Taisun Phommachanh: QB · Massachusetts · #3.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Taisun Phommachanh
Extends plays on the move until something opens up. The six seasons span three programs and four head coaches: Dabo Swinney, Brent Key, Don Brown and Shane Montgomery. A game that shows it: 287 passing yards and 43 rushing yards against Central Connecticut — Week 4, 2024.
Play style
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
55.2% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 38.7% conversion-per-dropback — 25.0% 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 21 inside-the-5 carries (9.5%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Massachusetts | 132 | 234 | 56.4% | 1,590 | 6.8 | 8 | 6 | 119.6 | 39 |
| 2023 | Massachusetts | 139 | 227 | 61.2% | 1,507 | 6.6 | 6 | 6 | 120.4 | 26 |
| 2022 | Georgia Tech | 2 | 5 | 40.0% | 13 | 2.6 | 0 | 1 | 21.8 | -- |
| 2021 | Clemson | 11 | 19 | 57.9% | 131 | 6.9 | 1 | 1 | 122.7 | -- |
| 2020 | Clemson | 5 | 17 | 29.4% | 17 | 1.0 | 0 | 1 | 26.0 | -- |
| 2019 | Clemson | 6 | 12 | 50.0% | 56 | 4.7 | 0 | 1 | 72.5 | -- |
| Career | 295 | 514 | 57.4% | 3,314 | 6.4 | 15 | 16 | 115.0 | 33 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Massachusetts | 107 | 317 | 3.0 | 3 | 33 |
| 2023 | Massachusetts | 48 | 38 | 0.8 | 2 | 31 |
| 2022 | Georgia Tech | 15 | 56 | 3.7 | 2 | 8 |
| 2021 | Clemson | 11 | 69 | 6.3 | 1 | 26 |
| 2020 | Clemson | 6 | 26 | 4.3 | 0 | 7 |
| 2019 | Clemson | 12 | 56 | 4.7 | 0 | 12 |
| Career | 199 | 562 | 2.8 | 8 | 33 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 9 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 14-28vs Eastern Michigan | 20/30 | 177 | 0 | 0 | 5.9 | 33.7 | |
| Wk 2 | L 23-38@ Toledo | 26/40 | 259 | 1 | 1 | 6.5 | 44.1 | |
| Wk 3 | L 3-34@ Buffalo | 14/29 | 121 | 0 | 1 | 4.2 | 12.4 | |
| Wk 4 | W 35-31vs Central Connecticut | 20/30 | 287 | 3 | 1 | 9.6 | 68.3 | Season-high 287 yds |
| Wk 5 | L 20-23@ Miami (OH) | 9/22 | 173 | 1 | 0 | 7.9 | 65.8 | |
| Wk 6 | L 20-34@ Northern Illinois | 15/30 | 263 | 2 | 0 | 8.8 | 49.3 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 7 | L 3-45vs No. 21 Missouri | 12/22 | 132 | 0 | 1 | 6.0 | 22.0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 35-7vs Wagner | 10/18 | 129 | 1 | 1 | 7.2 | 21.7 | |
| Wk 10 | L 20-45@ Mississippi State | 6/13 | 49 | 0 | 1 | 3.8 | 28.9 | |
| Total | 132/234 | 1590 | 8 | 6 | 6.8 | — |
Week 4 · 2024
W 35-31
287 yds · 3 TD · 1 INT · QBR 68.3 · 43 rush yds (8 car)
Edged out Central Connecticut at home in a shootout.
With T. Harding — 2 rec · 72 yds · 1 TD · C. Kolodziey — 43 yards per punt · 3 punts · 46 long
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 219 passing plays (131 completions) against the box score's 234 attempts (132 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.41145 of 205 QBsSack rate
8.6%170 of 205 QBsSacked on 8.6% of dropbacks (170 of 205) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (145 of 205).
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 56.4% completion on 234 attempts · 21 deep completions averaging 33.1 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2024 baseline
No situation moves him more than 37 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
2024 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 181 | 1.0 | 7.2 | 0.8 |
| Road5g | 173 | 0.8 | 6.2 | 0.6 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 202 | 1.0 | 7.0 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 89.0 | 0.5 | 5.5 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Shane Montgomery
Pass share
40.7%
327 pass / 477 run
Plays / game
67.0
12 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2024
About as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Former four-star. Now #101 at the position.
How it ended
Six seasons, at Clemson, Georgia Tech and Massachusetts, 3,314 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Played for three programs.
The role got bigger.
Coaching lineage · 2019–2024
4 coachesPlayed for 4 head coaches at 3 schools: Dabo Swinney, Geoff Collins, Brent Key and Don Brown.
