#13

Anthony Brown

Senior quarterback for Oregon. 2021: 2,989 passing yards, 18 TD, 7 INT.

QB · Oregon · Sr. · #13

6′2″ · 226 lb · Cliffwood, NJ

CFB Index 66 · #27 of 126 QBsHigh confidenceWatch-list name (model)Oregon 2021 alumnus

The story

4 quarterback for Oregon. 2021: 2,989 passing yards, 18 TD, 7 INT.

The record fills in as he plays.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Five seasons at Oregon, 7,891 passing yards — his college career is complete.

Career arc

Recruit

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No recruit profile

CFB

College

2 teams

2017–2021

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Coaching lineage · 2017–2021

3 coaches

2017

Willie Taggart

Oregon

2018–2020

Mario Cristobal

Oregon

era →

2021

Bryan McClendon

Oregon

era →

Played under 3 different head coaches: Willie Taggart, Mario Cristobal, and Bryan McClendon. Multi-era developmental context.

2021 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2017Boston College7-6HC: Steve Addazio · Run-heavy, fast tempo

2018Boston College7-5HC: Steve Addazio · Run-heavy

2019Boston College6-7HC: Steve Addazio · Run-heavy

2020Oregon4-3HC: Mario Cristobal · Run-leaning

2021Oregon10-4HC: Bryan McClendon · Run-leaning

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

66Quality starter #27 of 126?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: rush yards (94th percentile). Strength: rush tds (93rd percentile). Concern: fumbles lost (14th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Interception rate#38 / 167 · 78th pct

1.4%

Success rate#44 / 167 · 74th pct

49.8%

Sack rate#59 / 167 · 65th pct

5.3%

EPA / dropback#81 / 167 · 52nd pct

0.28

Explosive rate#82 / 167 · 51st pct

9.7%

Box-score rates (8)

Rush yards#11 / 169 · 94th pct

658

Rush TDs#10 / 169 · 93rd pct

Pass yards#35 / 169 · 80th pct

2989

Completion %#55 / 169 · 67th pct

64.1%

Pass TDs#57 / 169 · 64th pct

Yards / att#76 / 169 · 54th pct

7.7

Interceptions#87 / 169 · 42nd pct

Fumbles lost#125 / 159 · 14th pct

Season trend

EPA / dropback— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Success rate— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Explosive rate— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Sack rate— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Interception rate— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season. Most bars are box-score rates; EPA / success-rate bars are computed from real play-by-play (offense only — no defensive EPA model exists yet).

Passing profile

Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)

Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from

243/384 (63.3%) · 18 TD · 7 INT

384 of 390 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

7.0981 of 204 QBs

Sack rate

5.3%79 of 204 QBs

Rarely sacked (79 of 204 QBs) and still 81 of 204 in Adjusted ANY/A.

Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.

Short

0–9 yds

54%of completions

131 comp5.0 yds avg2 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

32%of completions

77 comp13.8 yds avg4 TD

Deep

20+ yds

14%of completions

35 comp30.1 yds avg6 TD

Overall 63.3% completion on 384 attempts · 35 deep completions averaging 30.1 yds.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2021 season · 13 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home7g	213	1.6	8.6	0.0
Road6g	199	0.7	6.5	1.0

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-76g	199	1.2	8.1	0.2
Weeks 8+7g	213	1.1	7.3	0.7

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Dan Lanning

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2021

Watch-list name (model)

Our Heisman model has him inside the top 25; he is not on a published award watch list yet.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

66 · #27 of 126 QBs

Career stats

Season	Team
2021	Oregon	250	390	64.1%	2,989	7.7	18	7	140.1	50	--	--
2020	Oregon	15	23	65.2%	164	7.1	2	0	153.8	--	--	--
2019	Boston College	81	137	59.1%	1,250	9.1	9	2	154.5	--	--	--
2018	Boston College	158	285	55.4%	2,121	7.4	20	9	134.8	--	--	--
2017	Boston College	134	258	51.9%	1,367	5.3	11	9	103.5	--	--	--
Career		638	1,093	58.4%	7,891	7.2	60	27	132.2	50	--	--

Season	Team
2021	Oregon	151	658	4.4	9	--
2020	Oregon	7	40	5.7	2	--
2019	Boston College	33	128	3.9	2	--
2018	Boston College	54	88	1.6	1	--
2017	Boston College	42	210	5.0	1	--
Career		287	1,124	3.9	15	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2021

W 35–28

at Ohio State

236 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 77.5 · 65 rush yds (10 car)

Edged out Ohio State on the road in a shootout.

