#13

Jake Bentley

Senior quarterback for South Alabama. 2021: 2,476 passing yards, 17 TD, 8 INT.

QB · South Alabama · Sr. · #13

6′4″ · 220 lb · Opelika, AL

CFB Index 42 · #79 of 126 QBsHigh confidenceSouth Alabama 2021 alumnus

Recruiting

4★

PRO recruit

No. 269 nationally · Signed with South Carolina

Statement game510 yds · 5 TDat Clemson (FBS) · L 35-56

Top 1% passing yards game since 2021.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 quarterback for South Alabama. 2021: 2,476 passing yards, 17 TD, 8 INT.

Signed as a 4-star recruit to South Carolina in 2016.
Transferred from Utah to South Alabama in 2021.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Six seasons at South Alabama, 10,885 passing yards — his college career is complete.

His career

He arrived as a blue-chip recruit and played like one.

The week the volume broke through — put up 304 yds vs Kentucky.Kentucky · L 13-232017

20167 games

Signed with South Carolina4-star out of Opelika

202110 games

Entered the portal

Career arc

Recruit

★★★★

#269 national

CFB

College

3 teams

2016–2021

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Coaching lineage · 2016–2021

3 coaches

2016–2017

Joey Jones

South Alabama

2018–2020

Steve Campbell

South Alabama

era →

2021

Kane Wommack

South Alabama

era →

Played under 3 different head coaches: Joey Jones, Steve Campbell, and Kane Wommack. Multi-era developmental context.

2021 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2016South Carolina6-7HC: Will Muschamp · Run-leaning

2017South Carolina9-4HC: Will Muschamp · Balanced, slow tempo

2018South Carolina7-6HC: Will Muschamp · Balanced

2019South Carolina4-8HC: Will Muschamp · Balanced

2020Utah3-2HC: Kyle Whittingham · Run-leaning

2021South Alabama5-7HC: Kane Wommack · Balanced

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

42Rotational starter #79 of 126?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: success rate (97th percentile). Strength: epa / dropback (91st percentile). Concern: interception rate (21st percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Success rate#5 / 167 · 97th pct

55.5%

EPA / dropback#15 / 167 · 91st pct

0.42

Explosive rate#93 / 167 · 45th pct

9.3%

Sack rate#108 / 167 · 36th pct

7.0%

Interception rate#132 / 167 · 21st pct

3.1%

Box-score rates (8)

Completion %#9 / 169 · 94th pct

70.0%

Yards / att#46 / 169 · 72nd pct

8.2

Rush TDs#39 / 169 · 72nd pct

Fumbles lost#23 / 159 · 68th pct

Pass TDs#65 / 169 · 61st pct

Pass yards#67 / 169 · 61st pct

2476

Interceptions#110 / 169 · 31st pct

Rush yards#126 / 169 · 26th pct

-8

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).

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2021 season · 10 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home6g	277	1.8	9.1	0.7
Road4g	204	1.5	9.2	1.0

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-76g	251	1.2	8.7	0.3
Weeks 8+4g	243	2.5	9.8	1.5

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Major Applewhite

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

Awards

Player standing · 2021

Starter

A locked-in starting job.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

42 · #79 of 126 QBs

Former four-star. Now #79 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2021	South Alabama	212	303	70.0%	2,476	8.2	17	8	151.8	63	--	--
2020	Utah	77	124	62.1%	882	7.1	6	6	128.1	50	--	--
2019	South Carolina	16	30	53.3%	142	4.7	1	2	90.8	--	--	--
2018	South Carolina	240	388	61.9%	3,171	8.2	27	14	146.3	--	--	--
2017	South Carolina	245	394	62.2%	2,794	7.1	18	12	130.7	--	--	--
2016	South Carolina	125	190	65.8%	1,420	7.5	9	4	140.0	--	--	--
Career		915	1,429	64.0%	10,885	7.6	78	46	139.6	59	--	--

Season	Team
2021	South Alabama	47	-8	-0.2	4	--
2020	Utah	34	113	3.3	1	--
2019	South Carolina	6	-5	-0.8	0	--
2018	South Carolina	64	88	1.4	2	--
2017	South Carolina	73	85	1.2	6	--
2016	South Carolina	50	-15	-0.3	0	--
Career		274	258	0.9	13	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 3 · 2021

W 28–21

vs Alcorn State

158 yds · 0 TD · 0 INT · QBR 22.7 · 7 rush yds (3 car)

A wire-to-wire battle — won by 7 at home.

