Quarterback, Iowa State, 2011–15
Sam Richardson
- Number
- No. 12
- Height
- 6′2″
- Weight
- 217 lb
- Hometown
- Winter Park, FL
Sam Richardson played quarterback at Iowa State (2011–15).
Passing
| Season | Team | Cmp | Att | Pct | Yds | Y/A | TD | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Iowa State | 46 | 79 | 58.2 | 541 | 6.8 | 8 | 1 |
| 2013 | Iowa State | 121 | 219 | 55.3 | 1,397 | 6.4 | 11 | 6 |
| 2014* | Iowa State | 254 | 451 | 56.3 | 2,669 | 5.9 | 18 | 9 |
| 2015 | Iowa State | 128 | 213 | 60.1 | 1,443 | 6.8 | 8 | 8 |
| Career | 549 | 962 | 57.1 | 6,050 | 6.3 | 45 | 24 | |
Rushing
| Season | Team | Car | Yds | Avg | TD | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Iowa State | 41 | 233 | 5.7 | 1 | 34 |
| 2013 | Iowa State | 98 | 342 | 3.5 | 1 | 51 |
| 2014* | Iowa State | 125 | 421 | 3.4 | 3 | 47 |
| 2015 | Iowa State | 47 | 12 | 0.3 | 1 | 19 |
| Career | 311 | 1,008 | 3.2 | 6 | 51 | |
Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. * That team-season’s player lines are missing part of the team’s yards in our source, so these numbers may be short.
Defense before 2016
| Season | G | Solo | Ast | Tkl | PBU |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2014E | 7 of 12 | 22 | 7 | 29 | – |
| 2015E | 7 of 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | – |
Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources, marked by season: unmarked, cfbstats.com (Open Data Commons Attribution License), its game lines summed (G: the games he has a line in); E, ESPN play-by-play participants, via SportsDataverse: tackles only, counted in the games whose play-by-play names tacklers (G: those games, of his team’s), so part of the season, not its total. A dash: the source has no number for it.
On the roster
| Season | Team | No. | Pos | Ht | Wt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Iowa State | 12 | QB | ||
| 2012 | Iowa State | 12 | QB | ||
| 2013 | Iowa State | 4 | DB | ||
| 2014 | Iowa State | 12 | QB | ||
| 2015 | Iowa State | 4 | DB | 5′8″ | 182 |
As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.
Per play
| Season | Team | Plays | EPA/play | Pctile | Median | Total | Usage | Adj. pass | Adj. rush |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Iowa State | 279 | 0.15 | 24th (n=144) | 0.22 | 42.7 | 45% | 0.18 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | Iowa State | 415 | 0.20 | 38th (n=147) | 0.24 | 80.9 | 49% | 0.41 | 0.40 |
| 2015 | Iowa State | 247 | 0.14 | 22nd (n=151) | 0.24 | 34.3 | 40% | 0.13 | 0.07 |
Expected points added: how much the player’s plays moved the team’s expected score, per play and in total. Plays: total EPA divided by EPA per play, the plays the source credits to him (for a receiver roughly his catches and runs, not every target; for a passer, not every attempt), so it can differ from attempts plus carries. Percentile: against the position’s regulars that season across all divisions on file (quarterbacks with 150+ plays, backs 60+, receivers and tight ends 30+), with how many there were (n) and their median; a dash means too few plays to rank. A season in progress uses the full-season bar scaled by games played, never below 75 plays for quarterbacks, 30 for backs and 20 for receivers. The cohort grows or shrinks with the source’s coverage each season (2025 lists far more players), so compare percentiles rather than raw EPA across years. FCS seasons are marked. Usage: the share of the team’s plays the player was part of (shown from 20 plays). Adjusted pass and rush: EPA per play adjusted for the defenses faced (CollegeFootballData’s WEPA). From CollegeFootballData, 2013 on.
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