Tanner Lee

QB · Nebraska 2017 · #13

Last confirmed: Nebraska, 2017. No 2026 box-score games on record.

6′4″ · 220 lb · Destrehan, LA · Jesuit

Tanner Lee: QB · Nebraska · #13.

Players he’s like

Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.

Alex HornibrookWisconsin · 2016 · 86% season match
Joe CritchlowBYU · 2017 · 86% season match
Gunner KielCincinnati · 2016 · 79% season match
Cooper RushCentral Michigan · 2016 · 70% season match
Zach SmithBaylor · 2016 · 68% season match

Tanner Lee

QB · Nebraska · #13

Operates within the system without forcing anything. Tanner Lee has played for two head coaches across three seasons and two programs. On tape: 431 passing yards and 2 passing TD against Purdue, Week 9, 2017.

How he plays

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

49.1%Completion %

20.6%Conversion/dropback

53.6%Land short of sticks

5INTs

49.1% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 20.6% conversion-per-dropback — 53.6% 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

2/16Inside-5 share

2 of the team's 16 inside-the-5 carries (12.5%).

News and fans

No outlet on our list has written about him by name this season.

Nebraska in the news

Fired Nebraska coach demands $5MCourthousenews Oct 22
Rhule accuses tampering in Raiola exitYahoo Sports Oct 20
Rhule takes blame for losses10/11 NOW Oct 19
Dante Moore out with concussionYahoo Sports Oct 15

Where to follow him

Career stats

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Season	Team
2017	Nebraska	246	428	57.5%	3,143	7.3	23	16	129.4	68
2015	Tulane	143	276	51.8%	1,639	5.9	11	7	109.8	17
2014	Tulane	185	336	55.1%	1,962	5.8	12	14	107.6	23
Career		574	1,040	55.2%	6,744	6.5	46	37	117.1	39

Season	Team
2017	Nebraska	30	−97	−3.2	2
2015	Tulane	23	−162	−7.0	0
2014	Tulane	36	−125	−3.5	0
Career		89	−384	−4.3	2

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2017 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 43-36vs Arkansas State	19/32	238	2	0	7.4	74.2
Wk 2	L 35-42@ Oregon	19/41	252	3	4	6.1	13.4	3 TD passes · 4 INTs — rough day
Wk 3	L 17-21vs Northern Illinois	25/47	299	0	3	6.4	24.2	3 INTs — rough day
Wk 4	W 27-17vs Rutgers	13/26	109	2	2	4.2	33.5
Wk 5	W 28-6@ Illinois	17/24	246	3	0	10.3	94.9	3 TD passes
Wk 6	L 17-38vs No. 9 Wisconsin	16/32	262	1	1	8.2	45.5
Wk 7	L 14-56vs No. 9 Ohio State	23/38	303	2	0	8.0	50.1	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 9	W 25-24@ Purdue	32/50	431	2	0	8.6	65.0	Season-high 431 yds
Wk 10	L 24-31vs Northwestern	21/38	225	2	3	5.9	21.0	3 INTs — rough day
Wk 11	L 21-54@ Minnesota	13/18	174	1	0	9.7	97.7
Wk 12	L 44-56@ No. 13 Penn State	26/41	399	3	0	9.7	55.7	3 TD passes
Wk 13	L 14-56vs Iowa	22/41	205	2	3	5.0	56.2	3 INTs — rough day
Total		246/428	3143	23	16	7.3	—

Signature game

Week 12 · 2017

L 44-56

at Penn State

399 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 55.7

With C. Lightbourn — 42.4 yards per punt · 8 punts · 53 long · S. Morgan Jr. — 7 rec · 185 yds · 1 TD

Signature plays

The plays that mattered most

Week 3 · Northern Illinois · 2nd and 3 · Q1 · EPA −11.73Tanner Lee pass intercepted for a TD Shawun Lurry return for 87 yds for a TD, (Christian Hagan KICK)
Week 6 · Wisconsin · 3rd and 2 · Q1 · EPA −11.22Tanner Lee pass intercepted for a TD Chris Orr return for 78 yds for a TD, (Rafael Gaglianone KICK)
Week 7 · Ohio State · 2nd and 10 · Q3 · EPA +6.85Tanner Lee pass complete to JD Spielman for 77 yds for a TD, (Drew Brown KICK)
Week 3 · Northern Illinois · 3rd and 9 · Q1 · EPA −6.84Tanner Lee pass intercepted for a TD Jawuan Johnson return for 25 yds for a TD, (Christian Hagan KICK)
Week 4 · Rutgers · 3rd and 11 · Q3 · EPA −6.81Tanner Lee pass intercepted for a TD Kiy Hester return for 33 yds for a TD, (Andrew Harte KICK)
Week 6 · Wisconsin · 1st and 10 · Q2 · EPA +6.39Tanner Lee pass complete to Stanley Morgan Jr. for 80 yds for a TD, (Drew Brown KICK)

