Josh Allen

QB · Wyoming 2017 · #17

Last confirmed: Wyoming, 2017. No 2026 box-score games on record.

6′5″ · 233 lb · Firebaugh, CA · Reedley College

Josh Allen: QB · Wyoming · #17.

Players he’s like

Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.

Tyler StewartNevada · 2015 · 75% season match
Tyler ShoughOregon · 2020 · 69% season match
Sam B. RichardsonIowa State · 2014 · 68% season match
Patrick TowlesBoston College · 2016 · 67% season match
Billy BahlMiami (OH) · 2016 · 59% season match

Josh Allen

QB · Wyoming · #17

Operates within the system without forcing anything. Third year in the Wyoming quarterback room. One game to point at: 328 passing yards and 2 passing TD against Gardner-Webb — Week 2, 2017.

How he plays

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

54.1%Completion %

31.1%Conversion/dropback

30.0%Land short of sticks

0INTs

54.1% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 31.1% conversion-per-dropback — 30.0% 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

12/143rd/4th & short

8/29Inside-5 share

12 of 14 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (85.7%). 8 of the team's 29 inside-the-5 carries (27.6%).

News and fans

No outlet on our list has written about him by name this season.

Where to follow him

Career stats

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Season	Team
2017	Wyoming	152	270	56.3%	1,812	6.7	16	6	127.8	30
2016	Wyoming	209	373	56.0%	3,203	8.6	28	15	144.9	66
2015	Wyoming	4	6	66.7%	51	8.5	0	0	138.1	--
Career		365	649	56.2%	5,066	7.8	44	21	137.7	51

Season	Team
2017	Wyoming	92	204	2.2	5
2016	Wyoming	143	512	3.6	7
2015	Wyoming	3	40	13.3	0
Career		238	756	3.2	12

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2017 season · 11 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	L 3-24@ Iowa	23/40	174	0	2	4.3	24.9	3 TD passes
Wk 2	W 27-0vs Gardner-Webb	22/32	328	2	0	10.3	96.7	Season-high 328 yds
Wk 3	L 13-49vs Oregon	9/24	64	0	1	2.7	11.5
Wk 4	W 28-21vs Hawai'i	9/19	92	1	0	4.8	63.8
Wk 5	W 45-10vs Texas State	14/24	219	3	0	9.1	82.4	3 TD passes
Wk 7	W 28-23@ Utah State	18/26	208	1	1	8.0	54.1
Wk 8	L 14-24@ Boise State	12/27	131	1	2	4.9	48.3
Wk 9	W 42-3vs New Mexico	16/28	234	4	0	8.4	66.0	4 TD passes
Wk 10	W 16-13vs Colorado State	10/20	138	0	0	6.9	33.4
Wk 11	W 28-14@ Air Force	8/11	70	1	0	6.4	—
Bowl	W 37-14vs Central Michigan	11/19	154	3	0	8.1	79.2
Total		152/270	1812	16	6	6.7	—

Signature game

Week 9 · 2017

W 42-3

vs New Mexico

234 yds · 4 TD · 0 INT · QBR 66.0 · 20 rush yds (4 car) · 1 TD

Dominant 39-point win at home against New Mexico.

With T. Zaleski — 40.8 yards per punt · 8 punts · 62 long · J. Price — 4 rec · 68 yds

Signature plays

The plays that mattered most

Week 1 · Iowa · 3rd and 4 · Q4 · EPA −3.82Josh Allen pass intercepted Joshua Jackson return for 41 yds to the Wyom 39
Week 3 · Oregon · 1st and 10 · Q4 · EPA −3.81Josh Allen pass intercepted A.J. Hotchkins return for 3 yds to the Oregn 30
Week 1 · Iowa · 1st and 10 · Q2 · EPA −3.79Josh Allen sacked by Josey Jewell for a loss of 19 yards to the IOWA 38 WYOMING Penalty, intentional grounding (Josh Allen) to the Wyom 38
Week 2 · Gardner-Webb · 2nd and 6 · Q2 · EPA +3.69Josh Allen pass complete to C.J. Johnson for 47 yds to the GrdWb 29 for a
Week 2 · Gardner-Webb · 2nd and 11 · Q1 · EPA +3.60Josh Allen pass complete to Austin Conway for 34 yds to the GrdWb 41 for a
Week 1 · Central Michigan · 1st and 10 · Q1 · EPA +3.48C.J. Johnson 45 Yd pass from Josh Allen

4 more plays

Week 4 · Hawai'i · 3rd and 6 · Q2 · EPA +3.21Josh Allen run for 22 yds to the Hawa 45 for a
Week 8 · Boise State · 3rd and 12 · Q2 · EPA +3.20Josh Allen pass complete to Austin Conway for 13 yds to the BoiSt 45 for a
Week 7 · Utah State · 3rd and 20 · Q2 · EPA +3.18Josh Allen pass complete to James Price for 23 yds to the UthSt 5 for a
Week 4 · Hawai'i · 3rd and 11 · Q2 · EPA +3.15Josh Allen pass complete to Tyree Mayfield for 16 yds to the Hawa 34 for a

Passing profile

Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)

Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from

152/270 (56.3%) · 16 TD · 6 INT

267 of 270 attempts matched to play-by-play

Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 267 passing plays (149 completions) against the box score's 270 attempts (152 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.

