Senior quarterback for UTEP. 2023: 947 passing yards, 5 TD, 7 INT.
6′3″ · 215 lb · Hobbs, NM
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.
The story
4 quarterback for UTEP. 2023: 947 passing yards, 5 TD, 7 INT.
The record fills in as he plays.
His career, year by yearGavin Hardison
Operates within the system without forcing anything. This is his fifth year in the same quarterback room at UTEP. 2021 brought the first one: All-Conference USA. The receipt: 228 pass yds against Arizona — Week 3, 2023.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Five seasons at UTEP, 7,995 passing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.
Career arc
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-CONFERENCE USA
All-Conference USA mention (2021)
Coaching lineage · 2019–2023
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Dana Dimel.
Season context · Team result + system
5 seasons under Dana Dimel, all run-leaning offenses — 19-38 over that span.
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: explosive rate (95th percentile). Strength: interception rate (84th percentile). Concern: sack rate (12th 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).
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
4.52180 of 212 QBsSack rate
9.2%183 of 212 QBsSacked on 9.2% of dropbacks (183 of 212) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (180 of 212).
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 60.2% completion on 118 attempts · 19 deep completions averaging 26.9 yds.
Splits · Per-game
2023 season · 5 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home2g | 160 | 1.5 | 7.2 | 1.5 |
| Road3g | 209 | 0.7 | 7.4 | 1.3 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 189 | 1.0 | 7.4 | 1.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Scotty Walden
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 1 · 2023
W 28–14
94 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 58.4 · 19 rush yds (5 car)
With D. Hankins — 174 rush yds (24 car) · J. Sloan — 47 AVG · 1 IN 20 · 57 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 14-17@ Jacksonville State | 17/29 | 208 | 1 | 2 | 7.2 | 33.9 | |
| Wk 1 | W 28-14vs Incarnate Word | 10/13 | 94 | 2 | 0 | 7.2 | 58.4 | |
| Wk 2 | L 7-38@ Northwestern | 17/25 | 192 | 1 | 2 | 7.7 | 49.4 | |
| Wk 3 | L 10-31@ Arizona | 15/31 | 228 | 0 | 0 | 7.4 | 34.1 | Season-high 228 yds |
| Wk 4 | L 28-45vs UNLV | 14/31 | 225 | 1 | 3 | 7.3 | 24.2 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Total | 73/129 | 947 | 5 | 7 | 7.4 | 40.0 |
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
CFB Index positional classification
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
2 of the team's 26 inside-the-5 carries (7.7%).
Player DNA
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
His 2023 production profile sits closest to Graham Mertz’s 2021 season.
Matches Graham on
Differs from Graham on
Through 4 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Hunter Simmons’s path through Wisconsin.
Matches Hunter on
As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Ethan Vasko's graduate season at Liberty (2025).
Differs from Ethan on
Player DNA