#10

Sam Hartman

Senior quarterback for Notre Dame. 2023: 2,689 passing yards, 24 TD, 8 INT.

QB · Notre Dame · Sr. · #10

6′1″ · 210 lb · Charlotte, NC

CFB Index 67 · #29 of 140 QBsHigh confidenceWatch-list name (model)Notre Dame 2023 alumnus

Recruiting

3★

PRO recruit

No. 767 nationally · Signed with Wake Forest

Statement game458 yds · 5 TDat Army (FBS) · W 70-56

Top 1% passing yards game since 2021.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 quarterback for Notre Dame. 2023: 2,689 passing yards, 24 TD, 8 INT.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Wake Forest in 2018.
Transferred from Wake Forest to Notre Dame in 2023.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Six seasons at Notre Dame, 15,656 passing yards — his college career is complete.

His career

Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.

20189 games

Signed with Wake Forest3-star out of Oceanside Collegiate Academy

202113 games

All-ACCsecond

202212 games

All-ACCthird

202312 games

Entered the portal

Career arc

Recruit

★★★

#767 national

CFB

College

2 teams

2018–2023

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Trophy case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

7 honors · 1 category

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ALL-ACC

All-ACC mention (2022)

Coaching lineage · 2018–2023

2 coaches

2018–2021

Brian Kelly

Notre Dame

2022–2023

Marcus Freeman

Notre Dame

era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Brian Kelly → Marcus Freeman. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

2023 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2018Wake Forest7-6HC: Dave Clawson · Run-leaning, fast tempo

2019Wake Forest8-5HC: Dave Clawson · Run-leaning, fast tempo

2020Wake Forest4-5HC: Dave Clawson · Run-leaning, fast tempo

2021Wake Forest11-3HC: Dave Clawson · Balanced, fast tempo

2022Wake Forest8-5HC: Dave Clawson · Balanced

2023Notre Dame10-3HC: Marcus Freeman · Run-leaning, slow tempo

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

67Quality starter #29 of 140?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: explosive rate (90th percentile). Strength: epa / dropback (87th percentile). Concern: interception rate (6th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Explosive rate#18 / 177 · 90th pct

14.6%

EPA / dropback#23 / 177 · 87th pct

0.46

Success rate#36 / 177 · 80th pct

46.3%

Sack rate#55 / 177 · 69th pct

4.5%

Interception rate#167 / 177 · 6th pct

2.0%

Box-score rates (8)

Yards / att#17 / 179 · 90th pct

8.9

Pass TDs#24 / 179 · 85th pct

Pass yards#50 / 179 · 72nd pct

2689

Completion %#56 / 179 · 68th pct

63.5%

Rush TDs#72 / 179 · 55th pct

Rush yards#89 / 179 · 51st pct

123

Interceptions#113 / 179 · 32nd pct

Fumbles lost#145 / 167 · 10th pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

90th → 87th percentile

Success rate

94th → 80th percentile

Explosive rate

68th → 90th percentile

Sack rate

33rd → 69th percentile

Interception rate

23rd → 6th percentile

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

185/295 (62.7%) · 24 TD · 8 INT

295 of 301 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

8.6626 of 212 QBs

Sack rate

4.4%70 of 212 QBs

Rarely sacked (70 of 212 QBs) and still 26 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 yds

49%of completions

90 comp5.0 yds avg5 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

28%of completions

52 comp13.5 yds avg4 TD

Deep

20+ yds

23%of completions

43 comp32.9 yds avg10 TD

Overall 62.7% completion on 295 attempts · 43 deep completions averaging 32.9 yds.

