C.J. Brown: QB · Maryland · #16.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
C.J. Brown
Extends plays on the move until something opens up. A game that shows it: 280 passing yards and 25 rushing yards against Syracuse — Week 4, 2014.
Play style
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
43.1% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 19.0% conversion-per-dropback — 45.5% 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 20 inside-the-5 carries (30.0%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Maryland | 189 | 354 | 53.4% | 2,288 | 6.5 | 13 | 10 | 114.2 | 28 |
| Career | 189 | 354 | 53.4% | 2,288 | 6.5 | 13 | 10 | 114.2 | 28 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Maryland | 161 | 539 | 3.3 | 8 | 75 |
| Career | 161 | 539 | 3.3 | 8 | 75 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2014 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 52-7vs James Madison | 11/24 | 111 | 1 | 0 | 4.6 | 91.8 | |
| Wk 2 | W 24-17@ South Florida | 17/28 | 201 | 2 | 2 | 7.2 | 14.1 | |
| Wk 3 | L 37-40vs West Virginia | 19/35 | 241 | 1 | 1 | 6.9 | 51.7 | |
| Wk 4 | W 34-20@ Syracuse | 16/26 | 280 | 2 | 0 | 10.8 | 51.9 | Season-high 280 yds |
| Wk 5 | W 37-15@ Indiana | 10/15 | 163 | 1 | 0 | 10.9 | 88.0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 24-52vs No. 20 Ohio State | 11/18 | 71 | 0 | 1 | 3.9 | 16.6 | |
| Wk 8 | W 38-31vs Iowa | 12/23 | 120 | 0 | 2 | 5.2 | 35.3 | |
| Wk 9 | L 7-52@ Wisconsin | 13/29 | 129 | 1 | 0 | 4.4 | 5.0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 20-19@ Penn State | 18/38 | 161 | 1 | 0 | 4.2 | 17.6 | |
| Wk 12 | L 15-37vs No. 12 Michigan State | 20/43 | 246 | 2 | 3 | 5.7 | 23.6 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 13 | W 23-16@ Michigan | 13/24 | 165 | 0 | 0 | 6.9 | 51.4 | |
| Wk 14 | L 38-41vs Rutgers | 14/24 | 195 | 2 | 0 | 8.1 | 90.1 | |
 Bowl | L 21-45vs Stanford | 15/27 | 205 | 0 | 1 | 7.6 | 14.6 | |
| Total | 189/354 | 2288 | 13 | 10 | 6.5 | — |
Week 1 · 2014
W 52-7
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 337 passing plays (179 completions) against the box score's 354 attempts (189 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
4.93126 of 181 QBsSack rate
9.0%161 of 181 QBsSacked on 9.0% of dropbacks (161 of 181) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (126 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 53.4% completion on 354 attempts · 24 deep completions averaging 34.5 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2014 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
2014 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 164 | 1.0 | 5.7 | 1.2 |
| Road6g | 183 | 1.2 | 7.4 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 182 | 1.0 | 7.4 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 169 | 1.0 | 5.8 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Randy Edsall
Pass share
49.8%
418 pass / 421 run
Plays / game
64.5
13 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2014
354 pass attempts, 161 carries and 1 catch in 13 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
One season at Maryland, 2,288 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2009–2014
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Ralph Friedgen → Randy Edsall. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
