Patrick Towles

QB · Boston College 2016 · #8

Last confirmed: Boston College, 2016. No 2026 box-score games on record.

6′5″ · Ft. Thomas, KY · Highlands

Patrick Towles: QB · Boston College · #8.

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Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.

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Patrick Towles

QB · Boston College · #8

Operates within the system without forcing anything. Patrick Towles has played for two head coaches across three seasons and two programs. On tape: 234 passing yards and 18 rushing yards against Buffalo, Week 5, 2016.

How he plays

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

42.6%Completion %

17.6%Conversion/dropback

53.8%Land short of sticks

2INTs

42.6% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 17.6% conversion-per-dropback — 53.8% 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

8/113rd/4th & short

5/22Inside-5 share

8 of 11 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (72.7%). 5 of the team's 22 inside-the-5 carries (22.7%).

News and fans

No outlet on our list has written about him by name this season.

Boston College in the news

First-ever bowl game to Puerto Rico announcedAtlantic Coast Conference Oct 22
Evan Dickens out for seasonSports Illustrated Oct 22
BC earns first win of season247Sports Oct 16
BC GM Kenyatta Watson departsOct 14

Where to follow him

Career stats

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Season	Team
2016	Boston College	138	273	50.5%	1,730	6.3	12	7	113.2	23
2015	Kentucky	183	326	56.1%	2,148	6.6	9	14	112.0	40
2014	Kentucky	225	392	57.4%	2,718	6.9	14	9	122.8	47
Career		546	991	55.1%	6,596	6.7	35	30	116.6	38

Season	Team
2016	Boston College	115	294	2.6	4
2015	Kentucky	71	64	0.9	5
2014	Kentucky	146	305	2.1	6
Career		332	663	2.0	15

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2016 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	L 14-17vs Georgia Tech	11/17	144	0	1	8.5	59.7
Wk 2	W 26-7@ Massachusetts	12/22	191	2	1	8.7	51.6
Wk 3	L 0-49@ Virginia Tech	9/28	80	0	1	2.9	19.2
Wk 4	W 42-10vs Wagner	9/16	157	2	0	9.8	97.8
Wk 5	W 35-3vs Buffalo	14/25	234	2	0	9.4	85.4	Season-high 234 yds
Wk 6	L 10-56vs No. 3 Clemson	11/22	91	1	0	4.1	4.9
Wk 8	L 20-28vs Syracuse	4/14	45	0	1	3.2	45.5
Wk 9	W 21-14@ NC State	18/33	204	0	1	6.2	26.9
Wk 10	L 7-52vs No. 5 Louisville	13/21	147	1	1	7.0	28.8
Wk 11	L 7-45@ No. 20 Florida State	3/11	29	0	0	2.6	3.7
Wk 12	W 30-0vs UConn	14/19	183	1	0	9.6	89.1
Wk 13	W 17-14@ Wake Forest	10/23	74	1	0	3.2	29.0
Bowl	W 36-30vs Maryland	10/22	151	2	1	6.9	31.4
Total		138/273	1730	12	7	6.3	—

Signature game

Week 4 · 2016

W 42-10

vs Wagner

157 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 97.8 · 46 rush yds (7 car) · 2 TD

Dominant 32-point win at home against Wagner.

With T. Rouse — -5 rush yds (2 car) · M. Knoll — 30.2 yards per punt · 5 punts · 41 long

Signature plays

The plays that mattered most

Week 8 · Syracuse · 2nd and 10 · Q3 · EPA +6.78Patrick Towles run for 75 yds for a TD, (Mike Knoll KICK)
Week 4 · Wagner · 1st and 10 · Q2 · EPA +4.56Patrick Towles pass complete to Jeff Smith for 58 yds for a TD, (Mike Knoll KICK)
Week 4 · Wagner · 2nd and 25 · Q3 · EPA +4.54Patrick Towles pass complete to Michael Walker for 27 yds for a TD, (Mike Knoll KICK)
Week 6 · Clemson · 4th and 1 · Q2 · EPA −4.21Patrick Towles run for a loss of 1 yard to the Clem 2
Week 6 · Clemson · 1st and 10 · Q2 · EPA −4.21Patrick Towles run for 5 yds to the Clem 24 Patrick Towles fumbled, forced by Ben Boulware, recovered by Clem Dexter Lawrence
Week 1 · Maryland · 1st and 10 · Q2 · EPA +3.76Patrick Towles pass complete to Michael Walker for 49 yds for a TD, (Mike Knoll PAT MISSED)

