Last confirmed: Iowa State, 2015. No 2026 box-score games on record.
Sam B. Richardson: QB · Iowa State.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Sam B. Richardson
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Second year in the Iowa State quarterback room. One game to point at: 269 passing yards and 5 rushing yards against Kansas — Week 5, 2015.
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
54.1% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 33.3% conversion-per-dropback — 35.0% 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. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
1 of the team's 28 inside-the-5 carries (3.6%).
No outlet on our list has written about him by name this season.
The Des Moines Register Oct 23
Arizona Daily Star Oct 22
Wide Right & Natty Lite Oct 16Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Iowa State | 128 | 213 | 60.1% | 1,443 | 6.8 | 8 | 8 | 121.9 | 41 |
| 2014 | Iowa State | 254 | 451 | 56.3% | 2,669 | 5.9 | 18 | 9 | 115.2 | 36 |
| Career | 382 | 664 | 57.5% | 4,112 | 6.2 | 26 | 17 | 117.4 | 38 |
| Season | Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Iowa State | 47 | 12 | 0.3 | 1 |
| 2014 | Iowa State | 125 | 421 | 3.4 | 3 |
| Career | 172 | 433 | 2.5 | 4 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2015 season · 8 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 31-7vs Northern Iowa | 21/29 | 233 | 2 | 0 | 8.0 | 33.5 | |
| Wk 2 | L 17-31vs Iowa | 19/35 | 247 | 2 | 1 | 7.1 | 51.2 | |
| Wk 3 | L 23-30@ Toledo | 25/42 | 269 | 1 | 0 | 6.4 | 63.1 | Season-high 269 yds |
| Wk 5 | W 38-13vs Kansas | 27/36 | 269 | 2 | 2 | 7.5 | 67.6 | |
| Wk 6 | L 31-66@ Texas Tech | 10/21 | 139 | 1 | 3 | 6.6 | 26.5 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 7 | L 21-45vs No. 3 TCU | 22/36 | 251 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 62.1 | |
| Wk 8 | L 27-45@ No. 2 Baylor | 3/11 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 1.1 | 0.5 | |
| Wk 13 | L 6-30@ West Virginia | 1/3 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 7.7 | 4.8 | |
| Total | 128/213 | 1443 | 8 | 8 | 6.8 | — |
Week 1 · 2015
W 31-7
233 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 33.5
Dominant 24-point win at home against Northern Iowa.
With C. Downing — 40 yards per punt · 5 punts · 57 long · A. Lazard — 4 rec · 43 yds · 1 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 199 passing plays (118 completions) against the box score's 213 attempts (128 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.13125 of 198 QBsSack rate
7.0%132 of 198 QBsSacked on 7.0% of dropbacks (132 of 198) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (125 of 198).
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 60.1% completion on 213 attempts · 22 deep completions averaging 30.1 yds.
2 seasons under Paul Rhoads — 5-19 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2015 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 250 | 1.5 | 7.4 | 0.8 |
| Road4g | 111 | 0.5 | 5.5 | 1.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 235 | 1.3 | 7.1 | 1.0 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 17.5 | 0.0 | 4.4 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Paul Rhoads
Pass share
45.2%
408 pass / 494 run
Plays / game
75.2
12 games
Scheme: Run-leaning, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2015
About as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Iowa State, 4,112 passing yards — his college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2015
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Paul Rhoads.