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2023 baseline

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

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-31 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 1/109 (0.9%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 2

+16 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 3/97 (3.1%) · league sack rate 5.2% · ~our read

Down 3+

+24 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 8/77 (10.4%) · league sack rate 9.1% · ~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

2023 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home7g	234	2.3	9.9	0.3
Road5g	210	1.6	8.2	1.2

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-78g	230	2.2	9.3	0.4
Weeks 8+4g	213	1.5	9.0	1.2

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Marcus Freeman

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2023

Watch-list name (model)

Our Heisman model has him inside the top 25; he is not on a published award watch list yet.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

67 · #29 of 140 QBs

Three-star recruit. Now #29 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2023	Notre Dame	191	301	63.5%	2,689	8.9	24	8	159.5	76	--	--
2022	Wake Forest	270	429	62.9%	3,701	8.6	38	12	159.0	86	--	--
2021	Wake Forest	299	508	58.9%	4,228	8.3	39	14	148.6	70	--	--
2020	Wake Forest	159	273	58.2%	2,224	8.1	13	5	138.7	62	--	--
2019	Wake Forest	55	97	56.7%	830	8.6	4	2	138.1	--	--	--
2018	Wake Forest	161	291	55.3%	1,984	6.8	16	8	125.2	--	--	--
Career		1,135	1,899	59.8%	15,656	8.2	134	49	147.1	74	--	--

Season	Team
2023	Notre Dame	45	123	2.7	3	--
2022	Wake Forest	101	130	1.3	1	--
2021	Wake Forest	117	363	3.1	11	--
2020	Wake Forest	63	29	0.5	2	--
2019	Wake Forest	27	89	3.3	1	--
2018	Wake Forest	107	275	2.6	2	--
Career		460	1,009	2.2	20	--

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 10 · Clemson · 1&11 · Q2 · EPA -7.73Sam Hartman pass intercepted for a TD Jeremiah Trotter Jr. return for 28 yds for a TD (Jonathan Weitz KICK)
Week 3 · Central Michigan · 2&9 · Q2 · EPA +6.75Sam Hartman pass complete to Chris Tyree for 76 yds for a TD (Spencer Shrader KICK)
Week 3 · Central Michigan · 2&5 · Q1 · EPA +6.30Sam Hartman pass complete to Tobias Merriweather for 75 yds for a TD (Spencer Shrader KICK)
Week 7 · USC · 2&10 · Q3 · EPA +4.57Sam Hartman pass complete to Chris Tyree for 46 yds for a TD (Spencer Shrader KICK)
Week 12 · Wake Forest · 2&18 · Q2 · EPA +4.51Sam Hartman pass complete to Tobias Merriweather for 35 yds for a TD (Spencer Shrader KICK)
Week 2 · NC State · 2&10 · Q2 · EPA +4.35Sam Hartman pass complete to Chris Tyree for 65 yds to the NCSU 13 for a 1ST down
Week 9 · Pittsburgh · 2&17 · Q1 · EPA +4.28Sam Hartman pass complete to Chris Tyree for 47 yds to the PITT 21 for a 1ST down
Week 2 · NC State · 1&20 · Q2 · EPA +4.10Sam Hartman pass complete to Tobias Merriweather for 45 yds to the NCSU 32 for a 1ST down
Week 5 · Duke · 4&16 · Q4 · EPA +4.06Sam Hartman run for 17 yds to the DUKE 30 for a 1ST down
Week 6 · Louisville · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA -3.95Sam Hartman pass intercepted Devin Neal return for 4 yds to the LOU 25

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2023 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 42-3vs Navy	19/23	251	4	0	10.9	98.1	4 TD passes
Wk 1	W 56-3vs Tennessee State	14/17	194	2	0	11.4	95.9	4 TD passes
Wk 2	W 45-24@ NC State	15/24	286	4	0	11.9	69.5	4 TD passes
Wk 3	W 41-17vs Central Michigan	16/26	330	3	0	12.7	85.4	Season-high 330 yds
Wk 4	L 14-17vs Ohio State	17/25	175	1	0	7.0	79.4
Wk 5	W 21-14@ Duke	15/30	222	0	0	7.4	64.8
Wk 6	L 20-33@ Louisville	22/38	254	2	3	6.7	27.1	3 INTs — rough day
Wk 7	W 48-20vs USC	13/20	126	2	0	6.3	80.7
Wk 9	W 58-7vs Pittsburgh	18/25	288	0	2	11.5	70.7
Wk 10	L 23-31@ Clemson	13/30	146	0	2	4.9	39.6
Wk 12	W 45-7vs Wake Forest	21/29	277	4	0	9.6	94.0	4 TD passes
Wk 13	W 56-23@ Stanford	8/14	140	2	1	10.0	70.8
Total		191/301	2689	24	8	9.2	73.0

Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology