Hayden Wolff: QB · Western Michigan · #11.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Hayden Wolff
Keeps the offense on schedule and doesn't lose the game. The five seasons span two programs and three head coaches: Bobby Wilder, Ricky Rahne and Lance Taylor. On tape: 305 passing yards and 3 passing TD against Bethune-Cookman, Week 3, 2024.
Play style
Consistent underneath passer who protects the lead. Rarely loses games; rarely wins them alone.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
63.6% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 16.7% conversion-per-dropback — 71.4% 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
1 of the team's 29 inside-the-5 carries (3.4%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Western Michigan | 208 | 312 | 66.7% | 2,410 | 7.7 | 18 | 8 | 145.5 | 66 |
| 2023 | Western Michigan | 148 | 226 | 65.5% | 1,505 | 6.7 | 8 | 5 | 128.7 | 36 |
| 2022 | Old Dominion | 234 | 409 | 57.2% | 2,919 | 7.1 | 18 | 6 | 128.8 | 22 |
| 2021 | Old Dominion | 159 | 253 | 62.8% | 1,933 | 7.6 | 10 | 7 | 134.5 | 42 |
| 2019 | Old Dominion | 75 | 129 | 58.1% | 737 | 5.7 | 2 | 3 | 106.6 | 34 |
| Career | 824 | 1,329 | 62.0% | 9,504 | 7.2 | 56 | 29 | 131.6 | 39 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Western Michigan | 39 | −101 | −2.6 | 0 | 16 |
| 2023 | Western Michigan | 44 | 17 | 0.4 | 2 | 20 |
| 2022 | Old Dominion | 62 | −74 | −1.2 | 1 | 15 |
| 2021 | Old Dominion | 14 | −92 | −6.6 | 0 | 3 |
| 2019 | Old Dominion | 12 | −10 | −0.8 | 0 | 5 |
| Career | 171 | −260 | −1.5 | 3 | 20 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 14-28@ Wisconsin | 12/18 | 141 | 0 | 1 | 7.8 | 56.0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 0-56@ No. 2 Ohio State | 8/15 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 4.7 | 48.3 | |
| Wk 3 | W 59-31vs Bethune-Cookman | 15/19 | 305 | 3 | 1 | 16.1 | 87.1 | Season-high 305 yds |
| Wk 5 | L 20-27@ Marshall | 15/28 | 126 | 1 | 0 | 4.5 | 33.9 | |
| Wk 6 | W 45-42@ Ball State | 26/29 | 264 | 3 | 0 | 9.1 | 79.5 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 7 | W 34-24vs Akron | 17/25 | 191 | 2 | 0 | 7.6 | 56.0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 48-41@ Buffalo | 20/31 | 280 | 3 | 0 | 9.0 | 80.8 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 9 | W 52-21vs Kent State | 15/21 | 208 | 3 | 1 | 9.9 | 70.7 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 11 | L 28-42vs Northern Illinois | 14/27 | 179 | 1 | 2 | 6.6 | 35.0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 13-31@ Bowling Green | 24/32 | 197 | 0 | 2 | 6.2 | 19.9 | |
| Wk 13 | L 14-16@ Central Michigan | 13/23 | 126 | 0 | 0 | 5.5 | 9.9 | |
| Wk 14 | W 26-18vs Eastern Michigan | 12/17 | 126 | 1 | 0 | 7.4 | 34.0 | |
 Bowl | L 23-30vs South Alabama | 17/27 | 196 | 1 | 1 | 7.3 | — | |
| Total | 208/312 | 2410 | 18 | 8 | 7.7 | — |
Week 8 · 2024
W 48-41
at Buffalo
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 296 passing plays (203 completions) against the box score's 312 attempts (208 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.8581 of 205 QBsSack rate
6.3%121 of 205 QBsSacked on 6.3% of dropbacks (121 of 205) — and still 81 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 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 66.7% completion on 312 attempts · 32 deep completions averaging 29.9 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2024 baseline
No situation moves him more than 19 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 · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 202 | 2.0 | 9.5 | 0.8 |
| Road7g | 172 | 1.0 | 6.7 | 0.4 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 185 | 1.4 | 8.2 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 186 | 1.3 | 7.4 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Lance Taylor
Pass share
40.6%
323 pass / 473 run
Plays / game
61.2
13 games
Scheme: Run-leaning, slow tempo.
Player standing · 2024
312 pass attempts and 39 carries in 13 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Three-star recruit. Now #88 at the position.
How it ended
Five seasons, at Old Dominion and Western Michigan, 9,504 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
The role got bigger.
Coaching lineage · 2019–2024
3 coachesPlayed for 3 head coaches at 2 schools: Bobby Wilder, Ricky Rahne and Lance Taylor.
