Blake Frohnapfel: QB · Massachusetts · #15.
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Blake Frohnapfel
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Two seasons in the Massachusetts quarterback room to date. On tape: 409 passing yards and 3 passing TD against Bowling Green, Week 6, 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
55.9% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 28.2% conversion-per-dropback — 47.4% 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
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Massachusetts | 266 | 472 | 56.4% | 2,919 | 6.2 | 16 | 13 | 114.0 | 36 |
| 2014 | Massachusetts | 241 | 437 | 55.1% | 3,345 | 7.7 | 23 | 10 | 132.2 | 52 |
| Career | 507 | 909 | 55.8% | 6,264 | 6.9 | 39 | 23 | 122.8 | 44 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Massachusetts | 63 | 53 | 0.8 | 1 | 22 |
| 2014 | Massachusetts | 41 | −84 | −2.0 | 0 | 17 |
| Career | 104 | −31 | −0.3 | 1 | 22 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2015 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | L 14-48@ Colorado | 20/34 | 225 | 1 | 1 | 6.6 | 43.6 | |
| Wk 3 | L 23-25vs Temple | 29/55 | 393 | 3 | 1 | 7.1 | 50.4 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | L 27-62@ No. 6 Notre Dame | 20/40 | 233 | 0 | 1 | 5.8 | 48.5 | |
| Wk 5 | W 24-14vs Florida International | 32/42 | 363 | 3 | 0 | 8.6 | 72.4 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 6 | L 38-62@ Bowling Green | 34/56 | 409 | 3 | 1 | 7.3 | 61.2 | Season-high 409 yds |
| Wk 7 | L 10-15vs Kent State | 17/33 | 171 | 0 | 1 | 5.2 | 13.1 | |
| Wk 8 | L 35-51vs No. 19 Toledo | 27/49 | 240 | 4 | 1 | 4.9 | 48.4 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 9 | L 10-20@ Ball State | 32/44 | 259 | 1 | 1 | 5.9 | 51.3 | |
| Wk 10 | L 13-17vs Akron | 19/43 | 173 | 0 | 2 | 4.0 | 13.1 | |
| Wk 11 | W 28-17@ Eastern Michigan | 10/20 | 109 | 1 | 1 | 5.4 | 72.5 | |
| Wk 12 | L 13-20vs Miami (OH) | 17/34 | 181 | 0 | 1 | 5.3 | 14.3 | |
| Wk 13 | W 31-26@ Buffalo | 9/22 | 163 | 0 | 2 | 7.4 | 62.6 | |
| Total | 266/472 | 2919 | 16 | 13 | 6.2 | — |
Week 8 · 2015
L 35-51
vs Toledo
240 yds · 4 TD · 1 INT · QBR 48.4 · 32 rush yds (2 car)
With L. Laurent — 41.3 yards per punt · 8 punts · 52 long · T. Sharpe — 12 rec · 159 yds · 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 469 passing plays (263 completions) against the box score's 472 attempts (266 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.08127 of 198 QBsSack rate
5.0%76 of 198 QBsRarely sacked (76 of 198), but Adjusted ANY/A hasn't followed (127 of 198).
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 56.4% completion on 472 attempts · 34 deep completions averaging 31.6 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2015 baseline
No situation moves him more than 26 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 Mark Whipple, all pass-leaning offenses — 6-18 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2015 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 254 | 1.7 | 5.9 | 1.0 |
| Road6g | 233 | 1.0 | 6.4 | 1.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 299 | 1.7 | 6.8 | 0.8 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 188 | 1.0 | 5.5 | 1.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mark Whipple
Pass share
56.4%
493 pass / 381 run
Plays / game
72.8
12 games
Scheme: Pass-leaning.
Player standing · 2015
472 pass attempts and 63 carries in 12 games, more passes and runs a game than nearly every FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Massachusetts, 6,264 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2011–2015
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 2 schools: Doc Holliday and Mark Whipple.
