Brayden Schager: QB · Hawai'i · #13.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Brayden Schager
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Played for two head coaches at Hawai'i: Todd Graham and Timmy Chang. That makes two seasons with an honor, the latest Mountain West Offensive Player of the Week in 2024. One game to point at: 374 passing yards and 28 rushing yards against Northern Iowa — Week 4, 2024.
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
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. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
8 of 10 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (80.0%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 11 games
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| 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 No. 17 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 | 6.4 | — |
Week 1 · 2024
W 35-14
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 391 passing plays (227 completions) against the box score's 404 attempts (233 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
4.88162 of 205 QBsSack rate
8.6%171 of 205 QBsSacked 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 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 57.7% completion on 404 attempts · 24 deep completions averaging 32.5 yds.
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.
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 · Per-game
2024 season · 11 games
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
Head Coach
Timmy Chang
Pass share
59.2%
481 pass / 331 run
Plays / game
67.7
12 games
Scheme: Pass-leaning.
Player standing · 2024
404 pass attempts and 135 carries in 11 games, more passes and runs a game than nearly every FBS quarterback who plays every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Three-star recruit. Now #115 at the position.
How it ended
Four seasons at Hawai'i, 9,096 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Honored in a first season.
The role got bigger.
Coaching lineage · 2021–2024
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Todd Graham → Timmy Chang. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
