Last confirmed: Iowa, 2019. No 2026 box-score games on record.
6′4″ · 243 lb · Menomonie, WI
Nate Stanley: QB · Iowa · #4.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Nate Stanley
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Fourth year in the Iowa quarterback room. A game that shows it: 308 passing yards and 22 rushing yards against Illinois — Week 13, 2019.
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
66.7% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 37.5% conversion-per-dropback — 38.2% 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. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
20 of 20 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (100.0%). 4 of the team's 23 inside-the-5 carries (17.4%).
No outlet on our list has written about him by name this season.
The Des Moines Register Oct 15Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
Game log · Week-by-week
2019 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 38-14vs Miami (OH) | 21/30 | 252 | 3 | 0 | 8.4 | 82.8 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 30-0vs Rutgers | 16/28 | 236 | 3 | 0 | 8.4 | 75.7 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | W 18-17@ Iowa State | 22/35 | 201 | 0 | 0 | 5.7 | 68.5 | |
| Wk 5 | W 48-3vs Middle Tennessee | 17/25 | 276 | 2 | 0 | 11.0 | 85.5 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 6 | L 3-10@ No. 19 Michigan | 23/42 | 260 | 0 | 3 | 6.2 | 23.1 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 7 | L 12-17vs No. 10 Penn State | 25/43 | 286 | 1 | 1 | 6.7 | 60.9 | |
| Wk 8 | W 26-20vs Purdue | 23/33 | 260 | 0 | 1 | 7.9 | 63.2 | |
| Wk 9 | W 20-0@ Northwestern | 12/26 | 179 | 1 | 0 | 6.9 | 61.1 | |
| Wk 11 | L 22-24@ No. 16 Wisconsin | 17/28 | 208 | 2 | 0 | 7.4 | — | |
| Wk 12 | W 23-19vs No. 7 Minnesota | 14/23 | 173 | 2 | 0 | 7.5 | — | |
| Wk 13 | W 19-10vs Illinois | 18/35 | 308 | 0 | 1 | 8.8 | — | Season-high 308 yds |
| Wk 14 | W 27-24@ Nebraska | 11/24 | 99 | 0 | 1 | 4.1 | — | |
 Bowl | W 49-24vs No. 22 USC | 18/27 | 213 | 2 | 0 | 7.9 | — | |
| Total | 237/399 | 2951 | 16 | 7 | 7.4 | — |
Week 11 · 2019
L 22-24
at Wisconsin
208 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT
With M. Sleep-Dalton — 41.3 yards per punt · 4 punts · 4 inside the 20 · T. Tracy Jr. — 5 rec · 130 yds · 1 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 398 passing plays (237 completions) against the box score's 399 attempts (237 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.4895 of 205 QBsSack rate
5.5%81 of 205 QBsRarely sacked (81 of 205 QBs) and still 95 of 205 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 59.4% completion on 399 attempts · 48 deep completions averaging 31.0 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2019 baseline
No situation moves him more than 32 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.
4 seasons under Kirk Ferentz — 35-17 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2019 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 256 | 1.6 | 8.4 | 0.4 |
| Road5g | 189 | 0.6 | 6.1 | 0.8 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 246 | 1.6 | 7.8 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 204 | 0.8 | 7.1 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Kirk Ferentz
Pass share
48.0%
410 pass / 444 run
Plays / game
65.7
13 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2019
399 pass attempts and 76 carries in 13 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Four seasons at Iowa, 8,275 passing yards — drafted at #244 overall by the Minnesota Vikings.
His career
He has a stat line in 44 games over 4 seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2016–2019
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Kirk Ferentz.
Where he ended up · NFL
Minnesota VikingsEntering 7th NFL season
Minnesota VikingsEntering 7th NFL season
