Carter Bradley: QB · South Alabama · #2.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Carter Bradley
Keeps the offense on schedule and doesn't lose the game. Played for two head coaches across six seasons and two programs. First career honor, 2023: All-Sun Belt. One game to point at: 381 passing yards and 2 passing TD against Louisiana — Week 9, 2023.
Play style
Consistent underneath passer who protects the lead. Rarely loses games; rarely wins them alone.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
65.6% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 21.1% conversion-per-dropback — 61.9% 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
1 of the team's 24 inside-the-5 carries (4.2%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| 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 | 26 |
| 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 | 56 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | South Alabama | 43 | −44 | −1.0 | 1 | 17 |
| 2022 | South Alabama | 68 | 50 | 0.7 | 2 | 18 |
| 2021 | Toledo | 24 | −26 | −1.1 | 0 | 8 |
| 2020 | Toledo | 18 | 41 | 2.3 | 0 | 20 |
| 2019 | Toledo | 25 | −7 | −0.3 | 1 | 17 |
| 2018 | Toledo | 4 | −10 | −2.5 | 0 | 3 |
| Career | 182 | 4 | 0.0 | 4 | 20 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 17-37@ No. 24 Tulane | 23/30 | 190 | 1 | 2 | 6.3 | 65.3 | |
| Wk 2 | W 35-17vs SE Louisiana | 19/26 | 258 | 1 | 1 | 9.9 | 69.4 | |
| Wk 3 | W 33-7@ Oklahoma State | 10/16 | 152 | 2 | 0 | 9.5 | 91.3 | |
| Wk 4 | L 30-34vs Central Michigan | 17/27 | 254 | 2 | 0 | 9.4 | 67.8 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 5 | L 23-31@ James Madison | 28/50 | 299 | 2 | 2 | 6.0 | 38.2 | |
| Wk 6 | W 55-7@ UL Monroe | 20/29 | 303 | 3 | 0 | 10.4 | 92.3 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | W 55-3vs Southern Miss | 21/27 | 319 | 0 | 0 | 11.8 | 95.7 | |
| Wk 9 | L 20-33vs Louisiana | 29/49 | 381 | 2 | 2 | 7.8 | 38.7 | Season-high 381 yds |
| Wk 11 | W 21-14vs Arkansas State | 19/25 | 145 | 2 | 0 | 5.8 | 30.6 | |
| Wk 12 | W 28-0vs Marshall | 17/23 | 176 | 2 | 0 | 7.7 | 70.6 | |
| Wk 13 | L 44-52@ Texas State | 18/24 | 183 | 2 | 0 | 7.6 | 44.6 | |
| Total | 221/326 | 2660 | 19 | 7 | 8.2 | — |
Week 3 · 2023
W 33-7
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 311 passing plays (215 completions) against the box score's 326 attempts (221 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.6155 of 212 QBsSack rate
6.9%145 of 212 QBsSacked 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 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 67.8% completion on 326 attempts · 35 deep completions averaging 35.5 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2023 baseline
-52
percentile points worse on first down
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
2023 season · 11 games
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
Head Coach
Kane Wommack
Pass share
47.9%
428 pass / 465 run
Plays / game
68.7
13 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2023
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Three-star recruit. Now #71 at the position.
How it ended
Six seasons, at Toledo and South Alabama, 8,389 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
The role got bigger.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-SUN BELT
All-Sun Belt mention (2023)
Coaching lineage · 2018–2023
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 2 schools: Jason Candle and Kane Wommack.
