• One of three FBS players in the last 30 seasons to have at least 2,200 passing yards, 19 passing touchdowns and 700 rushing yards through nine team games of a campaign. The others are Oklahoma’s Jalen Hurts (2019) and Louisville’s Lamar Jackson (2016).
• Riding a 5-game string of posting 200+ pass yards, 80+ rush yards and 1 rushing TD in every game - it is THE LONGEST streak in FBS in the last 30 years, bettering Lamar Jackson (12/30/2015-9/17/2016) who posted four straight over two seasons, including his Heisman winning 2016 season.
• Vs. UTSA, became THE ONLY player in the last 30 years (FBS or NFL) to post 200 yards passing, 100 yards rushing and a 90 percent (14-15) completion percentage.
• The second FBS player in the last 30 years to have at least 15 passing touchdowns, 450 rushing yards and six rushing scores over a five-game span within a single season. The other is LSU’s Jayden Daniels in 2023, when he won the Heisman Trophy.
• One of three FBS players in the last 30 years to have at least 900 passing yards, 14 passing touchdowns and 350 rushing yards over a four-game span. The others are LSU’s Jayden Daniels (2023) and Houston’s D’Eriq King (2018).
• Posted a string of four straight games with three or more touchdown passes in 2025, the longest such streak in USF history. Only Baylor’s Sawyer Robertson (5 games, 8/29-9/27) has a longer streak on the year in FBS and is the only other player to post a four game streak.
HONORS
2025 Davey O'Brien Award Semifinalist
2025 National Award Watch Lists: Maxwell, Walter Camp, Davey O'Brien, Manning, Comeback Player of the Year
2025 Shrine Bowl 1,000
2025 4X Davey O'Brien "Great 8" Honoree (Week 1, 2, 7 & 11)
2024 1X Davey O'Brien "Great 8" Honoree
2025 2X Manning Stars of the Week Honoree (Week 7 & 11)
2024 1X Manning Stars of the Week Honoree
2025 American Conference Offensive Player of the Week (Week 2)
2024 2X American Offensive Player of the Week twice
2025 6X American Conference Weekly Honorable Mention: (Week 1, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 11)
2024 4X American Conference Weekly Honorable Mention
2024 National Award Watch Lists: Maxwell, Walter Camp, Davey O’Brien, Johnny Unitas Golden Arm, Manning
2024 Lindy's Preseason All-Conference Second Team
2023 Boca Raton Bowl Offensive MVP
2023 - He joined 2023 Heisman Trophy winner Jayden Daniels (LSU) as only players to post at least 3,000 yards passing and 800 rushing
RECORDS
Owns 15 USF program records
Tied Quinton Flowers for most National Award Watch List appearances in program history (5 in 2024)
First 3,000-yard Passer in Program History (2023)
USF Season Passing Yards Record (3,292, in 2023)
USF Season Passing Touchdowns Record (26, in 2023)
USF Season Passing Completion Percentage Record (64.6%, in 2023)
USF Season Passing Completions Record (276, in 2023)
USF Season Total Plays Record (630, in 2023)
USF QB Rushing Attempts in a Season (203, in 2023)
Tied USF Season Record with four 300-yard Passing Games in 2023
Tied USF Game Passing TD Record (5 at Memphis, 2023)
USF Game Completion % Record (84.0 (21-25), at Tulsa, 2022) (Min. 20 att.)
