Hajj-Malik Williams

Former quarterback at UNLV. 2024: 1,941 passing yards, 19 TD, 5 INT.

QB · UNLV · Sr. · #6

6′1″ · 205 lb · Atlanta, GA

CFB Index 56 · #48 of 137 QBsHigh confidenceAll-ConferenceUNLV 2024 — college career complete

Recruiting

3★

IOL recruit

No. 1578 nationally · Signed with Campbell

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

Former quarterback at UNLV. 2024: 1,941 passing yards, 19 TD, 5 INT.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Campbell in 2022.
Transferred from Campbell to UNLV in 2024.

His career, year by year

How it ended

One season at UNLV, 1,941 passing yards — his college career is complete.

His career

Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.

2022

Signed with Campbell3-star out of Life Christian Academy

202412 games

The role got bigger.

Entered the portal
All-Mountain Westsecond

Career arc

Recruit

★★★

#1578 national

CFB

College

UNLV

2024

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Trophy case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

2 honors · 1 category

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ALL-MOUNTAIN WEST · 2ND TEAM

All-Mountain West 2nd team (2024)

2024 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2024UNLV11-3HC: Barry Odom · Run-heavy

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

56Quality starter #48 of 137?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: rush yards (96th percentile). Strength: rush tds (93rd percentile). Concern: sack rate (16th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Interception rate#57 / 169 · 67th pct

1.6%

Success rate#62 / 169 · 64th pct

42.7%

Explosive rate#70 / 169 · 59th pct

10.5%

EPA / dropback#109 / 169 · 36th pct

0.18

Sack rate#142 / 169 · 16th pct

8.9%

Box-score rates (8)

Rush yards#7 / 165 · 96th pct

851

Rush TDs#11 / 165 · 93rd pct

Interceptions#32 / 165 · 76th pct

Pass TDs#41 / 165 · 74th pct

Fumbles lost#21 / 159 · 73rd pct

Yards / att#57 / 165 · 63rd pct

7.7

Pass yards#93 / 165 · 44th pct

1941

Completion %#106 / 165 · 35th pct

59.5%

Season trend

EPA / dropback— first qualifying season

Success rate— first qualifying season

Explosive rate— first qualifying season

Sack rate— first qualifying season

Interception rate— first qualifying season

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

145/247 (58.7%) · 19 TD · 5 INT

247 of 252 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

7.0769 of 205 QBs

Sack rate

8.7%172 of 205 QBs

Sacked on 8.7% of dropbacks (172 of 205) — and still 69 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

48%of completions

69 comp4.9 yds avg7 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

34%of completions

50 comp14.0 yds avg6 TD

Deep

20+ yds

18%of completions

26 comp30.7 yds avg3 TD

Overall 58.7% completion on 247 attempts · 26 deep completions averaging 30.7 yds.

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2024 baseline

No situation moves him more than 41 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-2 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 8/101 (7.9%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 2

-33 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 8/84 (9.5%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 3+

+41 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 7/73 (9.6%) · 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 · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home7g	157	1.9	8.5	0.3
Road5g	169	1.2	7.2	0.6

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-75g	148	2.2	9.4	0.2
Weeks 8+7g	172	1.1	7.0	0.6

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Dan Mullen

Pass share

41.6%

87 pass / 122 run

Plays / game

69.7

3 games

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Awards

Player standing · 2024

All-Conference

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

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

56 · #48 of 137 QBs

Three-star recruit. Now #48 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2024	UNLV	150	252	59.5%	1,941	7.7	19	5	145.1	41	--	--
Career		150	252	59.5%	1,941	7.7	19	5	145.1	41	--	--

Season	Team
2024	UNLV	161	851	5.3	9	--
Career		161	851	5.3	9	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2024

W 72–14

vs Utah Tech

88 rush yds (10 car)

Dominant 58-point win at home against Utah Tech.

With M. Sluka — 161 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 94.4 · 70 rush yds (9 car) · 1 TD · R. White — 1 rush yds (1 car)

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 13 · San José State · 2&12 · Q2 · EPA -7.10Hajj-Malik Williams pass intercepted Isiah Revis return for 40 yds for a TD (Kyler Halvorsen KICK)
Week 1 · California · 3&10 · Q1 · EPA +5.90Kayden McGee 49 Yd pass from Hajj-Malik Williams (Caden Chittenden Kick)
Week 9 · Boise State · 2&10 · Q1 · EPA +5.28Hajj-Malik Williams run for 71 yds to the BOIS 3 for a 1ST down
Week 7 · Utah State · 3&10 · Q2 · EPA +4.22Hajj-Malik Williams pass complete to Ricky White III for 31 yds for a TD (Caden Chittenden KICK)
Week 5 · Fresno State · 4&1 · Q2 · EPA -4.21Hajj-Malik Williams run for no gain to the FRES 1
Week 2 · Utah Tech · 1&10 · Q3 · EPA -3.71Hajj-Malik Williams run for 15 yds to the UTU 27 Hajj-Malik Williams fumbled, recovered by UTU Foster Slaughter
Week 15 · Boise State · 2&10 · Q4 · EPA +3.42Hajj-Malik Williams run for 31 yds to the BOIS 40 for a 1ST down
Week 15 · Boise State · 3&4 · Q2 · EPA +3.35Hajj-Malik Williams pass complete to Corey Thompson Jr. for 29 yds to the BOIS 34 for a 1ST down
Week 11 · Hawai'i · 3&10 · Q4 · EPA +3.35Hajj-Malik Williams run for 18 yds to the HAW 41 for a 1ST down
Week 7 · Utah State · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA +3.34Hajj-Malik Williams run for 62 yds to the USU 10 for a 1ST down Utah State Penalty, Unnecessary Roughness (Ike Larsen) to the USU 5 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2024 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 2	W 72-14vs Utah Tech	—	—	—	—	—	—
Wk 5	W 59-14vs Fresno State	13/16	182	3	0	11.4	87.7	3 TD passes
Wk 6	L 41-44vs Syracuse	21/25	227	3	1	9.1	80.3	3 TD passes
Wk 7	W 50-34@ Utah State	13/20	233	3	0	11.7	71.5	3 TD passes
Wk 8	W 33-25@ Oregon State	15/27	196	1	1	7.3	63.5
Wk 9	L 24-29vs Boise State	12/21	179	2	1	8.5	74.3
Wk 11	W 29-27@ Hawai'i	13/27	175	1	0	6.5	58.9
Wk 12	W 41-20vs San Diego State	20/29	244	1	0	8.4	43.2	Season-high 244 yds
Wk 13	W 27-16@ San José State	11/20	131	1	1	6.6	52.5
Wk 14	W 38-14vs Nevada	14/21	168	2	0	8.0	91.9
Wk 15	L 7-21@ Boise State	13/28	110	0	1	3.9	27.2
Bowl	W 24-13vs California	5/18	96	2	0	5.3	29.9
Total		150/252	1941	19	5	7.9	61.9

How he plays

Play style

Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

46.7%Completion %

23.5%Conversion/dropback

42.9%Land short of sticks

0INTs

46.7% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 23.5% conversion-per-dropback — 42.9% 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. ~ our read: checkdown by design

Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration

Who gets the tough yard

fact

7/30Inside-5 share

7 of the team's 30 inside-the-5 carries (23.3%).