Braylon Braxton

#1 · QB · Sr. · Southern Miss6′2″ · 230 lb · Frisco, TX · Frisco Independence

Braylon Braxton is a quarterback at Southern Miss who has not played in Southern Miss's 8 games this season; the last season with a stat line was 2025.

Where Braxton comes from

Frisco, TXHometown
Frisco IndependenceHigh school
About 450 miles from M. M. Roberts StadiumDistance
Three-star, No. 969 in the 2021 class; signed with Tulsa.Recruiting profile
On the Southern Miss roster since 2025Roster

Where Braxton fits

The consensus depth chart of May 27 lists Braxton at QB, No. 1.

Southern Miss lists 8 quarterbacks this season.

Southern Miss quarterbacks with a game this season

Landry Lyddy8 games this season
Ethan Hampton3 games this season
John White1 game this season

Southern Miss is 3-5. Next: vs James Madison, Thu Nov 5.

Similar players

Same class and position

Jaylen HendersonLiberty · QB · No. 1009 in the 2021 class
Tahj BullockColorado State · QB · No. 923 in the 2021 class
Mikey KeeneArizona State · QB · No. 819 in the 2021 class

From Frisco Independence

Reggie Bush IIBaylor · CB
Jake SimpsonTexas State · TE

Also from Frisco, TX

Jayden MaplesTCU · QB
Donovan WoolenNorth Dakota State · LB
Brandon MiyazonoSMU · LB
Brett KarhuNew Mexico · DE

Braxton operates within the system without forcing anything. Played for three head coaches across five seasons and three programs. All-Sun Belt in 2025 made it two straight seasons on the honors list. A game that shows it: 400 passing yards and 3 passing TD against South Alabama — Week 13, 2025.

Where to follow

Career stats

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Season	Team
2025	Southern Miss	254	400	63.5%	3,053	7.6	24	8	143.4	48
2024	Marshall	124	206	60.2%	1,624	7.9	19	2	154.9	49
2023	Tulsa	22	50	44.0%	212	4.2	2	6	68.8	--
2022	Tulsa	92	164	56.1%	1,133	6.9	10	2	131.8	29
2021	Tulsa	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--
Career		492	820	60.0%	6,022	7.3	55	18	139.4	44

Season	Team
2025	Southern Miss	98	215	2.2	1	21
2024	Marshall	134	610	4.6	4	35
2023	Tulsa	40	174	4.3	0	46
2022	Tulsa	55	145	2.6	5	37
2021	Tulsa	9	38	4.2	1	15
Career		336	1,182	3.5	11	46

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	L 17-34vs Mississippi State	26/39	199	2	1	5.1	52.3
Wk 2	W 38-20vs Jackson State	20/30	214	3	0	7.1	43.5	3 TD passes
Wk 3	W 38-22vs App State	22/30	279	2	1	9.3	68.5
Wk 4	L 20-30@ Louisiana Tech	28/47	392	2	1	8.3	55.5
Wk 5	W 42-25vs Jacksonville State	13/22	152	2	0	6.9	41.0
Wk 7	W 38-35@ Georgia Southern	19/28	237	2	0	8.5	63.9
Wk 8	W 22-10@ Louisiana	13/18	237	1	1	13.2	48.4
Wk 9	W 49-21vs UL Monroe	18/23	248	4	0	10.8	65.4	4 TD passes
Wk 11	W 27-21@ Arkansas State	20/29	228	1	1	7.9	38.4
Wk 13	L 35-42@ South Alabama	31/52	400	3	1	7.7	30.8	Season-high 400 yds
Wk 14	L 18-28vs Troy	20/35	209	1	1	6.0	43.2
Bowl	L 16-27vs Western Kentucky	24/47	258	1	1	5.5	39.5
Total		254/400	3053	24	8	7.6	—

Highs and lows

Only games with 20 or more plays count for best and lowest.
Best by our grade	at Louisiana Tech	L 20-30 · Graded great · 392 yds, 2 TD, 1 INT · Rush 10 for 23 · Sacked 1
Lowest by our grade	at South Alabama	L 35-42 · Graded shaky · Steady all game · 400 yds, 3 TD, 1 INT · Rush 4 for -23 · Sacked 2
Best play	Troy	Completion for 10 yards, touchdown, Q4 3:27 · Win chance 11% to 59%

Passing profile

Pass Profile · True throw depth (charted plays)

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

254/400 (63.5%) · 24 TD · 8 INT

377 of 400 attempts matched to play-by-play

139 of 377 attempts charted for true throw depth

Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 377 passing plays (235 completions) against the box score's 400 attempts (254 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.

