Last confirmed: Miami, 2016. No 2026 box-score games on record.
6′4″ · Los Angeles, CA · Chaminade
Brad Kaaya: QB · Miami · #15.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Brad Kaaya
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. Brad Kaaya has been at Miami through two head coaches in three seasons. One game to point at: 396 passing yards and 4 passing TD against Duke — Week 13, 2016.
Play style
High-percentage passer who protects the ball. Loses the matchup on improvisation.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
54.7% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 29.8% conversion-per-dropback — 41.4% 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
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
1 of the team's 26 inside-the-5 carries (3.8%).
No outlet on our list has written about him by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2016 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 70-3vs Florida A&M | 12/18 | 135 | 4 | 0 | 7.5 | 82.1 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 38-10vs Florida Atlantic | 17/31 | 191 | 0 | 2 | 6.2 | 18.3 | |
| Wk 3 | W 45-10@ App State | 21/27 | 368 | 3 | 1 | 13.6 | 95.6 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | W 35-21@ Georgia Tech | 13/19 | 241 | 1 | 0 | 12.7 | 86.8 | |
| Wk 6 | L 19-20vs No. 23 Florida State | 19/32 | 214 | 2 | 1 | 6.7 | 48.7 | |
| Wk 7 | L 13-20vs North Carolina | 16/31 | 224 | 0 | 0 | 7.2 | 25.1 | |
| Wk 8 | L 16-37@ Virginia Tech | 23/38 | 323 | 2 | 1 | 8.5 | 43.2 | |
| Wk 9 | L 27-30@ Notre Dame | 26/42 | 288 | 1 | 1 | 6.9 | 53.6 | |
| Wk 10 | W 51-28vs Pittsburgh | 32/47 | 356 | 4 | 0 | 7.6 | 84.7 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 11 | W 34-14@ Virginia | 14/29 | 228 | 2 | 1 | 7.9 | 36.9 | |
| Wk 12 | W 27-13@ NC State | 22/38 | 286 | 0 | 0 | 7.5 | 51.5 | |
| Wk 13 | W 40-21vs Duke | 22/35 | 396 | 4 | 0 | 11.3 | 91.3 | Season-high 396 yds |
 Bowl | W 31-14vs No. 14 West Virginia | 24/34 | 282 | 4 | 0 | 8.3 | 80.5 | |
| Total | 261/421 | 3532 | 27 | 7 | 8.4 | — |
Week 10 · 2016
W 51-28
vs Pittsburgh
The plays that mattered most
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 415 passing plays (255 completions) against the box score's 421 attempts (261 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
8.0325 of 193 QBsSack rate
5.6%83 of 193 QBsRarely sacked (83 of 193 QBs) and still 25 of 193 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 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 62.0% completion on 421 attempts · 46 deep completions averaging 36.1 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2016 baseline
No situation moves him more than 11 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
2016 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 253 | 2.3 | 7.8 | 0.5 |
| Road6g | 289 | 1.5 | 9.5 | 0.7 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 236 | 2.0 | 8.9 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 313 | 2.2 | 8.3 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mark Richt
Pass share
50.4%
425 pass / 419 run
Plays / game
64.9
13 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2016
Our Heisman model had this player inside its top 25 in 2016.
How it ended
Three seasons at Miami, 9,972 passing yards — drafted at #215 overall by the Detroit Lions.
His career
He has a stat line in 38 games over 3 seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2016
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Al Golden → Mark Richt. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Where he ended up · NFL
Detroit LionsEntering 10th NFL season
Detroit LionsEntering 10th NFL season
