Brett Gabbert: QB · Miami (OH) · #5.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Brett Gabbert
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Transferred to Miami (OH) from Miami (OH). Another came in 2024: All-MAC. A game that shows it: 339 passing yards and 2 passing TD against Cincinnati — Week 3, 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
54.8% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 19.6% conversion-per-dropback — 60.9% 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
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Miami (OH) | 217 | 379 | 57.3% | 2,921 | 7.7 | 21 | 11 | 134.5 | 61 |
| 2023 | Miami (OH) | 111 | 188 | 59.0% | 1,634 | 8.7 | 14 | 5 | 151.3 | 62 |
| 2022 | Miami (OH) | 74 | 115 | 64.3% | 816 | 7.1 | 4 | 0 | 135.4 | 49 |
| 2021 | Miami (OH) | 178 | 299 | 59.5% | 2,648 | 8.9 | 26 | 6 | 158.6 | 48 |
| 2020 | Miami (OH) | 23 | 35 | 65.7% | 384 | 11.0 | 4 | 0 | 195.6 | -- |
| 2019 | Miami (OH) | 175 | 316 | 55.4% | 2,411 | 7.6 | 11 | 8 | 125.9 | 42 |
| Career | 778 | 1,332 | 58.4% | 10,814 | 8.1 | 80 | 30 | 141.9 | 52 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Miami (OH) | 55 | 6 | 0.1 | 1 | 18 |
| 2023 | Miami (OH) | 49 | 140 | 2.9 | 2 | 26 |
| 2022 | Miami (OH) | 39 | 55 | 1.4 | 1 | 18 |
| 2021 | Miami (OH) | 56 | 151 | 2.7 | 1 | 42 |
| 2020 | Miami (OH) | 7 | 58 | 8.3 | 0 | 23 |
| 2019 | Miami (OH) | 88 | 72 | 0.8 | 3 | 31 |
| Career | 294 | 482 | 1.6 | 8 | 42 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 14 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 6-13vs Northwestern | 22/37 | 227 | 0 | 2 | 6.1 | 35.3 | |
| Wk 3 | L 16-27vs Cincinnati | 23/35 | 339 | 2 | 1 | 9.7 | 43.5 | Season-high 339 yds |
| Wk 4 | L 3-28@ No. 17 Notre Dame | 14/35 | 119 | 0 | 2 | 3.4 | 24.4 | |
| Wk 5 | W 23-20vs Massachusetts | 16/25 | 181 | 1 | 1 | 7.2 | 32.4 | |
| Wk 6 | L 20-30@ Toledo | 23/46 | 296 | 2 | 1 | 6.4 | 41.9 | |
| Wk 7 | W 38-14@ Eastern Michigan | 10/13 | 222 | 4 | 0 | 17.1 | 85.5 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | W 30-20vs Ohio | 14/21 | 178 | 3 | 0 | 8.5 | 67.9 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 9 | W 46-7vs Central Michigan | 10/12 | 165 | 1 | 0 | 13.8 | 39.1 | |
| Wk 11 | W 27-21@ Ball State | 16/32 | 219 | 3 | 0 | 6.8 | 60.8 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | W 34-7vs Kent State | 10/22 | 202 | 2 | 0 | 9.2 | 28.6 | |
| Wk 13 | W 20-9vs Northern Illinois | 14/23 | 207 | 0 | 1 | 9.0 | 42.3 | |
| Wk 14 | W 28-12@ Bowling Green | 18/28 | 255 | 3 | 2 | 9.1 | 85.6 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 15 | L 3-38vs Ohio | 14/25 | 127 | 0 | 1 | 5.1 | 54.0 | |
 Bowl | W 43-17vs Colorado State | 13/25 | 184 | 0 | 0 | 7.4 | 33.5 | |
| Total | 217/379 | 2921 | 21 | 11 | 7.7 | — |
Week 8 · 2024
W 30-20
vs Ohio
178 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 67.9
With A. Bevelhimer — 38.1 yards per punt · 7 punts · 5 inside the 20 · K. Mozee — 111 rush yds (16 car) · 1 TD
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 367 passing plays (209 completions) against the box score's 379 attempts (217 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.8384 of 205 QBsSack rate
5.5%95 of 205 QBsRarely sacked (95 of 205 QBs) and still 84 of 205 in Adjusted ANY/A.
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 57.3% completion on 379 attempts · 35 deep completions averaging 34.4 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2024 baseline
No situation moves him more than 18 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.
6 seasons under Chuck Martin — 43-28 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2024 season · 14 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 212 | 1.5 | 9.6 | 0.5 |
| Road5g | 222 | 2.4 | 8.6 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 224 | 1.3 | 8.2 | 1.0 |
| Weeks 8+7g | 193 | 1.7 | 8.8 | 0.6 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Chuck Martin
Pass share
49.9%
398 pass / 400 run
Plays / game
57.0
14 games
Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.
Player standing · 2024
First team in his league at the position.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Three-star recruit. Now #73 at the position.
How it ended
Six seasons at Miami (OH), 10,814 passing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2024) — the college career is complete.
A stat line in 51 games over six seasons.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-MAC · 1ST TEAM
All-MAC 1st team (2024)
Weekly recognition
2 weekly honors (2023)
MAC Offensive Player of the Week
Coaching lineage · 2019–2024
1 coachPlayed every college season under Chuck Martin.
