Michael Pratt: QB · Tulane · #7.
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Michael Pratt
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Played for two head coaches at Tulane: Willie Fritz and Slade Nagle. Another came in 2023: AAC Offensive Player of the Year. A game that shows it: 294 passing yards and 39 rushing yards against South Alabama — Week 1, 2023.
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
65.6% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 39.4% conversion-per-dropback — 38.1% 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
9 of 11 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (81.8%). 5 of the team's 31 inside-the-5 carries (16.1%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 37-17vs South Alabama | 14/15 | 294 | 4 | 0 | 19.6 | 96.2 | Season-high 294 yds |
| Wk 4 | W 36-7vs Nicholls | 18/23 | 190 | 2 | 1 | 8.3 | — | |
| Wk 5 | W 35-23vs UAB | 14/23 | 184 | 2 | 0 | 8.0 | 80.8 | |
| Wk 7 | W 31-21@ Memphis | 19/31 | 259 | 1 | 0 | 8.4 | 76.7 | |
| Wk 8 | W 35-28vs North Texas | 15/21 | 194 | 3 | 1 | 9.2 | 62.5 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 9 | W 30-28@ Rice | 22/30 | 263 | 2 | 1 | 8.8 | 75.0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 13-10@ East Carolina | 16/25 | 213 | 1 | 0 | 8.5 | 79.6 | |
| Wk 11 | W 24-22vs Tulsa | 16/29 | 194 | 1 | 1 | 6.7 | 38.1 | |
| Wk 12 | W 24-8@ Florida Atlantic | 21/28 | 252 | 3 | 0 | 9.0 | 84.4 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 13 | W 29-16vs UTSA | 9/22 | 125 | 2 | 0 | 5.7 | 37.1 | |
| Wk 14 | L 14-26vs No. 25 SMU | 21/36 | 238 | 1 | 1 | 6.6 | 16.8 | |
| Total | 185/283 | 2406 | 22 | 5 | 8.5 | — |
Week 1 · 2023
W 37-17
294 yds · 4 TD · 0 INT · QBR 96.2 · 39 rush yds (11 car)
With L. Keys III — 4 rec · 96 yds · 1 TD · 12 rush yds (1 car) · J. Jackson — 3 rec · 106 yds · 2 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 274 passing plays (182 completions) against the box score's 283 attempts (185 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
8.4130 of 212 QBsSack rate
6.6%135 of 212 QBsSacked on 6.6% of dropbacks (135 of 212) — and still 30 of 212 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 65.4% completion on 283 attempts · 40 deep completions averaging 31.3 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2023 baseline
No situation moves him more than 26 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.
4 seasons under Willie Fritz — 31-21 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2023 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 203 | 2.1 | 9.2 | 0.6 |
| Road4g | 247 | 1.8 | 8.7 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 232 | 2.2 | 11.1 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+7g | 211 | 1.9 | 7.8 | 0.6 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Slade Nagle
Pass share
42.2%
368 pass / 504 run
Plays / game
62.3
14 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2023
First team in his league at the position.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Three-star recruit. Now #50 at the position.
How it ended
Four seasons at Tulane, 9,603 passing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2023) — drafted at #245 overall by the Green Bay Packers.
Honored in a first season.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-AAC · 1ST TEAM
All-AAC 1st team (2023)
Weekly recognition
2 weekly honors (2023)
4 career weekly honors across 3 seasons
Coaching lineage · 2020–2023
1 coachPlayed every college season under Willie Fritz.
Next stop · NFL
Green Bay PackersEntering 3rd NFL season
Green Bay PackersEntering 3rd NFL season
