#13

Brayden Schager

Former quarterback at Hawai'i. 2024: 2,591 passing yards, 19 TD, 13 INT.

QB · Hawai'i · Sr. · #13

6′3″ · 220 lb · Dallas, TX

CFB Index 29 · #115 of 137 QBsHigh confidenceHawai'i 2024 — college career complete

Recruiting

3★

QB recruit

No. 1405 nationally · Signed with Hawai'i

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

Former quarterback at Hawai'i. 2024: 2,591 passing yards, 19 TD, 13 INT.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Hawai'i in 2021.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Four seasons at Hawai'i, 9,096 passing yards — his college career is complete.

His career

He was winning awards before he was old enough to be a story.

20215 games

Signed with Hawai'i3-star out of Highland Park

202411 games

The role got bigger.

Entered the portal

Career arc

Recruit

★★★

#1405 national

CFB

College

Hawai'i

2021–2024

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Trophy case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

2 honors · 1 category

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FRESHMAN HONORS

Freshman recognition (2021)

1 mention(s)

Coaching lineage · 2021–2024

2 coaches

2021

Todd Graham

Hawai'i

2022–2024

Timmy Chang

Hawai'i

era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Todd Graham → Timmy Chang. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

2024 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2021Hawai'i6-7HC: Todd Graham · Balanced

2022Hawai'i3-10HC: Timmy Chang · Pass-leaning

2023Hawai'i5-8HC: Timmy Chang · Pass-heavy

2024Hawai'i5-7HC: Timmy Chang · Pass-leaning

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

29Below cohort / limited sample #115 of 137?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: rush tds (80th percentile). Concern: explosive rate (10th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Success rate#72 / 169 · 57th pct

42.0%

Interception rate#112 / 169 · 34th pct

2.6%

EPA / dropback#136 / 169 · 20th pct

0.11

Sack rate#143 / 169 · 16th pct

8.9%

Explosive rate#152 / 169 · 10th pct

6.1%

Box-score rates (8)

Rush TDs#31 / 165 · 80th pct

Pass TDs#41 / 165 · 74th pct

Fumbles lost#21 / 159 · 73rd pct

Rush yards#55 / 165 · 67th pct

267

Pass yards#60 / 165 · 64th pct

2591

Completion %#129 / 165 · 22nd pct

57.7%

Yards / att#141 / 165 · 14th pct

6.4

Interceptions#162 / 165 · 2nd pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

41st → 20th percentile

Success rate

56th → 57th percentile

Explosive rate

21st → 10th percentile

Sack rate

35th → 16th percentile

Interception rate

56th → 34th 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

227/391 (58.1%) · 19 TD · 13 INT

391 of 404 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

4.88162 of 205 QBs

Sack rate

8.6%171 of 205 QBs

Sacked on 8.6% of dropbacks (171 of 205) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (162 of 205).

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

Short

0–9 yds

56%of completions

127 comp5.3 yds avg6 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

33%of completions

76 comp13.8 yds avg3 TD

Deep

20+ yds

11%of completions

24 comp32.5 yds avg7 TD

Overall 58.1% completion on 391 attempts · 24 deep completions averaging 32.5 yds.

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2024 baseline

No situation moves him more than 10 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-10 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 6/152 (3.9%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 2

+6 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 15/143 (10.5%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 3+

+6 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 13/108 (12.0%) · 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 · 11 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home6g	250	1.8	6.9	1.0
Road5g	218	1.6	6.0	1.4

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-76g	265	2.0	6.6	1.0
Weeks 8+5g	200	1.4	6.4	1.4

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Timmy Chang

Pass share

63.7%

142 pass / 81 run

Plays / game

74.3

3 games

Scheme: Pass-heavy.

