Mike Fafaul: QB · UCLA · #12.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Mike Fafaul
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Second year in the same quarterback room at UCLA. A game that shows it: 464 passing yards and 23 rushing yards against Utah — Week 8, 2016.
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
54.3% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 19.1% conversion-per-dropback — 64.0% 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.
USA Today Oct 29
On3 Oct 24
Yahoo Sports Oct 17Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
Game log · Week-by-week
2016 season · 8 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | W 42-21vs UNLV | 1/1 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 13.0 | 100.0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 20-23@ Arizona State | 3/11 | 44 | 0 | 2 | 4.0 | 2.4 | |
| Wk 7 | L 21-27@ Washington State | 24/40 | 258 | 3 | 2 | 6.4 | 75.1 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | L 45-52vs No. 19 Utah | 40/70 | 464 | 5 | 4 | 6.6 | 49.6 | Season-high 464 yds · 4 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 10 | L 10-20@ No. 21 Colorado | 15/29 | 185 | 1 | 1 | 6.4 | 19.4 | |
| Wk 11 | W 38-24vs Oregon State | 25/47 | 281 | 0 | 1 | 6.0 | 48.5 | |
| Wk 12 | L 14-36vs No. 15 USC | 15/31 | 181 | 2 | 0 | 5.8 | 47.6 | |
| Wk 13 | L 10-36@ California | 12/30 | 176 | 1 | 1 | 5.9 | 17.3 | |
| Total | 135/259 | 1602 | 12 | 11 | 6.2 | — |
Week 8 · 2016
L 45-52
vs Utah
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 253 passing plays (130 completions) against the box score's 259 attempts (135 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
4.70151 of 193 QBsSack rate
4.1%44 of 193 QBsRarely sacked (44 of 193), but Adjusted ANY/A hasn't followed (151 of 193).
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 52.1% completion on 259 attempts · 19 deep completions averaging 33.1 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2016 baseline
No situation moves him more than 40 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 Jim Mora — 12-13 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 235 | 1.8 | 7.8 | 1.2 |
| Road4g | 166 | 1.2 | 5.7 | 1.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 105 | 1.0 | 7.8 | 1.3 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 257 | 1.8 | 6.1 | 1.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jim Mora
Pass share
59.1%
491 pass / 340 run
Plays / game
69.2
12 games
Scheme: Pass-leaning.
Player standing · 2016
About as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at UCLA, 1,623 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Jim Mora.
