Last confirmed: Southern Miss, 2016. No 2026 box-score games on record.
6′1″ · Hoover, AL · Spain Park
Nick Mullens: QB · Southern Miss · #9.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Nick Mullens
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Nick Mullens has been at Southern Miss through two head coaches in three seasons. A game that shows it: 591 passing yards and 8 rushing yards against Rice — Week 5, 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
61.7% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 36.0% conversion-per-dropback — 37.9% 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
6 of the team's 31 inside-the-5 carries (19.4%).
No outlet on our list has written about him by name this season.
SuperTalk Mississippi Media Oct 23
Yahoo Sports Oct 12Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Southern Miss | 243 | 384 | 63.3% | 3,272 | 8.5 | 24 | 11 | 149.8 | 71 |
| 2015 | Southern Miss | 331 | 521 | 63.5% | 4,476 | 8.6 | 38 | 12 | 155.2 | 71 |
| 2014 | Southern Miss | 218 | 365 | 59.7% | 2,470 | 6.8 | 12 | 9 | 122.5 | 48 |
| Career | 792 | 1,270 | 62.4% | 10,218 | 8.0 | 74 | 32 | 144.1 | 65 |
| Season | Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Southern Miss | 51 | −59 | −1.2 | 4 |
| 2015 | Southern Miss | 43 | −92 | −2.1 | 3 |
| 2014 | Southern Miss | 49 | 39 | 0.8 | 0 |
| Career | 143 | −112 | −0.8 | 7 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2016 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 44-35@ Kentucky | 18/28 | 258 | 2 | 3 | 9.2 | 39.1 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 2 | W 56-0vs Savannah State | 16/20 | 216 | 3 | 1 | 10.8 | 88.8 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | L 31-37vs Troy | 24/52 | 263 | 1 | 2 | 5.1 | 26.4 | |
| Wk 4 | W 34-7@ UTEP | 16/27 | 176 | 3 | 0 | 6.5 | 72.5 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | W 44-28vs Rice | 25/36 | 591 | 4 | 1 | 16.4 | 94.1 | Season-high 591 yds |
| Wk 6 | L 32-55@ UTSA | 24/47 | 370 | 3 | 1 | 7.9 | 71.1 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 7 | L 10-45@ LSU | 25/36 | 161 | 0 | 0 | 4.5 | 25.8 | |
| Wk 9 | W 24-14vs Marshall | 22/40 | 300 | 1 | 0 | 7.5 | 41.5 | |
| Wk 10 | L 27-38vs Charlotte | 19/25 | 249 | 2 | 2 | 10.0 | 54.9 | |
| Wk 13 | W 39-24vs Louisiana Tech | 29/33 | 342 | 3 | 0 | 10.4 | 88.1 | 3 TD passes |
 Bowl | W 28-21@ Louisiana | 25/40 | 346 | 2 | 1 | 8.6 | 71.8 | |
| Total | 243/384 | 3272 | 24 | 11 | 8.5 | — |
Week 13 · 2016
W 39-24
342 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 88.1
With I. Smith — 127 rush yds (24 car) · 4 rec · 63 yds · T. Sarrazin — 59 yards per punt · 2 punts · 61 long
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 383 passing plays (243 completions) against the box score's 384 attempts (243 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.8129 of 193 QBsSack rate
4.7%58 of 193 QBsRarely sacked (58 of 193 QBs) and still 29 of 193 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 63.3% completion on 384 attempts · 43 deep completions averaging 37.9 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2016 baseline
+65
percentile points better on third down or later
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 · 11 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 327 | 2.3 | 10.0 | 1.0 |
| Road4g | 241 | 2.0 | 7.0 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 298 | 2.2 | 8.6 | 1.1 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 297 | 2.0 | 9.3 | 0.7 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jay Hopson
Pass share
47.5%
477 pass / 527 run
Plays / game
77.2
13 games
Scheme: Balanced, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2016
384 pass attempts and 51 carries in 11 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Southern Miss, 10,218 passing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
He has a stat line in 35 games over 3 seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Todd Monken → Jay Hopson. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
