#12

Jack Lausch

Former quarterback at Northwestern. 2024: 1,714 passing yards, 7 TD, 8 INT.

QB · Northwestern · So. · #12

6′2″ · 209 lb · Chicago, IL

CFB Index 25 · #126 of 137 QBsHigh confidenceNorthwestern 2024 — college career complete

Recruiting

3★

QB recruit

No. 1783 nationally · Signed with Northwestern

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

Former quarterback at Northwestern. 2024: 1,714 passing yards, 7 TD, 8 INT.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Northwestern in 2022.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Three seasons at Northwestern, 1,792 passing yards — his college career is complete.

His career

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

2022

Signed with Northwestern3-star out of Brother Rice

Career arc

Recruit

★★★

#1783 national

CFB

College

Northwestern

2022–2024

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Coaching lineage · 2022–2024

2 coaches

2022

Pat Fitzgerald

Northwestern

2023–2024

David Braun

Northwestern

era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Pat Fitzgerald → David Braun. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

2024 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2022Northwestern1-11HC: Pat Fitzgerald · Balanced

2023Northwestern8-5HC: David Braun · Run-leaning

2024Northwestern4-8HC: David Braun · Balanced, slow tempo

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

25Below cohort / limited sample #126 of 137?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: epa / dropback (9th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Interception rate#82 / 169 · 52nd pct

2.1%

Sack rate#102 / 169 · 40th pct

6.6%

Explosive rate#122 / 169 · 28th pct

8.5%

Success rate#141 / 169 · 17th pct

35.5%

EPA / dropback#154 / 169 · 9th pct

0.02

Box-score rates (8)

Rush yards#69 / 165 · 58th pct

213

Fumbles lost#68 / 159 · 44th pct

Rush TDs#83 / 165 · 44th pct

Interceptions#92 / 165 · 40th pct

Pass yards#102 / 165 · 38th pct

1714

Pass TDs#130 / 165 · 19th pct

Completion %#155 / 165 · 6th pct

53.7%

Yards / att#155 / 165 · 6th pct

5.8

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

157/284 (55.3%) · 7 TD · 8 INT

284 of 296 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

4.28176 of 205 QBs

Sack rate

6.3%122 of 205 QBs

Sacked on 6.3% of dropbacks (122 of 205) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (176 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 yds

60%of completions

94 comp4.8 yds avg2 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

25%of completions

39 comp13.7 yds avg1 TD

Deep

20+ yds

15%of completions

24 comp30.1 yds avg2 TD

Overall 55.3% completion on 284 attempts · 24 deep completions averaging 30.1 yds.

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2024 baseline

No situation moves him more than 31 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-27 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 7/87 (8.0%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 2

+3 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 4/80 (5.0%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 3+

+31 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 5/70 (7.1%) · 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 · 10 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home5g	208	1.2	5.8	0.4
Road5g	135	0.2	5.7	1.2

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-74g	182	1.0	6.8	0.5
Weeks 8+6g	165	0.5	5.1	1.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

David Braun

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 1 game in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2024

Starter

A locked-in starting job.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

25 · #126 of 137 QBs

Three-star recruit. Now #126 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2024	Northwestern	159	296	53.7%	1,714	5.8	7	8	104.8	27	--	--
2023	Northwestern	2	3	66.7%	10	3.3	0	0	94.7	--	--	--
2022	Northwestern	4	8	50.0%	68	8.5	0	1	96.4	--	--	--
Career		165	307	53.7%	1,792	5.8	7	9	104.4	27	--	--

Season	Team
2024	Northwestern	87	213	2.4	2	--
2023	Northwestern	19	80	4.2	1	--
2022	Northwestern	6	-3	-0.5	0	--
Career		112	290	2.6	3	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 3 · 2024

W 31–7

vs Eastern Illinois

227 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 35.9 · 62 rush yds (7 car)

Dominant 24-point win at home against Eastern Illinois.

With J. Himon II — 49 rush yds (5 car) · 1 TD · A. Henning — 7 rec · 117 yds · 1 TD

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 3 · Eastern Illinois · 2&12 · Q4 · EPA +4.09Jack Lausch pass complete to A.J. Henning for 46 yds to the EIU 35 for a 1ST down
Week 14 · Illinois · 3&8 · Q1 · EPA -4.01Jack Lausch pass intercepted Xavier Scott return for 5 yds to the ILL 5
Week 12 · Ohio State · 3&7 · Q1 · EPA -3.83Jack Lausch run for 2 yds to the OSU 33 Jack Lausch fumbled, recovered by OSU Davison Igbinosun D. Igbinosun return for 17 yds
Week 10 · Purdue · 3&16 · Q1 · EPA +3.80Jack Lausch pass complete to Frank Covey IV for 27 yds to the PUR 22 for a 1ST down
Week 6 · Indiana · 3&2 · Q3 · EPA +3.80Jack Lausch pass complete to A.J. Henning for 38 yds for a TD (Jack Olsen KICK)
Week 12 · Ohio State · 4&8 · Q4 · EPA +3.79Jack Lausch pass complete to Bryce Kirtz for 20 yds to the OSU 32 for a 1ST down
Week 7 · Maryland · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA +3.72Jack Lausch pass complete to Bryce Kirtz for 55 yds to the MD 26 for a 1ST down
Week 4 · Washington · 1&10 · Q2 · EPA -3.71Jack Lausch pass intercepted Carson Bruener return for no gain to the WASH 48
Week 14 · Illinois · 3&10 · Q2 · EPA +3.70Jack Lausch pass complete to A.J. Henning for 26 yds to the ILL 34 for a 1ST down
Week 3 · Eastern Illinois · 2&11 · Q3 · EPA +3.52Jack Lausch pass complete to A.J. Henning for 45 yds to the EIU 48 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2024 season · 10 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 3	W 31-7vs Eastern Illinois	20/31	227	2	0	7.3	35.9
Wk 4	L 5-24@ Washington	8/27	53	0	2	2.0	4.0
Wk 6	L 24-41vs Indiana	23/38	243	2	0	6.4	63.3
Wk 7	W 37-10@ Maryland	10/18	203	0	0	11.3	83.2
Wk 8	L 3-23vs Wisconsin	9/24	82	0	0	3.4	23.0
Wk 9	L 14-40@ Iowa	10/19	62	0	2	3.3	9.9
Wk 10	W 26-20@ Purdue	23/35	250	1	0	7.1	50.5
Wk 12	L 7-31vs Ohio State	21/35	201	0	0	5.7	50.7
Wk 13	L 6-50@ Michigan	10/21	106	0	2	5.0	9.7
Wk 14	L 28-38vs Illinois	25/48	287	2	2	6.0	51.0	Season-high 287 yds
Total		159/296	1714	7	8	5.8	38.1

How he plays

Play style

Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

52.5%Completion %

27.3%Conversion/dropback

42.9%Land short of sticks

4INTs

52.5% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 27.3% 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