Carter Bradley

Senior quarterback for South Alabama. 2023: 2,660 passing yards, 19 TD, 7 INT.

QB · South Alabama · Sr. · #2

6′3″ · 216 lb · Jacksonville, FL

CFB Index 45 · #71 of 140 QBsHigh confidenceAll-ConferenceSouth Alabama 2023 alumnus

Recruiting

3★

PRO recruit

No. 611 nationally · Signed with Toledo

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 quarterback for South Alabama. 2023: 2,660 passing yards, 19 TD, 7 INT.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Toledo in 2018.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Six seasons at South Alabama, 8,389 passing yards — his college career is complete.

His career

Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.

20183 games

Signed with Toledo3-star out of Providence

202311 games

The role got bigger.

All-Sun Belt

Career arc

Recruit

★★★

#611 national

CFB

College

2 teams

2018–2023

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Trophy case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

2 honors · 1 category

🎖

ALL-SUN BELT

All-Sun Belt mention (2023)

Coaching lineage · 2018–2023

2 coaches

2018–2020

Steve Campbell

South Alabama

2021–2023

Kane Wommack

South Alabama

era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Steve Campbell → Kane Wommack. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

2023 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2018Toledo7-6HC: Jason Candle · Run-leaning

2019Toledo6-6HC: Jason Candle · Run-heavy

2020Toledo4-2HC: Jason Candle · Balanced, fast tempo

2021Toledo7-6HC: Jason Candle · Run-leaning

2022South Alabama10-3HC: Kane Wommack · Balanced

2023South Alabama7-6HC: Kane Wommack · Balanced

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

45Rotational starter #71 of 140?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: interception rate (84th percentile). Strength: completion % (91st percentile). Concern: fumbles lost (5th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Interception rate#1 / 177 · 84th pct

0.0%

EPA / dropback#45 / 177 · 75th pct

0.38

Explosive rate#67 / 177 · 62nd pct

11.3%

Success rate#72 / 177 · 59th pct

43.3%

Sack rate#118 / 177 · 34th pct

7.2%

Box-score rates (8)

Completion %#17 / 179 · 91st pct

67.8%

Yards / att#42 / 179 · 76th pct

8.2

Pass yards#51 / 179 · 72nd pct

2660

Pass TDs#54 / 179 · 69th pct

Interceptions#98 / 179 · 42nd pct

Rush TDs#124 / 179 · 23rd pct

Rush yards#159 / 179 · 11th pct

-44

Fumbles lost#157 / 167 · 5th pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

70th → 75th percentile

Success rate

69th → 59th percentile

Explosive rate

48th → 62nd percentile

Sack rate

66th → 34th percentile

Interception rate

52nd → 84th percentile

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season. Most bars are box-score rates; EPA / success-rate bars are computed from real play-by-play (offense only — no defensive EPA model exists yet).

Passing profile

Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)

Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from

215/311 (69.1%) · 19 TD · 7 INT

311 of 326 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

7.6155 of 212 QBs

Sack rate

6.9%145 of 212 QBs

Sacked on 6.9% of dropbacks (145 of 212) — and still 55 of 212 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 yds

54%of completions

117 comp4.6 yds avg5 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

29%of completions

63 comp13.7 yds avg1 TD

Deep

20+ yds

16%of completions

35 comp35.5 yds avg12 TD

Overall 69.1% completion on 311 attempts · 35 deep completions averaging 35.5 yds.

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2023 baseline

-52

percentile points worse on first down

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-52 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 8/111 (7.2%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 2

+5 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 4/97 (4.1%) · league sack rate 5.2% · ~our read

Down 3+

+64 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 10/83 (12.0%) · league sack rate 9.1% · ~our read

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 & context

Splits · Per-game

2023 season · 11 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home6g	256	1.5	8.7	0.5
Road5g	225	2.0	8.0	0.8

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-76g	243	1.8	8.6	0.8
Weeks 8+5g	241	1.6	8.1	0.4

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Major Applewhite

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2023

All-Conference

Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

45 · #71 of 140 QBs

Three-star recruit. Now #71 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2023	South Alabama	221	326	67.8%	2,660	8.2	19	7	151.3	53	--	--
2022	South Alabama	276	426	64.8%	3,352	7.9	28	12	146.9	66	--	--
2021	Toledo	77	130	59.2%	972	7.5	4	1	130.7	42	--	--
2020	Toledo	55	89	61.8%	849	9.5	9	5	164.1	52	--	--
2019	Toledo	46	100	46.0%	502	5.0	1	2	87.5	--	--	--
2018	Toledo	4	8	50.0%	54	6.8	0	0	106.7	--	--	--
Career		679	1,079	62.9%	8,389	7.8	61	27	141.9	58	--	--

Season	Team
2023	South Alabama	43	-44	-1.0	1	--
2022	South Alabama	68	50	0.7	2	--
2021	Toledo	24	-26	-1.1	0	--
2020	Toledo	18	41	2.3	0	--
2019	Toledo	25	-7	-0.3	1	--
2018	Toledo	4	-10	-2.5	0	--
Career		182	4	0.0	4	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2023

W 35–17

vs SE Louisiana

258 yds · 1 TD · 1 INT · QBR 69.4

With C. Lacy — 8 rec · 139 yds · 1 TD · K. Bullock — 82 rush yds (14 car) · 1 TD

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 2 · SE Louisiana · 3&5 · Q4 · EPA +7.10Carter Bradley pass complete to Caullin Lacy for 84 yds for a TD (Diego Guajardo KICK)
Week 4 · Central Michigan · 3&7 · Q4 · EPA +6.93Carter Bradley pass complete to Caullin Lacy for 72 yds for a TD (Diego Guajardo PAT MISSED)
Week 3 · Oklahoma State · 3&8 · Q2 · EPA +6.30Carter Bradley pass complete to Caullin Lacy for 57 yds for a TD (Diego Guajardo KICK)
Week 13 · Texas State · 4&4 · Q2 · EPA +5.26Carter Bradley pass complete to Javon Ivory for 39 yds for a TD (Two-Point Conversion failed)
Week 9 · Louisiana · 2&8 · Q3 · EPA +4.30Carter Bradley pass complete to Caullin Lacy for 62 yds to the UL 25 for a 1ST down
Week 6 · UL Monroe · 3&6 · Q2 · EPA +4.23Carter Bradley pass complete to Caullin Lacy for 50 yds to the ULM 22 for a 1ST down
Week 6 · UL Monroe · 2&8 · Q2 · EPA +4.11Carter Bradley pass complete to Caullin Lacy for 44 yds for a TD (Diego Guajardo KICK)
Week 5 · James Madison · 4&7 · Q4 · EPA +3.82Carter Bradley pass complete to Caullin Lacy for 31 yds to the JMU 18 for a 1ST down
Week 8 · Southern Miss · 2&20 · Q1 · EPA +3.75Carter Bradley pass complete to DJ Thomas-Jones for 33 yds to the USM 45 for a 1ST down
Week 5 · James Madison · 1&10 · Q2 · EPA +3.69Carter Bradley pass complete to Jamaal Pritchett for 48 yds for a TD (Diego Guajardo KICK)

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week