Sam Darnold

QB · NYJ/CAR/SF/MIN/SEA · 2018–2026

Born June 5, 1997 · College USC · Drafted 2018, round 1, pick 3 (NYJ) · 6-3, 225 lb

Pro Bowl ×2 (2024, 2025)

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)
2018	NYJ	13	239	414	57.7	2,865	17	15	474	−0.009	+0.035−0.059 to +0.129	−0.00	−0.02	−4.6	42.6	5.25	33
2019	NYJ	13	273	441	61.9	3,024	19	13	514	−0.013	+0.031−0.061 to +0.123	+0.17	+0.86	+1.0	43.4	5.52	30
2020	NYJ	12	217	364	59.6	2,208	9	11	443	−0.127	−0.012−0.108 to +0.083	+0.03	+0.13	−1.9	41.8	4.19	38
2021	CAR	12	243	406	59.9	2,527	9	13	486	−0.116	−0.030−0.123 to +0.063	−0.12	−0.58	−4.9	42.6	4.35	34
2022	CAR	6	82	140	58.6	1,143	7	3	167	+0.197	−0.019−0.135 to +0.097	+0.25	+0.42	+4.9	49.1	7.28	–
2023	SF	6	28	46	60.9	297	2	1	58	+0.067	−0.114−0.242 to +0.015	−0.64	−0.37	−1.4	51.7	4.94	–
2024	MIN	17	361	545	66.2	4,319	35	12	668	+0.146	+0.145+0.060 to +0.230	+0.54	+3.58	+3.9	50.7	7.00	15
2024 playoffs	MIN	1	25	40	62.5	245	1	1	52	−0.478		−0.76	−0.40	−5.0	40.4	2.82	13
2025	SEA	17	323	477	67.7	4,048	25	14	544	+0.171	+0.145+0.054 to +0.235	+0.27	+1.45	+5.2	52.9	7.46	10
2025 playoffs	SEA	3	56	91	61.5	672	5	0	101	+0.276		+0.57	+0.58	+2.1	51.5	7.43	2
2026	SEA	7	127	211	60.2	1,478	10	9	246	−0.014	+0.036−0.073 to +0.145	−0.28	−0.69	−2.5	44.7	5.13	25
Career	SEA	103	1,893	3,044	62.2	21,909	133	91	3,600	+0.028		+0.13	+4.78	+0.1	46.3	5.77	–

Rushing

Season	Team	G	Carries	Yds	TD	YPC	EPA/carry	Success %	Rush EPA	Rush WPA (wins)
2018	NYJ	13	16	33	1	2.06	−0.224	50.0	−3.6	−0.05
2019	NYJ	13	9	12	2	1.33	−0.400	20.0	−4.0	−0.01
2020	NYJ	12	4	15	1	3.75	+0.638	100.0	+2.6	+0.11
2021	CAR	12	17	46	5	2.71	−0.300	52.9	−5.1	+0.01
2022	CAR	6	14	28	2	2.00	−0.311	42.9	−4.4	−0.11
2023	SF	6	5	13	1	2.60	+0.084	60.0	+0.4	−0.00
2024	MIN	17	17	11	1	0.65	−0.542	52.6	−10.3	−0.15
2024 playoffs	MIN	1	2	3	0	1.50	+1.403	100.0	+2.8	+0.00
2025	SEA	17	8	19	0	2.38	−0.795	62.5	−6.4	−0.06
2025 playoffs	SEA	3	3	-11	0	-3.67	−1.173	0.0	−3.5	−0.03
Career	SEA	103	90	177	13	1.97	−0.330	50.5	−30.7	−0.26

Defence

Counting stats from the play-by-play credits (QB hits from 2006, tackles for loss and passes defensed from 2009).

