Brendon Lewis

Senior quarterback for Memphis. 2025: 2,673 passing yards, 16 TD, 7 INT.

QB · Memphis · Sr. · #2

6′3″ · 210 lb · Melissa, TX

CFB Index 51 · #64 of 146 QBsHigh confidenceReturning to Memphis for 2026

The numbers

2,673

passing yards · 2025

16 TD · 7 INT · 7.3 per attempt

The play that turned itSwung Georgia State from 20% to 66% to win.Memphis at Georgia State · 38-16

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 quarterback for Memphis. 2025: 2,673 passing yards, 16 TD, 7 INT.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Colorado in 2020.
Transferred from Nevada to Memphis in 2025.

His career, year by year

How he plays

Extends plays with his feet until something opens up.

Success rate: 60th percentile.

The full scouting read

Brendon Lewis

QB · Memphis · Sr · #2

Extends plays with his feet until something opens up. Five head coaches in six seasons, at three different programs. 2024 brought the first one: All-Mountain West. The receipt on tape: 317 pass yds, 2 pass TD against Tulane, Week 11, 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

2020Colorado4-2HC: Karl Dorrell · Run-heavy, fast tempo

2021Colorado4-8HC: Karl Dorrell · Run-heavy, slow tempo

2022Colorado1-11HC: Mike Sanford Jr. · Balanced, slow tempo

2023Nevada2-10HC: Ken Wilson · Run-leaning

2024Nevada3-10HC: Jeff Choate · Run-leaning

2025Memphis8-5HC: Ryan Silverfield · Run-leaning

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

51Rotational starter #64 of 146?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: rush yards (91st percentile). Strength: completion % (91st percentile). Concern: sack rate (22nd percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Success rate#74 / 183 · 60th pct

41.7%

Interception rate#77 / 183 · 58th pct

1.9%

EPA / dropback#92 / 183 · 50th pct

0.18

Explosive rate#134 / 183 · 27th pct

7.5%

Sack rate#144 / 183 · 22nd pct

7.0%

Box-score rates (8)

Rush yards#17 / 183 · 91st pct

660

Completion %#17 / 183 · 91st pct

68.8%

Rush TDs#21 / 183 · 86th pct

Pass yards#55 / 183 · 70th pct

2673

Pass TDs#63 / 183 · 64th pct

Yards / att#76 / 183 · 57th pct

7.3

Interceptions#92 / 183 · 44th pct

Fumbles lost#87 / 174 · 38th pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

53rd → 50th percentile

Success rate

56th → 60th percentile

Explosive rate

32nd → 27th percentile

Sack rate

36th → 22nd percentile

Interception rate

46th → 58th 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

245/360 (68.1%) · 16 TD · 7 INT

360 of 368 attempts matched to play-by-play

179 of 360 attempts charted for true throw depth

Adjusted ANY/A

6.2297 of 206 QBs

Sack rate

6.8%161 of 206 QBs

Sacked on 6.8% of dropbacks (161 of 206) — and still 97 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 (39)

90%comp

Air -3.1 · YAC 8.9 avg

Short · 0–9 air yds

46% of attempts (82)

77%comp

Air 4.4 · YAC 3.5 avg

Middle · 10–19 air yds

22% of attempts (40)

55%comp

Air 12.8 · YAC 2.6 avg

Deep · 20+ air yds

10% of attempts (18)

28%comp2 INT

Air 38.2 · YAC 5.4 avg

Overall 68.1% completion on 360 attempts · 28% completion on 18 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 46 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-31 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 6/142 (4.2%) · league sack rate 4.2% · ~our read

Down 2

-1 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 11/140 (7.9%) · league sack rate 4.5% · ~our read

Down 3+

+46 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 10/99 (10.1%) · 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 · 13 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home6g	243	1.8	7.3	0.8
Road7g	173	0.7	7.7	0.3

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-77g	196	1.3	7.8	0.7
Weeks 8+6g	216	1.2	7.2	0.3

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Charles Huff

Pass share

38.2%

66 pass / 107 run

Plays / game

57.7

3 games

Scheme: Run-heavy, slow tempo.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Impact starter

Producing measurably more than a replacement-level starter.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

51 · #64 of 146 QBs

Three-star recruit. Now #64 at the position.

