Last confirmed: Colorado, 2016. No 2026 box-score games on record.
6′4″ · Tacoma, WA · Bellarmine Prep
Sefo Liufau: QB · Colorado · #13.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Sefo Liufau
Extends plays with his feet until something opens up. Third year in the Colorado quarterback room. A game that shows it: 345 passing yards and 108 rushing yards against Washington State — Week 12, 2016.
Play style
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
51.5% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 24.2% conversion-per-dropback — 52.9% 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
16 of 20 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (80.0%). 11 of the team's 38 inside-the-5 carries (28.9%).
No outlet on our list has written about him by name this season.
Yahoo Sports Oct 20Yahoo Sports Oct 15
FootballScoop Oct 4
Bleacher Report Oct 4Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
Game log · Week-by-week
2016 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 44-7vs Colorado State | 23/33 | 318 | 1 | 0 | 9.6 | 63.7 | |
| Wk 2 | W 56-7vs Idaho State | 15/18 | 204 | 2 | 0 | 11.3 | 97.6 | |
| Wk 3 | L 28-45@ No. 4 Michigan | 16/25 | 246 | 3 | 0 | 9.8 | 60.6 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 6 | L 17-21@ USC | 2/3 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 3.7 | 14.2 | |
| Wk 7 | W 40-16vs Arizona State | 23/31 | 265 | 0 | 0 | 8.5 | 64.8 | |
| Wk 8 | W 10-5@ Stanford | 12/25 | 135 | 1 | 0 | 5.4 | 30.5 | |
| Wk 10 | W 20-10vs UCLA | 19/30 | 143 | 0 | 2 | 4.8 | 27.6 | |
| Wk 11 | W 49-24@ Arizona | 19/27 | 213 | 3 | 1 | 7.9 | 86.2 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | W 38-24vs No. 20 Washington State | 27/41 | 345 | 0 | 0 | 8.4 | 79.5 | Season-high 345 yds |
| Wk 13 | W 27-22vs No. 21 Utah | 23/44 | 270 | 1 | 0 | 6.1 | 38.0 | |
| Wk 14 | L 10-41@ No. 4 Washington | 3/13 | 21 | 0 | 3 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 3 INTs — rough day |
 Bowl | L 8-38vs No. 13 Oklahoma State | 18/29 | 195 | 0 | 0 | 6.7 | 27.0 | |
| Total | 200/319 | 2366 | 11 | 6 | 7.4 | — |
Week 12 · 2016
W 38-24
345 yds · 0 TD · 0 INT · QBR 79.5 · 108 rush yds (23 car) · 3 TD
With P. Lindsay — 144 rush yds (31 car) · 2 TD · 5 rec · 50 yds · D. Ross — 8 rec · 121 yds
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 292 passing plays (181 completions) against the box score's 319 attempts (200 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.4881 of 193 QBsSack rate
6.2%108 of 193 QBsSacked on 6.2% of dropbacks (108 of 193) — and still 81 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 62.7% completion on 319 attempts · 25 deep completions averaging 36.0 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2016 baseline
No situation moves him more than 28 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 Mike MacIntyre — 16-23 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 245 | 0.6 | 7.8 | 0.4 |
| Road4g | 151 | 1.8 | 6.7 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 206 | 1.0 | 8.3 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 188 | 0.8 | 5.7 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mike MacIntyre
Pass share
43.2%
469 pass / 617 run
Plays / game
77.6
14 games
Scheme: Run-leaning, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2016
Our Heisman model had this player inside its top 25 in 2016.
How it ended
Three seasons at Colorado, 7,986 passing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
He has a stat line in 35 games over 3 seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Mike MacIntyre.