With K. Walker — 150 rush yds (23 car) · 3 TD · J. Brooks — 43 AVG · 46 LONG · 3 NO

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 13 · Coastal Carolina · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA +4.47Jake Bentley pass complete to Jalen Tolbert for 57 yds for a TD, (Jake Bentley pass to Caullin Lacy for Two-Point Conversion)
Week 8 · UL Monroe · 3&11 · Q2 · EPA +4.42Jake Bentley pass complete to Jalen Tolbert for 55 yds to the LaMon 11 for a 1ST down
Week 13 · Coastal Carolina · 1&10 · Q3 · EPA -4.26Jake Bentley pass intercepted Silas Kelly return for no gain to the CCaro 5
Week 7 · Georgia Southern · 2&7 · Q2 · EPA +4.17Jake Bentley pass complete to Jay'juan Townsend for 62 yds to the GeoSo 5 for a 1ST down
Week 7 · Georgia Southern · 3&7 · Q4 · EPA +4.09Jake Bentley pass complete to Jalen Wayne for 41 yds to the GeoSo 31 for a 1ST down
Week 13 · Coastal Carolina · 4&1 · Q3 · EPA -4.03Jake Bentley pass intercepted Alex Spillum return for no gain to the CCaro 10 SOUTH ALABAMA Penalty, personal foul (Lincoln Sefcik) to the CCaro 18
Week 7 · Georgia Southern · 3&8 · Q1 · EPA +4.01Jake Bentley pass complete to Jalen Wayne for 37 yds to the GeoSo 35 for a 1ST down
Week 8 · UL Monroe · 3&7 · Q2 · EPA +3.65Jake Bentley pass complete to Caullin Lacy for 30 yds to the LaMon 32 for a 1ST down
Week 5 · Louisiana · 2&4 · Q4 · EPA +3.56J.Bentley pass complete to SAB 26. Catch made by J.Tolbert at SAB 26. Gain of 61 yards. Tackled by K.Pedescleaux at ULL 13.
Week 7 · Georgia Southern · 3&5 · Q4 · EPA +3.37Jake Bentley pass complete to Jalen Tolbert for 38 yds to the GeoSo 19 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2021 season · 10 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 31-7vs Southern Miss	17/22	269	2	0	12.2	87.7	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 2	W 22-19@ Bowling Green	29/46	257	0	1	5.6	45.1
Wk 3	W 28-21vs Alcorn State	14/25	158	0	0	6.3	22.7
Wk 5	L 18-20vs Louisiana	19/29	243	0	0	8.4	60.9
Wk 6	L 31-33@ Texas State	19/26	189	2	1	7.3	66.6
Wk 7	W 41-14vs Georgia Southern	24/31	389	3	0	12.5	95.7	Season-high 389 yds
Wk 8	L 31-41@ UL Monroe	30/41	320	4	2	7.8	79.1	4 TD passes
Wk 9	W 31-13vs Arkansas State	29/39	248	4	1	6.4	72.2	4 TD passes
Wk 10	L 24-31@ Troy	3/3	49	0	0	16.3	99.4
Wk 13	L 21-27vs Coastal Carolina	28/41	354	2	3	8.6	61.2	3 INTs — rough day
Total		212/303	2476	17	8	9.1	69.1

How he plays

Play style

Consistent underneath passer who protects the lead. Rarely loses games; rarely wins them alone.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

70.0%Completion %

33.3%Conversion/dropback

47.6%Land short of sticks

0INTs

70.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 33.3% conversion-per-dropback — 47.6% 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