Alex McGough: QB · Florida International · #12.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Alex McGough
Keeps the offense on schedule and doesn't lose the game. Played for two head coaches in four seasons at Florida International. One game to point at: 328 passing yards and 1 rushing TD against Alcorn State — Week 2, 2017.
Play style
Consistent underneath passer who protects the lead. Rarely loses games; rarely wins them alone.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
53.2% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 27.8% conversion-per-dropback — 40.0% 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
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Florida International | 232 | 355 | 65.4% | 2,798 | 7.9 | 17 | 8 | 142.9 | 68 |
| 2016 | Florida International | 167 | 286 | 58.4% | 1,891 | 6.6 | 13 | 11 | 121.2 | 38 |
| 2015 | Florida International | 269 | 420 | 64.0% | 2,722 | 6.5 | 21 | 8 | 131.2 | 34 |
| 2014 | Florida International | 138 | 274 | 50.4% | 1,680 | 6.1 | 14 | 10 | 111.4 | 20 |
| Career | 806 | 1,335 | 60.4% | 9,091 | 6.8 | 65 | 37 | 128.1 | 42 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Florida International | 78 | 231 | 3.0 | 5 | 60 |
| 2016 | Florida International | 45 | 117 | 2.6 | 4 | 35 |
| 2015 | Florida International | 88 | 95 | 1.1 | 3 | 29 |
| 2014 | Florida International | 97 | 92 | 0.9 | 4 | 26 |
| Career | 308 | 535 | 1.7 | 16 | 60 |
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 17-61@ UCF | 18/29 | 201 | 1 | 1 | 6.9 | 40.2 | |
| Wk 2 | W 17-10vs Alcorn State | 21/33 | 328 | 0 | 0 | 9.9 | 67.4 | Season-high 328 yds |
| Wk 4 | W 13-7@ Rice | 17/28 | 172 | 1 | 1 | 6.1 | 29.4 | |
| Wk 5 | W 30-29vs Charlotte | 14/26 | 206 | 1 | 1 | 7.9 | 88.3 | |
| Wk 6 | L 17-37@ Middle Tennessee | 20/31 | 209 | 1 | 1 | 6.7 | 55.2 | |
| Wk 7 | W 23-10vs Tulane | 17/31 | 220 | 1 | 2 | 7.1 | 70.9 | |
| Wk 9 | W 41-30@ Marshall | 14/18 | 177 | 2 | 0 | 9.8 | 86.1 | |
| Wk 10 | W 14-7vs UTSA | 18/25 | 215 | 2 | 1 | 8.6 | 80.5 | |
| Wk 11 | L 30-37vs Old Dominion | 35/50 | 323 | 2 | 0 | 6.5 | 70.1 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 12 | L 24-52@ Florida Atlantic | 20/32 | 218 | 2 | 0 | 6.8 | 27.1 | |
| Wk 13 | W 41-17vs Western Kentucky | 17/26 | 227 | 1 | 0 | 8.7 | 80.8 | |
| Wk 14 | W 63-45vs Massachusetts | 20/25 | 295 | 3 | 1 | 11.8 | 98.2 | 3 TD passes |
 Bowl | L 3-28vs Temple | 1/1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 96.0 | |
| Total | 232/355 | 2798 | 17 | 8 | 7.9 | — |
Week 14 · 2017
W 63-45
295 yds · 3 TD · 1 INT · QBR 98.2 · 108 rush yds (11 car) · 1 TD
Edged out Massachusetts at home in a shootout.
With B. Singleton — 6 rec · 111 yds · 3 TD · D. Scott — 4 rec · 88 yds
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 354 passing plays (231 completions) against the box score's 355 attempts (232 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.0562 of 205 QBsSack rate
5.6%91 of 205 QBsRarely sacked (91 of 205 QBs) and still 62 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 65.4% completion on 355 attempts · 33 deep completions averaging 34.6 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2017 baseline
No situation moves him more than 49 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 | 248 | 1.7 | 8.4 | 0.8 |
| Road5g | 195 | 1.4 | 7.3 | 0.6 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 192 | 0.7 | 7.4 | 0.9 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 242 | 2.0 | 8.7 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Butch Davis
Pass share
44.9%
396 pass / 486 run
Plays / game
67.8
13 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2017
355 pass attempts and 78 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 Florida International, 9,091 passing yards — drafted at #220 overall by the Seattle Seahawks.
A stat line in 46 games over four seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Ron Turner → Butch Davis. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Next stop · NFL
Seattle SeahawksEntering 9th NFL season
Seattle SeahawksEntering 9th NFL season
