Jonah Johnson: QB · New Mexico State · #10.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Jonah Johnson
Operates within the system without forcing anything. A game that shows it: 425 passing yards and 3 passing TD against Nevada — Week 6, 2021.
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
55.6% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 19.2% conversion-per-dropback — 60.0% 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
12 of 15 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (80.0%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | New Mexico State | 257 | 438 | 58.7% | 2,705 | 6.2 | 10 | 8 | 114.4 | 21 |
| Career | 257 | 438 | 58.7% | 2,705 | 6.2 | 10 | 8 | 114.4 | 21 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | New Mexico State | 129 | 166 | 1.3 | 4 | 21 |
| Career | 129 | 166 | 1.3 | 4 | 21 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2021 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 3-30vs UTEP | 8/24 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 3.5 | 7.6 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 1 | L 10-28@ San Diego State | 34/56 | 326 | 1 | 3 | 5.8 | 39.6 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 2 | L 25-34@ New Mexico | 4/10 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 3.3 | 19.0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 21-41vs Hawai'i | 28/47 | 280 | 1 | 1 | 6.0 | 46.5 | |
| Wk 5 | L 31-37@ San José State | 30/44 | 300 | 3 | 1 | 6.8 | 78.8 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 6 | L 28-55@ Nevada | 38/62 | 425 | 3 | 0 | 6.9 | 25.0 | Season-high 425 yds |
| Wk 8 | L 34-48@ Hawai'i | 24/54 | 228 | 0 | 2 | 4.2 | 32.0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 13-35vs Utah State | 30/44 | 298 | 0 | 0 | 6.8 | 22.6 | |
| Wk 11 | L 3-59@ No. 3 Alabama | 19/30 | 129 | 0 | 0 | 4.3 | 41.1 | |
| Wk 12 | L 16-56@ Kentucky | 16/35 | 181 | 0 | 1 | 5.2 | 18.2 | |
| Wk 13 | W 44-27vs Massachusetts | 26/32 | 420 | 2 | 0 | 13.1 | 82.6 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Total | 257/438 | 2705 | 10 | 8 | 6.2 | — |
Week 6 · 2021
L 28-55
at Nevada
425 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 25.0
With J. Carlson — 39.2 yards per punt · 10 punts · 48 long · J. Price — 37 rush yds (10 car) · 2 rec · 17 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 382 passing plays (221 completions) against the box score's 438 attempts (257 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.16156 of 204 QBsSack rate
6.8%131 of 204 QBsSacked on 6.8% of dropbacks (131 of 204) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (156 of 204).
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 58.7% completion on 438 attempts · 23 deep completions averaging 30.9 yds.
Splits · Per-game
2021 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 271 | 0.8 | 7.3 | 0.2 |
| Road7g | 232 | 1.0 | 5.2 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 242 | 1.3 | 5.4 | 0.8 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 251 | 0.4 | 6.7 | 0.6 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Doug Martin
Pass share
58.4%
516 pass / 368 run
Plays / game
73.7
12 games
Scheme: Pass-leaning.
Player standing · 2021
438 pass attempts and 129 carries in 11 games, more passes and runs a game than nearly every FBS quarterback who plays every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Two-star recruit. Now #124 at the position.
How it ended
One season at New Mexico State, 2,705 passing yards — the college career is complete.
