Last confirmed: Georgia Tech, 2016. No 2026 box-score games on record.
5′11″ · Prattville, AL
Justin Thomas: QB · Georgia Tech · #5.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Justin Thomas
Beats you with his legs when the pocket breaks down. This is his third year in the same quarterback room at Georgia Tech. A game that shows it: 264 passing yards and 195 rushing yards against Duke — Week 9, 2016.
Play style
Dangerous with both arm and legs — defenses can't just pin the ears back.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
45.7% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 23.1% conversion-per-dropback — 43.8% 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
2 of the team's 20 inside-the-5 carries (10.0%).
No outlet on our list has written about him by name this season.
Sports Illustrated Oct 20Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Georgia Tech | 79 | 148 | 53.4% | 1,559 | 10.5 | 8 | 2 | 157.0 | 80 |
| 2015 | Georgia Tech | 75 | 180 | 41.7% | 1,345 | 7.5 | 13 | 8 | 119.4 | 47 |
| 2014 | Georgia Tech | 96 | 187 | 51.3% | 1,719 | 9.2 | 18 | 6 | 153.9 | 76 |
| Career | 250 | 515 | 48.5% | 4,623 | 9.0 | 39 | 16 | 142.7 | 67 |
| Season | Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Georgia Tech | 137 | 604 | 4.4 | 6 |
| 2015 | Georgia Tech | 145 | 488 | 3.4 | 6 |
| 2014 | Georgia Tech | 190 | 1,086 | 5.7 | 8 |
| Career | 472 | 2,178 | 4.6 | 20 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2016 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 17-14@ Boston College | 8/15 | 119 | 0 | 0 | 7.9 | 66.4 | |
| Wk 2 | W 35-10vs Mercer | 5/10 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 8.0 | 97.8 | |
| Wk 3 | W 38-7vs Vanderbilt | 6/13 | 136 | 1 | 0 | 10.5 | 77.2 | |
| Wk 4 | L 7-26vs No. 5 Clemson | 4/13 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 2.2 | 5.7 | |
| Wk 5 | L 21-35vs No. 14 Miami | 11/19 | 94 | 1 | 1 | 4.9 | 9.8 | |
| Wk 6 | L 34-37@ Pittsburgh | 7/10 | 130 | 1 | 0 | 13.0 | 89.8 | |
| Wk 7 | W 35-24vs Georgia Southern | 7/11 | 172 | 1 | 0 | 15.6 | 95.5 | |
| Wk 9 | W 38-35vs Duke | 10/14 | 264 | 2 | 0 | 18.9 | 99.8 | Season-high 264 yds |
| Wk 10 | L 20-48@ No. 18 North Carolina | 4/9 | 144 | 1 | 0 | 16.0 | 55.8 | |
| Wk 12 | W 31-17vs Virginia | 5/10 | 122 | 1 | 0 | 12.2 | 24.3 | |
| Wk 13 | W 28-27@ Georgia | 6/10 | 164 | 0 | 1 | 16.4 | 42.7 | |
 Bowl | W 33-18@ Kentucky | 6/14 | 105 | 0 | 0 | 7.5 | 69.6 | |
| Total | 79/148 | 1559 | 8 | 2 | 10.5 | — |
Week 9 · 2016
W 38-35
vs Duke
264 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 99.8 · 195 rush yds (17 car) · 2 TD
Edged out Duke at home in a shootout.
With R. Rodwell — 48.3 yards per punt · 3 punts · 49 long · C. Lynch — 3 rec · 91 yds · 2 TD · 15 rush yds (5 car)
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 147 passing plays (78 completions) against the box score's 148 attempts (79 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
9.818 of 193 QBsSack rate
6.9%129 of 193 QBsSacked on 6.9% of dropbacks (129 of 193) — and still 8 of 193 in Adjusted ANY/A.
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 53.4% completion on 148 attempts · 27 deep completions averaging 39.7 yds.
3 seasons under Paul Johnson — 23-16 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 128 | 0.9 | 10.3 | 0.1 |
| Road3g | 146 | 0.7 | 15.1 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 108 | 0.5 | 8.7 | 0.1 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 174 | 1.0 | 15.9 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Paul Johnson
Pass share
21.0%
159 pass / 597 run
Plays / game
58.2
13 games
Scheme: Run-heavy, slow tempo.
Player standing · 2016
148 pass attempts and 137 carries in 12 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Georgia Tech, 4,623 passing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
He has a stat line in 38 games over 3 seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2016
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Paul Johnson.
