Last confirmed: Louisiana Tech, 2016. No 2026 box-score games on record.
6′2″ · Hutto, TX
Ryan Higgins: QB · Louisiana Tech · #14.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Ryan Higgins
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. This is his third year in the same quarterback room at Louisiana Tech. On tape: 504 passing yards and 14 rushing yards against Middle Tennessee, Week 4, 2016.
Play style
High-percentage passer who protects the ball. Loses the matchup on improvisation.
Q4 transformation · one-season descriptive
Fourth-quarter fade
2 times this season the team led entering the fourth quarter and lost — and it shows in the tape: 0.510 → 0.139 EPA/dropback into the fourth.
t=-2.09 (n=403/68), one season of descriptive data — never a predictive trait. Across ~200 QB-seasons screened at this threshold, expected false positives run near 5%.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
47.9% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 31.4% conversion-per-dropback — 30.4% 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 37 inside-the-5 carries (10.8%).
No outlet on our list has written about him by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Louisiana Tech | 329 | 496 | 66.3% | 4,617 | 9.3 | 41 | 8 | 168.6 | 83 |
| 2015 | Louisiana Tech | 15 | 25 | 60.0% | 138 | 5.5 | 1 | 3 | 95.6 | -- |
| 2014 | Louisiana Tech | 6 | 10 | 60.0% | 69 | 6.9 | 0 | 0 | 118.0 | -- |
| Career | 350 | 531 | 65.9% | 4,824 | 9.1 | 42 | 11 | 164.2 | 83 |
| Season | Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Louisiana Tech | 88 | 277 | 3.1 | 4 |
| 2015 | Louisiana Tech | 9 | 27 | 3.0 | 0 |
| 2014 | Louisiana Tech | 5 | 17 | 3.4 | 0 |
| Career | 102 | 321 | 3.1 | 4 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2016 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | W 53-24vs South Carolina State | 34/52 | 409 | 4 | 2 | 7.9 | 76.7 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | L 45-59@ Texas Tech | 20/32 | 311 | 3 | 0 | 9.7 | 64.1 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | L 34-38@ Middle Tennessee | 36/59 | 504 | 3 | 0 | 8.5 | 74.7 | Season-high 504 yds |
| Wk 5 | W 28-7vs UTEP | 19/28 | 191 | 2 | 0 | 6.8 | 90.2 | |
| Wk 6 | W 55-52vs Western Kentucky | 33/45 | 454 | 5 | 0 | 10.1 | 94.8 | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 7 | W 56-28@ Massachusetts | 26/33 | 484 | 5 | 1 | 14.7 | 91.4 | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | W 44-24@ Florida International | 22/30 | 269 | 2 | 0 | 9.0 | 71.4 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 9 | W 61-16vs Rice | 18/25 | 292 | 2 | 0 | 11.7 | 99.7 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 10 | W 45-24@ North Texas | 18/30 | 253 | 4 | 1 | 8.4 | 90.6 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 11 | W 63-35vs UTSA | 17/26 | 293 | 4 | 0 | 11.3 | 92.4 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 13 | L 24-39@ Southern Miss | 22/39 | 246 | 0 | 3 | 6.3 | 31.1 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 14 | L 44-58@ Western Kentucky | 35/57 | 502 | 3 | 1 | 8.8 | 62.3 | 3 TD passes |
 Bowl | W 48-45@ Navy | 29/40 | 409 | 4 | 0 | 10.2 | 88.5 | |
| Total | 329/496 | 4617 | 41 | 8 | 9.3 | — |
Week 6 · 2016
W 55-52
454 yds · 5 TD · 0 INT · QBR 94.8 · 31 rush yds (7 car)
Edged out Western Kentucky at home in a shootout.
With C. Henderson — 8 rec · 232 yds · 3 TD · J. Craft — 78 rush yds (14 car) · 1 TD · 8 rec · 53 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 490 passing plays (324 completions) against the box score's 496 attempts (329 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
9.569 of 193 QBsSack rate
4.4%53 of 193 QBsRarely sacked (53 of 193 QBs) and still 9 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 66.3% completion on 496 attempts · 64 deep completions averaging 35.7 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2016 baseline
No situation moves him more than 48 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 Skip Holtz — 27-14 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 328 | 3.4 | 9.6 | 0.4 |
| Road7g | 367 | 2.9 | 9.3 | 0.9 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 395 | 3.7 | 9.7 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 309 | 2.5 | 9.2 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Skip Holtz
Pass share
57.0%
543 pass / 409 run
Plays / game
68.0
14 games
Scheme: Pass-leaning.
Player standing · 2016
496 pass attempts and 88 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 Louisiana Tech, 4,824 passing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
He has a stat line in 25 games over 3 seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2016
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Sonny Dykes → Skip Holtz. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
