Jack Coan: QB · Notre Dame · #17.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Jack Coan
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. Played for two head coaches across four seasons and two programs. On tape: 366 passing yards and 4 passing TD against Florida State, Week 1, 2021.
Play style
High-percentage passer who protects the ball. Loses the matchup on improvisation.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
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. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
1 of the team's 27 inside-the-5 carries (3.7%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| 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 | 76 |
| 2018 | Wisconsin | 56 | 93 | 60.2% | 561 | 6.0 | 5 | 3 | 122.2 | 43 |
| 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 | 62 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Notre Dame | 57 | −100 | −1.8 | 2 | 21 |
| 2019 | Wisconsin | 56 | 21 | 0.4 | 4 | 25 |
| 2018 | Wisconsin | 20 | −33 | −1.6 | 1 | 9 |
| 2017 | Wisconsin | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 133 | −112 | −0.8 | 7 | 25 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2021 season · 12 games
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| 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 41-13vs No. 18 Wisconsin | 15/29 | 158 | 1 | 0 | 5.4 | 57.6 | |
| Wk 5 | L 13-24vs No. 7 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 | 8.3 | — |
Week 1 · 2021
W 41-38
366 yds · 4 TD · 1 INT · QBR 79.3
Edged out Florida State on the road in a shootout.
With J. Bramblett — 39.3 yards per punt · 6 punts · 3 inside the 20 · K. Williams — 6 rec · 83 yds · 1 TD · 42 rush yds (18 car)
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 372 passing plays (241 completions) against the box score's 385 attempts (253 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.5458 of 204 QBsSack rate
7.7%159 of 204 QBsSacked 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 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 65.7% completion on 385 attempts · 39 deep completions averaging 31.2 yds.
Splits · Per-game
2021 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 219 | 1.3 | 8.4 | 0.4 |
| Road4g | 238 | 2.5 | 9.0 | 0.8 |
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
Head Coach
Brian Kelly
Pass share
50.5%
450 pass / 441 run
Plays / game
74.2
12 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2021
Our Heisman model had this player inside its top 25 in 2021.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Three-star recruit. Now #42 at the position.
How it ended
Four seasons, at Wisconsin and Notre Dame, 6,474 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 · 2017–2021
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 2 schools: Paul Chryst and Brian Kelly.
