Davis Brin: QB · Georgia Southern · #5.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Davis Brin
Keeps the offense on schedule and doesn't lose the game. Played for two head coaches at two programs in five seasons: Philip Montgomery and Clay Helton. Sun Belt Offensive Player of the Week in 2023 made it four straight seasons on the honors list. One game to point at: 383 passing yards and 1 passing TD against Wisconsin — Week 3, 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
61.5% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 27.8% conversion-per-dropback — 53.1% 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 22 inside-the-5 carries (13.6%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Georgia Southern | 362 | 552 | 65.6% | 3,781 | 6.8 | 24 | 19 | 130.6 | 41 |
| 2022 | Tulsa | 148 | 250 | 59.2% | 2,138 | 8.6 | 17 | 8 | 147.1 | 51 |
| 2021 | Tulsa | 243 | 410 | 59.3% | 3,254 | 7.9 | 18 | 16 | 132.6 | 58 |
| 2020 | Tulsa | 19 | 29 | 65.5% | 268 | 9.2 | 2 | 0 | 165.9 | -- |
| 2018 | Tulsa | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 772 | 1,241 | 62.2% | 9,441 | 7.6 | 61 | 43 | 135.4 | 49 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Georgia Southern | 74 | −60 | −0.8 | 1 | 18 |
| 2022 | Tulsa | 48 | −77 | −1.6 | 2 | 21 |
| 2021 | Tulsa | 68 | 75 | 1.1 | 1 | 22 |
| 2020 | Tulsa | 4 | 11 | 2.8 | 1 | 18 |
| 2018 | Tulsa | 1 | -- | 0.0 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 195 | −51 | −0.3 | 5 | 22 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 34-0vs The Citadel | 27/36 | 244 | 2 | 1 | 6.8 | 43.3 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 2 | W 49-35vs UAB | 38/47 | 318 | 2 | 1 | 6.8 | 76.1 | |
| Wk 3 | L 14-35@ Wisconsin | 33/52 | 383 | 1 | 5 | 7.4 | 40.6 | Season-high 383 yds · 5 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 4 | W 40-3@ Ball State | 34/46 | 344 | 4 | 0 | 7.5 | 83.8 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | W 38-28vs Coastal Carolina | 34/56 | 322 | 3 | 0 | 5.8 | 50.3 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 7 | L 13-41@ James Madison | 31/52 | 271 | 0 | 2 | 5.2 | 58.0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 38-28vs UL Monroe | 20/36 | 240 | 2 | 2 | 6.7 | 30.9 | |
| Wk 9 | W 44-27vs Georgia State | 22/35 | 334 | 3 | 1 | 9.5 | 44.8 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 10 | L 24-45@ Texas State | 18/27 | 195 | 1 | 1 | 7.2 | 4.2 | |
| Wk 11 | L 33-38@ Marshall | 29/54 | 307 | 3 | 0 | 5.7 | 42.1 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | L 17-20vs Old Dominion | 20/35 | 235 | 1 | 0 | 6.7 | 43.3 | |
| Wk 13 | L 27-55@ App State | 24/34 | 238 | 0 | 3 | 7.0 | 40.8 | 3 INTs — rough day |
 Bowl | L 21-41vs Ohio | 32/42 | 350 | 2 | 3 | 8.3 | 18.8 | |
| Total | 362/552 | 3781 | 24 | 19 | 6.8 | — |
Week 5 · 2023
W 38-28
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 536 passing plays (353 completions) against the box score's 552 attempts (362 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.54139 of 212 QBsSack rate
5.2%91 of 212 QBsRarely sacked (91 of 212), but Adjusted ANY/A hasn't followed (139 of 212).
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 65.6% completion on 552 attempts · 46 deep completions averaging 30.8 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2023 baseline
+62
percentile points better on third down or later
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 · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 282 | 2.2 | 7.0 | 0.8 |
| Road6g | 290 | 1.5 | 6.7 | 1.8 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 319 | 2.0 | 6.8 | 1.7 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 258 | 1.7 | 7.1 | 1.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Clay Helton
Pass share
60.6%
572 pass / 372 run
Plays / game
72.6
13 games
Scheme: Pass-leaning.
Player standing · 2023
552 pass attempts and 74 carries in 13 games, more passes and runs a game than nearly every FBS quarterback who plays every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Three-star recruit. Now #96 at the position.
How it ended
Five seasons, at Tulsa and Georgia Southern, 9,441 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
The role got bigger.
Coaching lineage · 2018–2023
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 2 schools: Philip Montgomery and Clay Helton.
