Blake LaRussa: QB · Old Dominion · #11.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Blake LaRussa
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Three seasons in the Old Dominion quarterback room to date. A game that shows it: 495 passing yards and 6 rushing yards against Virginia Tech — Week 4, 2018.
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
69.4% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 35.7% 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
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
1 of the team's 31 inside-the-5 carries (3.2%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Old Dominion | 248 | 391 | 63.4% | 3,008 | 7.7 | 19 | 10 | 139.0 | 58 |
| 2017 | Old Dominion | 38 | 67 | 56.7% | 420 | 6.3 | 3 | 3 | 115.2 | 41 |
| 2016 | Old Dominion | 14 | 24 | 58.3% | 140 | 5.8 | 0 | 1 | 99.0 | -- |
| Career | 300 | 482 | 62.2% | 3,568 | 7.4 | 22 | 14 | 133.7 | 55 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Old Dominion | 51 | −68 | −1.3 | 1 | 20 |
| 2017 | Old Dominion | 13 | 68 | 5.2 | 0 | 21 |
| 2016 | Old Dominion | 6 | −14 | −2.3 | 1 | 1 |
| Career | 70 | −14 | −0.2 | 2 | 21 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 10-52@ Liberty | 4/4 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 10.0 | — | |
| Wk 2 | L 20-28vs Florida International | 8/15 | 143 | 1 | 0 | 9.5 | — | |
| Wk 4 | W 49-35vs No. 13 Virginia Tech | 30/49 | 495 | 4 | 0 | 10.1 | — | Season-high 495 yds |
| Wk 5 | L 35-37@ East Carolina | 21/36 | 250 | 2 | 1 | 6.9 | 40.1 | |
| Wk 6 | L 33-52@ Florida Atlantic | 38/50 | 383 | 2 | 2 | 7.7 | — | |
| Wk 7 | L 20-42vs Marshall | 31/54 | 296 | 2 | 1 | 5.5 | — | |
| Wk 8 | W 37-34@ Western Kentucky | 21/32 | 327 | 1 | 0 | 10.2 | — | |
| Wk 9 | L 17-51vs Middle Tennessee | 26/35 | 333 | 2 | 3 | 9.5 | — | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 11 | W 34-31vs North Texas | 21/43 | 301 | 2 | 1 | 7.0 | — | |
| Wk 12 | W 77-14vs VMI | 15/20 | 128 | 2 | 0 | 6.4 | — | |
| Wk 13 | L 13-27@ Rice | 33/53 | 312 | 1 | 2 | 5.9 | — | |
| Total | 248/391 | 3008 | 19 | 10 | 7.7 | — |
Week 4 · 2018
W 49-35
495 yds · 4 TD · 0 INT
Edged out Virginia Tech at home in a shootout.
With B. Cate — 39.3 yards per punt · 7 punts · 3 inside the 20 · T. Fulgham — 9 rec · 188 yds · 1 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 354 passing plays (226 completions) against the box score's 391 attempts (248 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.8673 of 207 QBsSack rate
4.9%60 of 207 QBsRarely sacked (60 of 207 QBs) and still 73 of 207 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 63.4% completion on 391 attempts · 42 deep completions averaging 32.0 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2018 baseline
No situation moves him more than 41 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.
3 seasons under Bobby Wilder — 19-18 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 283 | 2.2 | 8.0 | 0.8 |
| Road5g | 262 | 1.2 | 8.1 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 268 | 1.8 | 8.3 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 280 | 1.6 | 7.8 | 1.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bobby Wilder
Pass share
53.6%
478 pass / 414 run
Plays / game
74.3
12 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2018
391 pass attempts and 51 carries in 11 games, more passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Old Dominion, 3,568 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2015–2018
1 coachPlayed every college season under Bobby Wilder.
