Player Dossier

2016-2021

San José State

Nick Starkel

QB • 6'3" • 214 lbs • Argyle, TX, USA

Balanced quarterback profileVolume operator

Nick Starkel is a balanced quarterback profile with 11.4 usage in the latest tracked season.

Usage / Role

92%

Featured offensive role

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Impact Production

100

Top-tier box-score impact for a quarterback

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Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

76

High-upside career profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2020 Postseason · San José State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
Texas A&M • Arkansas • San José State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: New Mexico

Player Story

Nick Starkel built his college career from 2016 through 2021 as a quarterback from Argyle, TX wearing No. 17, spending time with Arkansas, San José State, and Texas A&M. The clearest part of Nick Starkel's career was...

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Nick Starkel, QB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2020 Postseason · San José State. Nick Starkel is a balanced quarterback profile with 11.4 usage in the latest tracked season.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Total offense
6,758
Passing yards
6,933
Touchdowns
50

Quick Answers

Nick Starkel quick answers

Latest team and position
San José State · QB
Career Total Offense
6,758
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 8 entries · 34 games
Best season
2020 Postseason · San José State
Top game
New Mexico
Latest roster
No. 17 · Senior
2021 Total offense rank
1,574 total offense · QB 110th (top 30%) · Mountain West 9th (top 7%) · National 115th (top 8%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTotal OffensePass YdsRush YdsTDOverall
2016 Regular SeasonTexas A&M00000-
2017 PostseasonTexas A&M7480499-19453.6
2017 Regular SeasonTexas A&M71,2711,294-231153.6
2018 Regular SeasonTexas A&M4163169-6136.1
2019 Regular SeasonArkansas81,1361,152-16737.3
2020 PostseasonSan José State8260268-8163.1
2020 Regular SeasonSan José State81,8741,906-321663.1
2021 Regular SeasonSan José State71,5741,645-711056.5

Related Context

Nick Starkel played QB for Texas A&M, Arkansas, and San José State. Across 6 tracked seasons, Nick Starkel recorded 6,933 passing yards, -175 rushing yards, and -9 receiving yards. His top tracked season came in 2020 with San José State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2020 Postseason

San José State paired 2,134 primary output with 59.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2017 Postseason role shape

pass-led usage with 56.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2021 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

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Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across Texas A&M, Arkansas, San José State.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: New Mexico

Win with 416 yards of offense and 90 efficiency. It landed in the 85.7th percentile of the selected season.

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Season Explorer

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2017 Postseason · Texas A&M

Games

7

Primary Metric / G

250.1

Efficiency

56.7

Usage

5.8

Consistency

62.9

Best Game by takeover score

New Mexico

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Wake Forest: 480. UCLA: 55. Mississippi State: 129. Auburn: 182. New Mexico: 416. Ole Miss: 269. LSU: 220

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. Wake Forest: 65 by 56.6. UCLA: 15 by 46.5. Mississippi State: 16 by 50.1. Auburn: 24 by 54.9. New Mexico: 30 by 90. Ole Miss: 34 by 54.4. LSU: 33 by 44.1

Split Comparison

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

Wins342.5 · Games = 2 · +129.3 vs Losses
Losses213.2 · Games = 5 · -129.3 vs Wins

Game Log

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

7 games

Featured metric

Total Offense

Top game by takeover score

New Mexico

Best efficiency game

90 vs New Mexico

Result
Fri 12/29vs Wake Forest300-yard game · 3+ TDL 52-55426349966.74156.62-19-9.5000
Sun 11/26@ LSUL 21-45163022753.32344.13-7-2.3000
Sun 11/19@ Ole MissW 31-24193227259.41154.42-3-1.5011
Sun 11/12vs New Mexico300-yard game · 3+ TDW 55-14213041670.04090
Sat 11/4vs AuburnL 27-42112218450.02054.92-2-103
Sat 10/28vs Mississippi StateL 14-3581513353.31150.11-4-400
Sun 9/3@ UCLAL 44-456136246.20046.52-7-3.5000

Player Story

Nick Starkel story

Nick Starkel built his college career from 2016 through 2021 as a quarterback from Argyle, TX wearing No. 17, spending time with Arkansas, San José State, and Texas A&M. The clearest part of Nick Starkel's career was his passing role: 6,933 passing yards, 48 touchdown passes, and 908 attempts across 34 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2020 with San José State. 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 3 tackles, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 34 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Arkansas, San José State, and Texas A&M.

The arc is straightforward: Nick Starkel 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

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    Texas A&M

    2016-2018

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Arkansas

    2019

    Peak year stop

  3. 3

    San José State

    2020-2021

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20162017201720182019202020202021
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2016 Regular SeasonTexas A&M0
2017 PostseasonTexas A&M1,75156.75.81,751
2017 Regular SeasonTexas A&M1,75156.75.80
2018 Regular SeasonTexas A&M16361.93.1-1,588
2019 Regular SeasonArkansas1,13650.34973
2020 PostseasonSan José State2,13459.88998
2020 Regular SeasonSan José State2,13459.880
2021 Regular SeasonSan José State1,57453.111.4-560

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs New Mexico

Week 11 · W 55-14

Win with 416 yards of offense and 90 efficiency.

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Total Offense

88.3 takeover

416 total offense with 90 efficiency.

#2

@ Alabama

Week 4 · L 23-45 · Conference game

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Total Offense

85.8 takeover

Loss with 67 yards of offense and 71.5 efficiency.

67 total offense with 71.5 efficiency.

#3

vs Northwestern State

Week 1 · W 59-7

63

Total Offense

85 takeover

Win with 63 yards of offense and 76 efficiency.

63 total offense with 76 efficiency.

#4

vs UL Monroe

Week 3 · W 48-10

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Total Offense

79.1 takeover

Win with 39 yards of offense and 100 efficiency.

39 total offense with 100 efficiency.

#5

@ USC

Week 1 · L 7-30

308

Total Offense

70.5 takeover

Loss shaped by high passing volume and turnover pressure.

308 total offense with 63.5 efficiency.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2020 Postseason · San José State

2,134 primary output · 59.8 efficiency · 8 usage

63.1

#2

2020 Regular Season · San José State

63.1

2,134 primary · 59.8 efficiency · 8 usage

#3

2021 Regular Season · San José State

56.5

1,574 primary · 53.1 efficiency · 11.4 usage

Milestones

14

250+ passing yards

8

300+ total offense

8

3+ TD games

12

Above avg efficiency