pdangle
Rotational Player and Threatening Starter's Job
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I dug up Brady's NCAA stats at Michigan. Although nothing really jumps off the page, his efficiency and accuracy are definitely above average. Also, among the QB percentage stats (as opposed to counting stats like TD's), Brady is one of only two or three players in the Top 20 in all 3 such QB categories (pass pct, pass rate, ay/a). Not earth shattering. But with 20-20 hindsight, one would realize he did it with only 2 years as semi-starter. Or in other words, his true potential was never reached or known as he only had 30%-40% of the game experience of most of his QB peers. So basically hew was a top 20 QB in all efficiency stats, at a major program, with only a year and half of starting.
Not sure how this relates to his draft position in 2015, but I found it interesting. To venture an opinion, I'd say this would less likely be overlooked in 2015 than in 2000. NFL teams today now regularly take these such risks looking to draft impact players in the later rounds. This is one way to do so - Find players excelling in small sample size, be it from injury, lack of opportunity or bad scheme fit.
Year School Conf Class Pos G Cmp Att Pct Yds Y/A AY/A TD Int Rate
1996 Michigan Big Ten QB 2 3 5 60.0 26 5.2 -3.8 0 1 63.7
1997 Michigan Big Ten QB 4 12 15 80.0 103 6.9 6.9 0 0 137.7
1998 Michigan Big Ten QB 12 200 323 61.9 2427 7.5 7.0 14 10 133.1
1999 Michigan Big Ten QB 11 180 295 61.0 2217 7.5 7.7 16 6 138.0
Car. Michigan 395 638 61.9 4773 7.5 7.2 30 17 134.9
Leaderboards
1999 Pass Pct 61.0%
15th Overall
1999 Pass Rate 138.0
18th Overall
1999 Adj Yds / Attempt 7.7
18th Overall
Games started over 4 yrs of available
29 of 56 (or so).
Not sure how this relates to his draft position in 2015, but I found it interesting. To venture an opinion, I'd say this would less likely be overlooked in 2015 than in 2000. NFL teams today now regularly take these such risks looking to draft impact players in the later rounds. This is one way to do so - Find players excelling in small sample size, be it from injury, lack of opportunity or bad scheme fit.
Year School Conf Class Pos G Cmp Att Pct Yds Y/A AY/A TD Int Rate
1996 Michigan Big Ten QB 2 3 5 60.0 26 5.2 -3.8 0 1 63.7
1997 Michigan Big Ten QB 4 12 15 80.0 103 6.9 6.9 0 0 137.7
1998 Michigan Big Ten QB 12 200 323 61.9 2427 7.5 7.0 14 10 133.1
1999 Michigan Big Ten QB 11 180 295 61.0 2217 7.5 7.7 16 6 138.0
Car. Michigan 395 638 61.9 4773 7.5 7.2 30 17 134.9
Leaderboards
1999 Pass Pct 61.0%
15th Overall
1999 Pass Rate 138.0
18th Overall
1999 Adj Yds / Attempt 7.7
18th Overall
Games started over 4 yrs of available
29 of 56 (or so).
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