USF QB Rushing Attempts in a Game (25 at W. Kentucky, 2023)
Raymond James Stadium (USF Games) Total Offense Record (517 yards vs. Rice, 9/23/23)
Raymond James Stadium (USF Games) Passing Yards Record (435 vs. Rice, 9/23/23)
252 Consecutive Passes Without an Interception (2023-25)
253.2 Passing Yards Per Game in 2023, second-best mark in program history
4,101 Total Yards in 2023, second-best mark in program history (just 2nd over 4,000)
435 Yards Passing vs. Rice (9/23/23) is second-best game mark in program history
2025: Ran for two touchdowns and 43 yards and passed for 210 in a win over No. 25 Boise State (8/28) in the season opener...completed 67 percent of his passes in his first start since Sept. 28, 2024...at No. 13 Florida (9/6), led an eight-play, 87-yard drive that started at the USF11 to put Nico Gramatica in position for the game-winning field goal as time expired in an 18-16 victory..passed for 263 yards and a touchdown and ran for 66 yards for 329 total yards vs. the Gators and was named the American Conference Offensive Player of the Week...at No. 5 Miami (913) passed for 274 yards and a touchdown...vs. South Carolina State (9/20), he threw 245 yards and four touchdowns...in the conference opener vs. Charlotte (10/3) he accounted for 373 total yards and five touchdowns - passing for 211 and four touchdowns and running for a career-best 162 yards on 17 carries (9.5 ypc) and a touchdown...posted 327 total yards and five touchdowns in a win at North Texas (10/10), throwing for 245 yards and three touchdowns and running for 82 yards and two touchdowns...logged 367 total yards and four touchdowns vs. FAU (10/18) - passing for 256 yards and three touchdowns and running for 111 and a touchdown....logged 390 total yards and three touchdowns at Memphis (10/25) - passing for 269 yards and a touchdown and running for 121 yards and two touchdowns...posted his fifth-straight 300-plus total yard game vs. UTSA (11/6), logging 348 yards and three touchdowns - passing for 239 and two touchdowns while completing 14-of-15 (93.3 %) and running for 109 and a touchdown (his third straight 100-yard rushing game)....became THE ONLY FBS or NFL player in the last 30 years to pass for 200, run for 100 and complete 90% of his passes in a game.
2024: Started the season's first five games before missing the next seven after suffering a lower leg injury at Tulane (9/28)...passed for 836 yards and two touchdowns, completing 59.1 percent, while running for 269 yards and three touchdowns on the season in six game appearances (the sixth being just two snaps)...completed 13 of 20 passes with 152 yards and added 81 yards on eight carries, including a 42-yard rushing touchdown in season-opener vs. B-CU (8/31)...completed 15 of 35 passes for 103 yards and added 23 carries for 108 yards at Alabama (9/7)…completed 19 of 29 passes for 193 yards and two touchdowns, while adding 92 yards and a touchdown on 15 carries at Southern Miss (9/14)…completed 19 of 30 passes for 254 yards, ran the ball 14 times for 41 yards, and caught one pass (on a trick play from wide receiver Sean Atkins) for a touchdown against Miami (9/21)…completed 12 of 18 passes for 134 yards and ran the ball eight times for 16 yards at Tulane (9/28), before leaving the game early in the third quarter with a lower leg injury suffered when his leg was rolled up on during a sack...missed the next seven games, but practiced with team...returned for two snaps in the Hawai‘i Bowl (12/24).
