Brian Burrell: QB · Fresno State · #2.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Brian Burrell
Operates within the system without forcing anything. One game to point at: 332 passing yards and 9 rushing yards against Boise State — Week 15, 2014.
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
50.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 19.7% conversion-per-dropback — 56.2% 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
3 of the team's 29 inside-the-5 carries (10.3%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Fresno State | 252 | 432 | 58.3% | 2,620 | 6.1 | 22 | 18 | 117.8 | 25 |
| Career | 252 | 432 | 58.3% | 2,620 | 6.1 | 22 | 18 | 117.8 | 25 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Fresno State | 110 | 360 | 3.3 | 3 | 66 |
| Career | 110 | 360 | 3.3 | 3 | 66 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2014 season · 14 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 13-52@ No. 15 USC | 11/19 | 92 | 0 | 1 | 4.8 | 63.9 | |
| Wk 2 | L 27-59@ Utah | 8/16 | 106 | 2 | 0 | 6.6 | 3.5 | |
| Wk 3 | L 19-55vs Nebraska | 30/59 | 241 | 1 | 0 | 4.1 | 42.1 | |
| Wk 4 | W 56-16vs Southern Utah | 13/20 | 131 | 2 | 1 | 6.6 | 62.1 | |
| Wk 5 | W 35-24@ New Mexico | 27/39 | 318 | 3 | 1 | 8.2 | 89.1 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 6 | W 24-13vs San Diego State | 14/28 | 143 | 0 | 1 | 5.1 | 27.0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 27-30@ UNLV | 25/44 | 310 | 3 | 2 | 7.0 | 43.3 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | L 27-37@ Boise State | 13/25 | 127 | 1 | 1 | 5.1 | 41.0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 17-45vs Wyoming | 7/13 | 94 | 1 | 2 | 7.2 | 4.7 | |
| Wk 11 | W 38-24vs San José State | 20/26 | 207 | 3 | 1 | 8.0 | 90.5 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 13 | W 40-20@ Nevada | 25/46 | 313 | 4 | 1 | 6.8 | 66.0 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 14 | W 28-21vs Hawai'i | 19/32 | 162 | 1 | 2 | 5.1 | 56.6 | |
| Wk 15 | L 14-28@ No. 22 Boise State | 30/45 | 332 | 1 | 3 | 7.4 | 45.5 | Season-high 332 yds · 3 INTs — rough day |
 Bowl | L 6-30vs Rice | 10/20 | 44 | 0 | 2 | 2.2 | 17.4 | |
| Total | 252/432 | 2620 | 22 | 18 | 6.1 | — |
Week 3 · 2014
L 19-55
vs Nebraska
241 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 42.1 · 59 rush yds (9 car) · 1 TD
With G. Swanson — 41.3 yards per punt · 12 punts · 2 inside the 20 · D. Root — 2 rec · 38 yds · 1 rush yds (1 car)
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 425 passing plays (245 completions) against the box score's 432 attempts (252 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
4.40152 of 181 QBsSack rate
7.5%146 of 181 QBsSacked on 7.5% of dropbacks (146 of 181) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (152 of 181).
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 58.3% completion on 432 attempts · 30 deep completions averaging 30.4 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2014 baseline
No situation moves him more than 36 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.
Splits · Per-game
2014 season · 14 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 163 | 1.3 | 6.0 | 1.2 |
| Road7g | 228 | 2.0 | 6.6 | 1.3 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 173 | 1.4 | 5.6 | 1.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 206 | 1.8 | 6.6 | 1.7 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Tim DeRuyter
Pass share
48.6%
528 pass / 558 run
Plays / game
77.6
14 games
Scheme: Balanced, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2014
432 pass attempts and 110 carries in 14 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
One season at Fresno State, 2,620 passing yards — the college career is complete.
