Brandon Doughty: QB · Western Kentucky · #12.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Brandon Doughty
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. Two seasons in the Western Kentucky quarterback room to date. One game to point at: 484 passing yards and 11 rushing yards against Indiana — Week 3, 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
64.7% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 25.5% conversion-per-dropback — 57.6% 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
2 of the team's 25 inside-the-5 carries (8.0%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Western Kentucky | 388 | 540 | 71.9% | 5,055 | 9.4 | 48 | 9 | 176.5 | 94 |
| 2014 | Western Kentucky | 375 | 552 | 67.9% | 4,830 | 8.8 | 49 | 10 | 167.1 | 91 |
| Career | 763 | 1,092 | 69.9% | 9,885 | 9.1 | 97 | 19 | 171.7 | 93 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Western Kentucky | 27 | −122 | −4.5 | 1 | 11 |
| 2014 | Western Kentucky | 39 | −52 | −1.3 | 2 | 15 |
| Career | 66 | −174 | −2.6 | 3 | 15 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2015 season · 14 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 14-12@ Vanderbilt | 19/30 | 209 | 1 | 0 | 7.0 | 28.6 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 41-38vs Louisiana Tech | 28/38 | 441 | 1 | 0 | 11.6 | 86.6 | |
| Wk 3 | L 35-38@ Indiana | 35/46 | 484 | 3 | 2 | 10.5 | 90.8 | Season-high 484 yds |
| Wk 4 | W 56-14vs Miami (OH) | 33/41 | 457 | 6 | 0 | 11.1 | 96.6 | 6 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | W 49-10@ Rice | 28/38 | 409 | 4 | 0 | 10.8 | 97.3 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 6 | W 58-28vs Middle Tennessee | 28/36 | 359 | 5 | 1 | 10.0 | 98.7 | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 7 | W 55-28@ North Texas | 26/37 | 350 | 4 | 1 | 9.5 | 83.9 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | L 20-48@ No. 5 LSU | 37/61 | 325 | 3 | 1 | 5.3 | 35.5 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 9 | W 55-30@ Old Dominion | 21/28 | 276 | 3 | 0 | 9.9 | 93.5 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 10 | W 35-19vs Florida Atlantic | 24/29 | 280 | 4 | 1 | 9.7 | 89.4 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | W 63-7@ Florida International | 16/21 | 224 | 3 | 0 | 10.7 | 96.4 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 13 | W 49-28vs Marshall | 27/39 | 370 | 5 | 0 | 9.5 | 81.2 | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 14 | W 45-28vs Southern Miss | 34/52 | 410 | 3 | 1 | 7.9 | 77.3 | 3 TD passes |
 Bowl | W 45-35vs South Florida | 32/44 | 461 | 3 | 2 | 10.5 | 61.2 | |
| Total | 388/540 | 5055 | 48 | 9 | 9.4 | — |
Week 13 · 2015
W 49-28
vs Marshall
370 yds · 5 TD · 0 INT · QBR 81.2
Dominant 21-point win at home against Marshall.
With J. Collins — 37 yards per punt · 5 punts · 43 long · A. Wales — 131 rush yds (24 car) · 1 TD · 3 rec · 25 yds
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 512 passing plays (365 completions) against the box score's 540 attempts (388 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
9.984 of 198 QBsSack rate
2.5%19 of 198 QBsRarely sacked (19 of 198 QBs) and still 4 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 71.9% completion on 540 attempts · 70 deep completions averaging 34.6 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2015 baseline
No situation moves him more than 36 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 Jeff Brohm — 20-7 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2015 season · 14 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 386 | 4.0 | 10.0 | 0.5 |
| Road7g | 325 | 3.0 | 9.1 | 0.6 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 396 | 3.4 | 10.1 | 0.8 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 314 | 3.5 | 8.8 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jeff Brohm
Pass share
54.7%
553 pass / 458 run
Plays / game
72.2
14 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2015
540 pass attempts, 27 carries and 1 catch in 14 games, more passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Western Kentucky, 9,885 passing yards — drafted at #223 overall by the Miami Dolphins.
Coaching lineage · 2010–2015
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Willie Taggart, Bobby Petrino, and Jeff Brohm. Multi-era developmental context.
Next stop · NFL
Miami DolphinsEntering 11th NFL season
Miami DolphinsEntering 11th NFL season
