Hank Bachmeier: QB · Wake Forest · #9.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Hank Bachmeier
Operates within the system without forcing anything. The six seasons span three programs and four head coaches: Bryan Harsin, Andy Avalos, Sonny Cumbie and Dave Clawson. One game to point at: 403 passing yards and 21 rushing yards against Virginia — Week 2, 2024.
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
60.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 15.6% conversion-per-dropback — 70.8% 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
2 of the team's 21 inside-the-5 carries (9.5%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Wake Forest | 224 | 357 | 62.7% | 2,593 | 7.3 | 16 | 10 | 132.9 | 34 |
| 2023 | Louisiana Tech | 182 | 269 | 67.7% | 2,058 | 7.7 | 10 | 5 | 140.5 | 45 |
| 2022 | Boise State | 51 | 94 | 54.3% | 497 | 5.3 | 6 | 3 | 113.3 | 25 |
| 2021 | Boise State | 252 | 401 | 62.8% | 3,079 | 7.7 | 20 | 8 | 139.8 | 73 |
| 2020 | Boise State | 96 | 155 | 61.9% | 1,150 | 7.4 | 6 | 2 | 134.5 | 60 |
| 2019 | Boise State | 137 | 219 | 62.6% | 1,879 | 8.6 | 9 | 6 | 142.7 | 62 |
| Career | 942 | 1,495 | 63.0% | 11,256 | 7.5 | 67 | 34 | 136.5 | 53 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Wake Forest | 96 | 141 | 1.5 | 1 | 20 |
| 2023 | Louisiana Tech | 58 | 47 | 0.8 | 2 | 18 |
| 2022 | Boise State | 12 | −26 | −2.2 | 0 | 8 |
| 2021 | Boise State | 60 | −20 | −0.3 | 0 | 20 |
| 2020 | Boise State | 28 | −15 | −0.5 | 2 | 10 |
| 2019 | Boise State | 41 | 69 | 1.7 | 1 | 18 |
| Career | 295 | 196 | 0.7 | 6 | 20 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 45-13vs North Carolina A&T | 18/28 | 263 | 3 | 0 | 9.4 | 64.0 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | L 30-31vs Virginia | 27/42 | 403 | 1 | 0 | 9.6 | 48.1 | Season-high 403 yds |
| Wk 3 | L 6-40vs No. 5 Ole Miss | 22/39 | 239 | 0 | 0 | 6.1 | 46.5 | |
| Wk 5 | L 38-41vs Louisiana | 29/35 | 254 | 1 | 1 | 7.3 | 67.6 | |
| Wk 6 | W 34-30@ NC State | 16/32 | 154 | 2 | 1 | 4.8 | 43.6 | |
| Wk 7 | L 14-49vs No. 10 Clemson | 12/21 | 126 | 2 | 2 | 6.0 | 73.5 | |
| Wk 8 | W 23-20@ UConn | 21/36 | 274 | 0 | 1 | 7.6 | 60.4 | |
| Wk 9 | W 27-24@ Stanford | 20/30 | 245 | 3 | 1 | 8.2 | 46.6 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 11 | L 36-46vs California | 19/36 | 274 | 2 | 3 | 7.6 | 69.0 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 12 | L 24-31@ North Carolina | 10/14 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 4.9 | 35.2 | |
| Wk 13 | L 14-42@ No. 11 Miami | 8/14 | 86 | 1 | 1 | 6.1 | 15.3 | |
| Wk 14 | L 17-23vs Duke | 22/30 | 207 | 1 | 0 | 6.9 | 84.9 | |
| Total | 224/357 | 2593 | 16 | 10 | 7.3 | — |
Week 1 · 2024
W 45-13
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 342 passing plays (213 completions) against the box score's 357 attempts (224 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.87124 of 205 QBsSack rate
9.2%175 of 205 QBsSacked on 9.2% of dropbacks (175 of 205) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (124 of 205).
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 62.7% completion on 357 attempts · 26 deep completions averaging 30.3 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2024 baseline
No situation moves him more than 53 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
2024 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 252 | 1.4 | 7.6 | 0.9 |
| Road5g | 165 | 1.2 | 6.3 | 0.8 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 240 | 1.5 | 7.2 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 192 | 1.2 | 6.9 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Dave Clawson
Pass share
48.3%
403 pass / 432 run
Plays / game
69.6
12 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2024
357 pass attempts, 96 carries and 1 catch in 12 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Former four-star. Now #78 at the position.
How it ended
Six seasons, at Boise State, Louisiana Tech and Wake Forest, 11,256 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Played for three programs.
Coaching lineage · 2019–2024
4 coachesPlayed for 4 head coaches at 3 schools: Bryan Harsin, Andy Avalos, Sonny Cumbie and Dave Clawson.
