Last confirmed: Minnesota, 2016. No 2026 box-score games on record.
6′4″ · Lakeville, MN · Lakeville South
Mitch Leidner: QB · Minnesota · #7.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Mitch Leidner
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Mitch Leidner has played for two head coaches in three seasons at Minnesota. A game that shows it: 295 passing yards and 9 rushing yards against Indiana State — Week 2, 2016.
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
53.1% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 20.8% conversion-per-dropback — 57.7% 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
9 of the team's 29 inside-the-5 carries (31.0%).
No outlet on our list has written about him by name this season.
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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 30-23vs Oregon State | 13/26 | 130 | 0 | 0 | 5.0 | 78.6 | |
| Wk 2 | W 58-28vs Indiana State | 20/30 | 295 | 4 | 0 | 9.8 | 95.7 | Season-high 295 yds |
| Wk 4 | W 31-24vs Colorado State | 16/20 | 174 | 0 | 1 | 8.7 | 79.1 | |
| Wk 5 | L 26-29@ Penn State | 24/40 | 241 | 1 | 1 | 6.0 | 46.3 | |
| Wk 6 | L 7-14vs Iowa | 13/33 | 166 | 0 | 2 | 5.0 | 9.6 | |
| Wk 8 | W 34-32vs Rutgers | 11/18 | 156 | 0 | 1 | 8.7 | 38.5 | |
| Wk 9 | W 40-17@ Illinois | 10/19 | 112 | 0 | 0 | 5.9 | 25.9 | |
| Wk 10 | W 44-31vs Purdue | 14/23 | 231 | 0 | 1 | 10.0 | 51.2 | |
| Wk 11 | L 17-24@ No. 21 Nebraska | 18/27 | 180 | 0 | 1 | 6.7 | 75.6 | |
| Wk 12 | W 29-12vs Northwestern | 14/25 | 197 | 1 | 1 | 7.9 | 54.5 | |
| Wk 13 | L 17-31@ No. 5 Wisconsin | 9/26 | 158 | 1 | 4 | 6.1 | 22.5 | 4 INTs — rough day |
 Bowl | W 17-12@ Washington State | 11/20 | 129 | 1 | 0 | 6.4 | 51.8 | |
| Total | 173/307 | 2169 | 8 | 12 | 7.1 | — |
Week 2 · 2016
W 58-28
295 yds · 4 TD · 0 INT · QBR 95.7
Dominant 30-point win at home against Indiana State.
With K. McCrary — 176 rush yds (17 car) · 2 TD · D. Wolitarsky — 8 rec · 125 yds · 2 TD
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 305 passing plays (172 completions) against the box score's 307 attempts (173 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.26131 of 193 QBsSack rate
4.7%57 of 193 QBsRarely sacked (57 of 193), but Adjusted ANY/A hasn't followed (131 of 193).
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 56.4% completion on 307 attempts · 34 deep completions averaging 27.3 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2016 baseline
No situation moves him more than 29 percentile points from his baseline.
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.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 193 | 0.7 | 7.9 | 0.9 |
| Road4g | 173 | 0.5 | 6.2 | 1.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 189 | 1.0 | 6.8 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 172 | 0.3 | 7.5 | 1.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Tracy Claeys
Pass share
37.2%
323 pass / 546 run
Plays / game
66.8
13 games
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2016
307 pass attempts and 111 carries in 12 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Minnesota, 6,668 passing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
He has a stat line in 37 games over 3 seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2016
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Jerry Kill → Tracy Claeys. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