Season	Team	G	Tackles	Forced fumbles
2018	NYJ	13	1	0
2024	MIN	17	2	0
2025	SEA	17	2	1
Career	SEA	103	5	1

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
2024	Pro Bowl
2025	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
2018	NYJ	13	796	99.4	–	–
2019	NYJ	13	822	99.5	–	–
2020	NYJ	12	726	99.5	–	–
2021	CAR	12	762	93.2	–	–
2022	CAR	6	371	99.7	–	–
2023	SF	8	116	22.4	–	–
2024	MIN	17	1,085	99.6	–	–
2024 playoffs	MIN	1	72	100.0	–	–
2025	SEA	17	1,005	96.7	–	–
2025 playoffs	SEA	3	186	96.9	–	–

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 %
2018	474	32.2	−0.19	+0.22	2.91	–	–	–	–	–
2019	514	33.9	−0.25	+0.26	2.92	–	–	–	–	–
2020	443	36.0	−0.26	+0.07	2.85	–	–	–	–	–
2021	486	34.5	−0.28	+0.08	2.88	–	–	–	–	–
2022	167	35.0	−0.02	+0.41	3.24	31.1	+0.29	33.5	+0.19	4.4
2023	58	29.3	−0.50	+0.30	2.78	13.8	−0.44	19.0	+0.41	2.2
2024	668	33.8	−0.35	+0.40	2.92	27.5	+0.19	23.5	+0.21	3.3
2025	544	27.8	−0.42	+0.40	2.73	25.4	+0.48	32.5	+0.08	3.8
2026	246	–	–	–	–	24.8	−0.03	35.4	+0.10	3.8

Game logs

2026 game log (7 games)

2026 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp/Att	Pass yds	TD	INT	EPA/db	Pass WPA (WP pts)
1	2026-09-09	vs NE	W 13–10	1/2	13	0	0	−0.69	−6.6
3	2026-09-27	@ WAS	L 31–33	31/45	379	4	2	+0.14	+3.3
4	2026-10-04	vs LAC	W 30–23	13/22	168	2	1	−0.16	−10.3
5	2026-10-11	vs SF	L 29–32	18/29	195	1	2	−0.28	−37.0
6	2026-10-15	@ DEN	L 14–17 OT	27/49	278	0	2	−0.10	−44.3
7	2026-10-25	vs KC	W 20–3	20/28	257	1	1	+0.51	+29.3
8	2026-11-02	vs CHI	L 17–34	17/34	188	2	1	−0.09	−3.3

2025 game log (20 games)

2025 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp/Att	Pass yds	TD	INT	EPA/db	Pass WPA (WP pts)	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Tackles
1	2025-09-07	vs SF	L 13–17	16/22	150	0	0	−0.10	−39.2	1	9	+0.7	0
2	2025-09-14	@ PIT	W 31–17	22/33	295	2	2	+0.06	−2.1	0	0	0.0	0
3	2025-09-21	vs NO	W 44–13	14/18	218	2	0	+0.94	+9.2	0	0	0.0	0
4	2025-09-25	@ ARI	W 23–20	18/26	242	1	0	+0.47	+51.4	0	0	0.0	0
5	2025-10-05	vs TB	L 35–38	28/34	341	4	1	+0.60	+46.4	0	0	0.0	0
6	2025-10-12	@ JAX	W 20–12	16/27	295	2	0	+0.38	+18.7	0	0	0.0	0
7	2025-10-20	vs HOU	W 27–19	17/31	213	1	1	−0.10	−3.0	0	0	0.0	0
9	2025-11-02	@ WAS	W 38–14	21/24	330	4	1	+0.89	+27.2	0	0	0.0	0
10	2025-11-09	vs ARI	W 44–22	10/12	178	1	1	+0.42	+11.1	1	0	−5.2	0
11	2025-11-16	@ LA	L 19–21	29/44	279	0	4	−0.25	−6.2	1	3	+0.6	1
12	2025-11-23	@ TEN	W 30–24	16/26	244	2	0	+0.33	+5.2	0	0	0.0	0
13	2025-11-30	vs MIN	W 26–0	14/26	128	0	0	−0.23	−13.9	0	0	0.0	0
14	2025-12-07	@ ATL	W 37–9	20/30	249	3	1	+0.33	−4.5	1	3	+0.3	0
15	2025-12-14	vs IND	W 18–16	22/34	271	0	0	+0.09	+30.3	1	2	+0.1	0
16	2025-12-18	vs LA	W 38–37 OT	22/33	270	2	2	−0.10	+21.0	1	2	+0.0	0
17	2025-12-28	@ CAR	W 27–10	18/27	147	1	1	−0.27	−19.7	1	0	−1.4	1
18	2026-01-03	@ SF	W 13–3	20/26	198	0	0	+0.29	+13.1	1	0	−1.4	0
P20	2026-01-17	vs SF	W 41–6	12/17	124	1	0	+0.36	+4.9	0	0	0.0	0
P21	2026-01-25	vs LA	W 31–27	25/36	346	3	0	+0.48	+56.7	2	-5	−2.0	0
P22	2026-02-08	@ NE	W 29–13	19/38	202	1	0	+0.03	−3.8	1	-6	−1.5	0

