Jack Plummer: QB · Louisville · #13.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Jack Plummer
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Played for two head coaches at three programs in five seasons: Jeff Brohm and Justin Wilcox. First career honor, 2023: All-ACC. On tape: 388 passing yards and 5 passing TD against Boston College, Week 4, 2023.
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
67.5% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 26.1% conversion-per-dropback — 55.6% 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 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Louisville | 256 | 395 | 64.8% | 3,204 | 8.1 | 21 | 12 | 144.4 | 66 |
| 2022 | California | 282 | 451 | 62.5% | 3,096 | 6.9 | 21 | 9 | 131.6 | 31 |
| 2021 | Purdue | 87 | 127 | 68.5% | 864 | 6.8 | 7 | 0 | 143.8 | 45 |
| 2020 | Purdue | 88 | 124 | 71.0% | 938 | 7.6 | 8 | 2 | 152.6 | 53 |
| 2019 | Purdue | 145 | 242 | 59.9% | 1,605 | 6.6 | 11 | 8 | 124.0 | 35 |
| Career | 858 | 1,339 | 64.1% | 9,707 | 7.2 | 68 | 31 | 137.1 | 46 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Louisville | 98 | 34 | 0.3 | 1 | 20 |
| 2022 | California | 52 | −126 | −2.4 | 1 | 24 |
| 2021 | Purdue | 27 | −3 | −0.1 | 0 | 13 |
| 2020 | Purdue | 16 | 21 | 1.3 | 1 | 14 |
| 2019 | Purdue | 62 | 56 | 0.9 | 0 | 19 |
| Career | 255 | −18 | −0.1 | 3 | 24 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 14 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 39-34vs Georgia Tech | 18/31 | 247 | 3 | 1 | 8.0 | 66.1 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 56-0vs Murray State | 16/22 | 247 | 1 | 2 | 11.2 | 58.3 | |
| Wk 3 | W 21-14vs Indiana | 13/23 | 238 | 1 | 1 | 10.3 | 88.0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 56-28vs Boston College | 18/21 | 388 | 5 | 0 | 18.5 | 94.0 | Season-high 388 yds |
| Wk 5 | W 13-10@ NC State | 21/35 | 286 | 1 | 2 | 8.2 | 36.5 | |
| Wk 6 | W 33-20vs No. 10 Notre Dame | 17/24 | 145 | 1 | 0 | 6.0 | 70.7 | |
| Wk 7 | L 21-38@ Pittsburgh | 29/52 | 350 | 1 | 2 | 6.7 | 35.7 | |
| Wk 9 | W 23-0vs No. 20 Duke | 11/16 | 117 | 0 | 0 | 7.3 | 80.3 | |
| Wk 10 | W 34-3vs Virginia Tech | 11/12 | 141 | 1 | 0 | 11.8 | 88.5 | |
| Wk 11 | W 31-24vs Virginia | 19/28 | 243 | 2 | 1 | 8.7 | 47.8 | |
| Wk 12 | W 38-31@ Miami | 24/37 | 308 | 3 | 1 | 8.3 | 92.0 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 13 | L 31-38vs Kentucky | 24/33 | 242 | 2 | 1 | 7.3 | 77.7 | |
| Wk 14 | L 6-16vs No. 4 Florida State | 14/36 | 111 | 0 | 1 | 3.1 | 13.1 | |
 Bowl | L 28-42vs USC | 21/25 | 141 | 0 | 0 | 5.6 | 57.5 | |
| Total | 256/395 | 3204 | 21 | 12 | 8.1 | — |
Week 4 · 2023
W 56-28
388 yds · 5 TD · 0 INT · QBR 94.0
Dominant 28-point win at home against Boston College.
With J. Jordan — 134 rush yds (18 car) · 2 TD · 1 rec · 75 yds · 1 TD · B. Travelstead — 43.3 yards per punt · 3 punts · 1 inside the 20
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 386 passing plays (252 completions) against the box score's 395 attempts (256 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.7683 of 212 QBsSack rate
6.8%144 of 212 QBsSacked on 6.8% of dropbacks (144 of 212) — and still 83 of 212 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 64.8% completion on 395 attempts · 41 deep completions averaging 34.2 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2023 baseline
No situation moves him more than 42 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
2023 season · 14 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 218 | 1.7 | 10.1 | 0.6 |
| Road3g | 315 | 1.7 | 7.7 | 1.7 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 255 | 1.6 | 9.3 | 1.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 194 | 1.3 | 7.8 | 0.7 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jeff Brohm
Pass share
44.0%
408 pass / 519 run
Plays / game
66.2
14 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2023
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Three-star recruit. Now #38 at the position.
How it ended
Five seasons, at Purdue, California and Louisville, 9,707 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Played for three programs.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-ACC
All-ACC mention (2023)
Weekly recognition
1 weekly honor (2023)
ACC Quarterback Player of the Week
Coaching lineage · 2019–2023
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 3 schools: Jeff Brohm and Justin Wilcox.
