Malik Cunningham

Senior quarterback for Louisville. 2022: 1,568 passing yards, 8 TD, 5 INT.

QB · Louisville · Sr. · #3

6′1″ · 190 lb · Montgomery, AL

CFB Index 48 · #65 of 140 QBsHigh confidenceLouisville 2022 alumnus

The story

4 quarterback for Louisville. 2022: 1,568 passing yards, 8 TD, 5 INT.

The record fills in as he plays.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Five seasons at Louisville, 9,664 passing yards — his college career is complete.

Career arc

Recruit

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No recruit profile

CFB

College

Louisville

2018–2022

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Coaching lineage · 2018–2022

2 coaches

2018

Lorenzo Ward

Louisville

2019–2022

Scott Satterfield

Louisville

era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Lorenzo Ward → Scott Satterfield. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

2022 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2018Louisville2-10HC: Lorenzo Ward · Balanced

2019Louisville8-5HC: Scott Satterfield · Run-heavy

2020Louisville4-7HC: Scott Satterfield · Run-leaning

2021Louisville6-7HC: Scott Satterfield · Run-leaning, fast tempo

2022Louisville8-5HC: Scott Satterfield · Run-leaning

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

48Rotational starter #65 of 140?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: rush tds (98th percentile). Strength: rush yards (91st percentile). Concern: explosive rate (24th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Success rate#87 / 169 · 49th pct

45.5%

EPA / dropback#100 / 169 · 41st pct

0.21

Interception rate#106 / 169 · 38th pct

2.6%

Sack rate#114 / 169 · 33rd pct

7.2%

Explosive rate#129 / 169 · 24th pct

8.1%

Box-score rates (8)

Rush TDs#3 / 177 · 98th pct

Rush yards#17 / 177 · 91st pct

565

Interceptions#52 / 177 · 65th pct

Completion %#78 / 177 · 56th pct

62.4%

Yards / att#90 / 177 · 48th pct

7.2

Pass yards#104 / 177 · 42nd pct

1568

Fumbles lost#83 / 169 · 38th pct

Pass TDs#120 / 177 · 32nd pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

88th → 41st percentile

Success rate

76th → 49th percentile

Explosive rate

78th → 24th percentile

Sack rate

77th → 33rd percentile

Interception rate

67th → 38th 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).

Passing profile

Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)

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

133/212 (62.7%) · 8 TD · 5 INT

212 of 218 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

6.05116 of 206 QBs

Sack rate

7.2%146 of 206 QBs

Sacked on 7.2% of dropbacks (146 of 206) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (116 of 206).

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

Short

0–9 yds

51%of completions

68 comp4.9 yds avg2 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

35%of completions

47 comp13.3 yds avg2 TD

Deep

20+ yds

14%of completions

18 comp31.1 yds avg2 TD

Overall 62.7% completion on 212 attempts · 18 deep completions averaging 31.1 yds.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2022 season · 10 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home5g	188	1.4	7.9	0.4
Road5g	126	0.2	5.8	0.6

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-75g	194	0.6	7.2	0.6
Weeks 8+5g	120	1.0	6.5	0.4

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Jeff Brohm

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2022

Starter

A locked-in starting job.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

48 · #65 of 140 QBs

Career stats

Season	Team
2022	Louisville	136	218	62.4%	1,568	7.2	8	5	130.3	50	--	--
2021	Louisville	209	337	62.0%	2,941	8.7	19	6	150.4	73	--	--
2020	Louisville	195	303	64.4%	2,617	8.6	20	12	150.8	50	--	--
2019	Louisville	112	179	62.6%	2,065	11.5	22	5	194.4	--	--	--
2018	Louisville	40	67	59.7%	473	7.1	1	1	120.9	--	--	--
Career		692	1,104	62.7%	9,664	8.8	70	29	151.9	59	--	--

Season	Team
2022	Louisville	114	565	5.0	12	--
2021	Louisville	173	1,031	6.0	20	--
2020	Louisville	131	608	4.6	7	--
2019	Louisville	122	482	4.0	6	--
2018	Louisville	79	497	6.3	5	--
Career		619	3,183	5.1	50	--

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 10 · James Madison · 3&10 · Q4 · EPA +5.45Malik Cunningham pass complete to Tyler Hudson for 44 yds for a TD, (James Turner KICK)
Week 4 · South Florida · 4&5 · Q2 · EPA +5.00Malik Cunningham 35 Yd Run (James Turner Kick)
Week 2 · UCF · 2&14 · Q3 · EPA +4.80Malik Cunningham 43 Yd Run (James Turner Kick)
Week 4 · South Florida · 3&3 · Q1 · EPA +4.11Malik Cunningham 40 Yd Run (James Turner Kick)
Week 2 · UCF · 4&9 · Q2 · EPA +3.91Malik Cunningham pass complete to Tyler Hudson for 21 yds to the UCF 36 for a 1ST down
Week 8 · Pittsburgh · 3&9 · Q1 · EPA +3.75Malik Cunningham pass complete to Chris Bell for 29 yds to the Pitt 32 for a 1ST down
Week 1 · Syracuse · 1&19 · Q3 · EPA +3.68Malik Cunningham pass complete to Ahmari Huggins-Bruce for 45 yds to the Syrac 46 for a 1ST down
Week 3 · Florida State · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA +3.46Malik Cunningham pass complete to Ahmari Huggins-Bruce for 55 yds to the FlaSt 20 for a 1ST down
Week 4 · South Florida · 3&16 · Q1 · EPA +3.21Malik Cunningham run for 16 yds to the SFla 26 for a 1ST down
Week 10 · James Madison · 4&4 · Q4 · EPA +3.19Malik Cunningham pass complete to Ahmari Huggins-Bruce for 11 yds for a TD, (James Turner KICK)

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2022 season · 10 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	L 7-31@ Syracuse	16/22	152	0	2	6.9	25.6
Wk 2	W 20-14@ UCF	14/29	201	0	0	6.9	72.3
Wk 3	L 31-35vs Florida State	21/34	243	1	1	7.1	62.0	Season-high 243 yds
Wk 4	W 41-3vs South Florida	14/22	186	1	0	8.5	99.4
Wk 5	L 33-34@ Boston College	19/28	186	1	0	6.6	80.4
Wk 8	W 24-10vs Pittsburgh	10/21	122	2	1	5.8	58.0
Wk 9	W 48-21vs Wake Forest	15/23	164	0	0	7.1	70.0
Wk 10	W 34-10vs James Madison	14/20	223	3	0	11.2	52.3	3 TD passes
Wk 11	L 16-31@ Clemson	10/13	75	0	0	5.8	72.9
Wk 13	L 13-26@ Kentucky	3/6	16	0	1	2.7	32.9
Total		136/218	1568	8	5	6.9	62.6

How he plays

Play style

Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

40.6%Completion %

21.2%Conversion/dropback

46.2%Land short of sticks

0INTs

40.6% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 21.2% conversion-per-dropback — 46.2% 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. ~ our read: checkdown by design