2026 outlook

In the mix for All-AAC

Based on 2025: #8 of 15 American Athletic QBs

How the All-AAC estimate is computed

35% estimated, 95% confidence interval 31–38%. Base rate measured from players who finished at a comparable rank in their conference and came back the next season. It is an estimate from a small sample, not a forecast of this player.

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Memphis	253	368	68.8%	2,673	7.3	16	7	140.3	36	--	--
2024	Nevada	211	312	67.6%	2,290	7.3	16	7	141.7	45	--	--
2023	Nevada	131	236	55.5%	1,313	5.6	2	6	100.0	17	--	--
2022	Colorado	15	24	62.5%	92	3.8	0	0	94.7	--	--	--
2021	Colorado	149	257	58.0%	1,540	6.0	10	3	118.8	14	--	--
2020	Colorado	6	10	60.0%	95	9.5	0	0	139.8	--	--	--
Career		765	1,207	63.4%	8,003	6.6	44	23	127.3	30	--	--

Season	Team
2025	Memphis	151	660	4.4	9	--
2024	Nevada	157	775	4.9	8	--
2023	Nevada	120	495	4.1	4	--
2022	Colorado	12	43	3.6	0	--
2021	Colorado	98	188	1.9	2	--
2020	Colorado	9	73	8.1	1	--
Career		547	2,234	4.1	24	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 9 · 2025

W 34–31

vs South Florida

307 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 58.0 · 35 rush yds (11 car)

Edged out South Florida at home in a shootout.

With L. Carrigan — 40 AVG · 3 IN 20 · 49 LONG · J. Hawkins — 3 rec · 85 yds

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 5 · Florida Atlantic · 2&8 · Q4 · EPA +6.53Brendon Lewis pass complete to Cortez Braham Jr. for 73 yds for a TD (Gianni Spetic KICK)
Week 11 · Tulane · 3&6 · Q1 · EPA +5.94(10:47) Shotgun #2 B.Lewis pass complete deep middle to #9 J.Hawkins caught at TUL12, for 55 yards to the TUL00 TOUCHDOWN, clock 10:38, 1ST DOWN #44 G.Spetic kick attempt good (H: #46 T.Gillis, LS: #40 J.Zarut)
Week 11 · Tulane · 3&13 · Q4 · EPA +4.04(10:09) Shotgun #2 B.Lewis pass complete deep right to #4 C.Braham Jr. caught at TUL27, for 32 yards to the TUL27 (#3 J.White), 1ST DOWN
Week 4 · Arkansas · 2&10 · Q2 · EPA +3.88Brendon Lewis pass complete to Cortez Braham Jr. for 38 yds for a TD (Gianni Spetic KICK)
Week 14 · Navy · 2&10 · Q2 · EPA +3.88(01:48) No Huddle-Shotgun #2 B.Lewis pass complete deep right to #4 C.Braham Jr. caught at NAV00, for 38 yards to the NAV00 TOUCHDOWN, clock 01:43, 1ST DOWN, PENALTY NAV Offside declined #44 G.Spetic kick attempt good (H: #46 T.Gillis, LS: #40 J.Zarut)
Week 10 · Rice · 3&16 · Q1 · EPA +3.79(11:08) No Huddle-Shotgun #2 B.Lewis pass complete short middle to #4 C.Braham Jr. caught at Rice31, for 30 yards to the Rice18 (#5 J.Harper), 1ST DOWN
Week 3 · Troy · 2&11 · Q2 · EPA +3.66Brendon Lewis pass complete to Jadon Thompson for 40 yds to the TROY 25 for a 1ST down
Week 11 · Tulane · 3&8 · Q4 · EPA +3.58(07:55) Shotgun #2 B.Lewis pass complete deep right to #12 B.Kluse caught at TUL00, for 25 yards to the TUL00 TOUCHDOWN, clock 07:49, 1ST DOWN, PENALTY TUL Offside declined #44 G.Spetic kick attempt good (H: #46 T.Gillis, LS: #40 J.Zarut)
Week 1 · Chattanooga · 2&7 · Q2 · EPA -3.54Brendon Lewis pass intercepted Marquise Freeman return for 20 yds to the UTC 46
Week 2 · Georgia State · 2&7 · Q4 · EPA +3.51Brendon Lewis pass complete to Sutton Smith for 39 yds to the GAST 35 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 45-10vs Chattanooga	22/28	199	1	1	7.1	73.9
Wk 2	W 38-16@ Georgia State	16/20	196	0	0	9.8	85.3
Wk 3	W 28-7@ Troy	17/27	213	1	0	7.9	48.2
Wk 4	W 32-31vs Arkansas	15/30	199	1	1	6.6	61.5
Wk 5	W 55-26@ Florida Atlantic	13/19	196	2	0	10.3	75.1
Wk 6	W 45-7vs Tulsa	22/30	266	3	2	8.9	76.1	3 TD passes
Wk 8	L 24-31@ UAB	9/10	68	0	0	6.8	37.3
Wk 9	W 34-31vs South Florida	27/44	307	2	0	7.0	58.0	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 10	W 38-14@ Rice	18/22	225	0	0	10.2	91.6
Wk 11	L 32-38vs Tulane	29/34	317	2	1	9.3	63.1	Season-high 317 yds
Wk 12	L 27-31@ East Carolina	32/43	209	1	1	4.9	80.1
Wk 14	L 17-28vs Navy	19/36	172	2	0	4.8	35.9
Bowl	L 7-31@ NC State	14/25	106	1	1	4.2	25.6
Total		253/368	2673	16	7	7.5	62.4

