Jacoby Brissett: QB · NC State · #12.
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Jacoby Brissett
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Second year in the NC State quarterback room. On tape: 254 passing yards and 3 passing TD against Clemson, Week 9, 2015.
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
49.1% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 27.3% conversion-per-dropback — 35.7% 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
8 of the team's 36 inside-the-5 carries (22.2%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2015 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 49-21vs Troy | 21/23 | 196 | 2 | 0 | 8.5 | 90.9 | |
| Wk 2 | W 35-0vs Eastern Kentucky | 17/22 | 216 | 1 | 0 | 9.8 | 88.6 | |
| Wk 3 | W 38-14@ Old Dominion | 18/27 | 179 | 1 | 0 | 6.6 | 74.9 | |
| Wk 4 | W 63-13@ South Alabama | 18/23 | 218 | 2 | 0 | 9.5 | 85.4 | |
| Wk 5 | L 13-20vs Louisville | 16/28 | 183 | 1 | 0 | 6.5 | 17.5 | |
| Wk 6 | L 13-28@ Virginia Tech | 12/25 | 113 | 1 | 1 | 4.5 | 29.6 | |
| Wk 8 | W 35-17@ Wake Forest | 20/34 | 227 | 2 | 0 | 6.7 | 58.5 | |
| Wk 9 | L 41-56vs No. 3 Clemson | 24/41 | 254 | 3 | 0 | 6.2 | 72.1 | Season-high 254 yds |
| Wk 10 | W 24-8@ Boston College | 14/27 | 212 | 1 | 1 | 7.9 | 68.7 | |
| Wk 11 | L 17-34@ No. 19 Florida State | 27/47 | 209 | 1 | 0 | 4.4 | 33.9 | |
| Wk 12 | W 42-29vs Syracuse | 21/33 | 235 | 2 | 1 | 7.1 | 79.1 | |
| Wk 13 | L 34-45vs No. 11 North Carolina | 17/37 | 206 | 2 | 1 | 5.6 | 52.9 | |
 Bowl | L 28-51vs Mississippi State | 12/28 | 214 | 1 | 2 | 7.6 | 29.4 | |
| Total | 237/395 | 2662 | 20 | 6 | 6.7 | — |
Week 13 · 2015
L 34-45
206 yds · 2 TD · 1 INT · QBR 52.9 · 128 rush yds (20 car) · 2 TD
With A. Cole III — 43.5 yards per punt · 4 punts · 60 long · N. Hines — 39 rush yds (9 car) · 2 rec · 23 yds
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 391 passing plays (234 completions) against the box score's 395 attempts (237 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.0390 of 198 QBsSack rate
8.4%161 of 198 QBsSacked on 8.4% of dropbacks (161 of 198) — and still 90 of 198 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 60.0% completion on 395 attempts · 33 deep completions averaging 33.1 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2015 baseline
No situation moves him more than 28 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.
2 seasons under Dave Doeren, all run-leaning offenses — 15-11 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2015 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 215 | 1.8 | 7.3 | 0.3 |
| Road6g | 193 | 1.3 | 6.6 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 188 | 1.3 | 7.6 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 224 | 1.8 | 6.3 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Dave Doeren
Pass share
43.6%
411 pass / 532 run
Plays / game
72.5
13 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2015
395 pass attempts and 139 carries in 13 games, more passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at NC State, 5,268 passing yards — drafted at #91 overall by the New England Patriots.
Coaching lineage · 2011–2015
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 2 schools: Will Muschamp and Dave Doeren.
Next stop · NFL
New England PatriotsEntering 11th NFL season
New England PatriotsEntering 11th NFL season
