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Brady Cook

QB · Missouri · Sr · #12

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

CAREER COMPLETEMissouri 2024 — college career complete

QB · MISSOURI · SEC

Brady Cook

  • 4
  • #12
  • 6-2 | 205 lb
  • Saint Louis, MO

CFB Zeitgeist QB Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#32

0.8% win probability

Fan Belief

Awaiting

Player-specific FI not yet ingested. Falls back to team mood below.

Respect Gap

Awaiting

Coming online with player-level FI.

Reality Gap

Awaiting

Coming online with player-level FI.

ACCOLADE PROBABILITY

Heisman

0.8%

TOP QB AWARD

Davey O'Brien

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 4 · Elite

R12 · All-American

All-American. Named to an NCAA-recognized All-America team.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career arc · Season-by-season Standing

4 seasons on the ladder

Peak: R08 Watch-list name · 2023

2021

Missouri · QB

2022

Missouri · QB

2023

Missouri · QB

R08 · Watch-list name

Recognized

2024

Missouri · QB

Development Trajectory · passing yards

2021–2024
3452021
2,7272022
3,3022023
2,5252024

+632%

Up 632% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
No recruit profile
CFB
College
Missouri
2021–2024
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.

PositionQB
Class4
Jersey12
Measurements6-2 | 205 lb
HometownSaint Louis, MO
Primary teamMissouri

Recruiting Pedigree

How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.

Top pedigree Not on file No matched recruiting profile in the loaded archive
Composite rating -- Composite rating unavailable for this player
Signed with -- Commitment history unavailable
Origin -- Hometown and high school unavailable
Class Profile Context
No recruiting profile is on file for this player.

Transfer Arc

Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.

Portal moves 0 No portal entry on file
Latest destination -- --
Transfer stars -- CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility -- Transfer date TBD
Season Move Context
No transfer portal moves on file for this player.

Heisman Lens · 2024 Season · Final

Where the player landed at the end of the listed season — final nowcast rank, win/finalist/ballot probabilities, and the cleanest official Heisman placement on file.

HIGH CONFIDENCE· through week 16
Current nowcast#32Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#30Where the full season sim points
Win probability0.8%Chance to actually win the trophy
Finalist probability0.0%Chance to make the finalist tier
Ballot probability33.6%Chance to appear anywhere on a ballot
Best official finish--Best completed Heisman placement on file

Heisman Futures

Not yet listed on major futures markets.

No achievements unlocked yet this season.

Selector Grid · 2025

AP
FWAA
AFCA
WCFF
SN
SI

Selector recognition fills in once the major honors lists (AP, FWAA, AFCA, Walter Camp, Sporting News, SI) are scraped and ingested.

Today’s Hot-Take

The Hot-Take engine fires when this player’s percentile profile crosses a defensible threshold (top 10% in a cohort, 100+ snap sample). When it’s quiet, the model is honoring its “must be defensible” rule.

Anti-Take

PENDING

The contrarian read fires when the rules-engine detects a stat that complicates the Hot-Take. Quiet here means the model hasn’t found a defensible counter yet — not that one doesn’t exist.

The Room on Brady Cook

Fan sentiment · Awaiting signal

The Room reads fan conversation around a player — who’s talking, what they believe, and how that shifts. It publishes once weekly volume rebuilds; for most players that’s in-season, when game-week chatter spikes.

Cohort divergence map

Cohort divergence reads how different fanbases talk about this player. Returns once weekly mentions clear the publish floor.

Rival Radar

How rival fanbases talk about Brady Cook

No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.

Signature Story

Awaiting candidate metric

He hasn't written his page yet — we'll start filling it in when there are enough snaps to rank against his peers.

Signature Moment

No signature moment on the ledger yet.

Returns once this player puts together a multi-game body of work — single-game flashes alone don't clear the bar.

A 3-act season arc returns once this player has six or more games on the ledger.

Scenario Explorer

Available for players with a qualifying signature metric (passing yards, rushing yards, receiving yards, sacks, etc.). The slider projects how a season finishes if the current pace holds.

