Brendan Sorsby

Junior quarterback for Texas Tech. 2025: 2,786 passing yards, 26 TD, 5 INT.

QB · Texas Tech · Jr. · #2

6′3″ · 235 lb · Corinth, TX

CFB Index 80 · #11 of 146 QBsHigh confidenceAll-ConferenceTransferred Cincinnati → Texas Tech for 2026

How he plays

Beats you with his legs when the pocket breaks down.

EPA / dropback: 95th percentile.

The full scouting read

The numbers

2,786

passing yards · 2025

26 TD · 5 INT · 8.3 per attempt

Backed by 253 yds · 5 TD -- top 1% passing TDs game.

The play that turned itSwung Cincinnati from 48% to 81% to win.Cincinnati at Oklahoma State · 49-17

His career numbers, season by season

The story

3 quarterback for Texas Tech. 2025: 2,786 passing yards, 26 TD, 5 INT.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Indiana in 2022.
Transferred from Cincinnati to Texas Tech in 2026.
Thomas Castellanos commits to Texas Tech (Aug 26) Reported

The full story, with sources

Brendan Sorsby

QB · Cincinnati · Jr · #2

Beats you with his legs when the pocket breaks down. Brendan Sorsby has played for two head coaches across four seasons and two programs. Two straight seasons of it now: All-Big 12 again in 2025. One game to point at: 388 pass yds, 52 rush yds against Kansas — Week 5, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
head-coach lineage
recognition record
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2022Indiana4-8HC: Tom Allen · Pass-leaning

2023Indiana3-9HC: Tom Allen · Run-leaning

2024Cincinnati5-7HC: Scott Satterfield · Balanced

2025Cincinnati7-6HC: Scott Satterfield · Balanced, slow tempo

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

80All-Conference level #11 of 146?

High confidenceSustained Ascent13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: epa / dropback (95th percentile). Strength: sack rate (94th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

EPA / dropback#10 / 183 · 95th pct

0.39

Sack rate#12 / 183 · 94th pct

2.1%

Explosive rate#23 / 183 · 88th pct

11.7%

Interception rate#26 / 183 · 86th pct

1.2%

Success rate#36 / 183 · 80th pct

44.7%

Box-score rates (8)

Pass TDs#16 / 183 · 91st pct

Rush TDs#21 / 183 · 86th pct

Rush yards#26 / 183 · 86th pct

580

Yards / att#27 / 183 · 84th pct

8.3

Pass yards#48 / 183 · 74th pct

2786

Interceptions#53 / 183 · 67th pct

Fumbles lost#32 / 174 · 66th pct

Completion %#105 / 183 · 43rd pct

61.5%

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

63rd → 95th percentile

Success rate

76th → 80th percentile

Explosive rate

12th → 88th percentile

Sack rate

77th → 94th percentile

Interception rate

62nd → 86th 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 · True throw depth (charted plays)

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

195/326 (59.8%) · 26 TD · 5 INT

326 of 335 attempts matched to play-by-play

151 of 326 attempts charted for true throw depth

Adjusted ANY/A

8.9013 of 206 QBs

Sack rate

2.0%22 of 206 QBs

Rarely sacked (22 of 206 QBs) and still 13 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

14% of attempts (21)

71%comp

Air -4.0 · YAC 8.3 avg

Short · 0–9 air yds

46% of attempts (69)

70%comp1 INT

Air 4.8 · YAC 4.0 avg

Middle · 10–19 air yds

21% of attempts (32)

44%comp1 INT

Air 13.2 · YAC 4.2 avg

Deep · 20+ air yds

19% of attempts (29)

28%comp2 INT

Air 28.4 · YAC 13.9 avg

Overall 59.8% completion on 326 attempts · 28% completion on 29 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 51 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-22 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 3/126 (2.4%) · league sack rate 4.2% · ~our read

Down 2

-11 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 1/112 (0.9%) · league sack rate 4.5% · ~our read

Down 3+

+51 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 1/80 (1.2%) · league sack rate 7.8% · ~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

2025 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home8g	203	2.1	8.8	0.5
Road4g	290	2.2	8.4	0.2

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-76g	241	2.3	10.0	0.2
Weeks 8+6g	223	2.0	7.2	0.7

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Joey McGuire

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

All-Conference

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

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

80 · #11 of 146 QBs

Three-star recruit. Now #11 at the position.