Awards

Player standing · 2024

Impact starter

Producing measurably more than a replacement-level starter.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

29 · #115 of 137 QBs

Three-star recruit. Now #115 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2024	Hawai'i	233	404	57.7%	2,591	6.4	19	13	120.6	26	--	--
2023	Hawai'i	332	525	63.2%	3,542	6.7	26	14	130.9	22	--	--
2022	Hawai'i	221	400	55.2%	2,348	5.9	13	10	110.3	30	--	--
2021	Hawai'i	65	107	60.7%	615	5.7	2	5	105.9	30	--	--
Career		851	1,436	59.3%	9,096	6.3	60	42	120.4	26	--	--

Season	Team
2024	Hawai'i	135	267	2.0	6	--
2023	Hawai'i	103	54	0.5	2	--
2022	Hawai'i	45	47	1.0	0	--
2021	Hawai'i	14	-50	-3.6	0	--
Career		297	318	1.1	8	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2024

W 35–14

vs Delaware State

203 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 26.7 · 38 rush yds (10 car) · 2 TD

Dominant 21-point win at home against Delaware State.

With L. Borrow — 44 AVG · 3 IN 20 · 55 LONG · T. Hines — 1 TD · 19 AVG · 22 LONG

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 10 · Fresno State · 3&16 · Q3 · EPA -9.66Brayden Schager pass intercepted Phoenix Jackson return for 89 yds for a TD (Dylan Lynch KICK)
Week 11 · UNLV · 2&9 · Q1 · EPA +6.67Brayden Schager pass complete to Dekel Crowdus for 74 yds for a TD (Kansei Matsuzawa KICK)
Week 1 · UCLA · 2&2 · Q2 · EPA -4.38Brayden Schager pass intercepted Ramon Henderson return for no gain to the UCLA 6
Week 3 · Sam Houston · 3&9 · Q2 · EPA +4.25Brayden Schager pass complete to Dekel Crowdus for 52 yds to the SHSU 8 for a 1ST down
Week 11 · UNLV · 1&15 · Q4 · EPA +4.22Brayden Schager pass complete to Nick Cenacle for 62 yds to the UNLV 5 for a 1ST down
Week 7 · Boise State · 2&13 · Q2 · EPA +4.18Brayden Schager pass complete to Landon Sims for 52 yds to the BOIS 18 for a 1ST down
Week 6 · San Diego State · 4&18 · Q4 · EPA +4.07Brayden Schager pass complete to Pofele Ashlock for 19 yds to the SDSU 39 for a 1ST down
Week 7 · Boise State · 2&19 · Q2 · EPA +3.95Brayden Schager pass complete to Tylan Hines for 27 yds for a TD (Kansei Matsuzawa KICK)
Week 11 · UNLV · 2&3 · Q3 · EPA +3.70Jonah Panoke 49 Yd pass from Brayden Schager (Kansei Matsuzawa Kick)
Week 9 · Nevada · 3&7 · Q2 · EPA -3.66Brayden Schager pass intercepted Michael Coats Jr. return for no gain to the NEV 14

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2024 season · 11 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 35-14vs Delaware State	17/34	203	2	0	6.0	26.7
Wk 1	L 13-16vs UCLA	25/42	227	1	2	5.4	34.5
Wk 3	L 13-31@ Sam Houston	21/42	252	1	1	6.0	28.3
Wk 4	W 36-7vs Northern Iowa	35/43	374	4	2	8.7	76.4	Season-high 374 yds
Wk 6	L 24-27@ San Diego State	26/44	272	3	1	6.2	62.1	3 TD passes
Wk 7	L 7-28vs Boise State	21/37	264	1	0	7.1	52.5
Wk 8	L 10-42@ Washington State	20/30	196	1	1	6.5	51.9
Wk 9	W 34-13vs Nevada	14/25	153	0	1	6.1	70.3
Wk 10	W 21-20@ Fresno State	29/53	244	3	1	4.6	51.4	3 TD passes
Wk 11	L 27-29vs UNLV	14/35	282	3	1	8.1	31.6	3 TD passes
Wk 12	L 10-55@ Utah State	11/19	124	0	3	6.5	3.1	3 INTs — rough day
Total		233/404	2591	19	13	6.5	44.4

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

43.8%Completion %

23.1%Conversion/dropback

42.9%Land short of sticks

4INTs

43.8% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 23.1% conversion-per-dropback — 42.9% 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

8/103rd/4th & short

8 of 10 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (80.0%).