Player Dossier

2020-2025

Kansas

Jalon Daniels

QB • 6'0" • 220 lbs • Lawndale, CA, USA

Dual-threat creatorVolume operator

Jalon Daniels is a dual-threat creator with 30 usage in the latest tracked season.

Usage / Role

100%

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

85

Elite ceiling indicators

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Kansas

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
Kansas
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Cincinnati

Player Story

Jalon Daniels built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a quarterback from Lawndale, CA wearing No. 6, spending time with Kansas. The clearest part of Jalon Daniels' career was his passing role: 9,255...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2020 · Rating 0.817

Lawndale · Lawndale, CA

Committed To
Kansas
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2020

Jalon Daniels, QB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Kansas. Jalon Daniels is a dual-threat creator with 30 usage in the latest tracked season.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Total offense
10,725
Passing yards
9,255
Rushing yards
1,470
Touchdowns
90
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Jalon Daniels college highlights at Kansas.

Season
2025
Type
Player highlight

Quick Answers

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Latest team and position
Kansas · QB
Career Total Offense
10,725
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 7 entries · 49 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Kansas
Top game
Cincinnati
Recruit profile
3-star · Lawndale · Kansas
High school pipeline
Lawndale · 9 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 6 · Senior
2025 Total offense rank
2,927 total offense · QB 58th (top 14%) · Big 12 8th (top 4%) · National 58th (top 4%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTotal OffensePass YdsRush YdsTDOverall
2020 Regular SeasonKansas774271824443.5
2021 Regular SeasonKansas6943860831048.5
2022 PostseasonKansas956554421670.1
2022 Regular SeasonKansas91,8681,4703981970.1
2023 Regular SeasonKansas377970574556.6
2024 Regular SeasonKansas122,9012,4544472074.1
2025 Regular SeasonKansas122,9272,5044232677

Related Context

Jalon Daniels played QB for Kansas. Across 6 tracked seasons, Jalon Daniels recorded 9,255 passing yards, 1,470 rushing yards, and 90 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Kansas.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Kansas paired 2,927 primary output with 64.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

2022 Postseason role shape

pass-led usage with 71.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Arkansas

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

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2022 Postseason · Kansas

Games

9

Primary Metric / G

270.3

Efficiency

71.4

Usage

24.2

Consistency

72.1

Best Game by takeover score

Arkansas

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Arkansas: 565. Tennessee Tech: 218. West Virginia: 304. Houston: 281. Duke: 407. Iowa State: 102. TCU: 95. Texas: 242. Kansas State: 219

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. Arkansas: 69 by 62.5. Tennessee Tech: 21 by 86.3. West Virginia: 41 by 74. Houston: 35 by 79.5. Duke: 34 by 89.5. Iowa State: 22 by 54.2. TCU: 17 by 58.2. Texas: 28 by 70.9. Kansas State: 40 by 67.5

Split Comparison

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

Wins262.4 · Games = 5 · -17.9 vs Losses
Losses280.3 · Games = 4 · +17.9 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

Arkansas

Best efficiency game

89.5 vs Duke

Result
Wed 12/28@ Arkansas300-yard game · 3+ TDL 53-55375554467.35262.514211.50110
Sun 11/27@ Kansas StateDual-threatL 27-47203216862.50067.58516.40125
Sat 11/19vs TexasL 14-55172623065.42170.9212607
Sat 10/8vs TCUL 31-385108950.00058.2760.9005
Sat 10/1vs Iowa StateW 14-117149350.00054.2891.1016
Sat 9/24vs Duke300-yard game · 3+ TDW 35-27192332482.64089.511837.50130
Sat 9/17@ Houston3+ TD · Dual-threatW 48-30142315860.93079.51212310.30237
Sat 9/10@ West Virginia3+ TD · Dual-threatW 55-42182921962.1307412857.10019
Sat 9/3vs Tennessee TechW 56-10151818983.31186.33299.70121

Player Story

Jalon Daniels story

Jalon Daniels built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a quarterback from Lawndale, CA wearing No. 6, spending time with Kansas. The clearest part of Jalon Daniels' career was his passing role: 9,255 passing yards, 67 touchdown passes, 1,193 attempts, and 1,470 rushing yards across 49 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2025 with Kansas. 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 1,470 rushing yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 49 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Kansas.

The arc is straightforward: Jalon 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

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    Kansas

    2020-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2020202120222022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonKansas7424726.9
2021 Regular SeasonKansas94357.520.3201
2022 PostseasonKansas2,43371.424.21,490
2022 Regular SeasonKansas2,43371.424.20
2023 Regular SeasonKansas77968.422.3-1,654
2024 Regular SeasonKansas2,90165.523.52,122
2025 Regular SeasonKansas2,92764.93026

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 56 Cincinnati

Week 5 · L 34-37 · Conference game

Loss with balanced pass-rush production and strong creator value.

500

Total Offense

92.3 takeover

500 total offense with 76.8 efficiency.

#2

@ Arkansas

Week 1 · L 53-55 · Postseason

565

Total Offense

84.7 takeover

Loss shaped by high passing volume and turnover pressure.

565 total offense with 62.5 efficiency.

#3

@ Kansas State

Week 8 · L 14-55 · Conference game

234

Total Offense

82.8 takeover

Loss with 234 yards of offense and 51.6 efficiency.

234 total offense with 51.6 efficiency.

#4

vs West Virginia

Week 13 · L 28-34 · Conference game

258

Total Offense

80.4 takeover

Loss shaped by high passing volume and turnover pressure.

258 total offense with 54 efficiency.

#5

vs Iowa State

Week 9 · L 22-52 · Conference game

201

Total Offense

79.6 takeover

Loss with 201 yards of offense and 52.8 efficiency.

201 total offense with 52.8 efficiency.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Kansas

2,927 primary output · 64.9 efficiency · 30 usage

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#2

2024 Regular Season · Kansas

74.1

2,901 primary · 65.5 efficiency · 23.5 usage

#3

2022 Postseason · Kansas

70.1

2,433 primary · 71.4 efficiency · 24.2 usage

Milestones

10

250+ passing yards

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300+ total offense

15

3+ TD games

27

Above avg efficiency