#18

Brandon Peters

Senior quarterback for Illinois. 2021: 1,170 passing yards, 7 TD, 4 INT.

QB · Illinois · Sr. · #18

6′5″ · 220 lb · Avon, IN

CFB Index 30 · #100 of 126 QBsHigh confidenceIllinois 2021 alumnus

Recruiting

4★

PRO recruit

No. 61 nationally · Signed with Michigan

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 quarterback for Illinois. 2021: 1,170 passing yards, 7 TD, 4 INT.

Signed as a 4-star recruit to Michigan in 2016.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Five seasons at Illinois, 4,163 passing yards — his college career is complete.

His career

He was on the field for 5 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.

The week the volume broke through — put up 248 yds at Iowa.Iowa · L 23-332021

2016

Signed with Michigan4-star out of Avon

Career arc

Recruit

★★★★

#61 national

CFB

College

2 teams

2017–2021

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Coaching lineage · 2017–2021

3 coaches

2017–2019

Lovie Smith

Illinois

2020

Rod Smith

Illinois

era →

2021

Bret Bielema

Illinois

era →

Played under 3 different head coaches: Lovie Smith, Rod Smith, and Bret Bielema. Multi-era developmental context.

2021 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2017Michigan8-5HC: Jim Harbaugh · Run-heavy

2018Michigan10-3HC: Jim Harbaugh · Run-heavy

2019Illinois6-7HC: Lovie Smith · Run-leaning

2020Illinois2-6HC: Rod Smith · Run-heavy

2021Illinois5-7HC: Bret Bielema · Run-leaning

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

30Below cohort / limited sample #100 of 126?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: interception rate (87th percentile). Strength: fumbles lost (93rd percentile). Concern: success rate (12th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Interception rate#23 / 167 · 87th pct

1.1%

Explosive rate#68 / 167 · 60th pct

10.5%

EPA / dropback#97 / 167 · 42nd pct

0.24

Sack rate#125 / 167 · 25th pct

7.7%

Success rate#148 / 167 · 12th pct

39.2%

Box-score rates (8)

Fumbles lost#1 / 159 · 93rd pct

Interceptions#33 / 169 · 76th pct

Yards / att#112 / 169 · 33rd pct

6.9

Rush yards#121 / 169 · 28th pct

Pass TDs#117 / 169 · 27th pct

Pass yards#124 / 169 · 27th pct

1170

Completion %#147 / 169 · 13th pct

53.8%

Rush TDs#133 / 169 · 11th 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

89/164 (54.3%) · 7 TD · 4 INT

164 of 169 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

5.74136 of 204 QBs

Sack rate

7.7%158 of 204 QBs

Sacked 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 yds

53%of completions

47 comp5.2 yds avg

Middle

10–19 yds

26%of completions

23 comp13.6 yds avg3 TD

Deep

20+ yds

21%of completions

19 comp31.4 yds avg3 TD

Overall 54.3% completion on 164 attempts · 19 deep completions averaging 31.4 yds.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2021 season · 9 games

Home/Road · Season halves

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

2026 season

Head Coach

Bret Bielema

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

Awards

Player standing · 2021

Part-time starter

Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

30 · #100 of 126 QBs

Former four-star. Now #100 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2021	Illinois	91	169	53.8%	1,170	6.9	7	4	120.9	32	--	--
2020	Illinois	39	80	48.8%	429	5.4	3	0	106.2	42	--	--
2019	Illinois	152	274	55.5%	1,884	6.9	18	8	129.1	--	--	--
2018	Michigan	1	2	50.0%	8	4.0	0	1	-16.4	--	--	--
2017	Michigan	57	108	52.8%	672	6.2	4	2	113.6	--	--	--
Career		340	633	53.7%	4,163	6.6	32	15	120.9	35	--	--

Season	Team
2021	Illinois	38	--	0.0	0	--
2020	Illinois	24	136	5.7	1	--
2019	Illinois	74	213	2.9	3	--
2018	Michigan	--	--	--	--	--
2017	Michigan	17	-36	-2.1	0	--
Career		153	313	2.0	4	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 10 · 2021

W 14–6

at Minnesota

80 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 66.8 · 21 rush yds (7 car)

With B. Hayes — 43 AVG · 4 IN 20 · 52 LONG · C. Brown — 147 rush yds (32 car)

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 12 · Iowa · 2&20 · Q4 · EPA +4.11Brandon Peters pass complete to Patrick Bryant for 45 yds to the Iowa 40 for a 1ST down
Week 9 · Rutgers · 1&10 · Q2 · EPA +4.01Brandon Peters pass complete to Isaiah Williams for 52 yds for a TD (James McCourt KICK)
Week 12 · Iowa · 1&15 · Q3 · EPA +3.74Brandon Peters pass complete to Casey Washington for 44 yds to the Iowa 41 for a 1ST down
Week 3 · Maryland · 2&10 · Q1 · EPA +3.59Brandon Peters pass complete to Joshua McCray for 40 yds to the ILLINOIS 23 for a 1ST down MARYLAND Penalty, Personal Foul (Lavonte Gater) to the Mary 11 for a 1ST down
Week 3 · Maryland · 3&15 · Q2 · EPA +3.55Brandon Peters pass complete to Chase Brown for 33 yds to the Mary 12 for a 1ST down
Week 3 · Maryland · 3&9 · Q3 · EPA +3.42Brandon Peters pass complete to Chase Brown for 21 yds to the Mary 38 for a 1ST down
Week 10 · Minnesota · 3&6 · Q3 · EPA +3.27Brandon Peters pass complete to Casey Washington for 23 yds to the Minn 44 for a 1ST down
Week 13 · Northwestern · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA +3.14Brandon Peters pass complete to Isaiah Williams for 39 yds for a TD (James McCourt KICK)
Week 9 · Rutgers · 3&7 · Q2 · EPA +3.01Brandon Peters pass complete to Daniel Barker for 21 yds to the Illin 49 for a 1ST down
Week 5 · Charlotte · 3&8 · Q2 · EPA +2.99Brandon Peters pass complete to Daniel Barker for 10 yds for a TD (James McCourt KICK)

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2021 season · 9 games

Box score · CFBD

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@ 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	48.4

How he plays

Play style

Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

53.8%Completion %

22.6%Conversion/dropback

50.0%Land short of sticks

0INTs

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. ~ our read: checkdown by design