2023: Posted the first 3,000-yard passing season in program history (3,292)...earned six weekly honors from the American Athletic Conference, being named AAC Offensive Player of the Week twice and earning AAC Honor Roll four times...joined Heisman Trophy winner Jayden Daniels (LSU) as the only players in the nation to post 3,000-plus passing yards and 800-plus rushing yards in the regular season...set program season records for passing yards, passing touchdowns (26), completion percentage (64.6), completions (276), total plays (630), most rushing attempts by a quarterback (203) and tied the season mark with four 300-yard passing games...his 4,101 total yards were just the second 4,000-yard season in program history and second all-time at USF, while his 315.5 ypg rank third-best all-time...started all 13 games at QB...ranked number eight nationally/second in the AAC in total offense (315.5 ypg) and number eight/first in the AAC in points responsible for (17.4 ppg)...led USF in rushing carrying the ball 203 times or 809 yards and a team-best 11 touchdowns (seventh-best all-time at USF) while recording three 100-yard games....his 37 total touchdowns responsible for on the year rank second all-time at USF...named Boca Raton Bowl Offensive MVP after leading USF to 407 yards in a 45-0 rout of Syracuse (12/21)...was 19-for-26 passing (after starting 10-for-11) with 214 yards and three touchdowns in the game and had a team-high 64 rushing yards on 14 carries while catching a 21-yard pass from WR Sean Atkins...ran the ball 25 times for a career-best 160 yards and two touchdowns in the season-opener at WKU (9/2)...accounted for five total touchdown throwing three and running for two against Florida A&M (9/9)...named AAC Offensive Player of the Week, Davey O’Brien Award “Great 8” and Manning Award “Star of the Week” after posting the second-highest passing yards (435) and total offense (517) in program history in a win over Rice (9/23)...made his seventh career start, one day after his 19th birthday, and recorded his 19th career touchdown responsible for in the first quarter at Navy (9/30), finishing the day 26 of 34 for 338 yards and three touchdowns with no interceptions in his first road win as a starter, and first program road win in three years....posted a 60-yard rushing touchdown against UAB (10/7), which was the fifth-longest rushing touchdown by a USF QB, while running for 136 yards on the day, and catching his own pass for 15 yards (after it was batted back to him by a defensive lineman)...in a win at UConn (10/21), led two long scoring drives in the fourth quarter, including a game-winning 90-yard drive, as he finished with 203 yards passing and 61 rushing with a touchdown...posted a career-high in completions at Memphis (11/4), going 31 of 39 on the day for 357 yards (second most in his career) with five passing touchdowns, tying the 21-year-old program record for passing touchdowns in a game held by Marquel Blackwell at ECU (10/19/02), also ran 23 times for 100 yards...passed for 316 yards and a touchdown vs Temple (11/11), marking his fourth 300-yard game on the season, which tied a USF single-season record set by Quinton Flowers in 2017...completed 23 of 39 passes for 287 yards and one touchdown, while adding 43 yards on the ground on 13 carries for one touchdown at UTSA (11/17)...threw for four touchdown and 253 yards, giving him 3,078 on the year, a new program record, in a bowl-clinching win vs Charlotte (11/25)...added 43 yards rushing and a touchdown for his third five-total-touchdown game on the year...Brown’s four touchdown pass game was his second on the season with four or more.
2022 (REDSHIRT): A redshirt season...saw action in four games and started the last two at Tulsa and vs. UCF...completed 36-of-50 passes (72%) for 404 yards and five touchdowns with one interception...ran for 179 yards and three touchdowns on 31 carries (5.8 ypc)...in his first career start at Tulsa (11/18) he completed his first 21 passes, the first FBS quarterback to do so since 2016...finished the game 21-of-25 (84%) for a new USF game record while passing for 240 yards and three touchdowns in a 48-42 loss that came down to the final seconds...totaled 316 yards as he also ran for 76 and a touchdown...earned AAC Honor Roll recognition after leading USF to a season-high point total and posting a 204.2 pass efficiency rating...led scoring drives of 68, 90, 47, 64, 79, 35 and 51 yards without the team's leading receiver and in a game played at 30 degrees...started vs. UCF (11/26) and ran for 109 yards and two touchdowns, including a 42-yard gallop, and passed for 140 yards and a touchdown in a 46-39 loss...also saw action at Temple and vs. SMU.