One of 52 players who were elite at two different things in 2025. See the others ›

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Cincinnati	206	335	61.5%	2,786	8.3	26	5	154.0	79	--	--
2024	Cincinnati	249	389	64.0%	2,813	7.2	18	7	136.4	60	--	--
2023	Indiana	135	236	57.2%	1,582	6.7	15	5	130.2	50	--	--
2022	Indiana	3	6	50.0%	8	1.3	0	1	27.9	--	--	--
Career		593	966	61.4%	7,189	7.4	59	18	140.3	64	--	--

Season	Team
2025	Cincinnati	100	580	5.8	9	--
2024	Cincinnati	106	445	4.2	9	--
2023	Indiana	113	291	2.6	4	--
2022	Indiana	2	-8	-4.0	0	--
Career		321	1,308	4.1	22	--

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 6 · Iowa State · 3&8 · Q4 · EPA +7.18Brendan Sorsby pass complete to Caleb Goodie for 82 yds for a TD (Stephen Rusnak KICK)
Week 10 · Utah · 2&10 · Q3 · EPA +7.11(10:47) No Huddle-Shotgun #2 B.Sorsby pass complete deep left to #4 C.Allen caught at Cin39, for 88 yards to the UTA00 TOUCHDOWN, clock 10:35, 1ST DOWN #99 S.Rusnak kick attempt good (H: #31 M.Fletcher, LS: #48 E.Stein)
Week 2 · Bowling Green · 2&12 · Q2 · EPA +4.63Brendan Sorsby pass complete to Joe Royer for 73 yds to the BGSU 18 for a 1ST down
Week 8 · Oklahoma State · 3&16 · Q4 · EPA +4.35Brendan Sorsby pass complete to Jeff Caldwell for 38 yds to the OKST 29 for a 1ST down
Week 3 · Northwestern State · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA +4.28Brendan Sorsby pass complete to Caleb Goodie for 55 yds for a TD (Stephen Rusnak KICK)
Week 7 · UCF · 2&12 · Q1 · EPA +4.28Brendan Sorsby pass complete to Jeff Caldwell for 40 yds for a TD (Stephen Rusnak KICK)
Week 12 · Arizona · 3&9 · Q3 · EPA +3.90(03:25) No Huddle-Shotgun #2 B.Sorsby pass complete deep middle to #4 C.Allen caught at ARZ27, for 37 yards to the ARZ23 (#2 T.Stukes; #25 M.Dansby), 1ST DOWN
Week 7 · UCF · 1&10 · Q3 · EPA +3.72Brendan Sorsby pass complete to Joe Royer for 67 yds to the UCF 9 for a 1ST down
Week 13 · BYU · 3&14 · Q4 · EPA +3.70(04:41) No Huddle-Shotgun #2 B.Sorsby pass complete short middle to #9 J.Caldwell caught at BYU03, for 19 yards to the BYU00 TOUCHDOWN, clock 04:37, 1ST DOWN #99 S.Rusnak kick attempt good (H: #31 M.Fletcher, LS: #48 E.Stein)
Week 6 · Iowa State · 3&10 · Q1 · EPA +3.69Brendan Sorsby pass complete to Noah Jennings for 36 yds to the ISU 46 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	L 17-20vs Nebraska	13/25	69	0	1	2.8	60.7
Wk 2	W 34-20vs Bowling Green	17/24	333	3	0	13.9	94.4	3 TD passes
Wk 3	W 70-0vs Northwestern State	15/15	253	5	0	16.9	99.8	5 TD passes
Wk 5	W 37-34@ Kansas	29/43	388	2	0	9.0	85.6	Season-high 388 yds
Wk 6	W 38-30vs Iowa State	13/25	214	2	0	8.6	86.0
Wk 7	W 20-11vs UCF	12/21	191	2	0	9.1	55.7
Wk 8	W 49-17@ Oklahoma State	20/29	270	3	0	9.3	89.1	3 TD passes
Wk 9	W 41-20vs Baylor	13/21	111	2	0	5.3	81.8
Wk 10	L 14-45@ Utah	11/33	221	1	1	6.7	23.2
Wk 12	L 24-30vs Arizona	15/28	154	1	2	5.5	70.5
Wk 13	L 14-26vs BYU	25/38	300	2	1	7.9	91.9
Wk 14	L 23-45@ TCU	23/33	282	3	0	8.5	81.6	3 TD passes
Total		206/335	2786	26	5	8.6	76.7

