Last confirmed: Louisiana Tech, 2019. No 2026 box-score games on record.
6′1″ · 218 lb · Meridian, MS
J'Mar Smith: QB · Louisiana Tech · #8.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
J'Mar Smith
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Fourth year in the Louisiana Tech quarterback room. A game that shows it: 338 passing yards and 3 passing TD against UTEP — Week 9, 2019.
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
51.3% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 24.4% conversion-per-dropback — 45.0% 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
5 of the team's 22 inside-the-5 carries (22.7%).
No outlet on our list has written about him by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Louisiana Tech | 236 | 367 | 64.3% | 2,977 | 8.1 | 18 | 5 | 145.9 | 54 |
| 2018 | Louisiana Tech | 263 | 460 | 57.2% | 3,159 | 6.9 | 15 | 10 | 121.3 | 40 |
| 2017 | Louisiana Tech | 229 | 409 | 56.0% | 2,974 | 7.3 | 16 | 5 | 127.5 | 47 |
| 2016 | Louisiana Tech | 30 | 43 | 69.8% | 412 | 9.6 | 2 | 1 | 160.9 | -- |
| Career | 758 | 1,279 | 59.3% | 9,522 | 7.4 | 51 | 21 | 131.7 | 46 |
| Season | Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Louisiana Tech | 100 | 264 | 2.6 | 4 |
| 2018 | Louisiana Tech | 90 | 154 | 1.7 | 3 |
| 2017 | Louisiana Tech | 120 | 378 | 3.1 | 6 |
| 2016 | Louisiana Tech | 17 | 62 | 3.6 | 2 |
| Career | 327 | 858 | 2.6 | 15 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2019 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 14-45@ No. 10 Texas | 34/51 | 331 | 2 | 1 | 6.5 | 60.9 | |
| Wk 2 | W 20-14vs Grambling | 17/25 | 220 | 1 | 0 | 8.8 | 53.1 | |
| Wk 3 | W 35-7@ Bowling Green | 19/26 | 267 | 2 | 0 | 10.3 | 53.4 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 4 | W 43-31vs Florida International | 27/41 | 290 | 0 | 1 | 7.1 | 69.7 | |
| Wk 5 | W 23-20@ Rice | 21/39 | 210 | 1 | 0 | 5.4 | 51.0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 69-21vs Massachusetts | 16/28 | 239 | 3 | 0 | 8.5 | 95.4 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | W 45-30vs Southern Miss | 14/21 | 325 | 1 | 1 | 15.5 | 89.2 | |
| Wk 9 | W 42-21@ UTEP | 29/35 | 338 | 3 | 0 | 9.7 | 97.3 | Season-high 338 yds |
| Wk 11 | W 52-17vs North Texas | 21/38 | 263 | 1 | 1 | 6.9 | — | |
| Wk 14 | W 41-27vs UTSA | 25/35 | 331 | 3 | 0 | 9.5 | — | 3 TD passes |
 Bowl | W 14-0@ Miami | 13/28 | 163 | 1 | 1 | 5.8 | — | |
| Total | 236/367 | 2977 | 18 | 5 | 8.1 | — |
Week 1 · 2019
L 14-45
at Texas
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 366 passing plays (235 completions) against the box score's 367 attempts (236 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.6148 of 205 QBsSack rate
6.4%119 of 205 QBsSacked on 6.4% of dropbacks (119 of 205) — and still 48 of 205 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 64.3% completion on 367 attempts · 42 deep completions averaging 31.9 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2019 baseline
No situation moves him more than 10 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.
4 seasons under Skip Holtz — 34-19 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2019 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 278 | 1.5 | 9.4 | 0.5 |
| Road4g | 286 | 2.0 | 8.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 246 | 1.4 | 7.5 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 314 | 2.0 | 10.4 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Skip Holtz
Pass share
49.4%
457 pass / 468 run
Plays / game
71.2
13 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2019
367 pass attempts and 100 carries in 11 games, more passes and runs a game than nearly every FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Four seasons at Louisiana Tech, 9,522 passing yards — his college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2016–2019
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Skip Holtz.
