Ben Gulbranson is a quarterback who has not played this season; the last season with a stat line was 2025, at Stanford.
Gulbranson operates within the system without forcing anything. Played for three head coaches at two programs in five seasons: Jonathan Smith, Trent Bray and Frank Reich. On tape: 444 passing yards and 2 passing TD against San José State, Week 5, 2025.
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
40.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 12.8% conversion-per-dropback — 58.3% 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. checkdown by design
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Stanford | 148 | 260 | 56.9% | 1,813 | 7.0 | 9 | 10 | 119.2 | 44 |
| 2024 | Oregon State | 78 | 128 | 60.9% | 943 | 7.4 | 4 | 4 | 126.9 | 56 |
| 2023 | Oregon State | 17 | 28 | 60.7% | 186 | 6.6 | 1 | 1 | 121.2 | -- |
| 2022 | Oregon State | 121 | 195 | 62.1% | 1,455 | 7.5 | 9 | 5 | 134.8 | 49 |
| 2020 | Oregon State | 6 | 9 | 66.7% | 64 | 7.1 | 1 | 0 | 163.1 | -- |
| Career | 370 | 620 | 59.7% | 4,461 | 7.2 | 24 | 20 | 126.4 | 48 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Stanford | 33 | −201 | −6.1 | 0 | 12 |
| 2024 | Oregon State | 14 | −7 | −0.5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2023 | Oregon State | 5 | −12 | −2.4 | 0 | 9 |
| 2022 | Oregon State | 40 | 52 | 1.3 | 5 | 12 |
| 2020 | Oregon State | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 92 | −168 | −1.8 | 6 | 12 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 9 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 20-23@ Hawai'i | 15/30 | 109 | 0 | 1 | 3.6 | 14.0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 3-27@ BYU | 17/32 | 142 | 0 | 2 | 4.4 | 6.7 | |
| Wk 3 | W 30-20vs Boston College | 13/22 | 186 | 1 | 0 | 8.5 | 55.4 | |
| Wk 4 | L 20-48@ Virginia | 20/29 | 286 | 2 | 0 | 9.9 | 54.4 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 5 | W 30-29vs San José State | 29/43 | 444 | 2 | 0 | 10.3 | 56.4 | Season-high 444 yds |
| Wk 7 | L 10-34@ SMU | 22/40 | 278 | 1 | 1 | 7.0 | 15.4 | |
| Wk 8 | W 20-13vs Florida State | 6/13 | 90 | 1 | 1 | 6.9 | 57.2 | |
| Wk 9 | L 7-42@ No. 9 Miami | 9/21 | 50 | 1 | 2 | 2.4 | 19.8 | |
| Wk 10 | L 20-35vs Pittsburgh | 17/30 | 228 | 1 | 3 | 7.6 | 29.9 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Total | 148/260 | 1813 | 9 | 10 | 7.0 | — |
| Best by our grade | at Virginia | L 20-48 · Graded great · 286 yds, 2 TD, 0 INT · Rush 6 for -45 · Sacked 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest by our grade | at Miami | L 7-42 · Graded rough · 50 yds, 1 TD, 2 INT · Rush 2 for -20 · Interceptions cost about 17 points of win chance · Sacked 2 |
| Biggest game | at Miami | No. 9 at kickoff · L 7-42 · Graded rough · 50 yds, 1 TD, 2 INT · Rush 2 for -20 · Interceptions cost about 17 points of win chance · Sacked 2 |
| Best play | San José State | Completion, touchdown, Q2 4:06 · Win chance 52% to 78% |
| Costliest play | at Hawai'i | Interception, Q4 6:01 · Win chance 78% to 57% |
Pass Profile · True throw depth (charted plays)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 246 passing plays (145 completions) against the box score's 260 attempts (148 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
4.67169 of 206 QBsSack rate
8.8%183 of 206 QBsSacked on 8.8% of dropbacks (183 of 206) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (169 of 206).
Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.
Behind LOS · Negative air yds
Short · 0–9 air yds
Middle · 10–19 air yds
Deep · 20+ air yds
Overall 56.9% completion on 260 attempts · 71% of attempts thrown 0–9 air yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2025 baseline
No situation moves him more than 28 percentile points from his baseline.
Deltas are vs. this player’s own season baseline, never a league average. League sack rate by down is shown as context because sack attribution isn’t incompletion-denominated.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 237 | 1.2 | 8.3 | 1.0 |
| Road5g | 173 | 0.8 | 5.5 | 1.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 241 | 1.0 | 7.3 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 123 | 1.0 | 5.6 | 2.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Frank Reich
Pass share
50.4%
391 pass / 385 run
Plays / game
64.7
12 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2025
About as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Three-star recruit. Now #116 at the position.
2026 outlook
Outside shot for All-ACC
Based on 2025: #16 of 17 ACC QBs
A base rate for the rank, not a forecast of this player: 22% of returning players who ranked #11–20 at their position in their conference made an all-conference team the next season (95% confidence interval 19–25%).
A stat line in 26 games over five seasons.
The role got bigger.
Coaching lineage · 2020–2025
3 coachesPlayed for 3 head coaches at 2 schools: Jonathan Smith, Trent Bray and Frank Reich.
