David Blough: QB · Purdue · #11.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
David Blough
Operates within the system without forcing anything. The four seasons at Purdue span three head coaches: Darrell Hazell, Gerad Parker and Jeff Brohm. The first one came in 2018: All-Big Ten. On tape: 572 passing yards and 18 rushing yards against Missouri, Week 3, 2018.
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
63.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 20.6% conversion-per-dropback — 61.8% 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
3 of the team's 21 inside-the-5 carries (14.3%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 27-31vs Northwestern | 12/16 | 74 | 0 | 0 | 4.6 | — | |
| Wk 2 | L 19-20vs Eastern Michigan | 6/10 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 4.8 | — | |
| Wk 3 | L 37-40vs Missouri | 39/55 | 572 | 3 | 1 | 10.4 | — | Season-high 572 yds |
| Wk 4 | W 30-13vs No. 23 Boston College | 21/28 | 296 | 3 | 0 | 10.6 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | W 42-28@ Nebraska | 25/42 | 328 | 1 | 0 | 7.8 | — | |
| Wk 7 | W 46-7@ Illinois | 25/36 | 377 | 3 | 1 | 10.5 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | W 49-20vs No. 2 Ohio State | 25/43 | 378 | 3 | 0 | 8.8 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 9 | L 13-23@ Michigan State | 29/49 | 277 | 0 | 3 | 5.7 | — | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 10 | W 38-36vs No. 19 Iowa | 23/32 | 333 | 4 | 2 | 10.4 | — | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 11 | L 10-41@ Minnesota | 20/31 | 142 | 1 | 0 | 4.6 | — | |
| Wk 12 | L 44-47vs Wisconsin | 31/48 | 386 | 4 | 0 | 8.0 | — | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 13 | W 28-21@ Indiana | 27/35 | 310 | 3 | 1 | 8.9 | — | 3 TD passes |
 Bowl | L 14-63vs Auburn | 22/37 | 184 | 0 | 2 | 5.0 | — | |
| Total | 305/462 | 3705 | 25 | 10 | 8.0 | — |
Week 3 · 2018
L 37-40
vs Missouri
572 yds · 3 TD · 1 INT · 18 rush yds (6 car) · 1 TD
With R. Moore — 11 rec · 137 yds · 1 TD · B. Hopkins — 5 rec · 136 yds · 1 TD
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 460 passing plays (303 completions) against the box score's 462 attempts (305 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.3458 of 207 QBsSack rate
5.5%77 of 207 QBsRarely sacked (77 of 207 QBs) and still 58 of 207 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 66.0% completion on 462 attempts · 47 deep completions averaging 37.4 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2018 baseline
No situation moves him more than 13 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
2018 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 298 | 2.4 | 8.2 | 0.4 |
| Road5g | 287 | 1.6 | 7.5 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 268 | 1.4 | 7.7 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 304 | 2.5 | 7.7 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jeff Brohm
Pass share
56.1%
509 pass / 399 run
Plays / game
69.8
13 games
Scheme: Pass-leaning.
Player standing · 2018
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
How it ended
Four seasons at Purdue, 9,734 passing yards — the college career is complete.
A stat line in 44 games over four seasons.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-BIG TEN
All-Big Ten mention (2018)
Coaching lineage · 2014–2018
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Darrell Hazell, Gerad Parker, and Jeff Brohm. Multi-era developmental context.
