Brendan Sorsby

#2 · QB · Jr. · Texas Tech6′3″ · 235 lb · Corinth, TX · Lake Dallas

Brendan Sorsby is a quarterback who has not played this season; the last season with a stat line was 2025, at Cincinnati.

Sorsby runs when the pocket breaks down. Played for two head coaches across four seasons and two programs. All-Big 12 in 2025 made it two straight seasons on the honors list. One game to point at: 388 passing yards and 52 rushing yards against Kansas — Week 5, 2025.

Career stats

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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	41
2024	Cincinnati	106	445	4.2	9	41
2023	Indiana	113	291	2.6	4	25
2022	Indiana	2	−8	−4.0	0	--
Career		321	1,308	4.1	22	41

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 17-20vs 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 No. 14 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@ No. 24 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 No. 11 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	8.3	—

Highs and lows

Only games with 20 or more plays count for best and lowest.
Best by our grade	Bowling Green	W 34-20 · Graded great · 333 yds, 3 TD, 0 INT · Rush 7 for 40, 1 TD · Sacked 0
Lowest by our grade	Nebraska	L 17-20 · Graded shaky · Passing grade only · 69 yds, 0 TD, 1 INT · Rush 13 for 96, 2 TD · Sacked 0
Biggest game	BYU	No. 11 at kickoff · L 14-26 · Graded solid · 300 yds, 2 TD, 1 INT · Rush 8 for 38 · The interception cost about 5 points of win chance · Sacked 1
Best play	at Kansas	Completion, touchdown, Q3 8:54 · Win chance 47% to 78%
Costliest play	Nebraska	Interception, Q4 0:34 · Win chance 27% to 3%

Passing profile

Pass Profile · True throw depth (charted plays)

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

206/335 (61.5%) · 26 TD · 5 INT

326 of 335 attempts matched to play-by-play

151 of 326 attempts charted for true throw depth

Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 326 passing plays (195 completions) against the box score's 335 attempts (206 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.

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 61.5% completion on 335 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%

Down 2

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

Down 3+

+51 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 1/80 (1.2%) · 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

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

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

2024Cincinnati5-7HC: Scott Satterfield · Balanced

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

Our ratings

CFB Zeitgeist Score 80 (#11 of 146). Show the ratings

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

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

80All-Conference level #11 of 146 · 2025, at Cincinnati?

Sustained Ascent13 metrics · season cumulative

2025 score, at Cincinnati: the 2026 sample is not big enough yet. The rows below are 2026 so far. 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 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 314 dropbacks

79Zeitgeist Passer Rating10th of 142 FBS QBs

NCAA passer rating 154.0 21st of 142 FBS QBs

ZPR ranks this quarterback 11 places higher than passer rating does: passer rating cannot see sacks, and a sack comes on only 1.6% of dropbacks.

Positive-play rate weight 24%

48.9%75th pct of FBS QBs

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

Yards per attempt weight 56%

8.2589th pct of FBS QBs

sacks excluded · +0.2 schedule adj.

Sack rate weight 21% (penalty)

2.3%93rd pct of FBS QBs

the input passer rating cannot see · +0.7% schedule adj.

Opponent-adjusted; garbage time excluded (19 of 333 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
Home7g	222	2.4	9.6	0.4
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

2025 season

Head Coach

Scott Satterfield

Pass share

47.8%

363 pass / 396 run

Plays / game

58.4

13 games

Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

All-Conference

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

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score

80 · #11 of 146 QBs · 2025, at Cincinnati

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

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

Starter

The No. 1,019 recruit in the country is starting at quarterback in the Big 12 as a junior.

Brendan Sorsby

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Where to follow

Career stats

Game log

Highs and lows

Passing profile

Situational

Teams and coaches

Our ratings

Splits

Awards

All-Conference

Starter

Four seasons, two schools

Moves

2022

2024 12 games

2025 12 games

2026