Connor Bazelak

Former quarterback at Bowling Green. 2024: 3,044 passing yards, 18 TD, 5 INT.

QB · Bowling Green · Sr. · #7

6′3″ · 225 lb · Dayton, OH

CFB Index 42 · #81 of 137 QBsHigh confidenceAll-ConferenceBowling Green 2024 — college career complete

Recruiting

4★

PRO recruit

No. 410 nationally · Signed with Missouri

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

Former quarterback at Bowling Green. 2024: 3,044 passing yards, 18 TD, 5 INT.

Signed as a 4-star recruit to Missouri in 2019.
Transferred from Indiana to Bowling Green in 2023.
Named SEC Freshman of the Year in 2020.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Six seasons at Bowling Green, 12,349 passing yards — his college career is complete.

His career

He arrived as a blue-chip recruit and played like one.

20193 games

Signed with Missouri4-star out of Archbishop Alter

202010 games

The role got bigger.

SEC Freshman of the Yearwinner

202111 games

All-SEC

202210 games

Entered the portal

202311 games

Entered the portal

202413 games

All-MACthird

Career arc

Recruit

★★★★

#410 national

CFB

College

3 teams

2019–2024

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Trophy case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

6 honors · 2 categories

🎖

ALL-MAC

All-MAC mention (2024)

🎓

FRESHMAN HONORS

Freshman recognition (2020)

3 mention(s)

Coaching lineage · 2019–2024

1 coach

2019–2024

Scot Loeffler

Bowling Green

Played his entire career under Scot Loeffler.

2024 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2019Missouri6-6HC: Barry Odom · Run-leaning

2020Missouri5-5HC: Eli Drinkwitz · Balanced

2021Missouri6-7HC: Eli Drinkwitz · Balanced, fast tempo

2022Indiana4-8HC: Tom Allen · Pass-leaning

2023Bowling Green7-6HC: Scot Loeffler · Run-leaning, slow tempo

2024Bowling Green7-6HC: Scot Loeffler · Balanced

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

42Rotational starter #81 of 137?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: interception rate (82nd percentile). Strength: completion % (88th percentile). Concern: rush yards (3rd percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Interception rate#31 / 169 · 82nd pct

1.3%

Success rate#36 / 169 · 79th pct

45.7%

EPA / dropback#49 / 169 · 71st pct

0.28

Sack rate#82 / 169 · 52nd pct

5.9%

Explosive rate#83 / 169 · 51st pct

10.1%

Box-score rates (8)

Completion %#21 / 165 · 88th pct

66.9%

Pass yards#26 / 165 · 85th pct

3044

Interceptions#32 / 165 · 76th pct

Fumbles lost#21 / 159 · 73rd pct

Pass TDs#47 / 165 · 68th pct

Yards / att#67 / 165 · 59th pct

7.6

Rush TDs#83 / 165 · 44th pct

Rush yards#161 / 165 · 3rd pct

-91

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

52nd → 71st percentile

Success rate

44th → 79th percentile

Explosive rate

26th → 51st percentile

Sack rate

24th → 52nd percentile

Interception rate

84th → 82nd percentile

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season. Most bars are box-score rates; EPA / success-rate bars are computed from real play-by-play (offense only — no defensive EPA model exists yet).

Passing profile

Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)

Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from

263/398 (66.1%) · 18 TD · 5 INT

398 of 402 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

7.0470 of 205 QBs

Sack rate

5.9%105 of 205 QBs

Sacked on 5.9% of dropbacks (105 of 205) — and still 70 of 205 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 yds

59%of completions

156 comp4.6 yds avg7 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

25%of completions

67 comp13.4 yds avg4 TD

Deep

20+ yds

15%of completions

40 comp30.9 yds avg6 TD

Overall 66.1% completion on 398 attempts · 40 deep completions averaging 30.9 yds.

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2024 baseline

No situation moves him more than 25 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-24 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 8/163 (4.9%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 2

+7 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 5/135 (3.7%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 3+

+25 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 12/118 (10.2%) · league sack rate 8.1% · ~our read

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 & context

Splits · Per-game

2024 season · 13 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home7g	234	1.4	7.8	0.3
Road6g	234	1.3	7.4	0.5

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-77g	246	1.3	7.5	0.6
Weeks 8+6g	220	1.5	7.8	0.2

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Eddie George

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2024

All-Conference

Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

42 · #81 of 137 QBs

Former four-star. Now #81 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2024	Bowling Green	269	402	66.9%	3,044	7.6	18	5	142.8	50	--	--
2023	Bowling Green	168	277	60.6%	1,935	7.0	12	7	128.6	44	--	--
2022	Indiana	234	425	55.1%	2,312	5.4	13	10	106.1	31	--	--
2021	Missouri	246	377	65.3%	2,548	6.8	16	11	130.2	55	--	--
2020	Missouri	218	324	67.3%	2,366	7.3	7	6	132.1	44	--	--
2019	Missouri	15	21	71.4%	144	6.9	0	0	129.0	--	--	--
Career		1,150	1,826	63.0%	12,349	6.8	66	39	127.4	44	--	--

Season	Team
2024	Bowling Green	48	-91	-1.9	2	--
2023	Bowling Green	44	-82	-1.9	2	--
2022	Indiana	47	-160	-3.4	1	--
2021	Missouri	33	-23	-0.7	0	--
2020	Missouri	44	20	0.5	2	--
2019	Missouri	7	2	0.3	0	--
Career		223	-334	-1.5	7	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2024

W 41–17

vs Fordham

168 yds · 0 TD · 0 INT · QBR 82.1 · 27 rush yds (2 car) · 1 TD

Dominant 24-point win at home against Fordham.

With J. Pegues — 10 rush yds (1 car) · J. Henderson — 29 rush yds (1 car)

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 13 · Ball State · 2&6 · Q3 · EPA +5.83Connor Bazelak pass complete to Rahkeem Smith for 66 yds for a TD (Zach Long KICK)
Week 5 · Old Dominion · 2&8 · Q3 · EPA +5.53Connor Bazelak pass complete to Harold Fannin Jr. for 59 yds for a TD (Jackson Kleather KICK)
Week 4 · Texas A&M · 1&10 · Q3 · EPA +5.24Connor Bazelak pass complete to Harold Fannin Jr. for 65 yds for a TD (Jackson Kleather KICK)
Week 4 · Texas A&M · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA -4.44Connor Bazelak pass intercepted, touchback. Marcus Ratcliffe return for no gain
Week 5 · Old Dominion · 3&8 · Q2 · EPA +4.06Connor Bazelak pass complete to Harold Fannin Jr. for 43 yds to the ODU 21 for a 1ST down
Week 6 · Akron · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA +4.04Connor Bazelak pass complete to Harold Fannin Jr. for 63 yds to the AKR 33 for a 1ST down
Week 8 · Kent State · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA +3.84Connor Bazelak pass complete to Malcolm Johnson Jr. for 50 yds for a TD (Zach Long KICK)
Week 6 · Akron · 3&6 · Q3 · EPA +3.76Connor Bazelak pass complete to Finn Hogan for 33 yds to the AKR 37 for a 1ST down
Week 1 · Arkansas State · 3&10 · Q3 · EPA +3.63Connor Bazelak pass complete to Finn Hogan for 25 yds to the ARST 33 for a 1ST down
Week 12 · Western Michigan · 3&7 · Q4 · EPA +3.58Connor Bazelak pass complete to Harold Fannin Jr. for 29 yds to the WMU 43 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week