Brady Cook: QB · Missouri · #12.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Brady Cook
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Fifth year in the Missouri quarterback room. That makes two straight seasons on the honors list: SEC Scholar Athlete of the Year again in 2024. On tape: 287 passing yards and 54 rushing yards against Iowa, Bowl, 2024.
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
51.3% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 25.0% conversion-per-dropback — 50.0% 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
7 of 10 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (70.0%). 3 of the team's 38 inside-the-5 carries (7.9%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 51-0vs Murray State | 19/30 | 218 | 1 | 0 | 7.3 | 53.3 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 2 | W 38-0vs Buffalo | 28/36 | 228 | 0 | 1 | 6.3 | 80.8 | |
| Wk 3 | W 27-21vs No. 24 Boston College | 21/30 | 264 | 1 | 0 | 8.8 | 89.3 | |
| Wk 4 | W 30-27vs Vanderbilt | 23/37 | 226 | 2 | 0 | 6.1 | 46.0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 10-41@ No. 25 Texas A&M | 13/31 | 186 | 1 | 0 | 6.0 | 25.6 | |
| Wk 7 | W 45-3@ Massachusetts | 14/19 | 219 | 2 | 0 | 11.5 | 91.9 | |
| Wk 8 | W 21-17vs Auburn | 11/22 | 194 | 0 | 0 | 8.8 | 76.4 | |
| Wk 9 | L 0-34@ No. 15 Alabama | 7/12 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 2.5 | 12.9 | |
| Wk 12 | L 30-34@ No. 23 South Carolina | 21/31 | 237 | 1 | 1 | 7.6 | 82.7 | |
| Wk 13 | W 39-20@ Mississippi State | 15/20 | 268 | 1 | 0 | 13.4 | 94.1 | |
| Wk 14 | W 28-21vs Arkansas | 10/20 | 168 | 0 | 0 | 8.4 | 78.3 | |
 Bowl | W 27-24vs Iowa | 18/32 | 287 | 2 | 0 | 9.0 | 86.5 | |
| Total | 200/320 | 2525 | 11 | 2 | 7.9 | — |
Bowl · 2024
W 27-24
vs Iowa · neutral site
287 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 86.5 · 54 rush yds (14 car)
A close one, won by 3 at a neutral site.
With L. Bauer — 44.6 yards per punt · 5 punts · 1 inside the 20 · M. Johnson — 7 rec · 122 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 311 passing plays (195 completions) against the box score's 320 attempts (200 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.4548 of 205 QBsSack rate
6.2%115 of 205 QBsSacked on 6.2% of dropbacks (115 of 205) — and still 48 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 62.5% completion on 320 attempts · 33 deep completions averaging 35.9 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2024 baseline
+57
percentile points better on third down or later
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.
5 seasons under Eli Drinkwitz — 38-24 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2024 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 216 | 0.7 | 7.6 | 0.2 |
| Road5g | 188 | 1.0 | 8.2 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 233 | 1.3 | 7.9 | 0.1 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 179 | 0.4 | 8.1 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Eli Drinkwitz
Pass share
44.1%
403 pass / 510 run
Plays / game
70.2
13 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2024
320 pass attempts and 87 carries in 12 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
How it ended
Five seasons at Missouri, 8,971 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
Coaching lineage · 2020–2024
1 coachPlayed every college season under Eli Drinkwitz.
