Taysom Hill

QB · BYU 2016 · #7

Last confirmed: BYU, 2016. No 2026 box-score games on record.

6′2″ · Pocatello, ID

Taysom Hill: QB · BYU · #7.

Players he’s like

Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.

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Jason DriskelFlorida Atlantic · 2016 · 79% season match
Carter StanleyKansas · 2016 · 77% season match

Taysom Hill

QB · BYU · #7

Extends plays with his feet until something opens up. Three seasons at BYU, two different head coaches: Bronco Mendenhall and Kalani Sitake. One game to point at: 320 passing yards and 29 rushing yards against Southern Utah — Week 11, 2016.

How he plays

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

42.9%Completion %

11.8%Conversion/dropback

66.7%Land short of sticks

0INTs

42.9% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 11.8% conversion-per-dropback — 66.7% 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

11/143rd/4th & short

7/38Inside-5 share

11 of 14 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (78.6%). 7 of the team's 38 inside-the-5 carries (18.4%).

News and fans

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

BYU in the news

Judge grants injunction for fifth year eligibilityOct 20
BYU upsets No. 2 Notre DameOct 18
Cooper Flanagan out for gameOn3 Oct 17
BYU adds two starters back to depth chartSports Illustrated Oct 12

Where to follow him

Career stats

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Season	Team
2016	BYU	222	374	59.4%	2,323	6.2	12	11	116.2	38
2015	BYU	21	34	61.8%	268	7.9	1	1	131.8	--
2014	BYU	88	132	66.7%	975	7.4	7	3	141.7	57
Career		331	540	61.3%	3,566	6.6	20	15	123.4	43

Season	Team
2016	BYU	136	600	4.4	8
2015	BYU	9	72	8.0	2
2014	BYU	87	460	5.3	8
Career		232	1,132	4.9	18

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2016 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 18-16@ Arizona	21/29	202	1	0	7.0	70.2
Wk 2	L 19-20@ Utah	21/39	176	0	2	4.5	56.7
Wk 3	L 14-17vs UCLA	26/48	250	1	1	5.2	24.2
Wk 4	L 32-35@ West Virginia	23/35	241	2	3	6.9	61.2	3 INTs — rough day
Wk 5	W 55-53vs Toledo	11/21	248	1	0	11.8	62.9
Wk 6	W 31-14@ Michigan State	18/27	138	1	0	5.1	88.0
Wk 7	W 28-21vs Mississippi State	16/28	165	3	1	5.9	70.9	3 TD passes
Wk 8	L 27-28@ No. 14 Boise State	21/42	187	0	0	4.5	36.1
Wk 10	W 20-3@ Cincinnati	15/25	130	0	1	5.2	83.5
Wk 11	W 37-7vs Southern Utah	22/29	320	2	1	11.0	96.9	Season-high 320 yds
Wk 12	W 51-9vs Massachusetts	18/30	165	0	0	5.5	63.3
Wk 13	W 28-10vs Utah State	10/21	101	1	2	4.8	37.3
Total		222/374	2323	12	11	6.2	—

Signature game

Week 7 · 2016

W 28-21

vs Mississippi State

165 yds · 3 TD · 1 INT · QBR 70.9 · 49 rush yds (17 car) · 1 TD

A wire-to-wire battle — won by 7 at home.

With J. Linehan — 47.7 yards per punt · 6 punts · 62 long · J. Williams — 76 rush yds (26 car)

Signature plays

The plays that mattered most

Week 4 · West Virginia · 2nd and 10 · Q2 · EPA −9.24Taysom Hill pass intercepted for a TD Rasul Douglas return for 54 yds for a TD, (Mike Molina KICK)
Week 2 · Utah · 1st and 10 · Q1 · EPA −8.57Taysom Hill pass intercepted for a TD Sunia Tauteoli return for 41 yds for a TD, (Andy Phillips KICK)
Week 5 · Toledo · 1st and 10 · Q1 · EPA +6.08Taysom Hill pass complete to Jonah Trinnaman for 75 yds for a TD, (Rhett Almond KICK)
Week 11 · Southern Utah · 4th and 17 · Q1 · EPA +5.98Taysom Hill pass complete to Nick Kurtz for 31 yds for a TD, (Rhett Almond KICK)
Week 4 · West Virginia · 2nd and 2 · Q4 · EPA −4.57Taysom Hill pass intercepted Maurice Fleming return for 2 yds to the WVirg 2
Week 8 · Boise State · 2nd and 25 · Q3 · EPA +4.27Taysom Hill pass complete to Mitchell Juergens for 33 yds to the BoiSt 1 for a BOISE ST Penalty, Roughing Passer (Jabril Frazier) to the BoiSt 1 for a

