Brett Rypien: QB · Boise State · #4.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Brett Rypien
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. Fourth year in the Boise State quarterback room. Another came in 2018: All-Mountain West. One game to point at: 399 passing yards and 5 passing TD against Air Force — Week 9, 2018.
Play style
High-percentage passer who protects the ball. Loses the matchup on improvisation.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
53.4% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 35.0% conversion-per-dropback — 32.3% 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
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
14 of 15 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (93.3%). 1 of the team's 28 inside-the-5 carries (3.6%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Boise State | 301 | 447 | 67.3% | 3,705 | 8.3 | 30 | 7 | 156.0 | 73 |
| 2017 | Boise State | 218 | 348 | 62.6% | 2,877 | 8.3 | 16 | 6 | 143.8 | 77 |
| 2016 | Boise State | 244 | 394 | 61.9% | 3,646 | 9.3 | 24 | 8 | 155.7 | 81 |
| 2015 | Boise State | 273 | 430 | 63.5% | 3,353 | 7.8 | 20 | 8 | 140.6 | 56 |
| Career | 1,036 | 1,619 | 64.0% | 13,581 | 8.4 | 90 | 29 | 149.2 | 71 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Boise State | 83 | 23 | 0.3 | 0 | 15 |
| 2017 | Boise State | 37 | −26 | −0.7 | 0 | 31 |
| 2016 | Boise State | 48 | −16 | −0.3 | 2 | 11 |
| 2015 | Boise State | 40 | −72 | −1.8 | 1 | 11 |
| Career | 208 | −91 | −0.4 | 3 | 31 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 56-20@ Troy | 20/28 | 305 | 4 | 0 | 10.9 | — | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 62-7vs UConn | 21/28 | 362 | 3 | 0 | 12.9 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | L 21-44@ No. 24 Oklahoma State | 39/56 | 380 | 3 | 0 | 6.8 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | W 34-14@ Wyoming | 28/42 | 342 | 2 | 0 | 8.1 | — | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 6 | L 13-19vs San Diego State | 21/41 | 170 | 0 | 2 | 4.1 | — | |
| Wk 7 | W 31-27@ Nevada | 28/38 | 299 | 2 | 3 | 7.9 | — | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 8 | W 56-28vs Colorado State | 22/26 | 308 | 4 | 0 | 11.8 | 95.7 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 9 | W 48-38@ Air Force | 20/34 | 399 | 5 | 0 | 11.7 | — | Season-high 399 yds |
| Wk 10 | W 21-16vs BYU | 23/35 | 214 | 1 | 1 | 6.1 | — | |
| Wk 11 | W 24-17vs No. 16 Fresno State | 24/29 | 269 | 1 | 1 | 9.3 | — | |
| Wk 12 | W 45-14@ New Mexico | 17/27 | 222 | 3 | 0 | 8.2 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 13 | W 33-24vs No. 14 Utah State | 23/32 | 310 | 1 | 0 | 9.7 | — | |
| Wk 14 | L 16-19vs No. 25 Fresno State | 15/31 | 125 | 1 | 0 | 4.0 | — | |
| Total | 301/447 | 3705 | 30 | 7 | 8.3 | — |
Week 9 · 2018
W 48-38
at Air Force
399 yds · 5 TD · 0 INT
Edged out Air Force on the road in a shootout.
With J. Hightower — 8 rec · 182 yds · 3 TD · A. Mattison — 136 rush yds (22 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 420 passing plays (278 completions) against the box score's 447 attempts (301 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
8.1926 of 207 QBsSack rate
5.7%87 of 207 QBsRarely sacked (87 of 207 QBs) and still 26 of 207 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 67.3% completion on 447 attempts · 42 deep completions averaging 34.4 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2018 baseline
+59
percentile points better on third down or later
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.
4 seasons under Bryan Harsin — 40-13 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 251 | 1.6 | 8.3 | 0.6 |
| Road6g | 324 | 3.2 | 8.9 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 310 | 2.3 | 8.5 | 0.8 |
| Weeks 8+7g | 264 | 2.3 | 8.7 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bryan Harsin
Pass share
47.6%
460 pass / 507 run
Plays / game
74.4
13 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2018
First team in his league at the position.
How it ended
Four seasons at Boise State, 13,581 passing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2015) — the college career is complete.
Honored in a first season.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-MOUNTAIN WEST · 1ST TEAM
All-Mountain West 1st team (2018)
Coaching lineage · 2015–2018
1 coachPlayed every college season under Bryan Harsin.
