Last confirmed: Buffalo, 2015. No 2026 box-score games on record.
6′2″ · Williamsville, NY · Williamsville South
Joe Licata: QB · Buffalo · #16.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Joe Licata
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Joe Licata has played for two head coaches in two seasons at Buffalo. One game to point at: 354 passing yards and 2 passing TD against Northern Illinois — Week 11, 2015.
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
57.4% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 19.2% conversion-per-dropback — 63.0% 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
1 of the team's 18 inside-the-5 carries (5.6%).
No outlet on our list has written about him by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2015 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 51-14vs UAlbany | 20/26 | 246 | 2 | 0 | 9.5 | 90.8 | |
| Wk 2 | L 14-27@ Penn State | 24/35 | 205 | 2 | 1 | 5.9 | 30.5 | |
| Wk 3 | W 33-15@ Florida Atlantic | 10/20 | 105 | 0 | 1 | 5.3 | 10.9 | |
| Wk 4 | L 21-24vs Nevada | 28/46 | 338 | 2 | 2 | 7.3 | 72.7 | |
| Wk 5 | L 22-28vs Bowling Green | 35/59 | 348 | 1 | 1 | 5.9 | 55.1 | |
| Wk 7 | L 14-51@ Central Michigan | 13/25 | 133 | 1 | 1 | 5.3 | 59.1 | |
| Wk 8 | W 41-17vs Ohio | 21/32 | 212 | 0 | 0 | 6.6 | 85.8 | |
| Wk 9 | W 29-24@ Miami (OH) | 22/29 | 289 | 2 | 1 | 10.0 | 77.9 | |
| Wk 10 | W 18-17@ Kent State | 25/39 | 190 | 2 | 1 | 4.9 | 45.4 | |
| Wk 11 | L 30-41vs Northern Illinois | 31/47 | 354 | 2 | 3 | 7.5 | 44.4 | Season-high 354 yds · 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 12 | L 21-42@ Akron | 32/51 | 262 | 1 | 2 | 5.1 | 45.3 | |
| Wk 13 | L 26-31vs Massachusetts | 19/40 | 287 | 1 | 2 | 7.2 | 32.3 | |
| Total | 280/449 | 2969 | 16 | 15 | 6.6 | — |
Week 1 · 2015
W 51-14
vs UAlbany
246 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 90.8
Dominant 37-point win at home against UAlbany.
With J. Martinez — 4 rec · 35 yds · 1 TD · J. Johnson — 69 rush yds (11 car) · 1 TD · 1 rec · 11 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 409 passing plays (255 completions) against the box score's 449 attempts (280 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.45113 of 198 QBsSack rate
2.8%23 of 198 QBsRarely sacked (23 of 198), but Adjusted ANY/A hasn't followed (113 of 198).
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 62.4% completion on 449 attempts · 31 deep completions averaging 30.1 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2015 baseline
No situation moves him more than 14 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.
Splits · Per-game
2015 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 298 | 1.3 | 7.3 | 1.3 |
| Road6g | 197 | 1.3 | 6.1 | 1.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 229 | 1.3 | 6.5 | 1.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 266 | 1.3 | 6.9 | 1.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Lance Leipold
Pass share
52.2%
455 pass / 417 run
Plays / game
72.7
12 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2015
449 pass attempts and 33 carries in 12 games, more passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Buffalo, 5,616 passing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
Coaching lineage · 2011–2015
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Jeff Quinn, Alex Wood, and Lance Leipold. Multi-era developmental context.