Why this is a two-channel quarterback case

The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.

The unusual part of Brady Cook's case is that the production comes in two channels, not one. For Missouri, he has 2,525 passing yards and 11 touchdown passes, but he also adds 223 rushing yards and 5 rushing scores. That kind of dual-threat load tends to create a more resilient Heisman case because the offense can tilt the game in multiple ways.

Current place #32 0.8% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 47.5% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Development arc The card should explain why this profile stands out

2024 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

QB season snapshot

2024 season snapshot | final

2024 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Pass yards 2,525 11 TD | 2 INT | #59/382 (85th pct)
Completion rate 62.5% 200/320 completions | #172/383 (55th pct)
Yards/attempt 7.9 Explosiveness through the air | #99/382 (74th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

High-volume passer | Dual-threat against FBS QB peers. The quickest read is whether the profile wins on volume, efficiency, explosiveness, or rushing value.

High-volume passerDual-threat

2024 Season · Final

2024 season snapshot | final

Passing Efficiency

CMP
200 83rd
ATT
320 83rd
CMP%
62.5% 55th
Y/A
7.9 74th

Passing Production

YDS
2,525 85th
TD
11 76th
INT
2 52nd

Rushing

CAR
87 84th
YDS
223 81st
YPC
2.6 46th
TD
5 86th

Game Log

Week-by-week box

No per-game rows for this season yet — the table fills in as box scores arrive.

Season-by-season tables Career rows + per-season box score

Traditional history

Traditional Stats

Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.

Season rows Career row

Season context · Team result + system

2021Missouri6-6HC: Eli Drinkwitz · Balanced, fast tempo
2022Missouri6-7HC: Eli Drinkwitz · Run-leaning
2023Missouri11-2HC: Eli Drinkwitz · Run-leaning
2024Missouri10-3HC: Eli Drinkwitz · Run-leaning, fast tempo
SeasonTeam
2024Missouri20032062.5%2,5257.9112138.9----
2023Missouri24336766.2%3,3029.0216157.4----
2022Missouri24437964.4%2,7277.2137132.4----
2021Missouri465879.3%3455.920140.7----
Career4 loaded seasons7331,12465.2%8,8997.94715142.8----
SeasonTeam
2024Missouri872232.65--
2023Missouri1133192.88--
2022Missouri1395904.26--
2021Missouri22924.21--
Career4 loaded seasons3611,2243.420--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Passing WEPA

Opponent-adjusted passing value. Positive numbers mean the quarterback is adding more value through the air than a neutral peer would in the same environment.

Role share

How much of the offense runs through the quarterback once passing and rushing responsibility are blended together.

Peer percentile

Every percentile is compared against players at the same position and level, so an FBS quarterback is judged against FBS quarterbacks, not the whole sport.

Traditional first

The top tables stick to the stats fans already know from broadcasts and box scores. Advanced context is pushed underneath instead of replacing the basics.

Rush impact 223 5 rush TD | #79/408 (81st pct)
Usage 47.5% 85.6% pass share | 14.5% rush share | #99/428 (77th pct)
Passing WEPA +0.36 Opponent-adjusted passing value | #37/200 (82nd pct)
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Passing Passing yards 2,525 #59/382 85th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Pass TD 11 #99/407 76th pct Scoringvs FBS QB
Passing Completions 200 #68/383 83rd pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Completion % 62.5% #172/383 55th pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Passing Yards / attempt 7.9 #99/382 74th pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Rushing Rushing yards 223 #79/408 81st pct Volumevs FBS QB
Value Passing WEPA +0.36 #37/200 82nd pct Opponent-adjusted passing value | 313 weighted playsvs FBS QB
Usage Role share 47.5% #99/428 77th pct Share of team offensevs FBS QB
Passing Attempts 320 #71/407 83rd pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Interceptions 2 #195/407 52nd pct Turnoversvs FBS QB
Rushing Carries 87 #68/408 84th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Rushing Rushing LONG 31 #105/391 73rd pct Metricvs FBS QB
Rushing Rush TD 5 #59/408 86th pct Scoringvs FBS QB
Rushing Yards / carry 2.6 #219/407 46th pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Usage Pass share 85.6% #92/428 79th pct Air-game usagevs FBS QB
Usage Passing-down usage 69.2% #51/428 88th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS QB
Usage 3rd-down usage 65.3% #66/428 85th pct Money-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage 1st-down usage 43.6% #83/428 81st pct Early-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage 2nd-down usage 40.7% #137/428 68th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage Standard-down usage 38.9% #114/428 74th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS QB
Usage Rush share 14.5% #109/428 75th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS QB
Value Rushing WEPA +0.38 #16/140 89th pct Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 67 weighted playsvs FBS QB
Ball Security Fumbles lost 1 #69/258 74th pct Turnoversvs FBS QB

