Dillon Gabriel

Former quarterback at Oregon. 2024: 3,857 passing yards, 30 TD, 6 INT.

QB · Oregon · Sr. · #8

5′11″ · 204 lb · Mililani, HI

CFB Index 88 · #4 of 137 QBsHigh confidencePOTY finalist (model)Cleveland — drafted 2025, Rd 3, Pick 30, #94 overall

Recruiting

3★

PRO recruit

No. 754 nationally · Signed with Mililani

Statement game449 yds · 6 TDat Texas Tech (FBS) · L 48-51

Top 0.1% passing TDs game since 2021.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

Former quarterback at Oregon. 2024: 3,857 passing yards, 30 TD, 6 INT.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Mililani in 2019.
Transferred from Oklahoma to Oregon in 2024.
Drafted round 3 by the Cleveland in 2025.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Six seasons at Oregon, 18,669 passing yards, an All-American season (2024) — drafted at #94 overall by Cleveland.

His career

Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.

201913 games

Recruited3-star out of Mililani

20209 games

All-AACsecond

202212 games

Entered the portal
Big 12 Offensive Newcomer of the Yearwinner
All-Big 12second

202312 games

All-Big 12first

202414 games

Entered the portal
All-Big Tenfirst
All-America3 selectors
Big Ten Most Valuable Playerwinner
Big Ten Graham–George Offensive Player of the Yearwinner
Big Ten Griese–Brees Quarterback of the Yearwinner

2025

Drafted by Clevelandround 3, pick 94

Career arc

Recruit

★★★

#754 national

CFB

College

3 teams

2019–2024

NFL

NFL Draft

R3 · #94

Cleveland · 2025

Trophy case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

22 honors · 2 categories

🥇

ALL-AMERICA

Named All-American (2024)

3 selectors honored him

🥈

ALL-BIG TEN · 1ST TEAM

All-Big Ten 1st team (2024)

Coaching lineage · 2019–2024

3 coaches

2019–2020

Mario Cristobal

Oregon

2021

Bryan McClendon

Oregon

era →

2022–2024

Dan Lanning

Oregon

era →

Played under 3 different head coaches: Mario Cristobal, Bryan McClendon, and Dan Lanning. Multi-era developmental context.

Where He Ended Up · NFL

ClevelandEntering 2nd NFL season

#94Rd 3 · Pick 30

ClevelandEntering 2nd NFL season

View college career stats ↓

2024 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2019UCF10-3HC: Josh Heupel · Run-leaning, fast tempo

2020UCF6-4HC: Josh Heupel · Balanced, fast tempo

2021UCF9-4HC: Gus Malzahn · Run-leaning

2022Oklahoma6-7HC: Brent Venables · Run-leaning, fast tempo

2023Oklahoma10-3HC: Brent Venables · Balanced

2024Oregon13-1HC: Dan Lanning · Balanced

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

88All-Conference level #4 of 137?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: success rate (97th percentile). Strength: epa / dropback (95th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Success rate#5 / 169 · 97th pct

51.1%

EPA / dropback#9 / 169 · 95th pct

0.43

Interception rate#22 / 169 · 87th pct

1.2%

Explosive rate#42 / 169 · 75th pct

11.7%

Sack rate#54 / 169 · 68th pct

4.5%

Box-score rates (8)

Completion %#5 / 165 · 97th pct

72.9%

Pass yards#8 / 165 · 95th pct

3857

Pass TDs#8 / 165 · 95th pct

Yards / att#19 / 165 · 88th pct

8.6

Rush TDs#19 / 165 · 85th pct

Interceptions#49 / 165 · 62nd pct

Rush yards#83 / 165 · 50th pct

149

Fumbles lost#68 / 159 · 44th pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

97th → 95th percentile

Success rate

99th → 97th percentile

Explosive rate

93rd → 75th percentile

Sack rate

77th → 68th percentile

Interception rate

31st → 87th 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

303/426 (71.1%) · 30 TD · 6 INT

426 of 447 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

8.6714 of 205 QBs

Sack rate

4.3%65 of 205 QBs

Rarely sacked (65 of 205 QBs) and still 14 of 205 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

57%of completions

173 comp4.1 yds avg11 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

26%of completions

80 comp13.7 yds avg6 TD

Deep

20+ yds

17%of completions

50 comp33.6 yds avg11 TD

Overall 71.1% completion on 426 attempts · 50 deep completions averaging 33.6 yds.

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2024 baseline

No situation moves him more than 37 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-37 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 4/166 (2.4%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 2

+21 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 5/124 (4.0%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 3+

+32 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 7/114 (6.1%) · league sack rate 8.1% · ~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

2024 season · 14 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home9g	276	2.4	8.8	0.3
Road5g	274	1.6	9.2	0.6

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-77g	298	2.1	9.1	0.4
Weeks 8+7g	253	2.1	8.8	0.4

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Dan Lanning

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

Awards

Player standing · 2024

POTY finalist (model)

Our Heisman model has him in the top five; no finalist honor is on the books yet.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

88 · #4 of 137 QBs

Three-star recruit. Now #4 at the position.

