Bryce Petty: QB · Baylor · #14.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Bryce Petty
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. First career honor, 2014: All-Big 12. A game that shows it: 550 passing yards and 3 passing TD against Michigan State — Bowl, 2014.
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
48.8% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 20.0% conversion-per-dropback — 52.4% 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
9 of the team's 57 inside-the-5 carries (15.8%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Baylor | 270 | 428 | 63.1% | 3,855 | 9.0 | 29 | 7 | 157.8 | 87 |
| Career | 270 | 428 | 63.1% | 3,855 | 9.0 | 29 | 7 | 157.8 | 87 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Baylor | 84 | 101 | 1.2 | 6 | 21 |
| Career | 84 | 101 | 1.2 | 6 | 21 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2014 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 45-0vs SMU | 13/23 | 161 | 2 | 0 | 7.0 | 84.1 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | W 63-21@ Buffalo | 23/34 | 416 | 4 | 0 | 12.2 | 98.1 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | W 49-28@ Iowa State | 30/44 | 336 | 1 | 1 | 7.6 | 83.1 | |
| Wk 6 | W 28-7@ Texas | 7/22 | 111 | 2 | 0 | 5.0 | 5.5 | |
| Wk 7 | W 61-58vs No. 9 TCU | 28/55 | 510 | 6 | 2 | 9.3 | 61.9 | 6 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | L 27-41@ West Virginia | 16/36 | 223 | 2 | 0 | 6.2 | 24.9 | |
| Wk 10 | W 60-14vs Kansas | 15/27 | 277 | 3 | 0 | 10.3 | 65.2 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 11 | W 48-14@ No. 16 Oklahoma | 32/42 | 387 | 1 | 0 | 9.2 | 71.6 | |
| Wk 13 | W 49-28vs Oklahoma State | 18/29 | 262 | 2 | 2 | 9.0 | 71.0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 48-46vs Texas Tech | 18/25 | 210 | 2 | 0 | 8.4 | 78.1 | |
| Wk 15 | W 38-27vs No. 9 Kansas State | 34/40 | 412 | 1 | 1 | 10.3 | 84.5 | |
 Bowl | L 41-42vs No. 7 Michigan State | 36/51 | 550 | 3 | 1 | 10.8 | 88.8 | |
| Total | 270/428 | 3855 | 29 | 7 | 9.0 | — |
Week 7 · 2014
W 61-58
vs TCU
510 yds · 6 TD · 2 INT · QBR 61.9 · 23 rush yds (10 car)
Edged out TCU at home in a shootout.
With C. Coleman — 8 rec · 144 yds · 2 TD · 22 rush yds (3 car) · S. Roth — 46.5 yards per punt · 4 punts · 54 long
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 418 passing plays (262 completions) against the box score's 428 attempts (270 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
8.899 of 181 QBsSack rate
5.1%79 of 181 QBsRarely sacked (79 of 181 QBs) and still 9 of 181 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 63.1% completion on 428 attempts · 47 deep completions averaging 39.5 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2014 baseline
No situation moves him more than 28 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 · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 324 | 2.8 | 9.2 | 1.0 |
| Road5g | 295 | 2.0 | 8.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 347 | 3.0 | 8.7 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 295 | 1.8 | 8.9 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Art Briles
Pass share
46.0%
518 pass / 608 run
Plays / game
86.6
13 games
Scheme: Run-leaning, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2014
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
How it ended
One season at Baylor, 3,855 passing yards — drafted at #103 overall by the New York Jets.
Honored in a first season.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-BIG 12 · 2ND TEAM
All-Big 12 2nd team (2014)
Coaching lineage · 2010–2014
1 coachPlayed every college season under Art Briles.
Next stop · NFL
New York JetsEntering 12th NFL season
New York JetsEntering 12th NFL season