ROLESVILLE HS: One of three finalists for North Carolina’s 2021 Mr. Football award…in his senior season he passed for 3,703 yards, 43 touchdowns and just four interceptions for Rolesville, which went 9-6 and made the NCHSAA Class 4A State Semifinals…completed 68 percent of his passes (225 of 329)…also rushed for 1,182 yards and 13 touchdowns…passed for six touchdowns in a 2021 playoff game vs. Pinecrest, passing for 300 yard and running for 102...led Rolesville back to the state semifinals, making four playoff appearances during his career...last spring, when North Carolina high-school football teams played an abbreviated season due to COVID, he led Rolesville to the Class 4A state championship game and the first conference title in program history…in 10 games, he passed for 1,962 yards and 22 touchdowns and ran for 568 yards and 10 touchdowns while being named the conference player of the year and second-team all-state...named too the Charlotte Observer North Carolina Super Team...a three-star recruit by 247Sports…had offers from Appalachian State, Campbell, Dartmouth, Florida A&M, Elon, Furman, Georgia State, Miami (Ohio), North Carolina Central and North Carolina A&T.
PERSONAL: The son of Drew and Nicole Brown...competed in Track and Field growing up, mainly the javelin throw, and attributes him arm strength to this experience...named to the Athletics Honor Roll in the fall of 2023 and 2024 and the spring of 2024...maintains a 3.77 GPA (as of Dec. 2024) in Health Sciences...maintains a seven-step daily dental care program...has aspirations to work in the dental or orthodontic field after football.
BROWN GAME-BY-GAME
2024 Passing (Completions-Attempts-Yards-TDs-INTs)
BCU (13-20-152-0-0); Alabama (15-35-103-0-0); Southern Miss. (19-29-193-2-0); Miami (19-30-254-0-0); Tulane (12-18-134-0-0)
2024 Rushing (Attempts-Yards-TDs)
BCU (8-74-1); Alabama (23-108-0); Southern Miss. (15-72-1); Miami (14-27-0); Tulane (8-(-12)-1);
2023 Passing (Completions-Attempts-Yards-TDs-INTs)
WKU (15-34-166-1-2); Florida A&M (20-34-197-3-0); Alabama (14-28-87-0-1); Rice (22-29-435-2-0); Navy (26-34-338-3-0); UAB (24-43-260-2-2); FAU (15-26-179-1-0); UCONN (27-39-203-0-1); Memphis (31-39-357-0-1); Temple (18-26-316-1-1); UTSA (23-39-287-1-2); Charlotte (22-30-253-4-1); Syracuse (19-26-214-3-0)
2023 Rushing (Attempts-Yards-TDs)
WKU (25-160-2); Florida A&M (17-23-2); Alabama (23-92-0); Rice (14-82-1); Navy (10- (-) 27 – 0); UAB (16-136-2); FAU (11-46-0); UCONN (14-61-1); Memphis (23-100-0); Temple (15-- -14- 1); UTSA (13-43-1); Charlotte (8-43-1); Syracuse (14-64-0)
2022 Passing (Completions-Attempts-Yards-TDs-INTs)
@Temple (0-2-0-0-0); SMU (2-3-24-1-0); @Tulsa (21-25-240-3-0); UCF (13-20-140-1-1)
2022 Rushing (Carries-Yards-TD)
@Temple (3-(-4)-0); SMU (1-(-2)-0); @Tulsa (12-76-1); UCF (15-109-2)
BROWN'S CAREER HIGHS
Completions: 31, at Memphis (11/4/23)
Attempts: 43, 2X last at Memphis (10/25/25)
Passing Yards: 435, vs. Rice (9/23/23)
Long Pass: 88, at Navy (9/30/23)
Completion %: 84.0 (21-25) at Tulsa (11/18/22) (min. 20 att.)**
93.3 (14-15) vs. UTSA (11/6/25)
Passing TD: 5, at Memphis (11/4/23)**
Rushes: 25, at WKU (9/2/23)**
Rushing Yards: 162 vs. Charlotte (10/3/25)
Rushing TD: 2, 7X, last at Memphis (10/25/25)
Total Yards: 517, vs. Rice (9/23/23)
Receptions: 1, (2x), last vs. Miami (9/21/24)
Reception Yards: 21, vs. Syracuse (12/21/23)
Long Reception: 21, vs. Syracuse (12/21/23)
Receiving Touchdown: 1 vs. Miami (9/21/24)
** USF Program Record
