Player Dossier

2018-2023

Rice

JT Daniels

QB • 6'2" • 237 lbs • Irvine, CA, USA

Balanced quarterback profileVolume operator

JT Daniels is a balanced quarterback profile with 11.5 usage in the latest tracked season.

Usage / Role

70%

Major offensive role

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Impact Production

37

Developing production for a quarterback

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Reliability

45

Useful contributor with volatile peaks

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Star Power

50

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2018 Regular Season · USC

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Snapshot

Career Teams
4
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
USC • Georgia • West Virginia • Rice
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Vanderbilt

Player Story

JT Daniels built his college career from 2018 through 2023 as a quarterback from Irvine, CA wearing No. 18, spending time with Georgia, Rice, USC, and West Virginia. The clearest part of JT Daniels' career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2018 · Rating 0.9919

Mater Dei · Santa Ana, CA

Committed To
USC
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2018

JT Daniels, QB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2018 Regular Season · USC. JT Daniels is a balanced quarterback profile with 11.5 usage in the latest tracked season.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Total offense
9,009
Passing yards
9,369
Touchdowns
68

Quick Answers

JT Daniels quick answers

Latest team and position
Rice · QB
Career Total Offense
9,009
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 8 entries · 40 games
Best season
2018 Regular Season · USC
Top game
Vanderbilt
Recruit profile
5-star · Mater Dei · USC
High school pipeline
Mater Dei · 95 FBS recruits · 7 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 18 · Senior
2023 Total offense rank
2,378 total offense · QB 78th (top 20%) · American Athletic 9th (top 6%) · National 78th (top 5%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTotal OffensePass YdsRush YdsTDOverall
2018 Regular SeasonUSC112,5122,661-1491465.2
2019 Regular SeasonUSC1209215-6145.1
2020 PostseasonGeorgia4372392-20151.3
2020 Regular SeasonGeorgia4788839-51951.3
2021 Regular SeasonGeorgia5704722-18741.5
2021 Regular SeasonUSC5000041.5
2022 Regular SeasonWest Virginia102,0462,097-511457.8
2023 Regular SeasonRice92,3782,443-652262.5

Related Context

JT Daniels played QB for USC, Georgia, West Virginia, and Rice. Across 6 tracked seasons, JT Daniels recorded 9,369 passing yards, -360 rushing yards, and 68 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2018 with USC.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2018 Regular Season

USC paired 2,512 primary output with 51.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2018 Regular Season role shape

pass-led usage with 51.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2023 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

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Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 4 team stops, with role shifts visible across USC, Georgia, West Virginia, Rice.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: UCLA

Loss shaped by high passing volume and turnover pressure. It landed in the 90.9th percentile of the selected season.

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2018 Regular Season · USC

Games

11

Primary Metric / G

228.4

Efficiency

51.8

Usage

13.2

Consistency

79.6

Best Game by takeover score

UCLA

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. UNLV: 281. Stanford: 195. Texas: 296. Washington State: 228. Arizona: 199. Colorado: 268. Utah: 79. Oregon State: 156. California: 151. UCLA: 328. Notre Dame: 331

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. UNLV: 40 by 57.5. Stanford: 39 by 44.1. Texas: 51 by 52.5. Washington State: 32 by 60.7. Arizona: 28 by 60. Colorado: 36 by 48.3. Utah: 18 by 33.5. Oregon State: 31 by 52.6. California: 41 by 48.5. UCLA: 38 by 54.5. Notre Dame: 53 by 57.4

Split Comparison

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

Wins226.4 · Games = 5 · -3.6 vs Losses
Losses230 · Games = 6 · +3.6 vs Wins

Game Log

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

11 games

Featured metric

Total Offense

Top game by takeover score

UCLA

Best efficiency game

60.7 vs Washington State

Result
Sun 11/25vs Notre Dame300-yard gameL 17-24375134972.51057.42-18-900
Sat 11/17@ UCLA300-yard gameL 27-34203433758.82254.54-9-2.3000
Sun 11/11vs CaliforniaL 14-15213418061.82148.57-29-4.1006
Sun 11/4@ Oregon StateW 38-21142617753.81052.65-21-4.2002
Sun 10/21@ UtahL 28-416168937.51233.52-10-500
Sun 10/14vs Colorado3+ TDW 31-20173427250.03248.32-4-203
Sun 9/30@ ArizonaW 24-20162419766.70060420.5007
Sat 9/22vs Washington State3+ TDW 39-36172624165.43060.76-13-2.2007
Sun 9/16@ Texas300-yard gameL 14-37304832262.50152.53-26-8.7000
Sun 9/9@ StanfordL 3-17163421547.10244.15-20-408
Sat 9/1vs UNLVW 43-21223528262.91057.55-1-0.2005

Player Story

JT Daniels story

JT Daniels built his college career from 2018 through 2023 as a quarterback from Irvine, CA wearing No. 18, spending time with Georgia, Rice, USC, and West Virginia. The clearest part of JT Daniels' career was his passing role: 9,369 passing yards, 66 touchdown passes, and 1,224 attempts across 40 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2023 with Rice. 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. With 40 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Georgia, Rice, USC, and West Virginia.

The arc is straightforward: JT Daniels 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

    USC

    2018-2021

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Georgia

    2020-2021

    Peak year stop

  3. 3

    West Virginia

    2022

    Peak year stop

  4. 4

    Rice

    2023

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20182019202020202021202120222023
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2018 Regular SeasonUSC2,51251.813.2
2019 Regular SeasonUSC20953.68.3-2,303
2020 PostseasonGeorgia1,16060.58.6951
2020 Regular SeasonGeorgia1,16060.58.60
2021 Regular SeasonGeorgia70464.44.3-456
2021 Regular SeasonUSC70464.44.30
2022 Regular SeasonWest Virginia2,04652.39.21,342
2023 Regular SeasonRice2,37855.711.5332

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Vanderbilt

Week 4 · W 62-0 · Conference game

Win with 129 yards of offense and 96.7 efficiency.

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Total Offense

70.1 takeover

129 total offense with 96.7 efficiency.

#2

@ UCLA

Week 12 · L 27-34 · Conference game

328

Total Offense

66 takeover

Loss shaped by high passing volume and turnover pressure.

328 total offense with 54.5 efficiency.

#3

@ South Florida

Week 4 · L 29-42 · Conference game

409

Total Offense

65.9 takeover

Loss with 409 yards of offense and 64.4 efficiency.

409 total offense with 64.4 efficiency.

#4

vs Mississippi State

Week 12 · W 31-24 · Conference game

380

Total Offense

64.8 takeover

Win with 380 yards of offense and 65.4 efficiency.

380 total offense with 65.4 efficiency.

#5

vs Cincinnati

Week 1 · W 24-21 · Postseason

372

Total Offense

62.2 takeover

Win with 372 yards of offense and 61 efficiency.

372 total offense with 61 efficiency.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2018 Regular Season · USC

2,512 primary output · 51.8 efficiency · 13.2 usage

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#2

2023 Regular Season · Rice

62.5

2,378 primary · 55.7 efficiency · 11.5 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · West Virginia

57.8

2,046 primary · 52.3 efficiency · 9.2 usage

Milestones

18

250+ passing yards

9

300+ total offense

11

3+ TD games

13

Above avg efficiency