Bryant Shirreffs: QB · UConn · #4.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Bryant Shirreffs
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. Played for two head coaches at UConn: Bob Diaco and Randy Edsall. One game to point at: 408 passing yards and 2 passing TD against SMU — Week 5, 2017.
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
54.8% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 31.2% conversion-per-dropback — 41.2% 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
6 of the team's 32 inside-the-5 carries (18.8%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2017 season · 9 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 27-20vs Holy Cross | 9/13 | 124 | 1 | 0 | 9.5 | 97.1 | |
| Wk 3 | L 18-38@ Virginia | 18/26 | 227 | 2 | 1 | 8.7 | 27.3 | |
| Wk 4 | L 38-41vs East Carolina | 24/39 | 406 | 3 | 1 | 10.4 | 64.8 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | L 28-49@ SMU | 22/28 | 408 | 2 | 0 | 14.6 | 75.6 | Season-high 408 yds |
| Wk 6 | L 31-70vs Memphis | 21/35 | 310 | 1 | 1 | 8.9 | 31.5 | |
| Wk 7 | W 28-24@ Temple | 18/28 | 105 | 3 | 1 | 3.8 | 56.9 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | W 20-14vs Tulsa | 23/29 | 372 | 1 | 0 | 12.8 | 84.1 | |
| Wk 9 | L 12-52vs Missouri | 19/39 | 202 | 0 | 0 | 5.2 | 32.9 | |
| Wk 10 | L 20-37vs South Florida | 17/23 | 133 | 1 | 1 | 5.8 | 51.8 | |
| Total | 171/260 | 2287 | 14 | 5 | 8.8 | — |
Week 5 · 2017
L 28-49
at SMU
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 256 passing plays (168 completions) against the box score's 260 attempts (171 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.7137 of 205 QBsSack rate
9.4%174 of 205 QBsSacked on 9.4% of dropbacks (174 of 205) — and still 37 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 65.8% completion on 260 attempts · 29 deep completions averaging 37.6 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2017 baseline
No situation moves him more than 42 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
2017 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 258 | 1.2 | 8.8 | 0.5 |
| Road3g | 247 | 2.3 | 9.0 | 0.7 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 263 | 2.0 | 9.3 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 236 | 0.7 | 7.9 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Randy Edsall
Pass share
46.8%
421 pass / 478 run
Plays / game
74.9
12 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2017
About as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at UConn, 6,375 passing yards — the college career is complete.
A stat line in 30 games over three seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
3 coachesPlayed for 3 head coaches at 2 schools: Dave Doeren, Bob Diaco and Randy Edsall.