Adjusted ANY/A

7.2658 of 206 QBs

Sack rate

4.5%93 of 206 QBs

Rarely sacked (93 of 206 QBs) and still 58 of 206 in Adjusted ANY/A.

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

Behind LOS · Negative air yds

22% of attempts (31)

97%comp

Air -3.6 · YAC 7.8 avg

Short · 0–9 air yds

34% of attempts (47)

57%comp2 INT

Air 4.0 · YAC 4.2 avg

Middle · 10–19 air yds

21% of attempts (29)

59%comp

Air 13.0 · YAC 3.8 avg

Deep · 20+ air yds

23% of attempts (32)

47%comp1 INT

Air 29.9 · YAC 2.2 avg

Overall 63.5% completion on 400 attempts · 47% completion on 32 deep attempts (20+ air yds).

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2025 baseline

No situation moves him more than 43 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-32 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 6/137 (4.4%) · league sack rate 4.2%

Down 2

+4 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 1/120 (0.8%) · league sack rate 4.5%

Down 3+

+43 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 12/91 (13.2%) · league sack rate 7.8%

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

2021Tulsa7-6HC: Philip Montgomery · Run-leaning, fast tempo

2022Tulsa5-7HC: Philip Montgomery · Balanced

2023Tulsa4-8HC: Kevin Wilson · Run-heavy

2024Marshall10-3HC: Charles Huff · Run-leaning

2025Southern Miss7-6HC: Charles Huff · Balanced

Our ratings

CFB Zeitgeist Score 48 (#72 of 146). Show the ratings

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles · 2025 season

48Rotational starter #72 of 146 · 2025?

13 metrics · season cumulative

2025 score: the 2026 sample is not big enough yet. The rows below are 2026 so far. Elite: explosive rate (89th percentile). Strength: pass tds (85th percentile). Concern: rush tds (26th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Explosive rate#21 / 183 · 89th pct

12.2%

Interception rate#48 / 183 · 74th pct

1.6%

Sack rate#82 / 183 · 55th pct

4.8%

EPA / dropback#83 / 183 · 55th pct

0.19

Success rate#105 / 183 · 42nd pct

39.2%

Box-score rates (8)

Pass TDs#24 / 183 · 85th pct

Pass yards#34 / 183 · 82nd pct

3053

Yards / att#57 / 183 · 68th pct

7.6

Fumbles lost#32 / 174 · 66th pct

Rush yards#69 / 183 · 62nd pct

215

Completion %#73 / 183 · 60th pct

63.5%

Interceptions#115 / 183 · 32nd pct

Rush TDs#123 / 183 · 26th pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

67th → 55th percentile

Success rate

40th → 42nd percentile

Explosive rate

81st → 89th percentile

Sack rate

65th → 55th percentile

Interception rate

91st → 74th percentile

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps in 2025. 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

2025 · our own passing-efficiency number, shown next to the 1979 formula it does not replace.

After 344 dropbacks

48Zeitgeist Passer Rating79th of 142 FBS QBs

NCAA passer rating 143.4 47th of 142 FBS QBs

ZPR ranks this quarterback 32 places lower than passer rating does: the positive-play rate and yards per attempt sit closer to average than the box line suggests.

Positive-play rate weight 24%

43.1%29th pct of FBS QBs

share of dropbacks that gained expected points · -0.2% schedule adj.

Yards per attempt weight 56%

7.2759th pct of FBS QBs

sacks excluded · -0.1 schedule adj.

Sack rate weight 21% (penalty)

6.4%35th pct of FBS QBs

the input passer rating cannot see · +0.9% schedule adj.

Opponent-adjusted; garbage time excluded (52 of 396 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

2025 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home6g	217	2.3	7.5	0.5
Road5g	299	1.8	9.1	0.8

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-77g	247	2.0	7.2	0.6
Weeks 8+5g	264	2.0	9.1	0.8

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Charles Huff

Pass share

49.9%

454 pass / 456 run

Plays / game

70.0

13 games

Scheme: Balanced.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

All-Conference

Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score

48 · #72 of 146 QBs · 2025

Three-star recruit. Now #72 at the position.

2026 outlook

In the mix to repeat All-Sun Belt

Based on 2025: #6 of 15 Sun Belt QBs

How the All-Sun Belt base rate is computed

A base rate for the rank, not a forecast of this player: 35% of returning players who ranked #4–10 at their position in their conference made an all-conference team the next season (95% confidence interval 31–38%).

Starter

Returning starter at quarterback for a 7-6 Southern Miss team that went +10 in the portal.