#12

Brady Cook

Former quarterback at Missouri. 2024: 2,525 passing yards, 11 TD, 2 INT.

QB · Missouri · Sr. · #12

6′2″ · 205 lb · Saint Louis, MO

CFB Index 56 · #46 of 137 QBsHigh confidenceMissouri 2024 — college career complete

The story

Former quarterback at Missouri. 2024: 2,525 passing yards, 11 TD, 2 INT.

Named SEC Scholar Athlete of the Year in 2023.
Named SEC Scholar Athlete of the Year in 2024.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Five seasons at Missouri, 8,971 passing yards — his college career is complete.

His career

Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.

The week the volume broke through — put up 63 yds vs Arkansas.Arkansas · W 28-212024

202313 games

SEC Scholar Athlete of the Yearwinner

202412 games

SEC Scholar Athlete of the Yearwinner

Career arc

Recruit

—

No recruit profile

CFB

College

Missouri

2020–2024

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Coaching lineage · 2020–2024

1 coach

2020–2024

Eli Drinkwitz

Missouri

Played his entire career under Eli Drinkwitz.

2024 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

5 seasons under Eli Drinkwitz — 38-24 over that span.

2020Missouri5-5HC: Eli Drinkwitz · Balanced

2021Missouri6-7HC: Eli Drinkwitz · Balanced, fast tempo

2022Missouri6-7HC: Eli Drinkwitz · Run-leaning

2023Missouri11-2HC: Eli Drinkwitz · Run-leaning

2024Missouri10-3HC: Eli Drinkwitz · Run-leaning

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

56Quality starter #46 of 137?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: interception rate (99th percentile). Strength: interceptions (93rd percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Interception rate#1 / 169 · 99th pct

0.0%

EPA / dropback#48 / 169 · 72nd pct

0.28

Explosive rate#67 / 169 · 61st pct

10.6%

Success rate#91 / 169 · 46th pct

41.0%

Sack rate#93 / 169 · 45th pct

6.3%

Box-score rates (8)

Interceptions#5 / 165 · 93rd pct

Rush TDs#37 / 165 · 74th pct

Yards / att#42 / 165 · 73rd pct

7.9

Fumbles lost#21 / 159 · 73rd pct

Rush yards#65 / 165 · 61st pct

223

Pass yards#67 / 165 · 60th pct

2525

Completion %#70 / 165 · 58th pct

62.5%

Pass TDs#109 / 165 · 33rd pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

86th → 72nd percentile

Success rate

88th → 46th percentile

Explosive rate

87th → 61st percentile

Sack rate

58th → 45th percentile

Interception rate

47th → 99th percentile

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season. Most bars are box-score rates; EPA / success-rate bars are computed from real play-by-play (offense only — no defensive EPA model exists yet).

Passing profile

Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)

Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from

195/311 (62.7%) · 11 TD · 2 INT

311 of 320 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

7.4548 of 205 QBs

Sack rate

6.2%115 of 205 QBs

Sacked 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 yds

53%of completions

104 comp4.8 yds avg2 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

30%of completions

58 comp14.2 yds avg1 TD

Deep

20+ yds

17%of completions

33 comp35.9 yds avg5 TD

Overall 62.7% completion on 311 attempts · 33 deep completions averaging 35.9 yds.

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2024 baseline

+57

percentile points better on third down or later

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-41 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 8/125 (6.4%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 2

+1 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 5/87 (5.7%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 3+

+57 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 6/87 (6.9%) · league sack rate 8.1% · ~our read

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 & context

Splits · Per-game

2024 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home7g	226	0.9	7.8	0.1
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

2026 season

Head Coach

Eli Drinkwitz

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2024

Impact starter

Producing measurably more than a replacement-level starter.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

56 · #46 of 137 QBs

Career stats

Season	Team
2024	Missouri	200	320	62.5%	2,525	7.9	11	2	138.9	56	--	--
2023	Missouri	243	367	66.2%	3,302	9.0	21	6	157.4	71	--	--
2022	Missouri	244	379	64.4%	2,727	7.2	13	7	132.4	53	--	--
2021	Missouri	46	58	79.3%	345	5.9	2	0	140.7	49	--	--
2020	Missouri	6	7	85.7%	72	10.3	1	0	219.3	--	--	--
Career		739	1,131	65.3%	8,971	7.9	48	15	143.3	60	--	--

Season	Team
2024	Missouri	87	223	2.6	5	--
2023	Missouri	113	319	2.8	8	--
2022	Missouri	139	590	4.2	6	--
2021	Missouri	22	92	4.2	1	--
2020	Missouri	--	--	--	--	--
Career		361	1,224	3.4	20	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 18 · 2024

W 27–24

vs Iowa

287 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 86.5 · 54 rush yds (14 car)

A wire-to-wire battle — won by 3 at home.

With L. Bauer — 44 AVG · 1 IN 20 · 62 LONG · M. Johnson — 2 rush yds (2 car)

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 6 · Texas A&M · 3&7 · Q3 · EPA +6.34Brady Cook pass complete to Theo Wease Jr. for 59 yds for a TD (Blake Craig KICK)
Week 8 · Auburn · 3&10 · Q3 · EPA +5.99Brady Cook pass complete to Mookie Cooper for 78 yds to the AUB 2 for a 1ST down
Week 12 · South Carolina · 4&5 · Q4 · EPA +5.20Brady Cook pass complete to Luther Burden III for 37 yds for a TD (J. Roberts Run For Two-point Conversion)
Week 7 · Massachusetts · 1&10 · Q3 · EPA +5.05Brady Cook pass complete to Joshua Manning for 63 yds for a TD (Blake Craig KICK)
Week 1 · Murray State · 1&10 · Q2 · EPA -4.19Brady Cook run for a loss of 5 yards to the MUR 35 Brady Cook fumbled, recovered by MUR Kevon Haigler K. Haigler return for 0 yds
Week 14 · Arkansas · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA +4.18Brady Cook pass complete to Theo Wease Jr. for 70 yds to the ARK 20 for a 1ST down
Week 13 · Mississippi State · 3&9 · Q2 · EPA +3.88Brady Cook pass complete to Luther Burden III for 28 yds for a TD (Blake Craig KICK)
Week 13 · Mississippi State · 3&6 · Q4 · EPA +3.87Brady Cook pass complete to Joshua Manning for 36 yds to the MSST 33 for a 1ST down
Week 13 · Mississippi State · 3&6 · Q2 · EPA +3.82Brady Cook pass complete to Theo Wease Jr. for 38 yds to the MSST 41 for a 1ST down
Week 1 · Murray State · 3&4 · Q3 · EPA +3.80Brady Cook pass complete to Mookie Cooper for 49 yds to the MUR 43 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2024 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

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	Season-high 287 yds
Wk 2	W 38-0vs Buffalo	28/36	228	0	1	6.3	80.8
Wk 3	W 27-21vs 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@ 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@ Alabama	7/12	30	0	0	2.5	12.9
Wk 12	L 30-34@ 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	8.0	68.1

How he plays

Play style

Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

51.3%Completion %

25.0%Conversion/dropback

50.0%Land short of sticks

0INTs

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. ~ our read: checkdown by design

Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration

Who gets the tough yard

fact

7/103rd/4th & short

3/38Inside-5 share

7 of 10 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (70.0%). 3 of the team's 38 inside-the-5 carries (7.9%).