Brandon Allen: QB · Arkansas · #10.
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Brandon Allen
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. Second year in the same quarterback room at Arkansas. One game to point at: 442 passing yards and 6 passing TD against Ole Miss — Week 10, 2015.
Play style
High-percentage passer who protects the ball. Loses the matchup on improvisation.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
58.3% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 42.1% conversion-per-dropback — 23.8% 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%). 2 of the team's 27 inside-the-5 carries (7.4%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2015 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 48-13vs UTEP | 14/18 | 308 | 4 | 0 | 17.1 | 99.9 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | L 12-16vs Toledo | 32/53 | 412 | 0 | 1 | 7.8 | 64.8 | |
| Wk 3 | L 24-35vs Texas Tech | 16/21 | 196 | 2 | 1 | 9.3 | 81.9 | |
| Wk 4 | L 21-28vs No. 14 Texas A&M | 20/25 | 225 | 1 | 1 | 9.0 | 53.3 | |
| Wk 5 | W 24-20@ Tennessee | 11/24 | 219 | 1 | 0 | 9.1 | 63.4 | |
| Wk 6 | L 14-27@ No. 8 Alabama | 15/32 | 176 | 2 | 1 | 5.5 | 13.6 | |
| Wk 8 | W 54-46vs Auburn | 19/31 | 233 | 3 | 1 | 7.5 | 79.9 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 9 | W 63-28vs UT Martin | 14/19 | 265 | 2 | 0 | 13.9 | 96.5 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 10 | W 53-52@ No. 19 Ole Miss | 33/45 | 442 | 6 | 0 | 9.8 | 93.9 | Season-high 442 yds |
| Wk 11 | W 31-14@ No. 9 LSU | 9/16 | 141 | 1 | 1 | 8.8 | 55.9 | |
| Wk 12 | L 50-51vs Mississippi State | 30/43 | 406 | 7 | 0 | 9.4 | 97.4 | 7 TD passes |
| Wk 13 | W 28-3vs Missouri | 11/17 | 102 | 0 | 1 | 6.0 | 67.4 | |
 Bowl | W 45-23vs Kansas State | 20/26 | 315 | 1 | 1 | 12.1 | 90.9 | |
| Total | 244/370 | 3440 | 30 | 8 | 9.3 | — |
Week 10 · 2015
W 53-52
at Ole Miss
442 yds · 6 TD · 0 INT · QBR 93.9
Edged out Ole Miss on the road in a shootout.
With A. Collins — 108 rush yds (17 car) · 1 rec · 35 yds · J. Cornelius — 4 rec · 76 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 361 passing plays (235 completions) against the box score's 370 attempts (244 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
9.407 of 198 QBsSack rate
3.6%44 of 198 QBsRarely sacked (44 of 198 QBs) and still 7 of 198 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 65.9% completion on 370 attempts · 42 deep completions averaging 32.1 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 Bret Bielema — 15-11 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2015 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 275 | 2.6 | 10.1 | 0.6 |
| Road4g | 244 | 2.5 | 8.3 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 264 | 1.6 | 10.0 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 265 | 3.2 | 9.2 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bret Bielema
Pass share
42.5%
374 pass / 506 run
Plays / game
67.7
13 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2015
370 pass attempts, 56 carries and 1 catch in 13 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Arkansas, 5,725 passing yards — drafted at #201 overall by the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Coaching lineage · 2011–2015
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Bobby Petrino, John Smith, and Bret Bielema. Multi-era developmental context.
Next stop · NFL
Jacksonville JaguarsEntering 11th NFL season
Jacksonville JaguarsEntering 11th NFL season
