C.J. Stroud

QB · HOU · 2023–2026

Born October 3, 2001 · College Ohio State · Drafted 2023, round 1, pick 2 (HOU) · 6-3, 218 lb

Offensive Rookie of the Year (2023) · Pro Bowl (2023)

EPA per dropback by season

Filled dot: stabilised, with its 90% interval. Ring: the raw season rate.

Passing

Season	Team	G	Cmp	Att	Cmp %	Yds	TD	INT	Dropbacks	EPA/db	Stabilised EPA/db	WPA/db (WP pts)	Total WPA (wins)	CPOE	Success %	ANY/A	Rank (EPA/db)
2023	HOU	15	319	499	63.9	4,108	23	5	581	+0.124	+0.106+0.017 to +0.194	+0.60	+3.50	+0.2	46.6	7.56	13
2023 playoffs	HOU	2	35	54	64.8	449	3	0	60	+0.192		+0.96	+0.58	−0.9	43.3	9.43	7
2024	HOU	17	336	532	63.2	3,727	20	12	653	+0.010	+0.060−0.025 to +0.146	+0.11	+0.72	−1.7	42.6	5.45	29
2024 playoffs	HOU	2	41	61	67.2	527	1	1	85	+0.047		+0.22	+0.18	+2.8	44.7	5.88	9
2025	HOU	14	273	423	64.5	3,041	19	8	509	+0.151	+0.128+0.036 to +0.220	+0.23	+1.17	+0.4	47.3	6.48	11
2025 playoffs	HOU	2	41	79	51.9	462	2	5	89	−0.193		−0.62	−0.55	−11.9	39.3	2.96	12
2026	HOU	8	181	282	64.2	2,251	16	2	333	+0.197	+0.151+0.049 to +0.254	+0.47	+1.56	+1.8	48.9	8.09	12
Career	HOU	54	1,109	1,736	63.9	13,127	78	27	2,076	+0.106		+0.34	+6.96	−0.1	45.9	6.72	–

Rushing

Season	Team	G	Carries	Yds	TD	YPC	EPA/carry	Success %	Rush EPA	Rush WPA (wins)
2023	HOU	15	12	14	1	1.17	+0.121	69.2	+1.6	+0.11
2023 playoffs	HOU	2	1	1	0	1.00	−0.626	0.0	−0.6	−0.01
2024	HOU	17	3	-10	0	-3.33	−3.706	0.0	−11.1	−0.32
2024 playoffs	HOU	2	1	2	0	2.00	+1.683	100.0	+1.7	+0.00
2025	HOU	14	12	20	1	1.67	+0.705	83.3	+8.5	+0.14
2025 playoffs	HOU	2	1	0	0	0.00	−1.381	0.0	−1.4	−0.05
2026	HOU	8	8	13	1	1.62	+0.484	75.0	+3.9	+0.04
Career	HOU	54	35	37	3	1.06	+0.078	69.4	+2.8	−0.03

Receiving

Season	Team	G	Targets	Rec	Catch %	EPA/target	Target share %	aDOT	Rec EPA	Rec WPA (wins)
2023	HOU	15	1	1	100.0	−0.873	0.2	-1.0	−0.9	−0.01
2024	HOU	17	1	0	0.0	−0.726	0.2	10.0	−0.7	−0.04
Career	HOU	54	2	1	50.0	−0.800	0.1	4.5	−1.6	−0.05

Honours

Honours: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), matched to players through Wikidata (CC0). Awards and All-Pro teams are the Associated Press’s; Pro Bowl selections include replacements.

Season	Honours
2023	Offensive Rookie of the Year, Pro Bowl

Playing time

Scrimmage snaps from 2016, in the games he played (share: of his team’s snaps in those games). A season’s snaps appear after its playoffs, when the data is published. Who was on the field: NFL Next Gen Stats via nflverse (2016–22) and FTN Data via nflverse (2023 on), CC BY-SA 4.0. Aggregated by Red Zone Math; this table is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

Season	Team	G	Offensive snaps	Share of the offence’s snaps	Defensive snaps	Share of the defence’s snaps
2023	HOU	15	953	98.5	–	–
2023 playoffs	HOU	2	88	96.7	–	–
2024	HOU	17	1,018	93.4	–	–
2024 playoffs	HOU	2	138	100.0	–	–
2025	HOU	14	852	90.8	–	–
2025 playoffs	HOU	2	143	100.0	–	–

Pressure and play action

Regular season. Pressure from 2016; play action, blitzes and interception-worthy throws (per attempt) from 2022. The sources changed in 2023, so compare a season with its league, not across years. Pressure and time to throw: NFL Next Gen Stats via nflverse (2016–22) and FTN Data via nflverse (2023 on); play action, blitzes and interception-worthy throws: FTN Data via nflverse (2022 on). Both CC BY-SA 4.0; aggregated by Red Zone Math, and this table is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

