Player Dossier

2021-2025

LSU

Garrett Nussmeier

QB • 6'1" • 205 lbs • Lake Charles, LA, USA

Balanced quarterback profileVolume operator

Garrett Nussmeier is a balanced quarterback profile with 11.5 usage in the latest tracked season.

Usage / Role

56%

Regular offensive contributor

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Impact Production

41

Developing production for a quarterback

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Reliability

42

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

58

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · LSU

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
LSU
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Wisconsin

Player Story

Garrett Nussmeier built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a quarterback from Lake Charles, LA wearing No. 18, spending time with LSU. The clearest part of Garrett Nussmeier's career was his passing role:...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2021 · Rating 0.9624

Marcus · Flower Mound, TX

Committed To
LSU
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

NFL Draft

Draft Year
2026
Selection
Round 7 · Pick 33
Overall
No. 249
NFL Team
Kansas City Chiefs

Garrett Nussmeier, QB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · LSU. Garrett Nussmeier is a balanced quarterback profile with 11.5 usage in the latest tracked season.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Total offense
7,533
Passing yards
7,687
Touchdowns
57

Quick Answers

Garrett Nussmeier quick answers

Latest team and position
LSU · QB
Career Total Offense
7,533
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 8 entries · 39 games
Best season
2024 Postseason · LSU
Top game
Wisconsin
Recruit profile
4-star · Marcus · LSU
High school pipeline
Millville · 8 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
NFL Draft
2026 · Round 7 · Pick 33 · Kansas City Chiefs
Latest roster
No. 18 · Senior
2025 Total offense rank
1,870 total offense · QB 108th (top 26%) · SEC 15th (top 8%) · National 108th (top 7%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTotal OffensePass YdsRush YdsTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonLSU4283329-46226.9
2022 PostseasonLSU71731730239
2022 Regular SeasonLSU7614627-13339
2023 PostseasonLSU63953950327
2023 Regular SeasonLSU61981971227
2024 PostseasonLSU133113047369.3
2024 Regular SeasonLSU133,6893,735-462969.3
2025 Regular SeasonLSU91,8701,927-571353.6

Related Context

Garrett Nussmeier played QB for LSU. Across 5 tracked seasons, Garrett Nussmeier recorded 7,687 passing yards, -154 rushing yards, and 57 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2024 with LSU.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Postseason

LSU paired 4,000 primary output with 63.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

pass-led usage with 58.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: South Carolina

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

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2025 Regular Season · LSU

Games

9

Primary Metric / G

207.8

Efficiency

58.6

Usage

11.5

Consistency

83.4

Best Game by takeover score

South Carolina

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Clemson: 234. Louisiana Tech: 210. Florida: 225. SE Louisiana: 283. Ole Miss: 190. South Carolina: 284. Vanderbilt: 212. Texas A&M: 124. Alabama: 108

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. Clemson: 42 by 57.4. Louisiana Tech: 44 by 50.5. Florida: 28 by 64.7. SE Louisiana: 36 by 68.5. Ole Miss: 36 by 49.6. South Carolina: 37 by 68.9. Vanderbilt: 30 by 58.7. Texas A&M: 41 by 50.7. Alabama: 23 by 58.4

Split Comparison

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

Wins247.2 · Games = 5 · +88.7 vs Losses
Losses158.5 · Games = 4 · -88.7 vs Wins

Game Log

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

9 games

Featured metric

Total Offense

Top game by takeover score

South Carolina

Best efficiency game

68.9 vs South Carolina

Result
Sun 11/9@ AlabamaL 9-20182112185.70058.42-13-6.5001
Sat 10/25vs Texas A&ML 25-49223516862.91050.76-44-7.3000
Sat 10/18@ VanderbiltL 24-31192822567.92058.72-13-6.5000
Sat 10/11vs South CarolinaW 20-10203325460.62268.94307.50021
Sat 9/27@ Ole MissL 19-24213419761.81149.62-7-3.5001
Sat 9/20vs SE Louisiana3+ TDW 56-10253127380.63068.55102126
Sat 9/13vs FloridaW 20-10152722055.61164.715505
Sat 9/6vs Louisiana TechW 23-7264123763.41150.53-27-900
Sat 8/30@ ClemsonW 17-10283823273.71057.4420.50010

Player Story

Garrett Nussmeier story

Garrett Nussmeier built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a quarterback from Lake Charles, LA wearing No. 18, spending time with LSU. The clearest part of Garrett Nussmeier's career was his passing role: 7,687 passing yards, 52 touchdown passes, and 1,031 attempts across 39 career games in the available record. That gives Garrett Nussmeier's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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  1. 1

    LSU

    2021-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20212022202220232023202420242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonLSU28346.23.7
2022 PostseasonLSU78769.55504
2022 Regular SeasonLSU78769.550
2023 PostseasonLSU593602.1-194
2023 Regular SeasonLSU593602.10
2024 PostseasonLSU4,00063.911.33,407
2024 Regular SeasonLSU4,00063.911.30
2025 Regular SeasonLSU1,87058.611.5-2,130

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Wisconsin

Week 1 · W 35-31 · Postseason

Win with 395 yards of offense and 77.7 efficiency.

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Total Offense

88.9 takeover

395 total offense with 77.7 efficiency.

#2

vs UCLA

Week 4 · W 34-17

352

Total Offense

82.3 takeover

Win with 352 yards of offense and 79.8 efficiency.

352 total offense with 79.8 efficiency.

#3

vs USC

Week 1 · L 20-27

304

Total Offense

75.4 takeover

Loss with 304 yards of offense and 77.5 efficiency.

304 total offense with 77.5 efficiency.

#4

vs New Mexico

Week 4 · W 38-0

135

Total Offense

72.4 takeover

Win with 135 yards of offense and 96.7 efficiency.

135 total offense with 96.7 efficiency.

#5

@ Purdue

Week 1 · W 63-7 · Postseason

173

Total Offense

71.2 takeover

Win with 173 yards of offense and 80.9 efficiency.

173 total offense with 80.9 efficiency.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Postseason · LSU

4,000 primary output · 63.9 efficiency · 11.3 usage

69.3

#2

2024 Regular Season · LSU

69.3

4,000 primary · 63.9 efficiency · 11.3 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · LSU

53.6

1,870 primary · 58.6 efficiency · 11.5 usage

Milestones

15

250+ passing yards

9

300+ total offense

9

3+ TD games

20

Above avg efficiency