Last confirmed: Nebraska, 2016. No 2026 box-score games on record.
6′1″ · Cibolo, TX · Steele
Tommy Armstrong: QB · Nebraska · #4.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Tommy Armstrong
Extends plays with his feet until something opens up. Three seasons at Nebraska, two different head coaches: Bo Pelini and Mike Riley. A game that shows it: 377 passing yards and 12 rushing yards against Wyoming — Week 2, 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
43.6% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 33.9% conversion-per-dropback — 20.8% 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 16 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (100.0%). 6 of the team's 24 inside-the-5 carries (25.0%).
No outlet on our list has written about him by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2016 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 43-10vs Fresno State | 5/10 | 108 | 1 | 0 | 10.8 | 74.7 | |
| Wk 2 | W 52-17vs Wyoming | 20/34 | 377 | 3 | 1 | 11.1 | 72.5 | Season-high 377 yds |
| Wk 3 | W 35-32vs No. 22 Oregon | 17/33 | 200 | 3 | 0 | 6.1 | 72.2 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | W 24-13@ Northwestern | 18/29 | 246 | 1 | 0 | 8.5 | 93.8 | |
| Wk 5 | W 31-16vs Illinois | 16/23 | 220 | 1 | 1 | 9.6 | 75.3 | |
| Wk 7 | W 27-22@ Indiana | 10/26 | 208 | 1 | 2 | 8.0 | 35.9 | |
| Wk 8 | W 27-14vs Purdue | 17/31 | 252 | 1 | 1 | 8.1 | 75.5 | |
| Wk 9 | L 17-23@ No. 11 Wisconsin | 12/31 | 153 | 0 | 2 | 4.9 | 15.9 | |
| Wk 10 | L 3-62@ No. 6 Ohio State | 4/15 | 74 | 0 | 1 | 4.9 | 39.6 | |
| Wk 11 | W 24-17vs Minnesota | 19/27 | 217 | 2 | 0 | 8.0 | 84.2 | |
| Wk 13 | L 10-40@ Iowa | 13/35 | 125 | 1 | 0 | 3.6 | 15.2 | |
| Total | 151/294 | 2180 | 14 | 8 | 7.4 | — |
Week 3 · 2016
W 35-32
vs Oregon
200 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 72.2 · 95 rush yds (16 car) · 1 TD
Edged out Oregon at home in a shootout.
With C. Lightbourn — 47.2 yards per punt · 5 punts · 58 long · D. Ozigbo — 95 rush yds (21 car) · 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 291 passing plays (149 completions) against the box score's 294 attempts (151 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.8168 of 193 QBsSack rate
2.0%9 of 193 QBsRarely sacked (9 of 193 QBs) and still 68 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 51.4% completion on 294 attempts · 31 deep completions averaging 32.9 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2016 baseline
No situation moves him more than 56 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.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 229 | 1.8 | 9.0 | 0.5 |
| Road5g | 161 | 0.6 | 6.0 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 226 | 1.7 | 9.0 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 164 | 0.8 | 5.9 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mike Riley
Pass share
43.9%
399 pass / 510 run
Plays / game
69.9
13 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2016
294 pass attempts and 113 carries in 11 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Nebraska, 7,905 passing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
He has a stat line in 36 games over 3 seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2016
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Bo Pelini → Mike Riley. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
