John Wolford: QB · Wake Forest · #10.
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John Wolford
Extends plays on the move until something opens up. Four seasons in the Wake Forest quarterback room to date. On tape: 461 passing yards and 14 rushing yards against Louisville, Week 9, 2017.
Play style
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
39.5% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 30.8% conversion-per-dropback — 20.0% 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
6 of the team's 22 inside-the-5 carries (27.3%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Wake Forest | 239 | 374 | 63.9% | 3,192 | 8.5 | 29 | 6 | 158.0 | 87 |
| 2016 | Wake Forest | 166 | 299 | 55.5% | 1,774 | 5.9 | 9 | 10 | 108.6 | 26 |
| 2015 | Wake Forest | 142 | 233 | 60.9% | 1,791 | 7.7 | 9 | 11 | 128.8 | 45 |
| 2014 | Wake Forest | 214 | 367 | 58.3% | 2,037 | 5.6 | 12 | 14 | 108.1 | 20 |
| Career | 761 | 1,273 | 59.8% | 8,794 | 6.9 | 59 | 41 | 126.7 | 45 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Wake Forest | 140 | 683 | 4.9 | 10 | 33 |
| 2016 | Wake Forest | 130 | 521 | 4.0 | 6 | 64 |
| 2015 | Wake Forest | 73 | 67 | 0.9 | 3 | 70 |
| 2014 | Wake Forest | 104 | −151 | −1.5 | 0 | 9 |
| Career | 447 | 1,120 | 2.5 | 19 | 70 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2017 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 51-7vs Presbyterian | 11/15 | 107 | 3 | 0 | 7.1 | 93.8 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 34-10@ Boston College | 13/19 | 151 | 1 | 0 | 7.9 | 65.1 | |
| Wk 3 | W 46-10vs Utah State | 12/22 | 242 | 2 | 0 | 11.0 | 86.9 | |
| Wk 4 | W 20-19@ App State | 14/27 | 176 | 2 | 0 | 6.5 | 48.6 | |
| Wk 5 | L 19-26vs Florida State | 24/34 | 271 | 0 | 1 | 8.0 | 53.4 | |
| Wk 8 | L 24-38@ Georgia Tech | 17/30 | 252 | 2 | 1 | 8.4 | 55.7 | |
| Wk 9 | W 42-32vs Louisville | 28/34 | 461 | 5 | 0 | 13.6 | 98.8 | Season-high 461 yds |
| Wk 10 | L 37-48@ No. 5 Notre Dame | 28/45 | 331 | 2 | 1 | 7.4 | — | |
| Wk 11 | W 64-43@ Syracuse | 25/38 | 363 | 3 | 0 | 9.6 | 94.1 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | W 30-24vs No. 25 NC State | 19/28 | 247 | 3 | 1 | 8.8 | 71.1 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 13 | L 23-31vs Duke | 16/33 | 191 | 2 | 2 | 5.8 | 31.3 | |
 Bowl | W 55-52vs Texas A&M | 32/49 | 400 | 4 | 0 | 8.2 | 76.0 | |
| Total | 239/374 | 3192 | 29 | 6 | 8.5 | — |
Week 9 · 2017
W 42-32
vs Louisville
461 yds · 5 TD · 0 INT · QBR 98.8 · 14 rush yds (4 car) · 1 TD
Edged out Louisville at home in a shootout.
With G. Dortch — 10 rec · 167 yds · 4 TD · M. Colburn — 134 rush yds (24 car)
The plays that mattered most
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
8.8112 of 205 QBsSack rate
3.6%38 of 205 QBsRarely sacked (38 of 205 QBs) and still 12 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 63.9% completion on 374 attempts · 52 deep completions averaging 31.7 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2017 baseline
No situation moves him more than 34 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.
4 seasons under Dave Clawson — 21-29 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 253 | 2.5 | 9.0 | 0.7 |
| Road5g | 255 | 2.0 | 8.0 | 0.4 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 224 | 2.0 | 8.1 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 308 | 2.8 | 8.9 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Dave Clawson
Pass share
44.8%
426 pass / 524 run
Plays / game
73.1
13 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2017
374 pass attempts and 140 carries in 12 games, more passes and runs a game than nearly every FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Four seasons at Wake Forest, 8,794 passing yards — the college career is complete.
A stat line in 47 games over four seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Dave Clawson.
