Tommy DeVito

Senior quarterback for Illinois. 2022: 2,619 passing yards, 15 TD, 4 INT.

QB · Illinois · Sr. · #3

6′2″ · 210 lb · Cedar Grove, NJ

CFB Index 55 · #51 of 140 QBsHigh confidenceIllinois 2022 alumnus

The story

4 quarterback for Illinois. 2022: 2,619 passing yards, 15 TD, 4 INT.

Transferred from Syracuse to Illinois in 2022.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Five seasons at Illinois, 6,485 passing yards — his college career is complete.

His career

He was on the field for 5 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.

202213 games

Entered the portal

Career arc

Recruit

—

No recruit profile

CFB

College

2 teams

2018–2022

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Coaching lineage · 2018–2022

3 coaches

2018–2019

Lovie Smith

Illinois

2020

Rod Smith

Illinois

era →

2021–2022

Bret Bielema

Illinois

era →

Played under 3 different head coaches: Lovie Smith, Rod Smith, and Bret Bielema. Multi-era developmental context.

2022 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2018Syracuse10-3HC: Dino Babers · Run-leaning, fast tempo

2019Syracuse5-7HC: Dino Babers · Run-leaning, fast tempo

2020Syracuse1-10HC: Dino Babers · Balanced, slow tempo

2021Syracuse5-7HC: Dino Babers · Run-heavy

2022Illinois8-5HC: Bret Bielema · Run-leaning

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

55Rotational starter #51 of 140?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: interception rate (94th percentile). Strength: completion % (93rd percentile). Concern: explosive rate (26th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Interception rate#11 / 169 · 94th pct

0.8%

Success rate#37 / 169 · 78th pct

50.1%

EPA / dropback#67 / 169 · 61st pct

0.27

Sack rate#116 / 169 · 32nd pct

7.3%

Explosive rate#126 / 169 · 26th pct

8.2%

Box-score rates (8)

Completion %#12 / 177 · 93rd pct

69.5%

Rush TDs#30 / 177 · 80th pct

Interceptions#34 / 177 · 76th pct

Pass yards#62 / 177 · 65th pct

2619

Pass TDs#72 / 177 · 58th pct

Yards / att#97 / 177 · 44th pct

7.1

Fumbles lost#83 / 169 · 38th pct

Rush yards#120 / 177 · 32nd 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 · Completions by yards gained (PBP)

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

226/325 (69.5%) · 15 TD · 4 INT

325 of 367 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

6.5981 of 206 QBs

Sack rate

6.6%126 of 206 QBs

Sacked on 6.6% of dropbacks (126 of 206) — and still 81 of 206 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

58%of completions

132 comp4.9 yds avg4 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

29%of completions

66 comp13.5 yds avg3 TD

Deep

20+ yds

12%of completions

28 comp31.4 yds avg6 TD

Overall 69.5% completion on 325 attempts · 28 deep completions averaging 31.4 yds.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2022 season · 13 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home8g	216	1.4	7.0	0.2
Road5g	179	0.8	7.1	0.4

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-78g	205	1.2	7.0	0.2
Weeks 8+5g	196	1.0	7.1	0.4

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Bret Bielema

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

Awards

Player standing · 2022

Impact starter

Producing measurably more than a replacement-level starter.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

55 · #51 of 140 QBs

Career stats

Season	Team
2022	Illinois	255	367	69.5%	2,619	7.1	15	4	140.7	54	--	--
2021	Syracuse	32	52	61.5%	388	7.5	1	2	122.9	48	--	--
2020	Syracuse	48	96	50.0%	593	6.2	4	2	111.5	19	--	--
2019	Syracuse	213	337	63.2%	2,360	7.0	19	5	137.7	--	--	--
2018	Syracuse	44	86	51.2%	525	6.1	4	3	110.8	--	--	--
Career		592	938	63.1%	6,485	6.9	43	16	132.9	46	--	--

