| Ty Thompson | |
| School: | Tulane Green Wave |
| Currentnumber: | 7 |
| Currentposition: | Quarterback |
| Class: | Junior |
| Birth Date: | 2 February 2003[1] |
| Heightft: | 6 |
| Heightin: | 4 |
| Weight Lb: | 220 |
| Highschool: | Mesquite (Gilbert, Arizona) |
| Pastschools: | |
| Espn: | 4432774 |
Ty Thompson (born February 2, 2003) is an American football quarterback for the Tulane Green Wave.
Thompson attended Mesquite High School in Gilbert, Arizona.[2] As a senior in 2020, he passed for 3,431 yards and 34 touchdowns. He won numerous awards that season, including the All-American Bowl Offensive Player of the Year, Maxwell Football Club Offensive Player of the Year, Ed Doherty Award and was the Arizona Gatorade Football Player of the Year.[3] [4] [5] For his high school career, Thompson passed for 9,891 yards with 100 touchdowns and rushed for 1,145 yards with 20 touchdowns. A five-star recruit by Rivals.com, Thompson committed to the University of Oregon to play college football.[6] [7] He was the highest rated quarterback recruit to sign with Oregon.[8]
Thompson competed with Anthony Brown for the starting job his true freshman year at Oregon in 2021.[9] Brown won the job, with Thompson appearing in three games as a backup and taking a redshirt. For the season, he completed seven of 15 passes for 87 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions. In 2022 he competed with Bo Nix to be starter, with Nix winning the competition.[10] [11] He appeared in seven games as a backup, completing 11 of 20 passes for 72 yards with two interceptions. Thompson returned to Oregon as Nix' backup in 2023. He entered the transfer portal on December 11, 2023. [12]
On January 5, 2024, Thompson committed to play for Tulane.[13]
| Season | Games | Passing | Rushing | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | GS | Record | Comp | Att | Pct | Yards | Avg | TD | Int | Rate | Att | Yards | Avg | TD | ||
| Oregon Ducks | ||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | 3 | 0 | 0−0 | 7 | 15 | 46.7 | 87 | 5.8 | 2 | 1 | 126.1 | 3 | 10 | 3.3 | 0 | |
| 2022 | 7 | 0 | 0−0 | 11 | 20 | 55.0 | 72 | 3.6 | 0 | 2 | 65.2 | 4 | -2 | -0.5 | 0 | |
| 2023 | 7 | 0 | 0−0 | 24 | 31 | 77.4 | 297 | 9.6 | 4 | 1 | 194.0 | 8 | 48 | 6.0 | 0 | |
| Tulane Green Wave | ||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0−0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Career[14] | 17 | 0 | 0−0 | 42 | 66 | 63.6 | 456 | 6.9 | 6 | 4 | 139.6 | 15 | 56 | 3.7 | 0 | |