Last confirmed: Troy, 2017. No 2026 box-score games on record.
6′3″ · 219 lb · Orange Beach, AL
Brandon Silvers: QB · Troy · #12.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Brandon Silvers
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Brandon Silvers has been at Troy through two head coaches in four seasons. One game to point at: 380 passing yards and 4 passing TD against Texas State — Week 13, 2017.
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
58.2% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 31.6% conversion-per-dropback — 43.8% 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
3 of the team's 16 inside-the-5 carries (18.8%).
No outlet on our list has written about him by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2017 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 13-24@ Boise State | 17/33 | 139 | 0 | 1 | 4.2 | 18.4 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 34-7vs Alabama State | 32/40 | 345 | 0 | 1 | 8.6 | 70.0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 27-24@ New Mexico State | 25/40 | 286 | 1 | 0 | 7.2 | 83.2 | |
| Wk 4 | W 22-17vs Akron | 28/41 | 314 | 1 | 0 | 7.7 | 72.7 | |
| Wk 5 | W 24-21@ No. 25 LSU | 16/28 | 157 | 0 | 0 | 5.6 | 52.6 | |
| Wk 7 | L 8-19vs South Alabama | 24/46 | 263 | 0 | 1 | 5.7 | 30.9 | |
| Wk 8 | W 34-10@ Georgia State | 25/35 | 335 | 2 | 1 | 9.6 | 83.7 | |
| Wk 9 | W 38-16vs Georgia Southern | 9/18 | 102 | 1 | 0 | 5.7 | 80.5 | |
| Wk 10 | W 24-21vs Idaho | 20/30 | 212 | 1 | 1 | 7.1 | 50.1 | |
| Wk 11 | W 42-17@ Coastal Carolina | 18/30 | 206 | 1 | 1 | 6.9 | 86.2 | |
| Wk 13 | W 62-9vs Texas State | 22/30 | 380 | 4 | 0 | 12.7 | 93.3 | Season-high 380 yds |
| Wk 14 | W 32-25@ Arkansas State | 23/41 | 246 | 2 | 0 | 6.0 | 61.1 | |
 Bowl | W 50-30@ North Texas | 24/31 | 305 | 4 | 1 | 9.8 | 88.6 | |
| Total | 283/443 | 3290 | 17 | 7 | 7.4 | — |
Bowl · 2017
W 50-30
vs North Texas · neutral site
305 yds · 4 TD · 1 INT · QBR 88.6
Edged out North Texas at a neutral site in a shootout.
With T. Sumpter — 38.3 yards per punt · 6 punts · 44 long · J. Anderson — 113 rush yds (22 car) · 2 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 404 passing plays (253 completions) against the box score's 443 attempts (283 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.0659 of 205 QBsSack rate
3.3%31 of 205 QBsRarely sacked (31 of 205 QBs) and still 59 of 205 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 63.9% completion on 443 attempts · 31 deep completions averaging 31.0 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2017 baseline
No situation moves him more than 42 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
2017 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 269 | 1.2 | 7.9 | 0.5 |
| Road6g | 228 | 1.0 | 6.6 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 258 | 0.9 | 7.0 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 247 | 1.8 | 8.0 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Neal Brown
Pass share
53.3%
458 pass / 402 run
Plays / game
66.2
13 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2017
443 pass attempts and 48 carries in 13 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Four seasons at Troy, 10,680 passing yards — his college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Larry Blakeney → Neal Brown. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
