Last confirmed: Texas Tech, 2017. No 2026 box-score games on record.
6′3″ · 225 lb · Mildred, TX
Nic Shimonek: QB · Texas Tech · #16.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Nic Shimonek
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. He has spent three seasons in the Texas Tech quarterback room. One game to point at: 543 passing yards and 6 passing TD against Arizona State — Week 3, 2017.
Play style
High-percentage passer who protects the ball. Loses the matchup on improvisation.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
60.4% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 26.4% conversion-per-dropback — 51.7% 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
4 of the team's 28 inside-the-5 carries (14.3%).
No outlet on our list has written about him by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Texas Tech | 328 | 493 | 66.5% | 3,963 | 8.0 | 33 | 10 | 152.1 | 70 |
| 2016 | Texas Tech | 38 | 58 | 65.5% | 464 | 8.0 | 6 | 1 | 163.4 | -- |
| 2015 | Texas Tech | 1 | 2 | 50.0% | 18 | 9.0 | 0 | 0 | 125.6 | -- |
| Career | 367 | 553 | 66.4% | 4,445 | 8.0 | 39 | 11 | 153.2 | 70 |
| Season | Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Texas Tech | 59 | −66 | −1.1 | 1 |
| 2016 | Texas Tech | 5 | −31 | −6.2 | 0 |
| 2015 | Texas Tech | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 64 | −97 | −1.5 | 1 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2017 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 56-10vs Eastern Washington | 26/30 | 384 | 3 | 0 | 12.8 | 95.1 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | W 52-45vs Arizona State | 37/50 | 543 | 6 | 0 | 10.9 | 93.8 | Season-high 543 yds |
| Wk 4 | W 27-24@ Houston | 29/45 | 321 | 2 | 1 | 7.1 | 49.0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 34-41vs No. 15 Oklahoma State | 29/46 | 330 | 1 | 1 | 7.2 | 68.2 | |
| Wk 6 | W 65-19@ Kansas | 19/24 | 233 | 2 | 1 | 9.7 | 61.5 | |
| Wk 7 | L 35-46@ West Virginia | 24/39 | 323 | 4 | 1 | 8.3 | 70.8 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | L 13-31vs Iowa State | 31/41 | 207 | 0 | 1 | 5.0 | 48.6 | |
| Wk 9 | L 27-49@ No. 10 Oklahoma | 22/36 | 322 | 4 | 1 | 8.9 | 75.6 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 10 | L 35-42vs Kansas State | 34/53 | 405 | 4 | 1 | 7.6 | — | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 11 | W 38-24@ Baylor | 24/29 | 246 | 2 | 0 | 8.5 | 89.2 | |
| Wk 12 | L 3-27vs No. 11 TCU | 17/33 | 137 | 0 | 1 | 4.2 | 12.4 | |
| Wk 13 | W 27-23@ Texas | 4/8 | 96 | 2 | 0 | 12.0 | 95.4 | |
 Bowl | L 34-38@ No. 23 South Florida | 32/59 | 416 | 3 | 2 | 7.1 | 49.5 | |
| Total | 328/493 | 3963 | 33 | 10 | 8.0 | — |
Week 3 · 2017
W 52-45
543 yds · 6 TD · 0 INT · QBR 93.8
Edged out Arizona State at home in a shootout.
With K. Coutee — 12 rec · 186 yds · 1 TD · D. Cantrell — 8 rec · 160 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 488 passing plays (323 completions) against the box score's 493 attempts (328 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.6242 of 205 QBsSack rate
5.2%84 of 205 QBsRarely sacked (84 of 205 QBs) and still 42 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 66.5% completion on 493 attempts · 50 deep completions averaging 33.3 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2017 baseline
No situation moves him more than 42 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.
3 seasons under Kliff Kingsbury — 18-20 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 334 | 2.3 | 8.0 | 0.7 |
| Road5g | 259 | 2.8 | 9.2 | 0.8 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 364 | 3.0 | 9.0 | 0.9 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 236 | 2.0 | 7.7 | 0.7 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Kliff Kingsbury
Pass share
54.6%
541 pass / 449 run
Plays / game
76.2
13 games
Scheme: Balanced, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2017
493 pass attempts and 59 carries in 13 games, more passes and runs a game than nearly every FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Texas Tech, 4,445 passing yards — his college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2015–2017
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Kliff Kingsbury.
