Dillon Gabriel: QB · Oregon · #8.
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Dillon Gabriel
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. The six seasons span three programs and four head coaches: Josh Heupel, Gus Malzahn, Brent Venables and Dan Lanning. Another came in 2024: All-America (FWAA). On tape: 380 passing yards and 2 passing TD against Idaho, Week 1, 2024.
Play style
High-percentage passer who protects the ball. Loses the matchup on improvisation.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
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. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
4 of the team's 32 inside-the-5 carries (12.5%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 14 games
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| 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 | Clean 2-TD game |
| 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 No. 2 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 No. 20 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 No. 3 Penn State | 22/32 | 283 | 4 | 0 | 8.8 | — | 4 TD passes |
 Bowl | L 21-41vs No. 6 Ohio State | 29/41 | 299 | 2 | 0 | 7.3 | 74.5 | |
| Total | 326/447 | 3857 | 30 | 6 | 8.6 | — |
Week 15 · 2024
W 45-37
vs Penn State · neutral site
283 yds · 4 TD · 0 INT · 17 rush yds (6 car)
Edged out Penn State at a neutral site in a shootout.
With T. Johnson — 11 rec · 181 yds · 1 TD · R. James — 43.7 yards per punt · 3 punts · 1 inside the 20
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 426 passing plays (303 completions) against the box score's 447 attempts (326 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
8.6714 of 205 QBsSack rate
4.3%65 of 205 QBsRarely 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 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 72.9% completion on 447 attempts · 50 deep completions averaging 33.6 yds.
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.
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
2024 season · 14 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 272 | 2.3 | 9.0 | 0.4 |
| 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
Head Coach
Dan Lanning
Pass share
48.7%
458 pass / 483 run
Plays / game
67.2
14 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2024
A finalist for the position's national player-of-the-year award.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Three-star recruit. Now #4 at the position.
Selector Grid · 2024
How it ended
Six seasons, at UCF, Oklahoma and Oregon, 18,669 passing yards, an All-American season (2024) — drafted at #94 overall by the Cleveland Browns.
Played for three programs.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-AMERICA
Named All-American (2024)
named by 3 selectors
ALL-BIG TEN · 1ST TEAM
All-Big Ten 1st team (2024)
Weekly recognition
3 weekly honors (2023)
10 career weekly honors across 4 seasons
Coaching lineage · 2019–2024
4 coachesPlayed for 4 head coaches at 3 schools: Josh Heupel, Gus Malzahn, Brent Venables and Dan Lanning.
Next stop · NFL
Cleveland BrownsEntering 2nd NFL season
Cleveland BrownsEntering 2nd NFL season