Adjusted ANY/A

5.91116 of 205 QBs

Sack rate

7.5%146 of 205 QBs

Sacked on 7.5% of dropbacks (146 of 205) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (116 of 205).

Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.

Short

0–9 yds

50%of completions

74 comp5.1 yds avg2 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

34%of completions

51 comp13.5 yds avg4 TD

Deep

20+ yds

16%of completions

24 comp27.8 yds avg7 TD

Overall 56.3% completion on 270 attempts · 24 deep completions averaging 27.8 yds.

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2017 baseline

No situation moves him more than 49 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-25 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 7/82 (8.5%) · league sack rate 5.0%

Down 2

-19 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 5/89 (5.6%) · league sack rate 5.1%

Down 3+

+49 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 8/76 (10.5%) · league sack rate 8.3%

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.

Teams and coaches

3 seasons under Craig Bohl — 18-21 over that span.

2015Wyoming2-10HC: Craig Bohl · Run-heavy

2016Wyoming8-6HC: Craig Bohl · Run-heavy

2017Wyoming8-5HC: Craig Bohl · Run-leaning, slow tempo

Our ratings

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Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

13 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: success rate (18th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Interception rate#66 / 187 · 65th pct

2.2%

EPA / dropback#96 / 187 · 49th pct

0.19

Explosive rate#114 / 187 · 39th pct

9.0%

Sack rate#133 / 187 · 29th pct

7.6%

Success rate#154 / 187 · 18th pct

34.8%

Box-score rates (8)

Rush TDs#39 / 179 · 75th pct

Rush yards#59 / 179 · 67th pct

204

Pass TDs#57 / 179 · 66th pct

Pass yards#81 / 179 · 55th pct

1812

Interceptions#73 / 179 · 53rd pct

Fumbles lost#81 / 163 · 39th pct

Completion %#116 / 179 · 35th pct

56.3%

Yards / att#121 / 179 · 31st pct

6.7

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

83rd → 49th percentile

Success rate

75th → 18th percentile

Explosive rate

95th → 39th percentile

Sack rate

44th → 29th percentile

Interception rate

10th → 65th percentile

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).

Zeitgeist Passer Rating

2017 · our own passing-efficiency number, shown next to the 1979 formula it does not replace.

Medium confidence: 247 dropbacks

30Zeitgeist Passer Rating126th of 142 FBS QBs

NCAA passer rating 127.8 86th of 142 FBS QBs

ZPR ranks him 40 places lower than passer rating does: passer rating cannot see sacks, and he takes one on 8.1% of dropbacks.

Positive-play rate weight 24%

41.0%23th pct of FBS QBs

share of dropbacks that gained expected points · -1.1% schedule adj.

Yards per attempt weight 56%

6.3120th pct of FBS QBs

sacks excluded · -0.2 schedule adj.

Sack rate weight 21% (penalty)

8.3%19th pct of FBS QBs

the input passer rating cannot see · +0.2% schedule adj.

Opponent-adjusted; garbage time excluded (42 of 289 dropbacks dropped). 50 = FBS average; the number is pulled toward 50 when the sample is thin. How ZPR is built.

Splits

Home and road splits, scheme and staff

Splits · Per-game

2017 season · 11 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home6g	179	1.7	7.0	0.2
Road4g	146	0.8	5.9	1.2

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-77g	177	1.4	6.8	0.6
Weeks 8+4g	143	1.5	6.7	0.5

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2017 season

Head Coach

Craig Bohl

Pass share

44.3%

347 pass / 437 run

Plays / game

60.3

13 games

Scheme: Run-leaning, slow tempo.

Awards

Player standing · 2017

Impact starter

270 pass attempts, 92 carries and 1 catch in 11 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Josh Allen

Players he’s like

How he plays

News and fans

Where to follow him

Career stats

Game log

Signature game

Signature plays

Passing profile

Situational

Teams and coaches

Our ratings

Splits

Awards

Impact starter

Three seasons at Wyoming, drafted

His moves

2015

2018