Last confirmed: Eastern Michigan, 2017. No 2026 box-score games on record.
6′3″ · 218 lb · Maumee, OH
Brogan Roback: QB · Eastern Michigan · #4.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Brogan Roback
Operates within the system without forcing anything. He has spent four seasons in the Eastern Michigan quarterback room. A game that shows it: 308 passing yards and 1 passing TD against Western Michigan — Week 8, 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
51.9% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 23.7% conversion-per-dropback — 48.1% 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
2 of the team's 21 inside-the-5 carries (9.5%).
No outlet on our list has written about him by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Eastern Michigan | 245 | 409 | 59.9% | 2,890 | 7.1 | 19 | 15 | 127.3 | 55 |
| 2016 | Eastern Michigan | 219 | 372 | 58.9% | 2,694 | 7.2 | 18 | 7 | 131.9 | 59 |
| 2015 | Eastern Michigan | 211 | 346 | 61.0% | 2,304 | 6.7 | 16 | 11 | 125.8 | 35 |
| 2014 | Eastern Michigan | 14 | 27 | 51.9% | 85 | 3.1 | 0 | 0 | 78.3 | -- |
| Career | 689 | 1,154 | 59.7% | 7,973 | 6.9 | 53 | 33 | 127.2 | 51 |
| Season | Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Eastern Michigan | 40 | −47 | −1.2 | 1 |
| 2016 | Eastern Michigan | 63 | 223 | 3.5 | 2 |
| 2015 | Eastern Michigan | 51 | 47 | 0.9 | 1 |
| 2014 | Eastern Michigan | 7 | −15 | −2.1 | 0 |
| Career | 161 | 208 | 1.3 | 4 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2017 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 24-7vs Charlotte | 22/31 | 267 | 0 | 1 | 8.6 | 71.3 | |
| Wk 2 | W 16-13@ Rutgers | 19/36 | 260 | 1 | 0 | 7.2 | 62.1 | |
| Wk 4 | L 20-27vs Ohio | 28/47 | 271 | 1 | 1 | 5.8 | 31.3 | |
| Wk 5 | L 20-24@ Kentucky | 26/43 | 256 | 1 | 2 | 6.0 | 29.9 | |
| Wk 6 | L 15-20@ Toledo | 23/39 | 226 | 2 | 2 | 5.8 | 46.0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 27-28@ Army | 19/27 | 229 | 4 | 1 | 8.5 | 92.5 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | L 17-20vs Western Michigan | 28/44 | 308 | 1 | 1 | 7.0 | 55.4 | Season-high 308 yds |
| Wk 9 | L 27-30@ Northern Illinois | 22/44 | 262 | 1 | 0 | 6.0 | 39.8 | |
| Wk 10 | W 56-14vs Ball State | 15/21 | 263 | 3 | 0 | 12.5 | 98.0 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 11 | L 30-42@ Central Michigan | 23/39 | 204 | 2 | 5 | 5.2 | 9.0 | 5 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 12 | W 27-24@ Miami (OH) | 15/27 | 269 | 2 | 1 | 10.0 | 79.3 | |
| Wk 13 | W 34-31vs Bowling Green | 5/11 | 75 | 1 | 1 | 6.8 | 15.1 | |
| Total | 245/409 | 2890 | 19 | 15 | 7.1 | — |
Week 7 · 2017
L 27-28
at Army
229 yds · 4 TD · 1 INT · QBR 92.5
With M. Sexton — 4 rec · 43 yds · 1 TD · I. Eriksen — 107 rush yds (20 car)
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 405 passing plays (241 completions) against the box score's 409 attempts (245 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.86121 of 205 QBsSack rate
3.8%44 of 205 QBsRarely sacked (44 of 205), but Adjusted ANY/A hasn't followed (121 of 205).
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 59.9% completion on 409 attempts · 44 deep completions averaging 28.4 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2017 baseline
No situation moves him more than 10 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.
4 seasons under Chris Creighton — 15-34 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 237 | 1.2 | 8.1 | 0.8 |
| Road7g | 244 | 1.9 | 7.0 | 1.6 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 252 | 1.5 | 7.0 | 1.2 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 230 | 1.7 | 7.9 | 1.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Chris Creighton
Pass share
51.2%
431 pass / 410 run
Plays / game
70.1
12 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2017
409 pass attempts and 40 carries in 12 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Four seasons at Eastern Michigan, 7,973 passing yards — his college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Ron English, Stan Parrish, and Chris Creighton. Multi-era developmental context.
