Johnny McCrary: QB · Vanderbilt · #2.
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Johnny McCrary
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Second year in the same quarterback room at Vanderbilt. On tape: 368 passing yards and 41 rushing yards against Austin Peay, Week 3, 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
41.7% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 21.7% conversion-per-dropback — 33.3% 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
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
On3 Oct 25
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Vanderbilt | 146 | 267 | 54.7% | 1,533 | 5.7 | 6 | 12 | 101.3 | 29 |
| 2014 | Vanderbilt | 78 | 152 | 51.3% | 985 | 6.5 | 9 | 8 | 114.8 | 44 |
| Career | 224 | 419 | 53.5% | 2,518 | 6.0 | 15 | 20 | 106.2 | 34 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Vanderbilt | 70 | 186 | 2.7 | 2 | 29 |
| 2014 | Vanderbilt | 22 | 39 | 1.8 | 0 | 16 |
| Career | 92 | 225 | 2.4 | 2 | 29 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2015 season · 10 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 12-14vs Western Kentucky | 18/34 | 217 | 1 | 2 | 6.4 | 43.5 | |
| Wk 2 | L 14-31vs No. 10 Georgia | 24/50 | 295 | 1 | 3 | 5.9 | 15.2 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 3 | W 47-7vs Austin Peay | 28/33 | 368 | 2 | 0 | 11.2 | 80.3 | Season-high 368 yds |
| Wk 4 | L 16-27@ No. 3 Ole Miss | 23/42 | 194 | 1 | 0 | 4.6 | 48.9 | |
| Wk 5 | W 17-13@ Middle Tennessee | 18/31 | 177 | 0 | 2 | 5.7 | 63.4 | |
| Wk 7 | L 10-19@ South Carolina | 21/42 | 177 | 1 | 3 | 4.2 | 15.8 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 8 | W 10-3vs Missouri | 7/8 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 5.9 | 76.0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 0-34@ No. 18 Houston | 2/9 | 24 | 0 | 2 | 2.7 | 0.3 | |
| Wk 10 | L 7-9@ No. 11 Florida | 3/14 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 2.1 | 6.3 | |
| Wk 12 | L 0-25vs Texas A&M | 2/4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 11.2 | |
| Total | 146/267 | 1533 | 6 | 12 | 5.7 | — |
Week 3 · 2015
W 47-7
vs Austin Peay
368 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 80.3 · 41 rush yds (5 car) · 1 TD
Dominant 40-point win at home against Austin Peay.
With T. Openshaw — 66 yards per punt · 1 punts · 66 long · T. Sherfield — 16 rec · 240 yds · 1 TD
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 265 passing plays (144 completions) against the box score's 267 attempts (146 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
3.53175 of 198 QBsSack rate
6.6%123 of 198 QBsSacked on 6.6% of dropbacks (123 of 198) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (175 of 198).
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 54.7% completion on 267 attempts · 18 deep completions averaging 26.4 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2015 baseline
No situation moves him more than 38 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 Derek Mason — 7-17 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2015 season · 10 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 186 | 0.8 | 6.1 | 1.0 |
| Road5g | 120 | 0.4 | 3.9 | 1.4 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 238 | 1.0 | 6.3 | 1.7 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 26.2 | 0.0 | 2.9 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Derek Mason
Pass share
43.5%
376 pass / 489 run
Plays / game
72.1
12 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2015
267 pass attempts and 70 carries in 10 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Vanderbilt, 2,518 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2015
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: James Franklin → Derek Mason. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
