Player Dossier

2006-2009

New Mexico

Donovan Porterie

QB • 6'3" • Port Arthur, TX, USA

Balanced quarterback profileVolume operator

Donovan Porterie is a balanced quarterback profile with 24.5 usage in the latest tracked season.

Usage / Role

28%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

3

Developing production for a quarterback

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Reliability

0

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

16

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2007 Postseason · New Mexico

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
New Mexico
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: UNLV

Player Story

Donovan Porterie built his college career from 2006 through 2009 as a quarterback from Port Arthur, TX wearing No. 15, spending time with New Mexico. The clearest part of Donovan Porterie's career was his passing...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2003 · Rating 0.8667

Taft · Woodland Hills, CA

Committed To
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2003

Donovan Porterie, QB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2007 Postseason · New Mexico. Donovan Porterie is a balanced quarterback profile with 24.5 usage in the latest tracked season.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Total offense
6,715
Passing yards
6,756
Touchdowns
36

Quick Answers

Donovan Porterie quick answers

Latest team and position
New Mexico · QB
Career Total Offense
6,715
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 6 entries · 37 games
Best season
2007 Postseason · New Mexico
Top game
UNLV
Recruit profile
3-star · Taft
High school pipeline
Taft · 7 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 15 · Class 2009
2009 Total offense rank
2,378 total offense · QB 70th (top 26%) · Mountain West 5th (top 5%) · National 71st (top 6%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTotal OffensePass YdsRush YdsTDOverall
2006 PostseasonNew Mexico85461-7037.1
2006 Regular SeasonNew Mexico8892906-14637.1
2007 PostseasonNew Mexico133613547266.7
2007 Regular SeasonNew Mexico132,6112,652-411366.7
2008 Regular SeasonNew Mexico441937247141.8
2009 Regular SeasonNew Mexico122,3782,411-331466.3

Related Context

Donovan Porterie played QB for New Mexico. Across 4 tracked seasons, Donovan Porterie recorded 6,756 passing yards, -41 rushing yards, and 28 receiving yards. His top tracked season came in 2007 with New Mexico.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2007 Postseason

New Mexico paired 2,972 primary output with 55.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2008 Regular Season role shape

pass-led usage with 50.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2009 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Texas A&M

Loss shaped by high passing volume and turnover pressure. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2008 Regular Season · New Mexico

Games

4

Primary Metric / G

104.8

Efficiency

50.1

Usage

15.1

Consistency

69.4

Best Game by takeover score

Texas A&M

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. TCU: 28. Texas A&M: 199. Arizona: 95. Tulsa: 97

Volume vs Efficiency

Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.

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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. TCU: 15 by 32.7. Texas A&M: 42 by 60.2. Arizona: 24 by 51.3. Tulsa: 17 by 56.3

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins95 · Games = 1 · -13 vs Losses
Losses108 · Games = 3 · +13 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

4 games

Featured metric

Total Offense

Top game by takeover score

Texas A&M

Best efficiency game

60.2 vs Texas A&M

Result
Sat 9/20@ TulsaL 14-5611139284.60156.3451.3009
Sun 9/14vs ArizonaW 36-2813178976.50151.3760.9006
Sat 9/6vs Texas A&ML 22-28223515462.90260.27456.40012
Sat 8/30vs TCUL 3-264103740.00132.75-9-1.80012

Player Story

Donovan Porterie story

Donovan Porterie built his college career from 2006 through 2009 as a quarterback from Port Arthur, TX wearing No. 15, spending time with New Mexico. The clearest part of Donovan Porterie's career was his passing role: 6,756 passing yards, 33 touchdown passes, and 1,058 attempts across 37 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2007 with New Mexico. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Quarterback careers are usually judged first by volume, efficiency, and scoring chances. His career also includes 28 receiving yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 37 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across New Mexico.

The arc is straightforward: Donovan Porterie moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

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    New Mexico

    2006-2009

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

200620062007200720082009
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2006 PostseasonNew Mexico94660.211.6
2006 Regular SeasonNew Mexico94660.211.60
2007 PostseasonNew Mexico2,97255.513.22,026
2007 Regular SeasonNew Mexico2,97255.513.20
2008 Regular SeasonNew Mexico41950.115.1-2,553
2009 Regular SeasonNew Mexico2,37848.924.51,959

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs UNLV

Week 8 · L 17-34 · Conference game

Loss with 236 yards of offense and 60.4 efficiency.

236

Total Offense

77.6 takeover

236 total offense with 60.4 efficiency.

#2

vs Texas A&M

Week 2 · L 22-28

199

Total Offense

67.4 takeover

Loss shaped by high passing volume and turnover pressure.

199 total offense with 60.2 efficiency.

#3

vs BYU

Week 11 · L 19-24 · Conference game

258

Total Offense

67 takeover

Loss with 258 yards of offense and 53.8 efficiency.

258 total offense with 53.8 efficiency.

#4

@ Texas Tech

Week 5 · L 28-48

326

Total Offense

66 takeover

Loss with 326 yards of offense and 53.7 efficiency.

326 total offense with 53.7 efficiency.

#5

@ Texas A&M

Week 1 · L 6-41

180

Total Offense

65.4 takeover

Loss with 180 yards of offense and 54.1 efficiency.

180 total offense with 54.1 efficiency.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2007 Postseason · New Mexico

2,972 primary output · 55.5 efficiency · 13.2 usage

66.7

#2

2007 Regular Season · New Mexico

66.7

2,972 primary · 55.5 efficiency · 13.2 usage

#3

2009 Regular Season · New Mexico

66.3

2,378 primary · 48.9 efficiency · 24.5 usage

Milestones

8

250+ passing yards

5

300+ total offense

3

3+ TD games

9

Above avg efficiency