#12

Tad Hudson

Senior quarterback for NC State. 2025: 1,253 passing yards, 6 TD, 7 INT.

QB · NC State · Sr. · #12

6′3″ · 227 lb · Huntersville, NC · Huntersville

CFB Index 18 · #143 of 146 QBsHigh confidenceTransferred Coastal Carolina → NC State for 2026

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The numbers

1,253

passing yards · 2025

6 TD · 7 INT · 4.9 per attempt

Best game: 112 pass yds, 2 TD, 18 rush yds, at South Alabama

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 quarterback for NC State. 2025: 1,253 passing yards, 6 TD, 7 INT.

Signed as a 4-star recruit to North Carolina in 2023.
Transferred from Coastal Carolina to NC State in 2026.

The full story, with sources

How he plays

Operates within the system without forcing anything.

Sack rate: 60th percentile.

The full scouting read

Tad Hudson

QB · NC State · Sr · #12

Operates within the system without forcing anything. Two seasons at NC State, two different head coaches: Tim Beck and Jeremiah Johnson. One game to point at: 311 pass yds, 2 pass TD against Louisiana Tech — Bowl, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
head-coach lineage
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2024Coastal Carolina6-7HC: Tim Beck · Run-leaning

2025Coastal Carolina6-7HC: Jeremiah Johnson · Run-leaning

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

18Below cohort / limited sample #143 of 146?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: success rate (4th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Sack rate#74 / 183 · 60th pct

4.6%

Interception rate#108 / 183 · 41st pct

2.4%

EPA / dropback#152 / 183 · 17th pct

0.06

Explosive rate#157 / 183 · 14th pct

6.5%

Success rate#177 / 183 · 4th pct

29.3%

Box-score rates (8)

Interceptions#92 / 183 · 44th pct

Rush TDs#101 / 183 · 39th pct

Pass yards#132 / 183 · 28th pct

1253

Rush yards#138 / 183 · 25th pct

Pass TDs#140 / 183 · 22nd pct

Completion %#165 / 183 · 10th pct

54.7%

Yards / att#178 / 183 · 3rd pct

4.9

Fumbles lost#168 / 174 · 2nd pct

Season trend

EPA / dropback— first qualifying season

Success rate— first qualifying season

Explosive rate— first qualifying season

Sack rate— first qualifying season

Interception rate— first qualifying season

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season. Most bars are box-score rates; EPA / success-rate bars are computed from real play-by-play (offense only — no defensive EPA model exists yet).

Passing profile

Pass Profile · True throw depth (charted plays)

Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from

134/247 (54.3%) · 6 TD · 7 INT

247 of 254 attempts matched to play-by-play

101 of 247 attempts charted for true throw depth

Adjusted ANY/A

3.61191 of 206 QBs

Sack rate

4.5%91 of 206 QBs

Rarely sacked (91 of 206), but Adjusted ANY/A hasn't followed (191 of 206).

Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.

Behind LOS · Negative air yds

29% of attempts (29)

83%comp

Air -2.3 · YAC 6.8 avg

Short · 0–9 air yds

40% of attempts (40)

58%comp

Air 3.4 · YAC 4.7 avg

Middle · 10–19 air yds

21% of attempts (21)

43%comp1 INT

Air 14.7 · YAC 1.6 avg

Deep · 20+ air yds

11% of attempts (11)

18%comp

Air 27.8 · YAC 13.0 avg

Overall 54.3% completion on 247 attempts · 18% completion on 11 deep attempts (20+ air yds).