How he plays

Play style

Dangerous with both arm and legs — defenses can't just pin the ears back.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

52.8%Completion %

26.3%Conversion/dropback

47.4%Land short of sticks

1INTs

52.8% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 26.3% conversion-per-dropback — 47.4% 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

12/133rd/4th & short

12 of 13 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (92.3%).

DNA match

Player DNA

Dual Threat

Dangerous with both arm and legs — defenses can't just pin the ears back.

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Byrum Brown’s 2025 season.

Byrum Brown

75%match

South Florida · 2025

All-AAC

Michael Pratt

Tulane · 2022

All-AACNFL Rd 7

62%

Sawyer Robertson

Baylor · 2024

62%

KJ Jefferson

Arkansas · 2022

60%

Joey Aguilar

App State · 2023

All-Sun Belt

60%

Matches Byrum on

Yards / attempt

INT rate

Completion %

Differs from Byrum on

Rush usage (lower)

Class year (lower)

Through 3 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Ian Book’s path through Notre Dame.

Ian Book

92%match

Notre Dame · 2020

All-ACCNFL Rd 4

Byrum Brown

South Florida · 2025

All-AAC

88%

Kenny Pickett

Pittsburgh · 2021

1st-team All-AmericanNFL Rd 1 · Pk 20

88%

Payton Thorne

Auburn · 2024

88%

Michael Kern

Wake Forest · 2024

85%

Matches Ian on

Completion %

Yards per attempt

As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Michael Pratt's senior season at Tulane (2023).

Michael Pratt

64%match

Tulane · 2023

All-AACNFL Rd 7

Byrum Brown

South Florida · 2025

All-AAC

64%

Tucker Gleason

Toledo · 2024

All-MAC

48%

Will Howard

Kansas State · 2023

All-Big TenNFL Rd 6

47%

Ben Wooldridge

Louisiana · 2024

All-Sun Belt

45%

Matches Michael on

Completion %

EPA / dropback (adj)

Yards / attempt

Differs from Michael on

Rush yards / carry (higher)

Weight (higher)

Player DNA

Players who play like Brendan Sorsby

Byrum Brown

South Florida · 2025

75%

Billy Edwards

Maryland · 2024

71%

Aidan Chiles

Michigan State · 2025

70%

Tucker Gleason

Toledo · 2024

67%

Kyron Drones

Virginia Tech · 2025

66%

Heisman trajectory

Heisman Trajectory · 2025

Peak #22

Final rank

#35

Avg #30.0

Finalist prob 6%

Peaked at #22 this season.

Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology

Brendan Sorsby

Mild rivalry gap

2022

202412 games

202512 games

2026

2025 snapshot

Passing profile

Situational

Splits & context

Awards

All-Conference

Career stats

Signature plays

Game log

How he plays

DNA match

Dual Threat

Players who play like Brendan Sorsby

Heisman trajectory

Peak #22