Joshua Dobbs: QB · Tennessee · #11.
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Joshua Dobbs
Extends plays on the move until something opens up. Third year in the Tennessee quarterback room. The first career honor came in 2016: All-SEC. One game to point at: 398 passing yards and 57 rushing yards against Texas A&M — Week 6, 2016.
Play style
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
37.5% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 14.9% conversion-per-dropback — 53.3% 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
6 of the team's 29 inside-the-5 carries (20.7%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2016 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 20-13vs App State | 16/29 | 192 | 1 | 1 | 6.6 | 29.5 | |
| Wk 2 | W 45-24vs Virginia Tech | 10/19 | 91 | 3 | 1 | 4.8 | 63.5 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | W 28-19vs Ohio | 19/27 | 203 | 2 | 1 | 7.5 | 64.1 | |
| Wk 4 | W 38-28vs No. 19 Florida | 16/32 | 319 | 4 | 2 | 10.0 | 57.2 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | W 34-31@ No. 25 Georgia | 16/26 | 230 | 3 | 1 | 8.8 | 83.0 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 6 | L 38-45@ No. 8 Texas A&M | 28/47 | 398 | 1 | 2 | 8.5 | 30.3 | Season-high 398 yds |
| Wk 7 | L 10-49vs No. 1 Alabama | 16/27 | 92 | 0 | 1 | 3.4 | 5.1 | |
| Wk 9 | L 21-24@ South Carolina | 12/26 | 161 | 1 | 2 | 6.2 | 12.5 | |
| Wk 10 | W 55-0vs Tennessee Tech | 12/13 | 183 | 3 | 0 | 14.1 | 99.4 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 11 | W 49-36vs Kentucky | 11/17 | 223 | 3 | 1 | 13.1 | 96.7 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | W 63-37vs Missouri | 15/22 | 223 | 3 | 0 | 10.1 | 99.7 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 13 | L 34-45@ Vanderbilt | 31/34 | 340 | 2 | 0 | 10.0 | 82.3 | Clean 2-TD game |
 Bowl | W 38-24vs No. 24 Nebraska | 23/38 | 291 | 1 | 0 | 7.7 | 91.5 | |
| Total | 225/357 | 2946 | 27 | 12 | 8.3 | — |
Bowl · 2016
W 38-24
vs Nebraska · neutral site
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 351 passing plays (222 completions) against the box score's 357 attempts (225 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.1851 of 193 QBsSack rate
6.1%103 of 193 QBsSacked on 6.1% of dropbacks (103 of 193) — and still 51 of 193 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 63.0% completion on 357 attempts · 46 deep completions averaging 31.5 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2016 baseline
No situation moves him more than 22 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.
3 seasons under Butch Jones — 25-14 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 205 | 2.3 | 9.3 | 0.9 |
| Road4g | 282 | 1.8 | 8.4 | 1.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 227 | 1.9 | 7.2 | 1.1 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 226 | 2.4 | 10.7 | 0.6 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Butch Jones
Pass share
42.4%
377 pass / 512 run
Plays / game
68.4
13 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2016
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
How it ended
Three seasons at Tennessee, 6,443 passing yards — drafted at #135 overall by the Pittsburgh Steelers.
A blue-chip recruit with honors.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-SEC · 2ND TEAM
All-SEC 2nd team (2016)
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Butch Jones.
Next stop · NFL
Pittsburgh SteelersEntering 10th NFL season
Pittsburgh SteelersEntering 10th NFL season
