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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/Capital-Weight1980 on 2025-04-15 03:14:54+00:00.
I’ve seen a lot of Buffs fans/Deion family lovers bringing up the NCAA record for career completion % to justify CU retiring Sanders’ #2. However, I did some exploring on the website linked above and noticed a few interesting things:
- Sanders is the only QB in the entire top 15 of Career Completion % to both play less than 30 games and have less than 1000 career pass attempts
- Because of the lack of games, he benefits from one great year a lot more than the rest of the field. This past year he completed 74% percent of his passes, good for 6th all-time. In 2023 he completed 69.3% which is pretty good but nowhere near the top 100 all-time. For comparison, Bo Nix and Colt McCoy averaged 74.9 and 73.7% respectively in their final two seasons but were weighed down by other years.
- For those that want to go the “well Sanders threw down the field more” route, all five players who had a better passing % season than Shedeur also had the same or higher Y/A (yards per attempt) and ALL had higher AY/A (air yards per attempt)