How he plays

Play style

Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

57.8%Completion %

26.0%Conversion/dropback

50.0%Land short of sticks

1INTs

57.8% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 26.0% conversion-per-dropback — 50.0% 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

5/26Inside-5 share

5 of the team's 26 inside-the-5 carries (19.2%).

2026 Outlook

Memphis

Preseason read · May 27

2026 Depth chart

Returning starter

Quarterback · Memphis

Returning around him

6% of 2024 offensive production back (Heavy turnover)
1 Memphis player drafted to NFL
Transfer portal: +4 net (51 in / 47 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

Memphis · Last season: 8-5 (AP #22) · Talent rank #67 · 2026 recruiting class #72

DNA match

Player DNA

Scrambler

Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Brendon Lewis’s 2024 season.

Brendon Lewis

87%match

Nevada · 2024

All-Mountain West

Bishop Davenport

South Alabama · 2025

74%

Dustin Crum

Kent State · 2021

All-MAC

70%

Gunnar Holmberg

Duke · 2021

68%

Riley Leonard

Duke · 2022

NFL Rd 6

68%

Matches Brendon on

Total pass EPA (college ability)

Rush yards / carry

TD rate

Through 5 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Cameran Brown’s path through Georgia State.

Cameran Brown

95%match

Georgia State · 2025

Parker McKinney

Eastern Kentucky · 2023

88%

Chase Garbers

California · 2021

86%

Hunter Dekkers

Iowa State · 2022

85%

Tony Muskett

Virginia · 2024

84%

Matches Cameran on

Height

Yards per attempt

Completion %

As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Grayson McCall's graduate season at NC State (2024).

Grayson McCall

56%match

NC State · 2024

All-Sun Belt

Braylon Braxton

Southern Miss · 2025

All-Sun Belt

48%

Jacob Zeno

UAB · 2024

47%

Grayson James

Boston College · 2025

All-Conference USA

46%

Hank Bachmeier

Wake Forest · 2024

46%

Differs from Grayson on

Recruiting rating (higher)

Rush usage (higher)

Weight (lower)

Player DNA

Players who play like Brendon Lewis

Brendon Lewis

Memphis · 2025

87%

Bishop Davenport

South Alabama · 2025

74%

Matt McDonald

Bowling Green · 2021

74%

Hunter Watson

Sam Houston · 2025

74%

Riley Leonard

Notre Dame · 2024

74%

Heisman trajectory

Heisman Trajectory · 2025

Peak #66

Final rank

#114

Avg #93.3

Finalist prob 0%

Peaked at #66 this season.

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

Brendon Lewis

2020

202312 games

202412 games

202513 games

2025 snapshot

Passing profile

Situational

Splits & context

Awards

Impact starter

Career stats

Signature game

Signature plays

Game log

How he plays

DNA match

Scrambler

Players who play like Brendon Lewis

Heisman trajectory

Peak #66