Bryce Young: QB · Alabama · #9.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Bryce Young
Pushes it downfield on every look. Third year in the same quarterback room at Alabama. All-SEC in 2022 made it two straight seasons on the honors list. On tape: 455 passing yards and 2 passing TD against Tennessee, Week 7, 2022.
Play style
Elite arm talent, pushing downfield. Completion rate is the variable.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
53.7% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 30.4% conversion-per-dropback — 36.4% 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
4 of the team's 24 inside-the-5 carries (16.7%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
Yahoo Sports Oct 28
Heavy Oct 28
Saturday Down South Oct 24
The Tuscaloosa News Oct 15Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
Game log · Week-by-week
2022 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 55-0vs Utah State | 18/28 | 195 | 5 | 0 | 7.0 | 96.0 | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 20-19@ Texas | 27/39 | 213 | 1 | 0 | 5.5 | 79.1 | |
| Wk 3 | W 63-7vs UL Monroe | 13/18 | 236 | 3 | 2 | 13.1 | 81.7 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | W 55-3vs Vanderbilt | 25/36 | 385 | 4 | 0 | 10.7 | 86.1 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | W 49-26@ No. 20 Arkansas | 7/13 | 173 | 1 | 1 | 13.3 | 81.4 | |
| Wk 7 | L 49-52@ No. 6 Tennessee | 35/52 | 455 | 2 | 0 | 8.8 | 89.4 | Season-high 455 yds |
| Wk 8 | W 30-6vs No. 24 Mississippi State | 21/35 | 249 | 2 | 0 | 7.1 | 90.7 | |
| Wk 10 | L 31-32@ No. 15 LSU | 25/51 | 328 | 1 | 1 | 6.4 | 70.1 | |
| Wk 11 | W 30-24@ No. 11 Ole Miss | 21/33 | 209 | 3 | 0 | 6.3 | 72.9 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | W 34-0vs Austin Peay | 18/24 | 221 | 2 | 0 | 9.2 | 36.9 | |
| Wk 13 | W 49-27vs Auburn | 20/30 | 343 | 3 | 1 | 11.4 | 98.1 | 3 TD passes |
 Bowl | W 45-20vs No. 11 Kansas State | 15/21 | 321 | 5 | 0 | 15.3 | — | |
| Total | 245/380 | 3328 | 32 | 5 | 8.8 | — |
Bowl · 2022
W 45-20
vs Kansas State · neutral site
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 371 passing plays (233 completions) against the box score's 380 attempts (245 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
9.1114 of 206 QBsSack rate
4.5%63 of 206 QBsRarely sacked (63 of 206 QBs) and still 14 of 206 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 64.5% completion on 380 attempts · 44 deep completions averaging 33.3 yds.
3 seasons under Nick Saban — 37-4 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2022 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 272 | 3.2 | 9.8 | 0.5 |
| Road5g | 276 | 1.6 | 8.1 | 0.4 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 283 | 3.0 | 10.5 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 270 | 2.2 | 8.1 | 0.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Nick Saban
Pass share
49.4%
438 pass / 448 run
Plays / game
68.2
13 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2022
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Former five-star. Now #14 at the position.
Career, closed
Gone at No. 1 overall.
How it ended
Three seasons at Alabama, 8,356 passing yards, the Heisman Trophy (2021) — drafted at No. 1 overall by the Carolina Panthers.
A blue-chip recruit with honors.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-AMERICA · CONSENSUS
Consensus AA (2021)
7 first-team selectors
National awards
Heisman, Maxwell, Davey O'Brien +1 more
2021 season
ALL-SEC · 2ND TEAM
All-SEC 2nd team (2022)
Coaching lineage · 2020–2022
1 coachPlayed every college season under Nick Saban.
Next stop · NFL
Carolina PanthersEntering 4th NFL season
Carolina PanthersEntering 4th NFL season
