Sean White: QB · Auburn · #13.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Sean White
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. Second year in the same quarterback room at Auburn. One game to point at: 247 passing yards and 27 rushing yards against Ole Miss — Week 9, 2016.
Play style
High-percentage passer who protects the ball. Loses the matchup on improvisation.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
55.2% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 13.3% conversion-per-dropback — 75.0% 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
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
2 of the team's 38 inside-the-5 carries (5.3%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
Yahoo Sports Oct 26
USA Today Oct 18
On3 Oct 17Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
Game log · Week-by-week
2016 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 13-19vs No. 2 Clemson | 10/21 | 140 | 0 | 1 | 6.7 | 19.8 | |
| Wk 2 | W 51-14vs Arkansas State | 17/23 | 244 | 3 | 0 | 10.6 | 92.7 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | L 16-29vs No. 17 Texas A&M | 18/27 | 126 | 0 | 0 | 4.7 | 32.8 | |
| Wk 4 | W 18-13vs No. 18 LSU | 19/26 | 234 | 0 | 0 | 9.0 | 64.3 | |
| Wk 5 | W 58-7vs UL Monroe | 14/17 | 239 | 2 | 0 | 14.1 | 89.0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 38-14@ Mississippi State | 14/18 | 204 | 1 | 1 | 11.3 | 91.6 | |
| Wk 8 | W 56-3vs No. 17 Arkansas | 6/11 | 77 | 1 | 0 | 7.0 | 96.4 | |
| Wk 9 | W 40-29@ Ole Miss | 15/22 | 247 | 1 | 0 | 11.2 | 89.6 | Season-high 247 yds |
| Wk 10 | W 23-16vs Vanderbilt | 10/13 | 106 | 1 | 0 | 8.2 | 82.9 | |
| Wk 11 | L 7-13@ Georgia | 6/20 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 1.4 | 0.9 | |
 Bowl | L 19-35vs No. 7 Oklahoma | 4/10 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 3.5 | 32.7 | |
| Total | 133/208 | 1679 | 9 | 3 | 8.1 | — |
Week 2 · 2016
W 51-14
244 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 92.7 · 60 rush yds (10 car)
Dominant 37-point win at home against Arkansas State.
With K. Johnson — 124 rush yds (18 car) · 2 TD · K. Pettway — 152 rush yds (15 car)
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 206 passing plays (132 completions) against the box score's 208 attempts (133 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.3145 of 193 QBsSack rate
6.3%112 of 193 QBsSacked on 6.3% of dropbacks (112 of 193) — and still 45 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 63.9% completion on 208 attempts · 25 deep completions averaging 31.2 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2016 baseline
No situation moves him more than 32 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 Gus Malzahn, all run-heavy offenses — 15-11 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 167 | 1.0 | 8.6 | 0.1 |
| Road3g | 159 | 0.7 | 8.0 | 0.7 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 175 | 0.9 | 8.6 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 114 | 0.8 | 6.9 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Gus Malzahn
Pass share
31.1%
286 pass / 634 run
Plays / game
70.8
13 games
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2016
208 pass attempts and 55 carries in 11 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Auburn, 2,845 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Gus Malzahn.
