#17

Parker McNeil

Senior quarterback for Louisiana Tech. 2022: 1,908 passing yards, 18 TD, 8 INT.

QB · Louisiana Tech · Sr. · #17

6′6″ · 224 lb · Austin, TX

CFB Index 43 · #79 of 140 QBsHigh confidenceLouisiana Tech 2022 alumnus

Recruiting

3★

PRO recruit

No. 206 nationally · Joined Hudson Valley

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 quarterback for Louisiana Tech. 2022: 1,908 passing yards, 18 TD, 8 INT.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Hudson Valley in 2020.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Two seasons at Louisiana Tech, 1,908 passing yards — his college career is complete.

His career

2020

Signed with Hudson Valley3-star out of Navarro College

2021

Entered the portal

Career arc

Recruit

★★★

#206 national

CFB

College

2 teams

2020–2022

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Coaching lineage · 2020–2022

2 coaches

2020

Skip Holtz

Louisiana Tech

2022

Sonny Cumbie

Louisiana Tech

era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Skip Holtz → Sonny Cumbie. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

2022 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2020Troy5-6HC: Chip Lindsey · Pass-leaning

2022Louisiana Tech3-9HC: Sonny Cumbie · Balanced

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

43Rotational starter #79 of 140?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: yards / att (92nd percentile). Strength: fumbles lost (92nd percentile). Concern: rush tds (10th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

EPA / dropback#37 / 169 · 78th pct

0.35

Explosive rate#40 / 169 · 77th pct

12.3%

Sack rate#97 / 169 · 43rd pct

6.6%

Success rate#110 / 169 · 35th pct

43.6%

Interception rate#112 / 169 · 34th pct

2.6%

Box-score rates (8)

Yards / att#13 / 177 · 92nd pct

8.9

Fumbles lost#1 / 169 · 92nd pct

Pass TDs#55 / 177 · 67th pct

Pass yards#94 / 177 · 47th pct

1908

Interceptions#114 / 177 · 31st pct

Completion %#127 / 177 · 29th pct

57.5%

Rush yards#158 / 177 · 11th pct

-68

Rush TDs#141 / 177 · 10th pct

Season trend

EPA / dropback— first qualifying season

Success rate— first qualifying season

Explosive rate— first qualifying season

Sack rate— first qualifying season

Interception rate— first qualifying season

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

118/202 (58.4%) · 18 TD · 8 INT

202 of 214 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

7.9637 of 206 QBs

Sack rate

6.6%122 of 206 QBs

Sacked on 6.6% of dropbacks (122 of 206) — and still 37 of 206 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 yds

51%of completions

60 comp5.4 yds avg2 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

28%of completions

33 comp13.7 yds avg3 TD

Deep

20+ yds

21%of completions

25 comp39.7 yds avg7 TD

Overall 58.4% completion on 202 attempts · 25 deep completions averaging 39.7 yds.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2022 season · 8 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home4g	195	2.8	7.9	0.5
Road4g	282	1.8	9.8	1.5

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-76g	265	2.3	9.6	1.2
Weeks 8+2g	158	2.0	6.6	0.5

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Sonny Cumbie

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

Awards

Player standing · 2022

Part-time starter

Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

43 · #79 of 140 QBs

Three-star recruit. Now #79 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2022	Louisiana Tech	123	214	57.5%	1,908	8.9	18	8	152.7	52	--	--
2020	Troy	--	2	0.0%	--	0.0	0	0	0.0	--	--	--
Career		123	216	56.9%	1,908	8.8	18	8	151.2	52	--	--

Season	Team
2022	Louisiana Tech	25	-68	-2.7	--
2020	Troy	1	3	3.0	--
Career		26	-65	-2.5	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2022

W 52–17

vs Stephen F. Austin

197 yds · 3 TD · 1 INT · QBR 26.5 · -4 rush yds (1 car)

Dominant 35-point win at home against Stephen F. Austin.

With A. McCready — 43 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 50 LONG · M. Crosby — 196 rush yds (16 car) · 2 TD

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 7 · North Texas · 4&3 · Q3 · EPA +6.61Parker McNeil pass complete to Tre Harris for 58 yds for a TD, (Jacob Barnes KICK)
Week 4 · South Alabama · 3&6 · Q2 · EPA +5.69Parker McNeil pass complete to Smoke Harris for 52 yds for a TD, (Jacob Barnes KICK)
Week 1 · Missouri · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA +5.15Parker McNeil pass complete to Cyrus Allen for 64 yds for a TD, (Jacob Barnes KICK)
Week 2 · Stephen F. Austin · 1&10 · Q3 · EPA +5.05Griffin Hebert 63 Yd pass from Parker McNeil (Jacob Barnes Kick)
Week 7 · North Texas · 1&15 · Q2 · EPA +4.90Parker McNeil pass complete to Smoke Harris for 74 yds to the NoTex 5 for a 1ST down
Week 6 · UTEP · 4&1 · Q1 · EPA +4.75Tre Harris 38 Yd pass from Parker McNeil (Jacob Barnes Kick)
Week 6 · UTEP · 3&2 · Q4 · EPA +4.25Parker McNeil pass complete to Tre Harris for 64 yds to the UTEP 15 for a 1ST down
Week 3 · Clemson · 3&9 · Q3 · EPA +4.14Parker McNeil pass complete to Griffin Hebert for 46 yds to the Clem 17 for a 1ST down
Week 10 · Middle Tennessee · 3&10 · Q1 · EPA +4.07Parker McNeil pass complete to Tre Harris for 44 yds to the MTnSt 16 for a 1ST down
Week 3 · Clemson · 2&9 · Q3 · EPA -4.07Parker McNeil pass intercepted Malcolm Greene return for 13 yds to the Clem 20 CLEMSON Penalty, Offensive Holding (10 Yards) to the Clem 10

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2022 season · 8 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	L 24-52@ Missouri	7/11	142	2	0	12.9	74.1
Wk 2	W 52-17vs Stephen F. Austin	11/23	197	3	1	8.6	26.5	3 TD passes
Wk 3	L 20-48@ Clemson	23/42	311	1	2	7.4	57.8
Wk 4	L 14-38@ South Alabama	19/34	251	2	4	7.4	24.4	4 INTs — rough day
Wk 6	W 41-31vs UTEP	18/27	266	4	0	9.9	90.1	4 TD passes
Wk 7	L 27-47@ North Texas	26/37	424	2	0	11.5	55.7	Season-high 424 yds
Wk 8	L 41-42vs Rice	5/7	32	1	0	4.6	68.1
Wk 10	W 40-24vs Middle Tennessee	14/33	285	3	1	8.6	53.3	3 TD passes
Total		123/214	1908	18	8	8.9	56.2

How he plays

Play style

Go-for-it mentality with the arm to back it up — and the turnovers to live with.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

40.0%Completion %

25.9%Conversion/dropback

30.0%Land short of sticks

1INTs

40.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 25.9% conversion-per-dropback — 30.0% 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