Brandon Peters: QB · Illinois · #18.
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Brandon Peters
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Played for four head coaches across five seasons and two programs. On tape: 248 passing yards and 2 passing TD against Iowa, Week 12, 2021.
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
53.8% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 22.6% conversion-per-dropback — 50.0% 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
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
LancasterOnline Oct 25
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Game log · Week-by-week
2021 season · 9 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 30-22vs Nebraska | 3/4 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 8.8 | 22.9 | |
| Wk 3 | L 17-20vs Maryland | 10/26 | 185 | 0 | 1 | 7.1 | 25.6 | |
| Wk 4 | L 9-13@ Purdue | 14/26 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 3.8 | 42.6 | |
| Wk 5 | W 24-14vs Charlotte | 10/19 | 78 | 1 | 0 | 4.1 | 45.2 | |
| Wk 6 | L 0-24vs Wisconsin | 3/7 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1.7 | 35.0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 14-20vs Rutgers | 14/19 | 190 | 2 | 0 | 10.0 | 81.9 | |
| Wk 10 | W 14-6@ Minnesota | 7/9 | 80 | 1 | 0 | 8.9 | 66.8 | |
| Wk 12 | L 23-33@ No. 18 Iowa | 16/36 | 248 | 2 | 2 | 6.9 | 35.6 | Season-high 248 yds |
| Wk 13 | W 47-14vs Northwestern | 14/23 | 242 | 1 | 1 | 10.5 | 80.1 | |
| Total | 91/169 | 1170 | 7 | 4 | 6.9 | — |
Week 9 · 2021
L 14-20
vs Rutgers
190 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 81.9 · 25 rush yds (5 car)
With B. Hayes — 44.4 yards per punt · 8 punts · 3 inside the 20 · I. Williams — 3 rec · 67 yds · 1 TD
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 164 passing plays (89 completions) against the box score's 169 attempts (91 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.74136 of 204 QBsSack rate
7.7%158 of 204 QBsSacked on 7.7% of dropbacks (158 of 204) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (136 of 204).
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 53.8% completion on 169 attempts · 19 deep completions averaging 31.4 yds.
Splits · Per-game
2021 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 124 | 0.7 | 7.0 | 0.3 |
| Road3g | 143 | 1.0 | 6.5 | 0.7 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 82.0 | 0.2 | 5.1 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 190 | 1.5 | 9.1 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bret Bielema
Pass share
41.0%
321 pass / 462 run
Plays / game
65.2
12 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2021
Fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Former four-star. Now #100 at the position.
How it ended
Five seasons, at Michigan and Illinois, 4,163 passing yards — the college career is complete.
A stat line in 33 games over five seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2016–2021
3 coachesPlayed for 3 head coaches at 2 schools: Jim Harbaugh, Lovie Smith and Bret Bielema.
