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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/Capital-Weight1980 on 2025-04-15 03:14:54+00:00.

I’ve seen a lot of Buffs fans/Deion family lovers bringing up the NCAA record for career completion % to justify CU retiring Sanders’ #2. However, I did some exploring on the website linked above and noticed a few interesting things:

1. Sanders is the only QB in the entire top 15 of Career Completion % to both play less than 30 games and have less than 1000 career pass attempts
2. Because of the lack of games, he benefits from one great year a lot more than the rest of the field. This past year he completed 74% percent of his passes, good for 6th all-time. In 2023 he completed 69.3% which is pretty good but nowhere near the top 100 all-time. For comparison, Bo Nix and Colt McCoy averaged 74.9 and 73.7% respectively in their final two seasons but were weighed down by other years.
3. For those that want to go the “well Sanders threw down the field more” route, all five players who had a better passing % season than Shedeur also had the same or higher Y/A (yards per attempt) and ALL had higher AY/A (air yards per attempt)