Jiya Wright: QB · UL Monroe · #18.
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Jiya Wright
Extends plays on the move until something opens up. Third year in the UL Monroe quarterback room. One game to point at: 268 passing yards and 74 rushing yards against App State — Week 5, 2023.
Play style
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
55.6% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 21.9% conversion-per-dropback — 53.3% 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
7 of 12 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (58.3%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 10 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 17-13vs Army | 11/22 | 69 | 0 | 2 | 3.1 | 9.7 | |
| Wk 3 | L 3-47@ Texas A&M | 6/15 | 95 | 0 | 0 | 6.3 | 49.2 | |
| Wk 5 | L 40-41vs App State | 18/27 | 268 | 4 | 1 | 9.9 | 68.0 | Season-high 268 yds |
| Wk 6 | L 7-55vs South Alabama | 13/28 | 112 | 1 | 2 | 4.0 | 5.2 | |
| Wk 7 | L 20-21@ Texas State | 14/22 | 150 | 1 | 0 | 6.8 | 37.1 | |
| Wk 8 | L 28-38@ Georgia Southern | 7/13 | 81 | 1 | 1 | 6.2 | 24.4 | |
| Wk 10 | L 7-24@ Southern Miss | 5/12 | 106 | 1 | 0 | 8.8 | 3.1 | |
| Wk 11 | L 14-45vs Troy | 20/36 | 243 | 2 | 0 | 6.8 | 25.5 | |
| Wk 12 | L 3-35@ No. 13 Ole Miss | 7/19 | 56 | 0 | 1 | 2.9 | 5.3 | |
| Wk 13 | L 21-52@ Louisiana | 6/10 | 66 | 0 | 1 | 6.6 | 49.6 | |
| Total | 107/204 | 1246 | 10 | 8 | 6.1 | — |
Week 5 · 2023
L 40-41
vs App State
268 yds · 4 TD · 1 INT · QBR 68.0 · 74 rush yds (17 car) · 1 TD
With B. Guilbeau — 39.2 yards per punt · 5 punts · 52 long · A. Luke — 2 rec · 44 yds
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 190 passing plays (101 completions) against the box score's 204 attempts (107 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
4.31183 of 212 QBsSack rate
9.7%190 of 212 QBsSacked on 9.7% of dropbacks (190 of 212) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (183 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 52.5% completion on 204 attempts · 18 deep completions averaging 32.2 yds.
3 seasons under Terry Bowden — 10-26 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2023 season · 10 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 173 | 1.8 | 6.0 | 1.2 |
| Road6g | 92.3 | 0.5 | 6.3 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 139 | 1.2 | 6.0 | 1.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 110 | 0.8 | 6.3 | 0.6 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Terry Bowden
Pass share
45.4%
344 pass / 413 run
Plays / game
63.1
12 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2023
204 pass attempts and 99 carries in 10 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
How it ended
Three seasons at UL Monroe, 1,410 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2021–2023
1 coachPlayed every college season under Terry Bowden.