2024 game log (18 games)

2024 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	Tackles
1	2024-09-08	@ NYG	W 28–6	19/24	208	2	1	+0.41	+27.6	1	1	0	+0.3	0
2	2024-09-15	vs SF	W 23–17	17/25	268	2	1	+0.08	+20.1	1	0	0	−1.8	1
3	2024-09-22	vs HOU	W 34–7	17/28	181	4	0	+0.14	+21.2	0	0	0	0.0	0
4	2024-09-29	@ GB	W 31–29	20/28	275	3	1	+0.35	+39.6	1	-5	0	−1.4	0
5	2024-10-06	vs NYJ	W 23–17	14/31	179	0	1	−0.08	−4.9	2	3	0	−5.8	1
7	2024-10-20	vs DET	L 29–31	22/27	259	1	1	+0.01	−7.2	0	0	0	0.0	0
8	2024-10-24	@ LA	L 20–30	18/25	240	2	0	+0.30	+22.9	1	2	0	+0.5	0
9	2024-11-03	vs IND	W 21–13	28/34	290	3	2	−0.14	−6.9	2	4	0	+2.1	0
10	2024-11-10	@ JAX	W 12–7	24/38	241	0	3	+0.01	−23.4	2	2	0	+1.4	0
11	2024-11-17	@ TEN	W 23–13	20/32	246	2	0	+0.37	+34.8	4	5	1	−2.6	0
12	2024-11-24	@ CHI	W 30–27 OT	22/34	330	2	0	+0.31	+67.0	2	-1	0	−1.5	0
13	2024-12-01	vs ARI	W 23–22	21/31	235	2	0	+0.11	+26.9	0	0	0	0.0	0
14	2024-12-08	vs ATL	W 42–21	22/28	347	5	0	+0.66	+63.5	1	0	0	−0.2	0
15	2024-12-16	vs CHI	W 30–12	24/40	231	1	1	+0.12	+3.3	0	0	0	0.0	0
16	2024-12-22	@ SEA	W 27–24	22/35	246	3	0	+0.27	+51.9	0	0	0	−1.1	0
17	2024-12-29	vs GB	W 27–25	33/43	377	3	1	+0.26	+60.4	0	0	0	0.0	0
18	2025-01-05	@ DET	L 9–31	18/41	166	0	0	−0.42	−38.5	0	0	0	0.0	0
P19	2025-01-13	@ LA	L 9–27	25/40	245	1	1	−0.48	−39.7	2	3	0	+2.8	0

2023 game log (6 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
5	2023-10-08	vs DAL	W 42–10	1/1	1	0	0	−1.06	−0.0	0	0	0	0.0
10	2023-11-12	@ JAX	W 34–3	1/2	6	0	0	−1.21	+0.0	0	0	0	0.0
15	2023-12-17	@ ARI	W 45–29	2/3	20	0	0	+0.20	+0.0	0	0	0	0.0
16	2023-12-25	vs BAL	L 19–33	8/14	81	1	1	+0.12	−2.7	0	0	0	0.0
17	2023-12-31	@ WAS	W 27–10	–	0	0	0	−1.71	−0.0	0	0	0	0.0
18	2024-01-07	vs LA	L 20–21	16/25	189	1	0	+0.19	−34.3	5	13	1	+0.4

