Last confirmed: Kansas, 2018. No 2026 box-score games on record.
6′1″ · 205 lb · Fort Lauderdale, FL · Itawamba C.C.
Peyton Bender: QB · Kansas · #7.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Peyton Bender
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Two head coaches in three seasons, at two different programs. One game to point at: 249 passing yards and 2 passing TD against TCU — Week 9, 2018.
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
63.8% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 29.6% conversion-per-dropback — 46.7% 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
No outlet on our list has written about him by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Kansas | 184 | 322 | 57.1% | 1,899 | 5.9 | 13 | 3 | 118.1 | 21 |
| 2017 | Kansas | 148 | 273 | 54.2% | 1,609 | 5.9 | 10 | 10 | 108.5 | 31 |
| 2015 | Washington State | 53 | 91 | 58.2% | 498 | 5.5 | 3 | 4 | 106.3 | 52 |
| Career | 385 | 686 | 56.1% | 4,006 | 5.8 | 26 | 17 | 112.7 | 29 |
| Season | Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Kansas | 34 | −140 | −4.1 | 0 |
| 2017 | Kansas | 25 | −87 | −3.5 | 0 |
| 2015 | Washington State | 3 | −18 | −6.0 | 0 |
| Career | 62 | −245 | −4.0 | 0 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 23-26vs Nicholls | 19/35 | 187 | 2 | 0 | 5.3 | — | |
| Wk 2 | W 31-7@ Central Michigan | 17/26 | 130 | 1 | 0 | 5.0 | — | |
| Wk 3 | W 55-14vs Rutgers | 8/12 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 6.1 | — | |
| Wk 4 | L 7-26@ Baylor | 10/17 | 105 | 1 | 0 | 6.2 | — | |
| Wk 6 | L 22-38@ No. 9 West Virginia | 16/25 | 191 | 2 | 1 | 7.6 | — | |
| Wk 8 | L 16-48@ Texas Tech | 18/41 | 221 | 2 | 1 | 5.4 | — | |
| Wk 9 | W 27-26vs TCU | 19/29 | 249 | 2 | 0 | 8.6 | — | Season-high 249 yds |
| Wk 10 | L 3-27vs Iowa State | 19/41 | 185 | 0 | 0 | 4.5 | 16.1 | |
| Wk 11 | L 17-21@ Kansas State | 21/34 | 232 | 2 | 0 | 6.8 | — | |
| Wk 12 | L 40-55@ No. 6 Oklahoma | 19/27 | 167 | 0 | 0 | 6.2 | — | |
| Wk 13 | L 17-24vs No. 11 Texas | 18/35 | 159 | 1 | 1 | 4.5 | — | |
| Total | 184/322 | 1899 | 13 | 3 | 5.9 | — |
Week 9 · 2018
W 27-26
vs TCU
249 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 1 at home.
With P. Williams Jr. — 7 rec · 102 yds · 2 TD · 33 rush yds (11 car) · K. Thompson — 44 yards per punt · 4 punts · 2 inside the 20
The plays that mattered most
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
5.49139 of 207 QBsSack rate
6.7%114 of 207 QBsSacked on 6.7% of dropbacks (114 of 207) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (139 of 207).
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 57.1% completion on 322 attempts · 26 deep completions averaging 28.9 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2018 baseline
+54
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
2018 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 171 | 1.0 | 5.8 | 0.2 |
| Road6g | 174 | 1.3 | 6.2 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 137 | 1.2 | 6.0 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 202 | 1.2 | 6.0 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
David Beaty
Pass share
48.5%
392 pass / 417 run
Plays / game
67.4
12 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2018
322 pass attempts and 34 carries in 11 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
Three seasons, at Washington State and Kansas, 4,006 passing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
He has a stat line in 26 games over 3 seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2018
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 2 schools: Mike Leach and David Beaty.
