#17

Jack Coan

Senior quarterback for Notre Dame. 2021: 3,150 passing yards, 25 TD, 7 INT.

QB · Notre Dame · Sr. · #17

6′3″ · 221 lb · Sayville, NY

CFB Index 59 · #42 of 126 QBsHigh confidenceWatch-list name (model)Notre Dame 2021 alumnus

Recruiting

3★

PRO recruit

No. 468 nationally · Signed with Wisconsin

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 quarterback for Notre Dame. 2021: 3,150 passing yards, 25 TD, 7 INT.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Wisconsin in 2017.
Transferred from Wisconsin to Notre Dame in 2021.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Four seasons at Notre Dame, 6,474 passing yards — his college career is complete.

His career

He barely played early on. Then he did not come off the field.

20173 games

Signed with Wisconsin3-star out of Sayville

202112 games

The role got bigger.

Entered the portal

Career arc

Recruit

★★★

#468 national

CFB

College

2 teams

2017–2021

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Coaching lineage · 2017–2021

1 coach

2017–2019

Brian Kelly

Notre Dame

2021

Brian Kelly

Notre Dame

Played his entire career under Brian Kelly.

2021 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2017Wisconsin13-1HC: Paul Chryst · Run-heavy

2018Wisconsin8-5HC: Paul Chryst · Run-heavy

2019Wisconsin10-4HC: Paul Chryst · Run-heavy

2021Notre Dame11-2HC: Brian Kelly · Balanced

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

59Quality starter #42 of 126?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: epa / dropback (82nd percentile). Strength: pass yards (84th percentile). Concern: sack rate (26th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

EPA / dropback#31 / 167 · 82nd pct

0.39

Interception rate#37 / 167 · 78th pct

1.4%

Success rate#41 / 167 · 76th pct

50.1%

Explosive rate#55 / 167 · 67th pct

11.1%

Sack rate#124 / 167 · 26th pct

7.7%

Box-score rates (8)

Pass yards#28 / 169 · 84th pct

3150

Pass TDs#27 / 169 · 84th pct

Completion %#37 / 169 · 78th pct

65.7%

Yards / att#46 / 169 · 72nd pct

8.2

Fumbles lost#23 / 159 · 68th pct

Rush TDs#77 / 169 · 47th pct

Interceptions#87 / 169 · 42nd pct

Rush yards#163 / 169 · 4th pct

-100

Season trend

EPA / dropback— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Success rate— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Explosive rate— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Sack rate— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Interception rate— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

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

241/372 (64.8%) · 25 TD · 7 INT

372 of 385 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

7.5458 of 204 QBs

Sack rate

7.7%159 of 204 QBs

Sacked on 7.7% of dropbacks (159 of 204) — and still 58 of 204 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

53%of completions

128 comp4.9 yds avg4 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

31%of completions

74 comp13.9 yds avg1 TD

Deep

20+ yds

16%of completions

39 comp31.2 yds avg9 TD

Overall 64.8% completion on 372 attempts · 39 deep completions averaging 31.2 yds.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2021 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home7g	219	1.3	8.4	0.4
Road5g	222	2.2	8.3	0.6

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-76g	201	1.7	7.5	0.5
Weeks 8+6g	239	1.7	9.3	0.5

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Marcus Freeman

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

Awards

Player standing · 2021

Watch-list name (model)

Our Heisman model has him inside the top 25; he is not on a published award watch list yet.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

59 · #42 of 126 QBs

Three-star recruit. Now #42 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2021	Notre Dame	253	385	65.7%	3,150	8.2	25	7	152.2	54	--	--
2019	Wisconsin	236	339	69.6%	2,727	8.0	18	5	151.8	--	--	--
2018	Wisconsin	56	93	60.2%	561	6.0	5	3	122.2	--	--	--
2017	Wisconsin	5	5	100.0%	36	7.2	0	0	160.5	--	--	--
Career		550	822	66.9%	6,474	7.9	48	15	148.7	54	--	--

Season	Team
2021	Notre Dame	57	-100	-1.8	2	--
2019	Wisconsin	56	21	0.4	4	--
2018	Wisconsin	20	-33	-1.6	1	--
2017	Wisconsin	--	--	--	--	--
Career		133	-112	-0.8	7	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 4 · 2021

W 41–13

at Wisconsin

158 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 57.6 · -19 rush yds (9 car)

Dominant 28-point win on the road against Wisconsin.

With J. Bramblett — 46 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 72 LONG · C. Tyree — 6 rush yds (2 car)

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 10 · Navy · 3&7 · Q2 · EPA +6.87Kevin Austin Jr. 70 Yd pass from Jack Coan (Jonathan Doerer Kick)
Week 3 · Purdue · 3&7 · Q3 · EPA +6.52Jack Coan pass complete to Avery Davis for 62 yds for a TD (Jonathan Doerer KICK)
Week 1 · Oklahoma State · 3&7 · Q1 · EPA +5.89Chris Tyree 53 Yd pass from Jack Coan (Jonathan Doerer Kick)
Week 3 · Purdue · 4&3 · Q2 · EPA +5.13Jack Coan pass complete to Kyren Williams for 39 yds for a TD (Jonathan Doerer KICK)
Week 1 · Florida State · 4&1 · Q1 · EPA +5.05Jack Coan pass complete to Michael Mayer for 41 yds for a TD, (Jonathan Doerer KICK)
Week 1 · Florida State · 3&17 · Q3 · EPA +4.65Jack Coan pass complete to Kyren Williams for 55 yds to the FlaSt 21 for a 1ST down
Week 5 · Cincinnati · 2&6 · Q1 · EPA -4.47Jack Coan pass intercepted Ahmad Gardner return for 4 yds to the Cincy 5
Week 12 · Georgia Tech · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA +4.01Jack Coan pass complete to Michael Mayer for 52 yds for a TD, (Jonathan Doerer KICK)
Week 13 · Stanford · 1&10 · Q3 · EPA +3.84Jack Coan pass complete to Kevin Austin Jr. for 61 yds to the Stanf 2 for a 1ST down
Week 8 · USC · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA -3.71Jack Coan pass intercepted Chris Steele return for no gain to the USC 14

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2021 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 41-38@ Florida State	26/35	366	4	1	10.5	79.3	Season-high 366 yds
Wk 2	W 32-29vs Toledo	21/33	239	2	1	7.2	44.1
Wk 3	W 27-13vs Purdue	15/30	223	2	0	7.4	57.1
Wk 4	W 41-13@ Wisconsin	15/29	158	1	0	5.4	57.6
Wk 5	L 13-24vs Cincinnati	14/22	114	0	1	5.2	65.7
Wk 6	W 32-29@ Virginia Tech	9/12	108	1	0	9.0	75.3
Wk 8	W 31-16vs USC	20/28	189	1	1	6.8	77.4
Wk 9	W 44-34vs North Carolina	16/24	213	1	0	8.9	90.0
Wk 10	W 34-6vs Navy	23/29	269	1	0	9.3	42.2
Wk 11	W 28-3@ Virginia	15/20	132	3	1	6.6	82.9	3 TD passes
Wk 12	W 55-0vs Georgia Tech	15/20	285	2	0	14.3	87.8	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 13	W 45-14@ Stanford	26/35	345	2	1	9.9	82.9
Total		215/317	2641	20	6	8.4	70.2

How he plays

Play style

High-percentage passer who protects the ball. Loses the matchup on improvisation.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

56.4%Completion %

27.1%Conversion/dropback

40.9%Land short of sticks

1INTs

56.4% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 27.1% conversion-per-dropback — 40.9% 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