Last confirmed: Virginia Tech, 2015. No 2026 box-score games on record.
6′1″ · Lake Travis, TX
Michael Brewer: QB · Virginia Tech · #16.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Michael Brewer
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Second year in the Virginia Tech quarterback room. On tape: 344 passing yards and 1 passing TD against Tulsa, Bowl, 2015.
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
37.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 29.0% conversion-per-dropback — 10.0% 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
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
1 of the team's 24 inside-the-5 carries (4.2%).
No outlet on our list has written about him by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Virginia Tech | 126 | 216 | 58.3% | 1,703 | 7.9 | 13 | 7 | 137.9 | 54 |
| 2014 | Virginia Tech | 262 | 441 | 59.4% | 2,692 | 6.1 | 18 | 15 | 117.4 | 32 |
| Career | 388 | 657 | 59.1% | 4,395 | 6.7 | 31 | 22 | 124.1 | 39 |
| Season | Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Virginia Tech | 37 | −80 | −2.2 | 1 |
| 2014 | Virginia Tech | 80 | −5 | −0.1 | 2 |
| Career | 117 | −85 | −0.7 | 3 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2015 season · 8 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 24-42vs No. 1 Ohio State | 11/16 | 156 | 2 | 0 | 9.8 | 84.6 | |
| Wk 7 | L 20-30@ Miami | 3/4 | 65 | 1 | 1 | 16.3 | 99.1 | |
| Wk 8 | L 43-45vs No. 23 Duke | 24/45 | 270 | 3 | 0 | 6.0 | 66.7 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 9 | W 26-10@ Boston College | 15/21 | 180 | 1 | 1 | 8.6 | 40.3 | |
| Wk 11 | W 23-21@ Georgia Tech | 15/29 | 178 | 1 | 1 | 6.1 | 36.4 | |
| Wk 12 | L 27-30vs No. 12 North Carolina | 20/35 | 273 | 2 | 2 | 7.8 | 53.6 | |
| Wk 13 | W 23-20@ Virginia | 15/29 | 237 | 2 | 1 | 8.2 | 27.7 | |
 Bowl | W 55-52vs Tulsa | 23/37 | 344 | 1 | 1 | 9.3 | 85.6 | |
| Total | 126/216 | 1703 | 13 | 7 | 7.9 | — |
Week 8 · 2015
L 43-45
vs Duke
270 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 66.7
With A. Hughes — 45.4 yards per punt · 7 punts · 60 long · T. McMillian — 142 rush yds (29 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 208 passing plays (119 completions) against the box score's 216 attempts (126 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.5469 of 198 QBsSack rate
7.3%143 of 198 QBsSacked on 7.3% of dropbacks (143 of 198) — and still 69 of 198 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 58.3% completion on 216 attempts · 25 deep completions averaging 32.7 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2015 baseline
No situation moves him more than 19 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.
2 seasons under Frank Beamer — 14-12 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2015 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 233 | 2.3 | 7.9 | 0.7 |
| Road4g | 165 | 1.2 | 9.8 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 188 | 1.3 | 11.8 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 228 | 1.8 | 7.3 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Frank Beamer
Pass share
42.4%
393 pass / 533 run
Plays / game
71.2
13 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2015
Fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Virginia Tech, 4,395 passing yards — his college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2011–2015
3 coachesPlayed for 3 head coaches at 2 schools: Tommy Tuberville, Kliff Kingsbury and Frank Beamer.
