Brandon Bridge

#7 · QB · South Alabama6′5″ · Mississauga, ON

Brandon Bridge: QB · South Alabama · #7.

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Brandon Bridge

QB · South Alabama · #7

Operates within the system without forcing anything. A game that shows it: 339 passing yards and 23 rushing yards against App State — Week 6, 2014.

Style of play

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

27.8%Completion %

20.0%Conversion/dropback

20.0%Land short of sticks

1INTs

27.8% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 20.0% conversion-per-dropback — 20.0% 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

Fans

No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.

Where to follow

Career stats

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Season	Team
2014	South Alabama	160	307	52.1%	1,927	6.3	15	8	115.8	25
Career		160	307	52.1%	1,927	6.3	15	8	115.8	25

Season	Team
2014	South Alabama	101	297	2.9	4	65
Career		101	297	2.9	4	65

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2014 season · 11 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 2	W 23-13@ Kent State	15/25	161	1	0	6.4	49.0
Wk 3	L 3-35vs Mississippi State	21/39	203	0	1	5.2	17.9
Wk 4	L 6-28vs Georgia Southern	13/34	149	1	2	4.4	20.2
Wk 5	W 34-10@ Idaho	15/25	196	1	1	7.8	85.0
Wk 6	W 47-21@ App State	19/28	339	3	0	12.1	91.9	Season-high 339 yds
Wk 8	W 30-27vs Georgia State	11/32	126	2	0	3.9	47.7
Wk 9	W 27-13vs Troy	9/21	106	1	0	5.0	29.7
Wk 10	L 9-19@ Louisiana	16/27	177	1	0	6.6	43.2
Wk 13	L 12-37@ South Carolina	2/11	19	0	0	1.7	3.0
Wk 14	L 40-42vs Navy	19/28	172	4	2	6.1	71.9	4 TD passes
Bowl	L 28-33vs Bowling Green	20/37	279	1	2	7.5	30.1
Total		160/307	1927	15	8	6.3	—

Signature game

Week 6 · 2014

W 47-21

at App State

339 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 91.9 · 23 rush yds (9 car) · 1 TD

Dominant 26-point win on the road against App State.

With S. Smith — 6 rec · 133 yds · 2 TD · B. McKee — 36 yards per punt · 3 punts · 1 inside the 20

Signature plays

The plays that mattered most

Week 6 · App State · 2nd and 7 · Q2 · EPA +6.05Brandon Bridge pass complete to Shavarez Smith for 67 yds for a TD, (Grant McLaurin KICK)
Week 9 · Troy · 3rd and 5 · Q1 · EPA +4.88Bridge to Smith: a 45-yard touchdown pass.
Week 1 · Bowling Green · 1st and 10 · Q3 · EPA −4.45Brandon Bridge run for a loss of 1 yard to the BwGrn 15 Brandon Bridge fumbled, recovered by BwGrn Kendall Montgomery
Week 10 · Louisiana · 3rd and 8 · Q2 · EPA +4.45Brandon Bridge pass complete to Shavarez Smith for 58 yds to the LaLaf 15 for a
Week 4 · Georgia Southern · 4th and 5 · Q2 · EPA +4.34Brandon Bridge pass complete to Shavarez Smith for 28 yds for a TD, (Aleem Sunanon MISSED)
Week 8 · Georgia State · 1st and 10 · Q4 · EPA +4.00Brandon Bridge run for 65 yds to the GeoSt 20 for a

4 more plays

Week 3 · Mississippi State · 2nd and 12 · Q2 · EPA +3.89Brandon Bridge pass complete to Shavarez Smith for 42 yds to the MisSt 40 for a
Week 2 · Kent State · 1st and 10 · Q2 · EPA +3.72Brandon Bridge pass complete to Marvin Shinn for 58 yds to the KntSt 1 for a
Week 14 · Navy · 1st and 10 · Q4 · EPA +3.69Brandon Bridge pass complete to Shavarez Smith for 48 yds for a TD, (Aleem Sunanon KICK)
Week 14 · Navy · 3rd and 9 · Q1 · EPA +3.61Brandon Bridge pass complete to Danny Woodson for 13 yds to the Navy 41 for a NAVY Penalty, personal foul (15 Yards) to the Navy 44 for a

Passing profile

Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)

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

160/307 (52.1%) · 15 TD · 8 INT

280 of 307 attempts matched to play-by-play

Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 280 passing plays (144 completions) against the box score's 307 attempts (160 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.

