Player Dossier

2019-2024

Florida

Graham Mertz

QB • 6'3" • 216 lbs • Overland Park, KS, USA

Balanced quarterback profileEfficient finisher

Graham Mertz is a balanced quarterback profile with 11.1 usage in the latest tracked season.

Usage / Role

21%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

39

Developing production for a quarterback

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Reliability

33

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

54

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Florida

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
Wisconsin • Florida
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Northwestern

Player Story

Graham Mertz built his college career from 2019 through 2024 as a quarterback from Overland Park, KS wearing No. 15, spending time with Florida and Wisconsin. The clearest part of Graham Mertz's career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2019 · Rating 0.9689

Blue Valley North · Mission, KS

Committed To
Wisconsin
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2019

NFL Draft

Draft Year
2025
Selection
Round 6 · Pick 21
Overall
No. 197
NFL Team
Houston Texans

Graham Mertz, QB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Florida. Graham Mertz is a balanced quarterback profile with 11.1 usage in the latest tracked season.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Total offense
9,046
Passing yards
9,074
Touchdowns
77

Quick Answers

Graham Mertz quick answers

Latest team and position
Florida · QB
Career Total Offense
9,046
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 8 entries · 50 games
Best season
2023 Regular Season · Florida
Top game
Northwestern
Recruit profile
4-star · Blue Valley North · Wisconsin
High school pipeline
Blue Valley North · 1 FBS recruit · 1 drafted player
NFL Draft
2025 · Round 6 · Pick 21 · Houston Texans
Latest roster
No. 15 · Senior
2024 Total offense rank
847 total offense · QB 156th (top 40%) · SEC 25th (top 13%) · National 222nd (top 14%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTotal OffensePass YdsRush YdsTDOverall
2019 Regular SeasonWisconsin279736045.8
2020 PostseasonWisconsin714213012350.6
2020 Regular SeasonWisconsin71,1341,10826850.6
2021 PostseasonWisconsin13124137-13155.6
2021 Regular SeasonWisconsin131,8091,821-121355.6
2022 Regular SeasonWisconsin122,0962,136-402158.8
2023 Regular SeasonFlorida112,8152,878-632469.5
2024 Regular SeasonFlorida584779156752.2

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2023Wisconsin to FloridaP4 to P491.2Dec 4, 2022

Graham Mertz played QB for Wisconsin and Florida. Across 6 tracked seasons, Graham Mertz recorded 9,074 passing yards, -28 rushing yards, and 77 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Florida.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season

Florida paired 2,815 primary output with 61.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

pass-led usage with 70 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2024 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Wisconsin, Florida.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Mississippi State

Win with 225 yards of offense and 87.6 efficiency. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2024 Regular Season · Florida

Games

5

Primary Metric / G

169.4

Efficiency

70

Usage

11.1

Consistency

83.9

Best Game by takeover score

Mississippi State

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Miami: 94. Texas A&M: 202. Mississippi State: 225. UCF: 190. Tennessee: 136

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. Miami: 26 by 44.5. Texas A&M: 16 by 80.8. Mississippi State: 24 by 87.6. UCF: 26 by 71. Tennessee: 20 by 66.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins207.5 · Games = 2 · +63.5 vs Losses
Losses144 · Games = 3 · -63.5 vs Wins

Game Log

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

5 games

Featured metric

Total Offense

Top game by takeover score

Mississippi State

Best efficiency game

87.6 vs Mississippi State

Result
Sat 10/12@ TennesseeL 17-23111512573.31066.25112.20015
Sat 10/5vs UCFW 24-13192317982.610713113.7004
Sat 9/21@ Mississippi State3+ TDW 45-28192120190.53087.63248116
Sat 9/14vs Texas A&ML 20-33121519580.01180.817707
Sat 8/31vs MiamiL 17-4111209155.00144.5630.50010

Player Story

Graham Mertz story

Graham Mertz built his college career from 2019 through 2024 as a quarterback from Overland Park, KS wearing No. 15, spending time with Florida and Wisconsin. The clearest part of Graham Mertz's career was his passing role: 9,074 passing yards, 64 touchdown passes, and 1,224 attempts across 50 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2023 with Florida. 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 50 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Florida and Wisconsin.

The arc is straightforward: Graham Mertz 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

    Wisconsin

    2019-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Florida

    2023-2024

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20192020202020212021202220232024
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2019 Regular SeasonWisconsin7976.43.6
2020 PostseasonWisconsin1,27657.112.91,197
2020 Regular SeasonWisconsin1,27657.112.90
2021 PostseasonWisconsin1,93358.68.1657
2021 Regular SeasonWisconsin1,93358.68.10
2022 Regular SeasonWisconsin2,09655.113.3163
2023 Regular SeasonFlorida2,81561.417.7719
2024 Regular SeasonFlorida8477011.1-1,968

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Northwestern

Week 6 · W 42-7 · Conference game

Win with 299 yards of offense and 85 efficiency.

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Total Offense

92.5 takeover

299 total offense with 85 efficiency.

#2

@ Rutgers

Week 10 · W 52-3 · Conference game

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Total Offense

90.7 takeover

Win with 240 yards of offense and 81.3 efficiency.

240 total offense with 81.3 efficiency.

#3

vs Northwestern

Week 11 · W 35-7 · Conference game

216

Total Offense

84.9 takeover

Win with 216 yards of offense and 79.7 efficiency.

216 total offense with 79.7 efficiency.

#4

vs Central Michigan

Week 2 · W 61-0

35

Total Offense

79.5 takeover

Win with 35 yards of offense and 79.4 efficiency.

35 total offense with 79.4 efficiency.

#5

@ Utah

Week 1 · L 11-24

304

Total Offense

71.3 takeover

Loss with 304 yards of offense and 56.1 efficiency.

304 total offense with 56.1 efficiency.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Regular Season · Florida

2,815 primary output · 61.4 efficiency · 17.7 usage

69.5

#2

2022 Regular Season · Wisconsin

58.8

2,096 primary · 55.1 efficiency · 13.3 usage

#3

2021 Postseason · Wisconsin

55.6

1,933 primary · 58.6 efficiency · 8.1 usage

Milestones

8

250+ passing yards

3

300+ total offense

11

3+ TD games

23

Above avg efficiency