Sophomore quarterback for Washington. 2025: 829 passing yards, 4 TD, 2 INT.
6′2″ · 205 lb · Huntington Beach, CA · Mater Dei
The numbers
passing yards · 2025
4 TD · 2 INT · 6.5 per attempt
Swing playSwung Stanford from 10% to 36% to win.Stanford at North Carolina · 20-15
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
2 quarterback for Washington. 2025: 829 passing yards, 4 TD, 2 INT.
How he plays
Operates within the system without forcing anything.
Interception rate: 71st percentile.
The full scouting readAura™ · Him Watch
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48th pctl our passing-value metric (wEPA) QBs · 160 qualified, n=28
— the discourse is fair.Buzz vs Tape
The rival fanbase is unexpectedly warm on him relative to his own.
Something must be wrong with Elijah Brown. Like he is just awful or is a bad apple or something because Gulbranson is terrible. You're going to nuke morale if you keep running him out there. I swear we would feel so different with an…
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Elijah Brown
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Two seasons at Washington, two different head coaches: Troy Taylor and Frank Reich. The receipt: 284 pass yds, 1 pass TD against North Carolina — Week 11, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
Career arc
Where He Ended Up · Transfer
Transferred to Washington
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: interceptions (92nd percentile). Concern: sack rate (11th percentile).
Real play-by-play efficiency
Season trend
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).
Pass Profile · True throw depth (charted plays)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
5.29149 of 206 QBsSack rate
8.6%181 of 206 QBsSacked on 8.6% of dropbacks (181 of 206) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (149 of 206).
Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.
Behind LOS · Negative air yds
Short · 0–9 air yds
Middle · 10–19 air yds
Deep · 20+ air yds
Overall 57.0% completion on 121 attempts · 31% completion on 13 deep attempts (20+ air yds).
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 6 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 126 | 0.8 | 6.3 | 0.2 |
| Road2g | 162 | 0.5 | 7.5 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 8+6g | 138 | 0.7 | 6.7 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jedd Fisch
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2025
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 6 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 8 | W 20-13vs Florida State | 6/12 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 5.9 | 43.1 | |
| Wk 9 | L 7-42@ Miami | 3/5 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 7.8 | 84.2 | |
| Wk 10 | L 20-35vs Pittsburgh | 10/14 | 108 | 1 | 0 | 7.7 | 33.1 | |
| Wk 11 | L 15-20@ North Carolina | 27/39 | 284 | 1 | 1 | 7.3 | 41.2 | Season-high 284 yds |
| Wk 13 | W 31-10vs California | 10/20 | 123 | 1 | 0 | 6.2 | 46.1 | |
| Wk 14 | L 20-49vs Notre Dame | 18/37 | 204 | 1 | 1 | 5.5 | 48.2 | |
| Total | 74/127 | 829 | 4 | 2 | 6.7 | 49.3 |
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
CFB Index positional classification
Player DNA
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Max Cutforth’s 2025 season.
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Through 2 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Kyron Drones’s path through Virginia Tech.
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As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Max Cutforth's sophomore season at Boise State (2025).
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Player DNA
Comes to UW after having spent the 2024 and 2025 seasons at Stanford … enrolled at Stanford in January of 2024 … played in six games in 2025, completing 74-of-127 passes for 829 yards, four touchdowns and two interceptions … started vs. California, leading the Cardinal to a win in the Big Game …...