Year, round & overall pick
2018 · Round 1 · Pick 32
Baltimore Ravens
College: Louisville
HISTORICAL QUARTERBACK PROFILE
Lamar Jackson
Tier 2
Assigned under FindMeMyQB’s published achievement routes and explicit editorial exceptions. This is not an NFL designation or a validated predictive score. Pre-draft evidence is kept separate from NFL accomplishments.
Evidence collection in progress
This profile presents sourced paraphrases where available, not a complete scouting record. Historical republications are labeled. Missing data is not a negative evaluation.
Why Tier 2?
AP MVP in 2019 and 2023; no Super Bowl victory as starting QB through the cutoff, so not Tier 1.
At least 1 AP NFL MVP award OR 3 distinct AP First- or Second-Team All-Pro seasons OR 2 Super Bowl MVP awards.
Evaluation cutoff: end of the 2025 NFL season, including its postseason and awards. The 2026 season is excluded. Future season updates wait until the postseason and awards are complete.
Before the NFL.
Pre-draft reports
Strengths: Exceptional athletic ability and explosive plays as a passer or runner; Fast release and passing velocity. Questions: Not documented in inspected source.
Source context: Contemporaneous team editorial profile quoting Lance Zierlein
Publication: 2018-04-06
Measurements & testing
Source clarifies he threw with quarterbacks but did not perform timed/athletic workout drills. Do not assign a 40 time.
Compare the evidence.
College quarterback starts: at least 25; exact total under review. Sources disagree: Louisville’s career record table lists 33, while a pre-draft Vikings profile reports 34. Louisville’s season biography distinguishes eight quarterback starts in 2015 from a separate running-back start. We are reconciling game-by-game starting lineups rather than choosing a conflicting total. Both reported totals clear the 25-start threshold. Louisville season biography · Contemporaneous Louisville notes · Vikings pre-draft profile.
Shared traits must be supported by comparable records, not inferred from success in the NFL. The core tables compare all 28 players using the same disclosed NCAA-passing and quarterback-start definitions. Mixed-entry measurement sources are labeled individually; film and advanced-stat archives are not complete.
Experience
College starts, seasons, age and development.
Production
Completion rate, passing efficiency, touchdowns and interceptions, with season and competition context.
Background
Recruiting history, scheme, responsibilities and supporting cast.
Physical profile
Source-labeled Combine measurements and testing; missing values shown honestly.
The cohort table contains source-labeled descriptive comparisons. No predictive conclusions have been validated, and missing or conflicting records are not treated as negative results.
Source and interpretation policy.
Scouting summaries are paraphrases of the linked evaluator or reporter, not a consensus or verbatim report. A later republication date is not the original scouting date. This profile does not use an invented numerical scouting grade.
View the full evidence register →College career passing.
57.0% completion · 619/1,086 · 9,043 yards · 69 TD · 27 INT · 2.56:1 TD-to-INT · 8.33 yards/attempt
Louisville, 2015–2017
Includes bowls. Ravens official media guide gives passing totals except INT; NFL.com article confirms27INT.
Age when drafted.
21 years, 109 days on 2018-04-26.
Born 1997-01-07. NFL draft selection date.
Current entry evidence.
6 ft 2.25 in · 216 lb · BMI 27.5. 2018 NFL draft prospect record. Status: source verified.
Official pre-draft record; original measurement event not explicitly identified on table.
NCAA QB starts: 33 (reconstructed; conflicting records report 34). Reconstructed QB-start total: 33 (7 in 2015, 13 in 2016 and 13 in 2017), supported by the Louisville starting-lineup ledger plus bowl start and the Ravens 2018 media guide. Conflicting primary records remain: the Louisville biography says eight QB starts in 2015 and the Vikings profile says 34 career QB starts. Auburn was a non-QB start; sources describe the position differently (WR in the lineup chart, running back in the Louisville biography). We do not treat the 33-versus-34 discrepancy as conclusively resolved. Both totals exceed 25 NCAA QB starts.
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Conflicting start records
The 25-start threshold is confirmed, but the exact total is disputed in primary publications.
Louisville biography: eight freshman QB starts; Auburn described as running back · Vikings prospect profile: 34 QB starts · Ravens 2018 guide: 7 + 13 + 13 starts