 204 QBs

Sacked on 8.6% of dropbacks (174 of 204) — and still 54 of 204 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 yds

54%of completions

129 comp5.2 yds avg4 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

28%of completions

66 comp13.2 yds avg4 TD

Deep

20+ yds

18%of completions

44 comp36.8 yds avg11 TD

Overall 64.4% completion on 371 attempts · 44 deep completions averaging 36.8 yds.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2021 season · 13 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home5g	274	1.6	9.4	0.4
Road8g	194	1.0	7.0	0.5

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-77g	216	1.1	7.9	0.3
Weeks 8+6g	235	1.3	7.9	0.7

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Mark Carney

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2021

All-Conference 1st team

First team in his league at the position.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

64 · #32 of 126 QBs

Career stats

Season	Team
2021	Kent State	245	382	64.1%	3,238	8.5	20	6	149.5	59	--	--
2020	Kent State	83	113	73.5%	1,181	10.5	12	2	192.7	77	--	--
2019	Kent State	216	312	69.2%	2,622	8.4	20	2	159.7	--	--	--
2018	Kent State	16	27	59.3%	176	6.5	2	0	138.5	--	--	--
2017	Kent State	16	30	53.3%	232	7.7	1	2	116.0	--	--	--
Career		576	864	66.7%	7,449	8.6	55	12	157.3	63	--	--

Season	Team
2021	Kent State	161	703	4.4	12	--
2020	Kent State	44	240	5.5	4	--
2019	Kent State	168	707	4.2	6	--
2018	Kent State	19	111	5.8	1	--
2017	Kent State	85	310	3.6	1	--
Career		477	2,071	4.3	24	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2021

W 60–10

vs VMI

180 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 92.2 · 70 rush yds (8 car) · 1 TD

Dominant 50-point win at home against VMI.

With M. Cooper — 119 rush yds (12 car) · 1 TD · C. Schlee — 24 yds · 0 TD · 0 INT · QBR 100.0 · 21 rush yds (1 car) · 1 TD

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 1 · Texas A&M · 2&10 · Q3 · EPA -10.95Dustin Crum pass intercepted for a TD Leon O'Neal Jr. return for 85 yds for a TD, (Seth Small KICK)
Week 1 · Wyoming · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA +6.39Dustin Crum pass complete to Dante Cephas for 80 yds for a TD, (Andrew Glass KICK)
Week 1 · Wyoming · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA +5.93Dustin Crum pass complete to Devontez Walker for 73 yds for a TD, (Andrew Glass KICK)
Week 13 · Miami (OH) · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA +5.69Dustin Crum pass complete to Keshunn Abram for 70 yds for a TD (Andrew Glass KICK)
Week 6 · Buffalo · 2&21 · Q3 · EPA +4.39Dustin Crum pass complete to Nykeim Johnson for 45 yds to the KENTST 30 for a 1ST down BUFFALO Penalty, Defensive Offside (Khamran Laborn) declined for a 1ST down
Week 1 · Texas A&M · 1&10 · Q2 · EPA -4.35Dustin Crum pass intercepted, touchback. Leon O'Neal Jr. return for no gain
Week 12 · Akron · 3&2 · Q1 · EPA +4.23D.Crum rushed to AKR 17 for 62 yards. Tackled by R.Jackson at AKR 17.
Week 7 · Western Michigan · 2&12 · Q3 · EPA +4.17Dustin Crum pass complete to Luke Floriea for 48 yds to the WMich 29 for a 1ST down
Week 6 · Buffalo · 3&7 · Q3 · EPA +4.09Dustin Crum pass complete to Ja'Shaun Poke for 41 yds to the KENTST 31 for a 1ST down BUFFALO Penalty, Defensive Holding (Khamran Laborn) declined for a 1ST down
Week 3 · Iowa · 2&10 · Q1 · EPA +4.04Dustin Crum pass complete to Keshunn Abram for 48 yds to the Iowa 27 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2021 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	L 10-41@ Texas A&M	12/26	89	0	2	3.4	37.1
Wk 2	W 60-10vs VMI	12/17	180	1	0	10.6	92.2
Wk 3	L 7-30@ Iowa	16/23	185	1	0	8.0	65.8
Wk 4	L 16-37@ Maryland	19/33	308	1	0	9.3	43.9
Wk 5	W 27-20vs Bowling Green	15/28	134	0	0	4.8	66.9
Wk 6	W 48-38vs Buffalo	22/36	407	3	0	11.3	86.5	Season-high 407 yds
Wk 7	L 31-64@ Western Michigan	15/26	210	2	0	8.1	58.2
Wk 8	W 34-27@ Ohio	26/31	257	1	0	8.3	72.7
Wk 10	W 52-47vs Northern Illinois	20/30	322	2	0	10.7	90.3	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 11	L 30-54@ Central Michigan	28/38	322	2	0	8.5	84.2	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 12	W 38-0@ Akron	8/13	55	0	0	4.2	98.9
Wk 13	W 48-47vs Miami (OH)	24/33	325	2	2	9.8	79.9
Wk 14	L 23-41@ Northern Illinois	11/21	128	1	2	6.1	17.2
Total		228/355	2922	16	6	7.9	68.8

How he plays

Play style

Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

43.2%Completion %

14.6%Conversion/dropback

56.2%Land short of sticks

0INTs

43.2% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 14.6% conversion-per-dropback — 56.2% 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. ~ our read: checkdown by design