Season	Dropbacks	Pressured %	EPA/db pressured	EPA/db clean	Time to throw (s)	Play action %	EPA/db with play action	Blitzed %	EPA/db vs a blitz	Interception- worthy %
2023	581	28.7	−0.59	+0.41	2.84	23.9	+0.17	23.1	+0.07	3.0
2024	653	38.0	−0.33	+0.22	2.81	23.0	+0.21	29.4	−0.09	3.4
2025	509	29.5	−0.28	+0.33	2.73	23.6	+0.18	32.8	+0.03	3.3
2026	333	–	–	–	–	21.0	+0.20	23.7	+0.45	1.4

Game logs

2026 game log (8 games)

2026 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp/Att	Pass yds	TD	INT	EPA/db	Pass WPA (WP pts)	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA
1	2026-09-13	vs BUF	L 31–36	26/38	274	2	0	+0.10	−3.4	1	0	0	−1.1
2	2026-09-20	vs CIN	L 6–20	30/53	353	0	0	−0.06	−1.2	0	0	0	0.0
3	2026-09-27	@ IND	L 17–19	16/27	167	1	0	+0.01	−0.2	1	2	0	+0.4
4	2026-10-04	vs DAL	L 30–34	21/29	347	2	0	+0.42	+53.7	0	0	0	0.0
5	2026-10-11	@ TEN	W 26–3	26/34	261	1	0	+0.29	+7.5	4	7	1	+1.8
6	2026-10-18	@ JAX	W 34–31	24/34	312	3	1	+0.42	+66.8	0	0	0	0.0
7	2026-10-25	vs NYG	L 21–27 OT	17/28	153	2	0	−0.00	+7.6	2	4	0	+2.8
9	2026-11-08	@ LAC	W 44–22	21/35	384	5	1	+0.53	+24.9	0	0	0	0.0

2025 game log (16 games)

2025 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp/Att	Pass yds	TD	INT	EPA/db	Pass WPA (WP pts)	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA
1	2025-09-07	@ LA	L 9–14	19/27	188	0	1	−0.01	−17.3	1	2	0	+1.7
2	2025-09-15	vs TB	L 19–20	13/24	207	1	0	−0.04	−11.5	0	0	0	0.0
3	2025-09-21	@ JAX	L 10–17	25/37	204	1	2	−0.08	−31.3	0	0	0	0.0
4	2025-09-28	vs TEN	W 26–0	22/28	233	2	0	+0.25	+3.8	2	4	0	+4.0
5	2025-10-05	@ BAL	W 44–10	23/27	244	4	0	+0.64	+24.3	0	0	0	0.0
7	2025-10-20	@ SEA	L 19–27	23/49	229	1	1	−0.18	−22.5	0	0	0	0.0
8	2025-10-26	vs SF	W 26–15	30/39	318	2	1	+0.51	+47.7	3	5	0	+1.5
9	2025-11-02	vs DEN	L 15–18	6/10	79	0	0	+0.28	+17.0	0	0	0	0.0
13	2025-11-30	@ IND	W 20–16	22/35	276	0	1	+0.24	+32.7	0	0	0	0.0
14	2025-12-07	@ KC	W 20–10	15/31	203	1	0	+0.03	+7.9	1	2	0	+0.5
15	2025-12-14	vs ARI	W 40–20	22/28	260	3	0	+0.45	+9.2	2	3	0	+1.6
16	2025-12-21	vs LV	W 23–21	23/35	187	1	0	+0.16	+26.2	1	0	0	−1.5
17	2025-12-27	@ LAC	W 20–16	16/28	244	2	2	−0.04	+17.2	1	2	0	+0.1
18	2026-01-04	vs IND	W 38–30	14/22	169	1	0	+0.21	+13.9	1	2	1	+0.7
P19	2026-01-12	@ PIT	W 30–6	21/32	250	1	1	+0.01	−18.8	1	0	0	−1.4
P20	2026-01-18	@ NE	L 16–28	20/47	212	1	4	−0.33	−36.1	0	0	0	0.0

2024 game log (19 games)

