Phillip Ely: QB · Toledo · #12.
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Phillip Ely
Operates within the system without forcing anything. The two seasons at Toledo span two head coaches: Matt Campbell and Jason Candle. On tape: 355 passing yards and 6 rushing yards against Massachusetts, Week 8, 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
62.9% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 40.3% conversion-per-dropback — 35.9% 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.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2015 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | W 16-12@ No. 18 Arkansas | 21/38 | 237 | 1 | 0 | 6.2 | 56.2 | |
| Wk 3 | W 30-23vs Iowa State | 11/28 | 138 | 1 | 1 | 4.9 | 8.3 | |
| Wk 4 | W 37-7vs Arkansas State | 25/52 | 308 | 0 | 1 | 5.9 | 36.5 | |
| Wk 5 | W 24-10@ Ball State | 16/22 | 164 | 2 | 2 | 7.5 | 68.6 | |
| Wk 6 | W 38-7vs Kent State | 19/32 | 205 | 2 | 0 | 6.4 | 52.5 | |
| Wk 7 | W 63-20vs Eastern Michigan | 18/27 | 327 | 4 | 0 | 12.1 | 76.3 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | W 51-35@ Massachusetts | 26/47 | 355 | 5 | 3 | 7.6 | 67.1 | Season-high 355 yds · 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 10 | L 27-32vs Northern Illinois | 15/33 | 136 | 1 | 2 | 4.1 | 11.5 | |
| Wk 11 | W 28-23@ Central Michigan | 23/39 | 322 | 2 | 0 | 8.3 | 76.6 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 12 | W 44-28@ Bowling Green | 16/24 | 208 | 1 | 1 | 8.7 | 89.0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 30-35vs Western Michigan | 16/33 | 280 | 2 | 0 | 8.5 | 64.8 | Clean 2-TD game |
 Bowl | W 32-17vs No. 24 Temple | 20/28 | 285 | 2 | 0 | 10.2 | 74.1 | |
| Total | 226/403 | 2965 | 23 | 10 | 7.4 | — |
Bowl · 2015
W 32-17
vs Temple · neutral site
285 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 74.1
With N. Ellis — 47 yards per punt · 6 punts · 64 long · C. Thompson — 4 rec · 119 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 369 passing plays (210 completions) against the box score's 403 attempts (226 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.3045 of 198 QBsSack rate
0.7%3 of 198 QBsRarely sacked (3 of 198 QBs) and still 45 of 198 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 56.1% completion on 403 attempts · 39 deep completions averaging 31.7 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2015 baseline
No situation moves him more than 48 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 Matt Campbell, all run-leaning offenses — 19-6 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2015 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 232 | 1.7 | 7.0 | 0.7 |
| Road5g | 257 | 2.2 | 7.7 | 1.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 238 | 1.7 | 7.6 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 260 | 2.2 | 7.4 | 1.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jason Candle
Pass share
46.2%
410 pass / 477 run
Plays / game
73.9
12 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2015
403 pass attempts and 26 carries in 12 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Toledo, 3,506 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2011–2015
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 2 schools: Nick Saban and Matt Campbell.
