Last confirmed: Memphis, 2017. No 2026 box-score games on record.
6′4″ · 210 lb · Matthews, NC · Coffeyville C.C.
Riley Ferguson: QB · Memphis · #4.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Riley Ferguson
Pushes it downfield on every look. Second year in the Memphis quarterback room. One game to point at: 471 passing yards and 4 passing TD against UCF — Week 14, 2017.
Play style
Elite arm talent, pushing downfield. Completion rate is the variable.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
45.7% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 23.5% conversion-per-dropback — 42.9% 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
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.
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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 37-29vs UL Monroe | 10/25 | 97 | 0 | 1 | 3.9 | 18.2 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 3 | W 48-45vs No. 25 UCLA | 23/38 | 398 | 6 | 1 | 10.5 | 86.0 | 6 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | W 44-31vs Southern Illinois | 22/36 | 288 | 2 | 0 | 8.0 | 82.4 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 5 | L 13-40@ UCF | 27/49 | 321 | 1 | 3 | 6.6 | 19.2 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 6 | W 70-31@ UConn | 34/48 | 431 | 7 | 0 | 9.0 | 91.7 | 7 TD passes |
| Wk 7 | W 30-27vs No. 25 Navy | 24/40 | 279 | 3 | 0 | 7.0 | 52.7 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | W 42-38@ Houston | 33/53 | 471 | 1 | 1 | 8.9 | 71.7 | Season-high 471 yds |
| Wk 9 | W 56-26vs Tulane | 18/31 | 298 | 3 | 1 | 9.6 | 83.2 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 10 | W 41-14@ Tulsa | 27/39 | 298 | 4 | 0 | 7.6 | 82.3 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | W 66-45vs SMU | 21/27 | 320 | 2 | 1 | 11.9 | 97.1 | |
| Wk 13 | W 70-13vs East Carolina | 9/13 | 299 | 3 | 0 | 23.0 | 98.4 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 14 | L 55-62@ No. 12 UCF | 30/42 | 471 | 4 | 1 | 11.2 | 85.3 | 4 TD passes |
 Bowl | L 20-21vs Iowa State | 21/33 | 286 | 2 | 0 | 8.7 | 50.1 | |
| Total | 299/474 | 4257 | 38 | 9 | 9.0 | — |
Week 3 · 2017
W 48-45
vs UCLA
398 yds · 6 TD · 1 INT · QBR 86.0
Edged out UCLA at home in a shootout.
With A. Miller — 9 rec · 185 yds · 2 TD · 10 rush yds (2 car) · T. Pollard — 1 rec · 42 yds · 1 TD · -2 rush yds (1 car)
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 462 passing plays (287 completions) against the box score's 474 attempts (299 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
9.1310 of 205 QBsSack rate
4.0%49 of 205 QBsRarely sacked (49 of 205 QBs) and still 10 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 63.1% completion on 474 attempts · 64 deep completions averaging 32.4 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2017 baseline
No situation moves him more than 35 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.
2 seasons under Mike Norvell, all balanced offenses — 18-8 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home8g | 283 | 2.6 | 10.3 | 0.5 |
| Road5g | 398 | 3.4 | 8.7 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 300 | 3.0 | 7.7 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 360 | 2.8 | 12.0 | 0.7 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mike Norvell
Pass share
52.8%
488 pass / 436 run
Plays / game
71.1
13 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2017
Our Heisman model had this player inside its top 25 in 2017.
How it ended
Two seasons at Memphis, 7,955 passing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