2024 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp/Att	Pass yds	TD	INT	EPA/db	Pass WPA (WP pts)	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec EPA
1	2024-09-08	@ IND	W 29–27	24/32	234	2	0	+0.25	+38.4	0	0	0.0	0	0.0
2	2024-09-15	vs CHI	W 19–13	23/36	260	1	0	+0.02	+8.5	0	0	0.0	0	0.0
3	2024-09-22	@ MIN	L 7–34	20/30	215	1	2	−0.31	−19.2	0	0	0.0	0	0.0
4	2024-09-29	vs JAX	W 24–20	27/40	345	2	0	+0.28	+67.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0
5	2024-10-06	vs BUF	W 23–20	28/38	331	1	1	+0.17	+5.8	0	0	0.0	0	0.0
6	2024-10-13	@ NE	W 41–21	20/31	192	3	1	+0.19	+18.2	1	0	−0.6	0	0.0
7	2024-10-20	@ GB	L 22–24	10/21	86	0	0	−0.29	−18.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0
8	2024-10-27	vs IND	W 23–20	25/37	285	1	0	+0.14	+19.1	1	-10	−5.4	0	0.0
9	2024-10-31	@ NYJ	L 13–21	11/30	191	0	0	−0.08	−27.7	0	0	0.0	1	−0.7
10	2024-11-10	vs DET	L 23–26	19/33	232	1	2	−0.07	+8.1	0	0	0.0	0	0.0
11	2024-11-18	@ DAL	W 34–10	23/34	257	0	1	+0.18	+9.1	0	0	0.0	0	0.0
12	2024-11-24	vs TEN	L 27–32	20/33	247	2	2	−0.17	−42.8	0	0	0.0	0	0.0
13	2024-12-01	@ JAX	W 23–20	22/34	242	1	0	+0.07	+5.8	0	0	0.0	0	0.0
15	2024-12-15	vs MIA	W 20–12	18/26	131	2	0	−0.24	−4.3	1	0	−5.1	0	0.0
16	2024-12-21	@ KC	L 19–27	23/39	244	2	2	+0.12	+1.3	0	0	0.0	0	0.0
17	2024-12-25	vs BAL	L 2–31	17/31	185	0	1	−0.42	−9.9	0	0	0.0	0	0.0
18	2025-01-05	@ TEN	W 23–14	6/6	50	1	0	+0.88	+13.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0
P19	2025-01-11	vs LAC	W 32–12	22/33	282	1	1	+0.04	+16.5	1	2	+1.7	0	0.0
P20	2025-01-18	@ KC	L 14–23	19/28	245	0	0	+0.05	+1.8	0	0	0.0	0	0.0

2023 game log (17 games)

2023 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp/Att	Pass yds	TD	INT	EPA/db	Pass WPA (WP pts)	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec EPA
1	2023-09-10	@ BAL	L 9–25	28/43	242	0	0	−0.26	−7.8	0	0	0	0.0	1	1	−0.9
2	2023-09-17	vs IND	L 20–31	30/45	384	2	0	+0.08	−8.5	1	0	0	+0.7	0	0	0.0
3	2023-09-24	@ JAX	W 37–17	20/30	280	2	0	+0.49	+33.4	2	3	0	+0.2	0	0	0.0
4	2023-10-01	vs PIT	W 30–6	16/28	306	2	0	+0.42	+28.2	2	1	0	−1.0	0	0	0.0
5	2023-10-08	@ ATL	L 19–21	20/35	249	1	0	+0.09	+35.9	1	2	0	+0.4	0	0	0.0
6	2023-10-15	vs NO	W 20–13	13/27	199	2	1	+0.13	+16.6	1	1	0	+0.1	0	0	0.0
8	2023-10-29	@ CAR	L 13–15	16/24	140	0	0	+0.09	−10.7	1	1	1	+2.5	0	0	0.0
9	2023-11-05	vs TB	W 39–37	30/41	470	5	0	+0.54	+143.6	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0
10	2023-11-12	@ CIN	W 30–27	23/39	356	1	1	+0.23	+68.5	1	0	0	−3.7	0	0	0.0
11	2023-11-19	vs ARI	W 21–16	27/37	336	2	3	+0.09	+4.9	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0
12	2023-11-26	vs JAX	L 21–24	26/36	304	2	0	+0.08	+15.7	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0
13	2023-12-03	vs DEN	W 22–17	16/27	274	1	0	−0.10	−0.4	3	6	0	+2.4	0	0	0.0
14	2023-12-10	@ NYJ	L 6–30	10/23	91	0	0	−0.45	−31.7	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0
17	2023-12-31	vs TEN	W 26–3	24/32	213	1	0	+0.09	+9.3	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0
18	2024-01-06	@ IND	W 23–19	20/26	264	2	0	+0.45	+53.3	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0
P19	2024-01-13	vs CLE	W 45–14	16/21	274	3	0	+0.73	+54.7	1	1	0	−0.6	0	0	0.0
P20	2024-01-20	@ BAL	L 10–34	19/33	175	0	0	−0.14	+3.2	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0