Landry Lyddy

#18 · QB · Southern Miss6′0″ · 208 lb · Stonewall, LA · Calvary Baptist Academy

ZPR22112th of 119 QBsLast gameW 35–21at UL Monroe · Oct 31
Nextvs James MadisonThu Nov 5 · 8 pm ET
via southernmiss.com ↗

Graded Shaky or Rough in each of the last two games.

Last game: W 35-21 at UL Monroe, Oct 31 · 15 of 30 for 130 yards, a touchdown · 5 carries for -3 yards

Southern Miss’s next game: vs James Madison, Thu Nov 5, 8:00 p.m. ET · ESPN2

Southern Miss is 2-4 in the six games with 10 or more passes thrown. A balanced passer.

Weakest: completes 55% of throws by play-by-play, 16th lowest of 158 starters.

Passing yards

1,326

116 of 201, 58%

TD–INT

8–4

6.6 per throw

NCAA rating

122.3

100th of 119

ZPR

22

112th of 119

How ZPR works

Shaky or worse in 4 of 5 graded games.

Best by our grade: at Troy. Lowest: at UL Monroe.

Tap a game for its plays

Q1Q2Q3Q4

Alcorn State

W 49–3·FCS

Came on in Q3

Came on in the third quarter for Ethan Hampton · 46 yds, 0 TD, 0 INT · No rushes · Sacked 0

at Auburn

L 8–43·Unranked

Came on in Q4

Came on in the fourth quarter for Ethan Hampton · 25 yds, 0 TD, 0 INT · Rush 2 for -10 · Sacked 0

Season

Gets better after halftime

How to read this

Each column is a quarter. Blue and up is a good stretch for the quarterback, red and down a bad one, hatched means the game was already decided. A red cross is a turnover and a black dot a touchdown. The word on the right grades the whole game. A gold line means the r/CFB game thread kept naming the quarterback. Tap a game to open its plays: each bar is one of the quarterback’s plays, up helped the team’s chance of winning and down hurt it, and the grey line is that chance.

The word grades the game against every FBS quarterback start, from Rough to Great, using the same throws as the season Zeitgeist Passer Rating and adjusting for the defense faced. Bars are points added per throw in that quarter. The Season row leaves out quarters after a game was decided.

Style of play

Balanced

Why this word
Runs2.7 a gameRarelyA lot
Throws9.0 yards past the lineShortDeep
Completes55% by play-by-playFewerMore
Takes sacks5% of dropbacksRarelyOften

The dot is this quarterback, among this season’s starters; the tick is the middle.

Throws at a middling depth and runs some. 2.7 carries a game. Closest matches: Semonza, Angeli, Denegal, DeShields.

Where the throws go

Behind the line18%typical 17%
Short45%typical 47%
Middle18%typical 22%
Deep19%typical 14%

Runs 2.7 times a game; 74% of starters run more.

Closest in style

SemonzaAngeliDenegalDeShieldsThis QB

Nearer the middle means more alike.

  • Semonza Tulane · Balanced
    804 yards, 4 TD, 2 INT so far. Both rarely run and miss more.
  • Angeli Syracuse · Balanced
    1,186 yards, 7 TD, 5 INT so far. Both rarely run and miss more.
  • Denegal San Diego State · Balanced
    896 yards, 7 TD, 5 INT so far. Both miss more and rarely run.
  • DeShields Kent State · Mobile passer
    1,624 yards, 9 TD, 7 INT so far. Both miss more and are less efficient.

Compared with the 158 FBS starters this season for throws and running, and with 219 quarterbacks across 2 seasons for the matches, on how they play and how they have done.

This week

  • RecordSouthern Miss is 3-5.

What’s being said

4 stories in the last 60 days, from 5 outlets.

Sep 17 to Sep 23: 1Sep 24 to Sep 30: 2Oct 1 to Oct 7: 1L 8-43 at AuburnLL 20-48 vs UConnLL 21-24 at TulaneLL 34-55 at TroyLL 13-23 vs Arkansas StateLW 35-31 vs LouisianaWW 35-21 at UL MonroeWSep 10Nov 4Most in a week: 2
Sep 17 to Sep 23: 1Sep 24 to Sep 30: 2Oct 1 to Oct 7: 1L 8-43 at AuburnLL 20-48 vs UConnLL 21-24 at TulaneLL 34-55 at TroyLL 13-23 vs Arkansas StateLW 35-31 vs LouisianaWW 35-21 at UL MonroeWSep 10Nov 4Most in a week: 2
Stories per week. W and L: the team’s results.

How Southern Miss football's Landry Lyddy was bright spot in loss to Tulane

Hattiesburg American +1 Sep 27

All 4 stories this season

Worth knowing

  • Landry Lyddy played at Louisiana Tech and UAB before joining Southern Miss.

His most important play this season

  1. Q3, 10:07 · Southern Miss breaks the tieLandy Lyddy finds Mario Sanders II for a 22-yard touchdownSouthern Miss at Tulane, week 4Q3, 10:07 · Southern Miss 21, Tulane 14Go-ahead score for Southern Miss in the third quarterGo-ahead score for Southern Miss in the third quarterMario Sanders 22 yd pass from Landry Lyddy (Creighton Wilbanks Kick)Watch from this play Sun Belt Conference

All 7 of his plays on video

Landry Lyddy

QB · Southern Miss · #18

Filling the Shoesas of Nov 4

Landry Lyddy takes over from Braylon Braxton at Southern Miss.

1,326passing yards8passing TD14rushing yards

Passing value per play

+0.17

our model · 2026 · 66 plays

Read the story so far

Landry Lyddy arrived as a 3-star prospect. Landry Lyddy lines up at QB for Southern Miss.

On the field, the headline is 1,326 pass yds, with 8 pass td.

Landry Lyddy inherited the QB job from Braylon Braxton (3-star).

The number to watch: +0.17 — passing value per play.

QB successionleap of faith
  • Inherited fromBraylon Braxton 3★

AI-generated narrative · may contain errors · not journalism · updated 2026-11-04