Patrick Towles: QB · Boston College · #8.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Patrick Towles
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Played for two head coaches across three seasons and two programs. On tape: 234 passing yards and 18 rushing yards against Buffalo, Week 5, 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
42.6% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 17.6% conversion-per-dropback — 53.8% 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
8 of 11 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (72.7%). 5 of the team's 22 inside-the-5 carries (22.7%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
Atlantic Coast Conference Oct 22
Sports Illustrated Oct 22
247Sports Oct 16Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Boston College | 138 | 273 | 50.5% | 1,730 | 6.3 | 12 | 7 | 113.2 | 23 |
| 2015 | Kentucky | 183 | 326 | 56.1% | 2,148 | 6.6 | 9 | 14 | 112.0 | 40 |
| 2014 | Kentucky | 225 | 392 | 57.4% | 2,718 | 6.9 | 14 | 9 | 122.8 | 47 |
| Career | 546 | 991 | 55.1% | 6,596 | 6.7 | 35 | 30 | 116.6 | 38 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Boston College | 115 | 294 | 2.6 | 4 | 75 |
| 2015 | Kentucky | 71 | 64 | 0.9 | 5 | 33 |
| 2014 | Kentucky | 146 | 305 | 2.1 | 6 | 48 |
| Career | 332 | 663 | 2.0 | 15 | 75 |
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 | L 14-17vs Georgia Tech | 11/17 | 144 | 0 | 1 | 8.5 | 59.7 | |
| Wk 2 | W 26-7@ Massachusetts | 12/22 | 191 | 2 | 1 | 8.7 | 51.6 | |
| Wk 3 | L 0-49@ Virginia Tech | 9/28 | 80 | 0 | 1 | 2.9 | 19.2 | |
| Wk 4 | W 42-10vs Wagner | 9/16 | 157 | 2 | 0 | 9.8 | 97.8 | |
| Wk 5 | W 35-3vs Buffalo | 14/25 | 234 | 2 | 0 | 9.4 | 85.4 | Season-high 234 yds |
| Wk 6 | L 10-56vs No. 3 Clemson | 11/22 | 91 | 1 | 0 | 4.1 | 4.9 | |
| Wk 8 | L 20-28vs Syracuse | 4/14 | 45 | 0 | 1 | 3.2 | 45.5 | |
| Wk 9 | W 21-14@ NC State | 18/33 | 204 | 0 | 1 | 6.2 | 26.9 | |
| Wk 10 | L 7-52vs No. 5 Louisville | 13/21 | 147 | 1 | 1 | 7.0 | 28.8 | |
| Wk 11 | L 7-45@ No. 20 Florida State | 3/11 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 2.6 | 3.7 | |
| Wk 12 | W 30-0vs UConn | 14/19 | 183 | 1 | 0 | 9.6 | 89.1 | |
| Wk 13 | W 17-14@ Wake Forest | 10/23 | 74 | 1 | 0 | 3.2 | 29.0 | |
 Bowl | W 36-30vs Maryland | 10/22 | 151 | 2 | 1 | 6.9 | 31.4 | |
| Total | 138/273 | 1730 | 12 | 7 | 6.3 | — |
Week 4 · 2016
W 42-10
vs Wagner
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 271 passing plays (136 completions) against the box score's 273 attempts (138 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
4.96141 of 193 QBsSack rate
8.7%162 of 193 QBsSacked on 8.7% of dropbacks (162 of 193) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (141 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 50.5% completion on 273 attempts · 25 deep completions averaging 31.1 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2016 baseline
No situation moves him more than 24 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.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 143 | 1.2 | 7.2 | 0.3 |
| Road5g | 116 | 0.6 | 4.7 | 0.6 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 150 | 1.3 | 7.2 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 114 | 0.5 | 5.3 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Steve Addazio
Pass share
34.8%
296 pass / 555 run
Plays / game
65.5
13 games
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2016
273 pass attempts, 115 carries and 2 catches in 13 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
Three seasons, at Kentucky and Boston College, 6,596 passing yards — the college career is complete.
A stat line in 36 games over three seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2016
3 coachesPlayed for 3 head coaches at 2 schools: Joker Phillips, Mark Stoops and Steve Addazio.