Season	Team
2022	Illinois	73	35	0.5	6	--
2021	Syracuse	21	90	4.3	1	--
2020	Syracuse	43	23	0.5	0	--
2019	Syracuse	112	122	1.1	2	--
2018	Syracuse	24	-15	-0.6	1	--
Career		273	255	0.9	10	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 7 · 2022

W 26–14

vs Minnesota

252 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 96.0 · 17 rush yds (3 car) · 1 TD

With C. Brown — 180 rush yds (41 car) · H. Robertson — 39 AVG · 47 LONG · 3 NO

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 10 · Michigan State · 2&11 · Q1 · EPA +6.00Tommy DeVito pass complete to Isaiah Williams for 60 yds for a TD, (Caleb Griffin KICK)
Week 4 · Chattanooga · 2&6 · Q3 · EPA +5.58Tommy DeVito pass complete to Isaiah Williams for 63 yds for a TD, (Caleb Griffin KICK)
Week 9 · Nebraska · 3&5 · Q1 · EPA +4.98Tommy DeVito pass complete to Isaiah Williams for 46 yds for a TD, (Fabrizio Pinton PAT MISSED)
Week 9 · Nebraska · 2&22 · Q3 · EPA +4.01Tommy DeVito run for 16 yds to the NEBRASKA 42 for a 1ST down NEBRASKA Penalty, Personal Foul (15 Yards) to the Neb 27 for a 1ST down
Week 1 · Indiana · 2&10 · Q3 · EPA -4.01Tommy DeVito run for a loss of 7 yards to the Ind 35 Tommy DeVito fumbled, recovered by Ind , return for 8 yds to the Ind 35
Week 1 · Mississippi State · 2&12 · Q2 · EPA +3.92Tommy DeVito pass complete to Isaiah Williams for 41 yds to the MisSt 38 for a 1ST down
Week 4 · Chattanooga · 3&3 · Q1 · EPA +3.68Tommy DeVito pass complete to Pat Bryant for 37 yds to the Chatt 35 for a 1ST down
Week 5 · Wisconsin · 2&11 · Q1 · EPA +3.64Tommy DeVito pass complete to Brian Hightower for 35 yds to the Wisc 41 for a 1ST down
Week 2 · Virginia · 2&7 · Q1 · EPA +3.59Tommy DeVito pass complete to Michael Marchese for 39 yds for a TD, (Caleb Griffin KICK)
Week 13 · Northwestern · 3&4 · Q4 · EPA +3.52Tommy DeVito pass complete to Chase Brown for 43 yds to the Nwest 2 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2022 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 38-6vs Wyoming	27/37	194	2	0	5.2	43.0
Wk 1	L 20-23@ Indiana	21/35	235	2	1	6.7	66.3
Wk 2	W 24-3vs Virginia	17/25	196	2	1	7.8	40.1
Wk 4	W 31-0vs Chattanooga	23/31	329	3	0	10.6	64.3	Season-high 329 yds
Wk 5	W 34-10@ Wisconsin	18/24	167	0	0	7.0	86.6
Wk 6	W 9-6vs Iowa	6/11	42	0	0	3.8	86.5
Wk 7	W 26-14vs Minnesota	25/32	252	1	0	7.9	96.0
Wk 9	W 26-9@ Nebraska	20/22	179	2	0	8.1	84.4
Wk 10	L 15-23vs Michigan State	25/37	288	2	0	7.8	58.9	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 11	L 24-31vs Purdue	18/32	201	1	1	6.3	45.0
Wk 12	L 17-19@ Michigan	21/30	178	0	0	5.9	61.4
Wk 13	W 41-3@ Northwestern	12/18	136	0	1	7.6	43.9
Bowl	L 10-19vs Mississippi State	22/33	222	0	0	6.7	—
Total		255/367	2619	15	4	7.0	64.7

How he plays

Play style

High-percentage passer who protects the ball. Loses the matchup on improvisation.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

60.0%Completion %

14.7%Conversion/dropback

72.2%Land short of sticks

0INTs

60.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 14.7% conversion-per-dropback — 72.2% 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