Player Standing

Universal 17-step ladder. Tier pills below; accolade streams nested.

AWAITING CLASSIFICATION

On-team2-deepStartingRecognizedEliteApex

AWAITING CLASSIFICATION · Rung None of 16

Why he’s here

Standing classification populates when honors, Heisman, and roster signals all align.

What moves him up

What moves him down

Accolade streams

StatusAwaiting tracker

Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.

Splits

Per-game splits

Splits fill in once box scores from at least three games land for this season.

Box-score Savant card waits for a season-stat snapshot above the cohort floor. Returns once enough box-score volume lands.

Advanced Savant · QB · 2024

Percentile Card

Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.

P4G5All FBS
EPA / dropback
awaiting
CPOE
awaiting
Success rate
awaiting
Explosive rate (20+)
awaiting
aDOT
awaiting
Deep-ball accuracy
awaiting
Pressure-to-sack
awaiting
3rd-down EPA
awaiting
Red-zone TD rate
awaiting
Play-action EPA
awaiting
Scramble EPA
awaiting
Turnover-worthy play rate
awaiting

Advanced Savant

Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.

Advanced opponent-adjusted metrics are coming soon for this player. Selected cohort: P4.
Peer Comparator returns once this player clears the Savant metric floor (4+ scored bars).
DNA Match awaiting data — similarity scores compute once season stats clear the volume gate for this position cohort.

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Eli Drinkwitz

Pass share

39.6%

360 pass / 550 run

Plays / game

70.0

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

8.4%

308 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-heavy.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2024

1 coach
2021
Eli Drinkwitz
Missouri
2022
Eli Drinkwitz
Missouri
2023
Eli Drinkwitz
Missouri
2024
Eli Drinkwitz
Missouri

Played his entire career under Eli Drinkwitz.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.

HometownSaint Louis, MO
Height6'2"
Weight205 lb
Class4
PositionQB
Jersey12

Trophy Case · Detail

Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.

Honors

No formal honors on the ledger yet

All-America, all-conference, player-of-the-week, watch-list, and postseason awards land here when they're earned. The absence is the signal: most players never collect formal honors, and that's its own kind of context.

Honors Timeline

Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.

Season Honor Scope Team / Selector Context
No formal honors on the ledger yet. All-America, all-conference, weekly awards, watch lists, and postseason trophies land here when they’re earned.

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2024 Missouri QB4 #32 #30 0.8% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | SEC
2023 Missouri QB4 #9 #9 4.9% 24.4% -- -- W19 snapshot | SEC
2022 Missouri QB4 #79 #115 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | SEC
2021 Missouri QB4 #319 #337 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | SEC

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2024 Missouri SEC QB 4 No. 12 | 6-2 | 205 lb | Saint Louis, MO
2023 Missouri SEC QB 4 No. 12 | 6-2 | 205 lb | Saint Louis, MO
2022 Missouri SEC QB 4 No. 12 | 6-2 | 205 lb | Saint Louis, MO
2021 Missouri SEC QB 4 No. 12 | 6-2 | 205 lb | Saint Louis, MO