4 more plays

Week 3 · UCLA · 3rd and 7 · Q1 · EPA +4.03Taysom Hill pass complete to Jamaal Williams for 39 yds to the UCLA 33 for a
Week 11 · Southern Utah · 1st and 10 · Q3 · EPA −3.76Taysom Hill pass intercepted Josh Thornton return for no gain to the SoUth 25
Week 7 · Mississippi State · 2nd and 10 · Q2 · EPA −3.68Taysom Hill pass intercepted Mark McLaurin return for 27 yds to the MisSt 49
Week 7 · Mississippi State · 3rd and 15 · Q4 · EPA +3.54Hill to Laulu-Pututau: a 15-yard touchdown pass.

Passing profile

Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)

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

222/374 (59.4%) · 12 TD · 11 INT

339 of 374 attempts matched to play-by-play

Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 339 passing plays (198 completions) against the box score's 374 attempts (222 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.

Adjusted ANY/A

5.03138 of 193 QBs

Sack rate

4.8%61 of 193 QBs

Rarely sacked (61 of 193), but Adjusted ANY/A hasn't followed (138 of 193).

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

Short

0–9 yds

60%of completions

118 comp5.2 yds avg1 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

28%of completions

56 comp13.4 yds avg1 TD

Deep

20+ yds

12%of completions

24 comp29.5 yds avg5 TD

Overall 59.4% completion on 374 attempts · 24 deep completions averaging 29.5 yds.

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2016 baseline

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

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-19 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 7/131 (5.3%) · league sack rate 4.9%

Down 2

-17 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 4/122 (3.3%) · league sack rate 5.1%

Down 3+

+44 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 8/104 (7.7%) · league sack rate 8.5%

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

2014BYU8-5HC: Bronco Mendenhall · Run-leaning, fast tempo

2015BYU9-4HC: Bronco Mendenhall · Pass-leaning

2016BYU9-4HC: Kalani Sitake · Run-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: rush yards (90th percentile). Strength: rush tds (86th percentile). Concern: explosive rate (15th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Sack rate#66 / 172 · 62nd pct

5.3%

Success rate#69 / 172 · 59th pct

41.3%

Interception rate#136 / 172 · 21st pct

3.5%

EPA / dropback#143 / 172 · 17th pct

0.07

Explosive rate#147 / 172 · 15th pct

7.1%

Box-score rates (8)

Rush yards#18 / 167 · 90th pct

600

Rush TDs#21 / 167 · 86th pct

Pass yards#70 / 167 · 58th pct

2323

Completion %#75 / 167 · 54th pct

59.4%

Pass TDs#83 / 167 · 49th pct

Interceptions#137 / 167 · 16th pct

Yards / att#141 / 167 · 15th pct

6.2

Fumbles lost#132 / 163 · 14th 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

2016 · our own passing-efficiency number, shown next to the 1979 formula it does not replace.

High confidence: 357 dropbacks

38Zeitgeist Passer Rating89th of 131 FBS QBs

NCAA passer rating 116.2 116th of 131 FBS QBs

ZPR ranks him 27 places higher than passer rating does: passer rating charges 200 points per interception and ZPR does not weight his 12 picks (interception rate is mostly noise inside a season).

Positive-play rate weight 24%

45.7%55th pct of FBS QBs

share of dropbacks that gained expected points · -0.2% schedule adj.

Yards per attempt weight 56%

6.4623th pct of FBS QBs

sacks excluded · +0.3 schedule adj.

Sack rate weight 21% (penalty)

6.3%48th pct of FBS QBs

the input passer rating cannot see · +0.9% schedule adj.

Opponent-adjusted; garbage time excluded (1 of 358 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

2016 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home6g	208	1.3	7.4	0.8
Road4g	158	0.2	4.8	0.8

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-77g	203	1.3	6.6	1.0
Weeks 8+5g	181	0.6	6.2	0.8

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2016 season

Head Coach

Kalani Sitake

Pass share

43.3%

408 pass / 534 run

Plays / game

72.5

13 games

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Awards

Player standing · 2016

Impact starter

374 pass attempts and 136 carries in 12 games, more passes and runs a game than nearly every FBS quarterback who plays every week.

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