Tyler Murphy: QB · Boston College · #2.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Tyler Murphy
Extends plays on the move until something opens up. One game to point at: 173 passing yards and 118 rushing yards against Massachusetts — Week 1, 2014.
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
37.8% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 9.8% conversion-per-dropback — 71.4% 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
14 of 15 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (93.3%). 3 of the team's 33 inside-the-5 carries (9.1%).
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 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Boston College | 131 | 230 | 57.0% | 1,623 | 7.1 | 13 | 10 | 126.2 | 50 |
| Career | 131 | 230 | 57.0% | 1,623 | 7.1 | 13 | 10 | 126.2 | 50 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Boston College | 181 | 1,184 | 6.5 | 11 | 71 |
| Career | 181 | 1,184 | 6.5 | 11 | 71 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2014 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 30-7@ Massachusetts | 17/24 | 173 | 1 | 1 | 7.2 | 83.7 | |
| Wk 2 | L 20-30vs Pittsburgh | 10/28 | 134 | 1 | 2 | 4.8 | 47.9 | |
| Wk 3 | W 37-31vs No. 9 USC | 5/13 | 54 | 0 | 1 | 4.2 | 89.7 | |
| Wk 4 | W 40-10vs Maine | 11/18 | 130 | 1 | 1 | 7.2 | 90.7 | |
| Wk 5 | L 21-24vs Colorado State | 12/18 | 169 | 0 | 1 | 9.4 | 87.4 | |
| Wk 7 | W 30-14@ NC State | 12/19 | 101 | 0 | 0 | 5.3 | 86.8 | |
| Wk 8 | L 13-17vs No. 24 Clemson | 8/19 | 108 | 2 | 0 | 5.7 | 26.0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 23-17@ Wake Forest | 11/15 | 165 | 1 | 0 | 11.0 | 78.9 | |
| Wk 10 | W 33-31@ Virginia Tech | 8/15 | 110 | 2 | 0 | 7.3 | 67.2 | |
| Wk 11 | L 19-38vs Louisville | 7/15 | 149 | 1 | 4 | 9.9 | 26.4 | 4 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 13 | L 17-20@ No. 1 Florida State | 6/10 | 73 | 1 | 0 | 7.3 | 65.0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 28-7vs Syracuse | 13/17 | 160 | 1 | 0 | 9.4 | 80.0 | |
 Bowl | L 30-31vs Penn State | 11/19 | 97 | 2 | 0 | 5.1 | 84.2 | |
| Total | 131/230 | 1623 | 13 | 10 | 7.1 | — |
Week 10 · 2014
W 33-31
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 228 passing plays (129 completions) against the box score's 230 attempts (131 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.15119 of 181 QBsSack rate
7.6%147 of 181 QBsSacked on 7.6% of dropbacks (147 of 181) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (119 of 181).
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 57.0% completion on 230 attempts · 23 deep completions averaging 32.6 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2014 baseline
No situation moves him more than 17 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
2014 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 129 | 0.9 | 7.2 | 1.3 |
| Road5g | 124 | 1.0 | 7.6 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 123 | 0.7 | 6.2 | 0.9 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 128 | 1.3 | 8.4 | 0.7 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Steve Addazio
Pass share
27.8%
240 pass / 624 run
Plays / game
66.5
13 games
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2014
230 pass attempts and 181 carries in 13 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
One season at Boston College, 1,623 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2010–2014
3 coachesPlayed for 3 head coaches at 2 schools: Urban Meyer, Will Muschamp and Steve Addazio.