With T. Snee — 39 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 48 LONG · C. Verdell — 161 rush yds (20 car) · 2 TD

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 1 · Oklahoma · 2&9 · Q3 · EPA +6.22Anthony Brown pass complete to Dont'e Thornton for 66 yds for a TD, (Camden Lewis KICK)
Week 13 · Oregon State · 3&3 · Q1 · EPA +5.06Devon Williams 50 Yd pass from Anthony Brown (Camden Lewis Kick)
Week 4 · Arizona · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA +5.05Anthony Brown pass complete to Jaylon Redd for 63 yds for a TD, (Camden Lewis KICK)
Week 1 · Oklahoma · 4&5 · Q3 · EPA +4.91Anthony Brown pass complete to Kris Hutson for 34 yds for a TD, (Camden Lewis KICK)
Week 5 · Stanford · 3&6 · Q4 · EPA +4.48Anthony Brown pass complete to Mycah Pittman for 66 yds to the Stanf 10 for a 1ST down
Week 5 · Stanford · 4&1 · Q2 · EPA -4.21Anthony Brown run for a loss of 1 yard to the Stanf 2
Week 1 · Fresno State · 4&2 · Q4 · EPA +4.15Anthony Brown run for 30 yds for a TD, (Camden Lewis KICK)
Week 9 · Colorado · 3&10 · Q2 · EPA +3.98Troy Franklin 28 Yd pass from Anthony Brown (Camden Lewis Kick)
Week 8 · UCLA · 2&9 · Q4 · EPA -3.95Anthony Brown pass intercepted, touchback. Jay Shaw return for no gain
Week 8 · UCLA · 2&15 · Q3 · EPA +3.87Anthony Brown pass complete to Mycah Pittman for 29 yds to the UCLA 32 for a 1ST down UCLA Penalty, Personal Foul (15 Yards) to the UCLA 17 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2021 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 31-24vs Fresno State	15/24	172	1	0	7.2	72.2
Wk 2	W 35-28@ Ohio State	17/35	236	2	0	6.7	77.5
Wk 3	W 48-7vs Stony Brook	13/17	150	0	0	8.8	60.4
Wk 4	W 41-19vs Arizona	10/21	206	3	0	9.8	69.4	3 TD passes
Wk 5	L 24-31@ Stanford	14/26	186	0	1	7.2	27.2
Wk 7	W 24-17vs California	20/28	244	1	0	8.7	65.2
Wk 8	W 34-31@ UCLA	29/39	296	0	2	7.6	88.6
Wk 9	W 52-29vs Colorado	25/31	307	3	0	9.9	91.8	Season-high 307 yds
Wk 10	W 26-16@ Washington	10/20	98	1	1	4.9	44.5
Wk 11	W 38-24vs Washington State	17/22	135	1	0	6.1	85.4
Wk 12	L 7-38@ Utah	17/35	231	1	0	6.6	48.8
Wk 13	W 38-29vs Oregon State	23/28	275	2	0	9.8	90.0	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 14	L 10-38@ Utah	13/24	147	0	2	6.1	6.5
Total		223/350	2683	15	6	7.6	63.7

How he plays

Play style

Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

71.1%Completion %

30.6%Conversion/dropback

53.1%Land short of sticks

0INTs

71.1% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 30.6% conversion-per-dropback — 53.1% of completions land short of the sticks.

Where completions land is fact — whether incompletions were aimed deep is intent, not recorded here, so this card counts completions only. ~ our read: checkdown by design