2022 game log (6 games)

2022 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
12	2022-11-27	vs DEN	W 23–10	11/19	164	1	0	+0.25	+4.5	1	2	1	+1.0
14	2022-12-11	@ SEA	W 30–24	14/24	120	1	0	+0.02	−1.2	1	2	0	−0.5
15	2022-12-18	vs PIT	L 16–24	14/22	225	1	0	+0.40	+16.2	1	-1	0	−1.0
16	2022-12-24	vs DET	W 37–23	15/22	250	1	0	+0.60	+19.9	5	20	1	+2.5
17	2023-01-01	@ TB	L 24–30	23/35	341	3	1	+0.26	+31.1	3	0	0	−7.8
18	2023-01-08	@ NO	W 10–7	5/15	43	0	2	−0.51	−28.2	3	5	0	+1.5

2021 game log (12 games)

2021 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	2021-09-12	vs NYJ	W 19–14	24/35	279	1	0	+0.04	+15.9	2	5	1	−2.4
2	2021-09-19	vs NO	W 26–7	26/38	305	2	1	+0.30	+45.1	0	0	0	0.0
3	2021-09-23	@ HOU	W 24–9	23/34	304	0	0	+0.37	+23.0	4	10	2	+2.8
4	2021-10-03	@ DAL	L 28–36	26/39	301	2	2	+0.05	+7.0	4	14	2	+1.6
5	2021-10-10	vs PHI	L 18–21	21/37	177	1	3	−0.41	−50.0	0	0	0	0.0
6	2021-10-17	vs MIN	L 28–34 OT	17/41	207	1	1	−0.15	−33.4	0	0	0	0.0
7	2021-10-24	@ NYG	L 3–25	16/25	112	0	1	−0.39	−40.8	0	0	0	0.0
8	2021-10-31	@ ATL	W 19–13	13/24	129	0	0	+0.24	+23.6	4	15	0	+1.2
9	2021-11-07	vs NE	L 6–24	16/33	172	0	3	−0.70	−36.0	0	0	0	0.0
16	2021-12-26	vs TB	L 6–32	15/32	190	0	0	−0.25	+2.5	0	0	0	0.0
17	2022-01-02	@ NO	L 10–18	17/26	132	0	1	−0.39	−22.8	1	1	0	+0.2
18	2022-01-09	@ TB	L 17–41	29/42	219	2	1	−0.14	+7.5	2	1	0	−8.4

2020 game log (12 games)

2020 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	2020-09-13	@ BUF	L 17–27	21/33	215	1	1	−0.06	−11.8	0	0	0	0.0
2	2020-09-20	vs SF	L 13–31	21/32	179	1	0	+0.04	+5.8	0	0	0	0.0
3	2020-09-27	@ IND	L 7–36	17/29	168	1	3	−0.55	−5.6	0	0	0	0.0
4	2020-10-01	vs DEN	L 28–37	23/42	230	0	0	−0.05	−13.7	1	3	0	+0.5
7	2020-10-25	vs BUF	L 10–18	12/23	120	0	2	−0.28	−11.8	0	0	0	0.0
8	2020-11-01	@ KC	L 9–35	18/29	133	0	0	−0.12	−0.1	0	0	0	0.0
12	2020-11-29	vs MIA	L 3–20	16/27	197	0	2	−0.39	−8.9	0	0	0	0.0
13	2020-12-06	vs LV	L 28–31	14/23	186	2	1	−0.08	−6.4	1	4	1	+1.1
14	2020-12-13	@ SEA	L 3–40	14/26	132	0	0	−0.14	+0.2	0	0	0	0.0
15	2020-12-20	@ LA	W 23–20	22/31	207	1	0	+0.11	+52.5	0	0	0	0.0
16	2020-12-27	vs CLE	W 23–16	16/32	175	2	0	−0.01	+8.1	1	5	0	+0.4
17	2021-01-03	@ NE	L 14–28	23/34	266	1	2	−0.03	+4.2	1	3	0	+0.6