Selector Grid · 2024

AP—

FWAA—

AFCA—

WCFF—

SN—

SI—

Career stats

Season	Team
2024	Oregon	326	447	72.9%	3,857	8.6	30	6	164.9	81	--	--
2023	Oklahoma	266	384	69.3%	3,660	9.5	30	6	172.0	87	--	--
2022	Oklahoma	230	367	62.7%	3,168	8.6	25	6	154.4	70	--	--
2021	UCF	70	102	68.6%	814	8.0	9	3	158.9	53	--	--
2020	UCF	243	406	59.9%	3,517	8.7	32	4	156.7	78	--	--
2019	UCF	236	399	59.1%	3,653	9.2	29	7	156.5	--	--	--
Career		1,371	2,105	65.1%	18,669	8.9	155	32	160.9	77	--	--

Season	Team
2024	Oregon	75	149	2.0	7	--
2023	Oklahoma	93	373	4.0	12	--
2022	Oklahoma	88	324	3.7	6	--
2021	UCF	24	125	5.2	2	--
2020	UCF	72	169	2.3	2	--
2019	UCF	71	78	1.1	4	--
Career		423	1,218	2.9	33	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 7 · 2024

W 32–31

vs Ohio State

341 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 95.9 · 32 rush yds (4 car) · 1 TD

Edged out Ohio State at home in a shootout.

With E. Stewart — 7 rec · 149 yds · 1 TD · R. James — 40 AVG · 1 IN 20 · 45 LONG

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 5 · UCLA · 3&6 · Q2 · EPA -11.18Dillon Gabriel pass intercepted Bryan Addison return for 96 yds for a TD (Mateen Bhaghani KICK)
Week 3 · Oregon State · 3&10 · Q4 · EPA +6.86Dillon Gabriel pass complete to Jayden Limar for 65 yds for a TD (Atticus Sappington KICK)
Week 2 · Boise State · 3&8 · Q3 · EPA +6.43Dillon Gabriel pass complete to Traeshon Holden for 59 yds for a TD (Atticus Sappington PAT MISSED)
Week 3 · Oregon State · 2&14 · Q2 · EPA +5.84Dillon Gabriel run for 54 yds for a TD (K. Sadiq Run For Two-point Conversion)
Week 7 · Ohio State · 3&9 · Q2 · EPA +5.70Dillon Gabriel pass complete to Tez Johnson for 48 yds for a TD (Atticus Sappington KICK)
Week 5 · UCLA · 2&12 · Q2 · EPA +5.42Dillon Gabriel pass complete to Tez Johnson for 52 yds for a TD (Kenyon Sadiq pass to Terrance Ferguson for Two-Point Conversion)
Week 7 · Ohio State · 2&12 · Q2 · EPA +4.64Dillon Gabriel pass complete to Evan Stewart for 69 yds to the OSU 8 for a 1ST down
Week 15 · Penn State · 2&9 · Q3 · EPA +4.62Dillon Gabriel pass complete to Tez Johnson for 48 yds for a TD (Atticus Sappington KICK)
Week 12 · Wisconsin · 1&9 · Q1 · EPA -4.58Dillon Gabriel pass intercepted Nyzier Fourqurean return for 10 yds to the WIS 11
Week 1 · Ohio State · 3&16 · Q2 · EPA +4.47Dillon Gabriel pass complete to Traeshon Holden for 44 yds to the OSU 22 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2024 season · 14 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 24-14vs Idaho	41/49	380	2	0	7.8	56.2	Season-high 380 yds
Wk 2	W 37-34vs Boise State	18/21	243	2	0	11.6	49.8
Wk 3	W 49-14@ Oregon State	20/24	291	2	0	12.1	99.3	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 5	W 34-13@ UCLA	31/41	278	3	1	6.8	83.4	3 TD passes
Wk 6	W 31-10vs Michigan State	20/32	257	2	2	8.0	79.8
Wk 7	W 32-31vs Ohio State	23/34	341	2	0	10.0	95.9	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 8	W 35-0@ Purdue	21/25	290	2	1	11.6	86.7
Wk 9	W 38-9vs Illinois	18/26	291	3	1	11.2	95.8	3 TD passes
Wk 10	W 38-17@ Michigan	22/34	294	1	0	8.6	95.8
Wk 11	W 39-18vs Maryland	23/34	183	3	0	5.4	66.1	3 TD passes
Wk 12	W 16-13@ Wisconsin	22/31	218	0	1	7.0	64.2
Wk 14	W 49-21vs Washington	16/23	209	2	0	9.1	93.8
Wk 15	W 45-37vs Penn State	22/32	283	4	0	8.8	—	4 TD passes
Bowl	L 21-41vs Ohio State	29/41	299	2	0	7.3	74.5
Total		326/447	3857	30	6	8.9	80.1

How he plays

Play style

High-percentage passer who protects the ball. Loses the matchup on improvisation.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

65.9%Completion %

30.0%Conversion/dropback

48.3%Land short of sticks

0INTs

65.9% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 30.0% conversion-per-dropback — 48.3% 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. ~ our read: checkdown by design

Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration

Who gets the tough yard

fact

4/32Inside-5 share

4 of the team's 32 inside-the-5 carries (12.5%).