Senior quarterback for Ball State. 2023: 583 passing yards, 4 TD, 0 INT.
6′0″ · 210 lb · Little Rock, AR
CFB Index
A single number blending on-field production (an EPA-based value lane) with box-score output for this player's position.
0-100, scaled within each position's own cohort — not directly comparable across positions.
Recruiting
DUAL recruit
No. 2176 nationally · Signed with Alabama
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 quarterback for Ball State. 2023: 583 passing yards, 4 TD, 0 INT.
Layne Hatcher
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Layne Hatcher has played for four head coaches across five seasons and three programs. One game to point at: 316 pass yds, 3 pass TD against Western Michigan — Week 5, 2023.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Five seasons at Ball State, 10,672 passing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
3 programs, one constant: he played.
The snaps went the other way.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2019–2023
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Mike Neu.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: interception rate (84th percentile). Strength: interceptions (100th percentile). Concern: explosive rate (5th percentile).
Real play-by-play efficiency
Season trend
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).
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
5.30147 of 212 QBsSack rate
10.1%193 of 212 QBsSacked on 10.1% of dropbacks (193 of 212) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (147 of 212).
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 65.3% completion on 95 attempts · 66% of completions gained 0–9 yds.
Splits · Per-game
2023 season · 6 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home2g | 8.5 | 0.0 | 2.9 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 142 | 1.0 | 5.5 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 113 | 0.8 | 4.4 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+1g | 17.0 | 0.0 | 5.7 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mike Uremovich
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2023
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Ball State | 65 | 98 | 66.3% | 583 | 5.9 | 4 | 0 | 129.8 | 27 | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Texas State | 273 | 440 | 62.0% | 2,654 | 6.0 | 19 | 10 | 122.4 | 20 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Arkansas State | 201 | 341 | 58.9% | 2,423 | 7.1 | 19 | 13 | 129.4 | 36 | -- | -- |
| 2020 | Arkansas State | 117 | 195 | 60.0% | 2,058 | 10.6 | 19 | 2 | 178.8 | 72 | -- | -- |
| 2019 | Arkansas State | 204 | 310 | 65.8% | 2,954 | 9.5 | 27 | 10 | 168.1 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 860 | 1,384 | 62.1% | 10,672 | 7.7 | 88 | 35 | 142.8 | 36 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Ball State | 20 | -53 | -2.6 | 1 | -- |
| 2022 | Texas State | 50 | -151 | -3.0 | 1 | -- |
| 2021 | Arkansas State | 50 | -54 | -1.1 | 1 | -- |
| 2020 | Arkansas State | 43 | 15 | 0.3 | 0 | -- |
| 2019 | Arkansas State | 79 | 46 | 0.6 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 242 | -197 | -0.8 | 4 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 3 · 2023
W 45–7
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 6 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 14-44@ Kentucky | 6/8 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 4.5 | 55.4 | |
| Wk 2 | L 3-45@ Georgia | 10/16 | 82 | 0 | 0 | 5.1 | 81.5 | |
| Wk 3 | W 45-7vs Indiana State | 0/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 24-42@ Western Michigan | 26/37 | 316 | 3 | 0 | 8.5 | 52.7 | Season-high 316 yds |
| Wk 6 | L 10-24@ Eastern Michigan | 20/33 | 132 | 1 | 0 | 4.0 | 25.3 | |
| Wk 12 | W 34-3vs Kent State | 3/3 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 5.7 | 95.4 | |
| Total | 65/98 | 583 | 4 | 0 | 4.6 | 51.7 |
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
CFB Index positional classification
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
2 of the team's 25 inside-the-5 carries (8.0%).
Player DNA
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
His 2023 production profile sits closest to Brett Gabbert’s 2022 season.
Differs from Brett on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Zach Gibson's graduate season at Georgia State (2024).
Differs from Zach on
Player DNA