Adjusted ANY/A

5.12120 of 181 QBs

Sack rate

7.0%135 of 181 QBs

Sacked on 7.0% of dropbacks (135 of 181) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (120 of 181).

Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.

Short

0–9 yds

52%of completions

75 comp4.8 yds avg3 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

36%of completions

52 comp13.2 yds avg6 TD

Deep

20+ yds

12%of completions

17 comp37.4 yds avg4 TD

Overall 52.1% completion on 307 attempts · 17 deep completions averaging 37.4 yds.

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2014 baseline

No situation moves him more than 25 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-25 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 6/102 (5.9%) · league sack rate 4.8%

Down 2

+25 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 5/97 (5.2%) · league sack rate 5.3%

Down 3+

+1 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 10/86 (11.6%) · league sack rate 8.1%

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.

Teams and coaches

2014South Alabama6-7HC: Joey Jones · Run-leaning

Our ratings

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Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles · 2014 season

12 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: explosive rate (9th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Interception rate#73 / 163 · 55th pct

2.5%

EPA / dropback#114 / 163 · 30th pct

0.11

Success rate#122 / 163 · 25th pct

36.3%

Sack rate#125 / 163 · 24th pct

7.6%

Explosive rate#149 / 163 · 9th pct

6.1%

Box-score rates (7)

Rush yards#53 / 157 · 67th pct

297

Rush TDs#47 / 157 · 66th pct

Pass TDs#72 / 157 · 54th pct

Interceptions#73 / 157 · 49th pct

Pass yards#92 / 157 · 42nd pct

1927

Yards / att#123 / 157 · 20th pct

6.3

Completion %#140 / 157 · 11th pct

52.1%

Season trend

EPA / dropback— first qualifying season

Success rate— first qualifying season

Explosive rate— first qualifying season

Sack rate— first qualifying season

Interception rate— first qualifying season

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps in 2014. 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).

Zeitgeist Passer Rating

2014 · our own passing-efficiency number, shown next to the 1979 formula it does not replace.

After 285 dropbacks

25Zeitgeist Passer Rating132nd of 142 FBS QBs

NCAA passer rating 115.8 113th of 142 FBS QBs

ZPR ranks this quarterback 19 places lower than passer rating does: passer rating cannot see sacks, and a sack comes on 7.4% of dropbacks; and the schedule adjustment debits the defenses faced.

Positive-play rate weight 24%

37.3%7th pct of FBS QBs

share of dropbacks that gained expected points · -1.7% schedule adj.

Yards per attempt weight 56%

6.1623rd pct of FBS QBs

sacks excluded · -0.1 schedule adj.

Sack rate weight 21% (penalty)

8.5%12th pct of FBS QBs

the input passer rating cannot see · +1.1% schedule adj.

Opponent-adjusted; garbage time excluded (18 of 303 dropbacks dropped). 50 = FBS average; the number is pulled toward 50 when the sample is thin. How ZPR is built.

Splits

Home and road splits, scheme and staff

Splits · Per-game

2014 season · 11 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home5g	151	1.6	4.9	1.0
Road5g	178	1.2	6.9	0.2

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-76g	221	1.2	7.2	1.0
Weeks 8+5g	120	1.6	4.7	0.4

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2014 season

Head Coach

Joey Jones

Pass share

43.6%

411 pass / 532 run

Plays / game

72.5

13 games

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Awards

Player standing · 2014

Impact starter

307 pass attempts and 101 carries in 11 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Brandon Bridge

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Style of play

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Where to follow

Career stats

Game log

Signature game

Signature plays

Passing profile

Situational

Teams and coaches

Our ratings

Splits

Awards

Impact starter

Three seasons at South Alabama

Where it started