Player Dossier

2022-2025

Vanderbilt

Diego Pavia

QB • 6'0" • 207 lbs • Albuquerque, NM, USA

Dual-threat creatorEfficient finisher

Diego Pavia is a dual-threat creator with 43.7 usage in the latest tracked season.

Usage / Role

100%

Featured offensive role

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Impact Production

96

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

70

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Vanderbilt

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
New Mexico State • Vanderbilt
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Liberty

Player Story

Diego Pavia built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a quarterback from Albuquerque, NM wearing No. 2, spending time with New Mexico State and Vanderbilt. The clearest part of Diego Pavia's career was his...

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Diego Pavia, QB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Vanderbilt. Diego Pavia is a dual-threat creator with 43.7 usage in the latest tracked season.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Total offense
13,336
Passing yards
10,247
Rushing yards
3,089
Touchdowns
119

Quick Answers

Diego Pavia quick answers

Latest team and position
Vanderbilt · QB
Career Total Offense
13,336
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 8 entries · 53 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Vanderbilt
Top game
Liberty
Latest roster
No. 2 · Senior
2025 Total offense rank
4,401 total offense · QB 3rd (top 1%) · SEC 2nd (top 1%) · National 3rd (top 1%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTotal OffensePass YdsRush YdsTDOverall
2022 PostseasonNew Mexico State1223216765253.3
2022 Regular SeasonNew Mexico State121,7141,2754391753.3
2023 PostseasonNew Mexico State151305872179
2023 Regular SeasonNew Mexico State153,7662,9158513279
2024 PostseasonVanderbilt1324416084577.3
2024 Regular SeasonVanderbilt132,8492,1337162377.3
2025 PostseasonVanderbilt1338334736386.2
2025 Regular SeasonVanderbilt134,0183,1928263686.2

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2024New Mexico State to VanderbiltG5/FCS to P486.8Dec 24, 2023

Diego Pavia played QB for New Mexico State and Vanderbilt. Across 4 tracked seasons, Diego Pavia recorded 10,247 passing yards, 3,089 rushing yards, and 2 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Vanderbilt.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Vanderbilt paired 4,401 primary output with 72.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

pass-led usage with 72.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

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

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across New Mexico State, Vanderbilt.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Kentucky

Win with 532 yards of offense and 76.6 efficiency. 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 Postseason · Vanderbilt

Games

13

Primary Metric / G

338.5

Efficiency

72.3

Usage

43.7

Consistency

75.6

Best Game by takeover score

Kentucky

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Iowa: 383. Charleston Southern: 319. Virginia Tech: 254. South Carolina: 201. Georgia State: 331. Utah State: 400. Alabama: 256. LSU: 246. Missouri: 149. Texas: 408. Auburn: 489. Kentucky: 532. Tennessee: 433

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. Iowa: 53 by 66.5. Charleston Southern: 33 by 81.7. Virginia Tech: 29 by 72.3. South Carolina: 36 by 59.2. Georgia State: 33 by 88.9. Utah State: 43 by 82.8. Alabama: 47 by 61. LSU: 39 by 68.7. Missouri: 27 by 53.3. Texas: 52 by 70.5. Auburn: 51 by 83.3. Kentucky: 54 by 76.6. Tennessee: 48 by 74.5

Split Comparison

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

Wins335.4 · Games = 10 · -13.6 vs Losses
Losses349 · Games = 3 · +13.6 vs Wins

Game Log

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

13 games

Featured metric

Total Offense

Top game by takeover score

Kentucky

Best efficiency game

88.9 vs Georgia State

Result
Wed 12/31vs Iowa300-yard game · 3+ TDL 27-34253834765.82066.515362.40119
Sat 11/29@ TennesseeDual-threatW 45-24182826864.31274.5201658.30141
Sat 11/22vs Kentucky300-yard game · 3+ TDW 45-17333948484.65176.615483.20121
Sat 11/8vs Auburn300-yard game · 3+ TDW 45-38253337775.83083.3181126.20128
Sat 11/1@ Texas300-yard game · 3+ TDL 31-34273836571.13070.514433.10125
Sat 10/25vs MissouriW 17-10101912952.60153.38202.50113
Sat 10/18vs LSU3+ TD · Dual-threatW 31-24142216063.61068.717865.10221
Sat 10/4@ AlabamaDual-threatL 14-30213519860.0116112584.80036
Sat 9/27vs Utah State300-yard game · 3+ TDW 55-35263432176.55182.89798.80133
Sat 9/20vs Georgia StateDual-threatW 70-21182424575.01088.99869.60116
Sat 9/13@ South CarolinaW 31-7182517772.02159.211242.2006
Sat 9/6@ Virginia TechDual-threatW 44-20121819366.72172.311615.50015
Sat 8/30vs Charleston Southern3+ TDW 45-3202527580.03081.78445.50011

Player Story

Diego Pavia story

Diego Pavia built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a quarterback from Albuquerque, NM wearing No. 2, spending time with New Mexico State and Vanderbilt. The clearest part of Diego Pavia's career was his passing role: 10,247 passing yards, 88 touchdown passes, 1,231 attempts, and 3,089 rushing yards across 53 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2025 with Vanderbilt. 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 3,089 rushing yards and 2 tackles, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 53 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across New Mexico State and Vanderbilt.

The arc is straightforward: Diego Pavia 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

    New Mexico State

    2022-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Vanderbilt

    2024-2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20222022202320232024202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 PostseasonNew Mexico State1,94660.423.3
2022 Regular SeasonNew Mexico State1,94660.423.30
2023 PostseasonNew Mexico State3,89668.133.71,950
2023 Regular SeasonNew Mexico State3,89668.133.70
2024 PostseasonVanderbilt3,09365.940.8-803
2024 Regular SeasonVanderbilt3,09365.940.80
2025 PostseasonVanderbilt4,40172.343.71,308
2025 Regular SeasonVanderbilt4,40172.343.70

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Liberty

Week 13 · W 49-14 · Conference game

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

339

Total Offense

92.4 takeover

339 total offense with 80.9 efficiency.

#2

vs No. 66 Kentucky

Week 13 · W 45-17 · Conference game

532

Total Offense

92.2 takeover

Win with 532 yards of offense and 76.6 efficiency.

532 total offense with 76.6 efficiency.

#3

vs No. 29 Auburn

Week 11 · W 45-38 · Conference game

489

Total Offense

91.7 takeover

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

489 total offense with 83.3 efficiency.

#4

vs Sam Houston

Week 7 · W 27-13 · Conference game

401

Total Offense

90.9 takeover

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

401 total offense with 74.6 efficiency.

#5

vs Virginia Tech

Week 1 · W 34-27

294

Total Offense

87 takeover

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

294 total offense with 78.5 efficiency.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · Vanderbilt

4,401 primary output · 72.3 efficiency · 43.7 usage

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#2

2025 Regular Season · Vanderbilt

86.2

4,401 primary · 72.3 efficiency · 43.7 usage

#3

2023 Postseason · New Mexico State

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3,896 primary · 68.1 efficiency · 33.7 usage

Milestones

15

250+ passing yards

17

300+ total offense

18

3+ TD games

39

Above avg efficiency