DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – It was announced Tuesday, February 9, that redshirt senior quarterback Quentin Williams finished the 2015 football season as the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) statistical champion in Passing Efficiency Rating.
Williams, a four-year letter winner under center for the Wildcats, started all games in 2015, suiting up for first-year head coach Terry Sims. His previous three seasons, he shared quarterback duties with several different signal callers.
Williams enjoyed, statistically, his most successful season in 2015.
In leading the FCS in passing efficiency, he accumulated the highest average for a Wildcats performer since moving to Division I. Overall, he owned a pass efficiency rating of 187.2 on the campaign.
He also finished the season third in the FCS for passing yards per completion (16.45), tied for 23rd in passing touchdowns (19), tied for 39th in points responsible for (134), 40th in passing yards (2,171), tied for 40th in points responsible per game (12.2) and 46th in passing yards per game (196.9). In addition, Williams was just the second quarterback since Bernard Hawk to pass for over 2,000 yards in a season, matching Matt Johnson who accomplished the task in 2010.
In total, he also became just the second quarterback in B-CU's 35-year Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference history to lead the league in passing yards, as the previous was Todd Walker in 1995.
Two weeks ago, Williams signed a professional contract to play for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League.
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