4 more plays

Week 12 · UConn · 3rd and 12 · Q1 · EPA +3.65Patrick Towles run for 10 yds to the UConn 41 for a CONNECTICUT Penalty, personal foul (15 Yards) to the UConn 44 for a
Week 9 · NC State · 1st and 10 · Q2 · EPA −3.59Patrick Towles sacked by Kentavius Street for a loss of 15 yards to the NCSTATE 46 BOSTON COLLEGE Penalty, intentional grounding (Patrick Towles) to the BC 46
Week 10 · Louisville · 2nd and 7 · Q3 · EPA +3.59Patrick Towles pass complete to Tyler Rouse for 39 yds for a TD, (Mike Knoll KICK)
Week 2 · Massachusetts · 1st and 10 · Q2 · EPA +3.54Patrick Towles pass complete to Jeff Smith for 46 yds for a TD, (Mike Knoll PAT MISSED)

Passing profile

Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)

Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from

138/273 (50.5%) · 12 TD · 7 INT

271 of 273 attempts matched to play-by-play

Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 271 passing plays (136 completions) against the box score's 273 attempts (138 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.

Adjusted ANY/A

4.96141 of 193 QBs

Sack rate

8.7%162 of 193 QBs

Sacked on 8.7% of dropbacks (162 of 193) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (141 of 193).

Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.

Short

0–9 yds

49%of completions

66 comp4.7 yds avg2 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

33%of completions

45 comp13.9 yds avg3 TD

Deep

20+ yds

18%of completions

25 comp31.1 yds avg6 TD

Overall 50.5% completion on 273 attempts · 25 deep completions averaging 31.1 yds.

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2016 baseline

No situation moves him more than 24 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-24 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 9/86 (10.5%) · league sack rate 4.9%

Down 2

+9 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 3/62 (4.8%) · league sack rate 5.1%

Down 3+

+12 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 10/123 (8.1%) · league sack rate 8.5%

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.

Teams and coaches

2014Kentucky5-7HC: Mark Stoops · Balanced

2015Kentucky5-7HC: Mark Stoops · Balanced

2016Boston College7-6HC: Steve Addazio · Run-heavy

Our ratings

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Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

13 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: success rate (15th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Explosive rate#99 / 172 · 43rd pct

9.2%

Interception rate#100 / 172 · 42nd pct

2.6%

EPA / dropback#135 / 172 · 22nd pct

0.10

Sack rate#147 / 172 · 15th pct

8.8%

Success rate#147 / 172 · 15th pct

34.4%

Box-score rates (8)

Rush yards#51 / 167 · 70th pct

294

Rush TDs#52 / 167 · 65th pct

Interceptions#69 / 167 · 52nd pct

Pass TDs#83 / 167 · 49th pct

Pass yards#100 / 167 · 40th pct

1730

Yards / att#136 / 167 · 18th pct

6.3

Completion %#150 / 167 · 10th pct

50.5%

Fumbles lost#158 / 163 · 2nd pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

32nd → 22nd percentile

Success rate

33rd → 15th percentile

Explosive rate

59th → 43rd percentile

Sack rate

33rd → 15th percentile

Interception rate

17th → 42nd percentile

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).

Zeitgeist Passer Rating

2016 · our own passing-efficiency number, shown next to the 1979 formula it does not replace.

High confidence: 271 dropbacks

23Zeitgeist Passer Rating125th of 131 FBS QBs

NCAA passer rating 113.2 119th of 131 FBS QBs

Positive-play rate weight 24%

37.3%4th pct of FBS QBs

share of dropbacks that gained expected points · -0.3% schedule adj.

Yards per attempt weight 56%

6.2217th pct of FBS QBs

sacks excluded · +0.1 schedule adj.

Sack rate weight 21% (penalty)

7.6%28th pct of FBS QBs

the input passer rating cannot see · -0.6% schedule adj.

Opponent-adjusted; garbage time excluded (26 of 297 dropbacks dropped). 50 = FBS average; the number is pulled toward 50 when the sample is thin. How ZPR is built.

Splits

Home and road splits, scheme and staff

Splits · Per-game

2016 season · 13 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home6g	143	1.2	7.2	0.3
Road5g	116	0.6	4.7	0.6

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-77g	150	1.3	7.2	0.6
Weeks 8+6g	114	0.5	5.3	0.5

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2016 season

Head Coach

Steve Addazio

Pass share

34.8%

296 pass / 555 run

Plays / game

65.5

13 games

Scheme: Run-heavy.

Awards

Player standing · 2016

Impact starter

273 pass attempts, 115 carries and 2 catches in 13 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Patrick Towles

Players he’s like

How he plays

News and fans

Boston College in the news

Where to follow him

Career stats

Game log

Signature game

Signature plays

Passing profile

Situational

Teams and coaches

Our ratings

Splits

Awards

Impact starter

Five seasons, two schools

His moves

2012