2019 game log (13 games)

2019 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	2019-09-08	vs BUF	L 16–17	28/41	175	1	0	−0.12	−68.2	1	0	0	−1.2
6	2019-10-13	vs DAL	W 24–22	23/32	338	2	1	+0.31	+38.9	1	2	0	−0.2
7	2019-10-21	vs NE	L 0–33	11/32	86	0	4	−0.74	−8.5	0	0	0	0.0
8	2019-10-27	@ JAX	L 15–29	21/30	218	2	3	−0.27	−12.7	0	0	0	0.0
9	2019-11-03	@ MIA	L 18–26	27/38	260	1	1	+0.02	−9.4	0	0	0	0.0
10	2019-11-10	vs NYG	W 34–27	19/30	230	1	0	+0.30	+38.4	1	2	1	+1.0
11	2019-11-17	@ WAS	W 34–17	19/30	293	4	1	+0.32	+15.7	0	0	0	0.0
12	2019-11-24	vs LV	W 34–3	20/29	315	2	0	+0.42	+37.0	1	4	1	+1.0
13	2019-12-01	@ CIN	L 6–22	28/48	239	0	0	−0.23	−25.4	0	0	0	0.0
14	2019-12-08	vs MIA	W 22–21	20/35	270	2	1	+0.24	+55.0	2	4	0	−1.3
15	2019-12-12	@ BAL	L 21–42	18/32	218	2	1	−0.24	−0.4	0	0	0	0.0
16	2019-12-22	vs PIT	W 16–10	16/26	183	1	0	−0.08	+0.2	2	0	0	−2.4
17	2019-12-29	@ BUF	W 13–6	23/36	199	1	1	+0.09	+25.9	1	0	0	−1.0

2018 game log (13 games)

2018 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	Tackles
1	2018-09-10	@ DET	W 48–17	16/21	198	2	1	+0.31	+34.8	1	6	0	+1.1	0
2	2018-09-16	vs MIA	L 12–20	25/41	334	1	2	−0.09	−30.6	1	0	0	−0.8	0
3	2018-09-20	@ CLE	L 17–21	15/31	169	0	2	−0.06	−35.3	0	0	0	0.0	0
4	2018-09-30	@ JAX	L 12–31	17/34	167	1	0	−0.24	−10.1	0	0	0	0.0	0
5	2018-10-07	vs DEN	W 34–16	10/22	198	3	1	+0.17	+15.0	2	6	0	+1.2	0
6	2018-10-14	vs IND	W 42–34	24/29	280	2	1	+0.32	+13.2	0	0	0	0.0	1
7	2018-10-21	vs MIN	L 17–37	17/42	206	1	3	−0.50	−31.7	4	2	1	−4.3	0
8	2018-10-28	@ CHI	L 10–24	14/29	153	1	0	+0.04	−3.1	3	4	0	−0.8	0
9	2018-11-04	@ MIA	L 6–13	21/39	229	0	4	−0.35	−60.8	0	0	0	0.0	0
14	2018-12-09	@ BUF	W 27–23	16/24	170	1	1	+0.27	+27.4	1	9	0	−0.2	0
15	2018-12-15	vs HOU	L 22–29	24/38	253	2	0	+0.23	+30.6	2	3	0	+0.0	0
16	2018-12-23	vs GB	L 38–44 OT	24/35	341	3	0	+0.47	+49.8	2	3	0	+0.3	0
17	2018-12-30	@ NE	L 3–38	16/28	167	0	0	−0.23	−1.3	0	0	0	0.0	0