Jake Browning: QB · Washington · #3.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Jake Browning
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Fourth year in the Washington quarterback room. First career honor, 2016: All-Pac-12. On tape: 313 passing yards and 21 rushing yards against North Dakota, Week 2, 2018.
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
54.7% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 25.4% 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
13 of 14 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (92.9%). 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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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Washington | 251 | 386 | 65.0% | 3,173 | 8.2 | 16 | 10 | 142.6 | 73 |
| 2017 | Washington | 229 | 334 | 68.6% | 2,711 | 8.1 | 19 | 5 | 152.5 | 66 |
| 2016 | Washington | 243 | 391 | 62.1% | 3,430 | 8.8 | 43 | 9 | 167.5 | 69 |
| 2015 | Washington | 233 | 368 | 63.3% | 2,955 | 8.0 | 16 | 10 | 139.7 | 54 |
| Career | 956 | 1,479 | 64.6% | 12,269 | 8.3 | 94 | 34 | 150.7 | 65 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Washington | 83 | 127 | 1.5 | 4 | 25 |
| 2017 | Washington | 54 | 25 | 0.5 | 7 | 21 |
| 2016 | Washington | 65 | 45 | 0.7 | 4 | 19 |
| 2015 | Washington | 65 | 35 | 0.5 | 1 | 25 |
| Career | 267 | 232 | 0.9 | 16 | 25 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 14 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 16-21vs No. 9 Auburn | 17/30 | 277 | 1 | 1 | 9.2 | — | |
| Wk 2 | W 45-3vs North Dakota | 23/37 | 313 | 2 | 2 | 8.5 | — | Season-high 313 yds |
| Wk 3 | W 21-7@ Utah | 14/24 | 155 | 1 | 1 | 6.5 | — | |
| Wk 4 | W 27-20vs Arizona State | 15/22 | 202 | 3 | 0 | 9.2 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | W 35-7vs No. 20 BYU | 23/25 | 277 | 1 | 0 | 11.1 | — | |
| Wk 6 | W 31-24@ UCLA | 18/26 | 265 | 1 | 1 | 10.2 | — | |
| Wk 7 | L 27-30@ No. 17 Oregon | 15/25 | 243 | 1 | 1 | 9.7 | — | |
| Wk 8 | W 27-13vs Colorado | 15/25 | 150 | 1 | 1 | 6.0 | — | |
| Wk 9 | L 10-12@ California | 11/21 | 148 | 1 | 1 | 7.0 | — | |
| Wk 10 | W 27-23vs Stanford | 16/27 | 194 | 1 | 0 | 7.2 | — | |
| Wk 12 | W 42-23vs Oregon State | 17/23 | 242 | 3 | 0 | 10.5 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 13 | W 28-15@ No. 7 Washington State | 11/14 | 207 | 0 | 1 | 14.8 | — | |
| Wk 14 | W 10-3vs No. 17 Utah | 21/33 | 187 | 0 | 1 | 5.7 | — | |
 Bowl | L 23-28vs No. 5 Ohio State | 35/54 | 313 | 0 | 0 | 5.8 | — | |
| Total | 251/386 | 3173 | 16 | 10 | 8.2 | — |
Week 4 · 2018
W 27-20
202 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT
A close one, won by 7 at home.
With J. Whitford — 49.3 yards per punt · 3 punts · 1 inside the 20 · M. Gaskin — 86 rush yds (21 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 385 passing plays (250 completions) against the box score's 386 attempts (251 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.0866 of 207 QBsSack rate
5.4%73 of 207 QBsRarely sacked (73 of 207 QBs) and still 66 of 207 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 65.0% completion on 386 attempts · 46 deep completions averaging 30.3 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2018 baseline
+52
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.
4 seasons under Chris Petersen, all run-leaning offenses — 39-15 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 14 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 230 | 1.8 | 8.8 | 0.5 |
| Road5g | 204 | 0.8 | 9.6 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 256 | 1.2 | 8.8 | 0.8 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 188 | 1.0 | 8.5 | 0.7 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Chris Petersen
Pass share
42.6%
404 pass / 544 run
Plays / game
67.7
14 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2018
Our Heisman model had this player inside its top 25 in 2018.
How it ended
Four seasons at Washington, 12,269 passing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2016) — the college career is complete.
A blue-chip recruit with honors.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-PAC-12 · 1ST TEAM
All-Pac-12 1st team (2016)
Coaching lineage · 2015–2018
1 coachPlayed every college season under Chris Petersen.