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2025 baseline

No situation moves him more than 44 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-39 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 2/69 (2.9%) · league sack rate 4.2% · ~our read

Down 2

+1 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 2/73 (2.7%) · league sack rate 4.5% · ~our read

Down 3+

+44 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 6/59 (10.2%) · league sack rate 7.8% · ~our read

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 & context

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 10 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home4g	93.8	0.2	5.4	0.8
Road6g	146	0.8	4.2	0.7

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-77g	108	0.7	4.6	0.7
Weeks 8+3g	165	0.3	5.0	0.7

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Dave Doeren

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Starter

A locked-in starting job.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

18 · #143 of 146 QBs

Former four-star. Now #143 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Coastal Carolina	139	254	54.7%	1,253	4.9	6	7	98.4	25	--	--
2024	Coastal Carolina	17	26	65.4%	173	6.7	2	0	146.7	--	--	--
Career		156	280	55.7%	1,426	5.1	8	7	102.9	25	--	--

Season	Team
2025	Coastal Carolina	45	15	0.3	2	--
2024	Coastal Carolina	12	15	1.2	0	--
Career		57	30	0.5	2	--

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 12 · Georgia Southern · 3&11 · Q3 · EPA +4.33(04:26) No Huddle-Shotgun #12 T.Hudson pass complete deep left to #17 C.Wright caught at GASO35, for 44 yards to the GASO25 (#5 A.Jackson), out of bounds, 1ST DOWN
Week 3 · East Carolina · 3&10 · Q1 · EPA +4.16Tad Hudson pass complete to Robby Washington for 39 yds to the ECU 33 for a 1ST down
Week 14 · James Madison · 2&12 · Q3 · EPA +3.86Shotgun #12 T.Hudson pass complete deep middle to #0 K.English caught at Dukes41, for 42 yards to the Dukes25 (#30 J.Eaglin), 1ST DOWN
Week 3 · East Carolina · 2&14 · Q2 · EPA -3.62Tad Hudson pass intercepted Ja'Marley Riddle return for 35 yds to the ECU 38
Week 1 · Louisiana Tech · 3&8 · Q1 · EPA +3.32Tad Hudson pass complete to Dominic Knicely for 20 yds for a TD (Kian Afrookhteh KICK)
Week 14 · James Madison · 3&5 · Q3 · EPA +3.26No Huddle-Shotgun #12 T.Hudson pass complete short left to #17 C.Wright caught at Chants32, for 25 yards to the Dukes45, out of bounds at Dukes45, 1ST DOWN
Week 4 · South Alabama · 2&13 · Q1 · EPA +3.19Tad Hudson pass complete to Malcolm Gillie for 28 yds to the 50 yard line for a 1ST down
Week 4 · South Alabama · 3&4 · Q4 · EPA +3.15Tad Hudson pass complete to Bryson Graves for 24 yds to the USA 39 for a 1ST down
Week 1 · Louisiana Tech · 3&6 · Q1 · EPA +3.12Tad Hudson pass complete to Bryson Graves for 21 yds to the LT 37 for a 1ST down
Week 1 · Louisiana Tech · 2&9 · Q3 · EPA +3.06Tad Hudson pass complete to Bryson Graves for 28 yds to the LT 48 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 10 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	L 7-48@ Virginia	0/1	0	0	0	0.0	0.1	Season-high 311 yds
Wk 2	W 13-0vs Charleston Southern	3/5	37	0	0	7.4	74.4
Wk 3	L 0-38vs East Carolina	19/39	172	0	2	4.4	13.5
Wk 4	W 38-20@ South Alabama	13/25	112	2	0	4.5	45.1
Wk 6	L 7-47@ Old Dominion	19/30	108	1	1	3.6	39.6
Wk 7	W 23-8vs UL Monroe	2/3	18	0	0	6.0	32.2
Wk 12	L 40-45@ Georgia Southern	15/28	173	0	1	6.2	21.3
Wk 13	L 7-51@ South Carolina	27/36	174	0	0	4.8	65.9
Wk 14	L 10-59vs James Madison	16/38	148	1	1	3.9	34.4
Bowl	L 14-23@ Louisiana Tech	25/49	311	2	2	6.3	27.8
Total		139/254	1253	6	7	4.7	35.4

How he plays

Play style

Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

38.1%Completion %

17.4%Conversion/dropback

50.0%Land short of sticks

2INTs

38.1% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 17.4% conversion-per-dropback — 50.0% 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. ~ our read: checkdown by design

Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration

Who gets the tough yard

fact

1/15Inside-5 share

1 of the team's 15 inside-the-5 carries (6.7%).