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Gardner Minshew

QB·Arizona Cardinals·#15·6'1"·225 lb·7th year·Washington State
Round 6, pick 178 in 2019
Updated November 7, 2026
77.1
Model Score
Down from 81.5 last year
Trade value ·a 7th

Gardner Minshew has 188 passing yards, 3 touchdown passes and 0 interceptions in 1 game for the Arizona Cardinals this season through Week 8, 19.5 PPR points a game (updated November 7, 2026).

Model Score by season

Down 4.4 from last season.

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How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →

Comps

The players whose size, testing and production looked most like his at the same point in their careers. The percent is how close.

Plays like: Dorian Thompson-Robinson, Kent Graham, Ryan Lindley. Built like: Sam Ehlinger, Brian Hoyer, Mark Sanchez. Coming out: Josh Rosen, Matt Barkley, Cooper Rush.

Of his 20 closest coming out: 2 stars, 2 starters, 13 backups, 3 didn't stick.

Gardner Minshew Props This Weekat SEA Sun Nov 8

MarketLineOverUnder
Passing yards196.5-115 Bovada-115 Bovada
Rushing yards4.5-120 Bovada-110 Bovada

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Gardner Minshew Injury StatusNot listed

Gardner Minshew is not on the injury report as of Nov 6. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.

This season · 1 games

Pass Yds188
Pass TD3
INT0
Comp %85.0%
Rush Yds0
Rush TD0
Fantasy PPG19.5
Total EPA14.7
EPA / dropback0.698
Time to throw2.53s
Avg air yards6.7
Aggressiveness4.3%
Longest comp (air)36 yd

19.5 fantasy points a game, 20 PPR on the season. Every game on the Game Log, every season on Career. Advanced numbers are EPA and Next Gen Stats.

Contract2026 cap

2026 Cap Hit
$5.7M
APY
$5.8M/yr
Guaranteed at Signing
$5.1M
Years on Deal
1
Signed
2026
Est. Value
$3.9M/yr

Every year of the deal, the dead money and what a cut or trade saves on the Contract tab.

Draft & College

Round 6, pick 178 to the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2019, out of Washington State (Pac-12). He went about where consensus had him.

Taken#178
Consensus board122nd
Our college model#64 QB

In college, 2016-2018, 30 games: 8,095 pass yds, 61 TD, 17 INT, 63.5% completions. Coming out: 4.97s 40 yd, 33.5" vertical, 116" broad, 7.14s 3-cone, 4.45s shuttle.

Recruited

Class of 2016 · Quarterback · Junior college: Northwest Mississippi C.C., Brandon, MS

Recruiting sites
★★★★★
No. 187 in the nation. Composite 0.8200, the recruiting sites' average
Committed to

His full list of offers is not on our record yet; offers for the 2016 class are still being added.

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