4 more plays

Week 5 · Illinois · 3rd and 4 · Q1 · EPA +4.73Tanner Lee pass complete to De'Mornay Pierson-El for 45 yds for a TD, (Drew Brown KICK)
Week 10 · Northwestern · 1st and 10 · Q4 · EPA −4.40Tanner Lee pass intercepted Godwin Igwebuike return for no gain to the Nwest 16
Week 9 · Purdue · 2nd and 20 · Q4 · EPA +4.13Tanner Lee pass complete to JD Spielman for 26 yds to the PURDUE 34 for a PURDUE Penalty, personal foul (Kamal Hardy) to the Prdue 19 for a
Week 12 · Penn State · 3rd and 4 · Q3 · EPA +4.13Tanner Lee pass complete to Stanley Morgan Jr. for 51 yds to the PnSt 22 for a

Passing profile

Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)

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

246/428 (57.5%) · 23 TD · 16 INT

426 of 428 attempts matched to play-by-play

Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 426 passing plays (244 completions) against the box score's 428 attempts (246 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.

Adjusted ANY/A

6.2496 of 205 QBs

Sack rate

4.0%48 of 205 QBs

Rarely sacked (48 of 205 QBs) and still 96 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 yds

51%of completions

125 comp5.3 yds avg4 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

30%of completions

74 comp13.5 yds avg6 TD

Deep

20+ yds

18%of completions

45 comp31.9 yds avg11 TD

Overall 57.5% completion on 428 attempts · 45 deep completions averaging 31.9 yds.

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2017 baseline

No situation moves him more than 20 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-16 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 5/124 (4.0%) · league sack rate 5.0%

Down 2

-7 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 2/124 (1.6%) · league sack rate 5.1%

Down 3+

+20 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 6/134 (4.5%) · league sack rate 8.3%

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.

Teams and coaches

2014Tulane3-9HC: Curtis Johnson · Balanced

2015Tulane3-9HC: Curtis Johnson · Balanced

2017Nebraska4-8HC: Mike Riley · Pass-leaning

Our ratings

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Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: fumbles lost (92nd percentile). Strength: pass yards (84th percentile). Concern: interception rate (18th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Sack rate#42 / 187 · 78th pct

4.1%

Explosive rate#73 / 187 · 61st pct

10.6%

EPA / dropback#85 / 187 · 55th pct

0.21

Success rate#100 / 187 · 47th pct

39.6%

Interception rate#153 / 187 · 18th pct

3.8%

Box-score rates (8)

Fumbles lost#1 / 163 · 92nd pct

Pass yards#29 / 179 · 84th pct

3143

Pass TDs#33 / 179 · 82nd pct

Yards / att#80 / 179 · 53rd pct

7.3

Rush TDs#82 / 179 · 48th pct

Completion %#103 / 179 · 42nd pct

57.5%

Rush yards#172 / 179 · 4th pct

-97

Interceptions#176 / 179 · 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).

Zeitgeist Passer Rating

2017 · our own passing-efficiency number, shown next to the 1979 formula it does not replace.

High confidence: 382 dropbacks

68Zeitgeist Passer Rating28th of 142 FBS QBs

NCAA passer rating 129.4 79th of 142 FBS QBs

ZPR ranks him 51 places higher than passer rating does: passer rating charges 200 points per interception and ZPR does not weight his 14 picks (interception rate is mostly noise inside a season); and passer rating cannot see sacks, and he takes one on only 3.4% of dropbacks.

Positive-play rate weight 24%

46.6%68th pct of FBS QBs

share of dropbacks that gained expected points · +2.1% schedule adj.

Yards per attempt weight 56%

7.5666th pct of FBS QBs

sacks excluded · +0.6 schedule adj.

Sack rate weight 21% (penalty)

2.8%91th pct of FBS QBs

the input passer rating cannot see · -0.6% schedule adj.

Opponent-adjusted; garbage time excluded (62 of 444 dropbacks dropped). 50 = FBS average; the number is pulled toward 50 when the sample is thin. How ZPR is built.

Splits

Home and road splits, scheme and staff

Splits · Per-game

2017 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home7g	234	1.6	6.4	1.7
Road5g	300	2.4	8.9	0.8

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-77g	244	1.9	7.2	1.4
Weeks 8+5g	287	2.0	7.8	1.2

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2017 season

Head Coach

Mike Riley

Pass share

55.8%

459 pass / 364 run

Plays / game

68.6

12 games

Scheme: Pass-leaning.

Awards

Player standing · 2017

Impact starter

428 pass attempts and 30 carries in 12 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Tanner Lee

Players he’s like

How he plays

News and fans

Nebraska in the news

Where to follow him

Career stats

Game log

Signature game

Signature plays

Passing profile

Situational

Teams and coaches

Our ratings

Splits

Awards

Impact starter

Five seasons, two schools, drafted

His moves

2013

2018