Jack Layne

Senior quarterback for New Mexico. 2025: 2,486 passing yards, 13 TD, 10 INT.

QB · New Mexico · Sr. · #2

6′2″ · 209 lb · Lake Oswego, OR

CFB Index 41 · #88 of 146 QBsHigh confidence

The numbers

2,486

passing yards · 2025

The play that turned itSwung New Mexico from 41% to 79% to win.San Diego State at New Mexico · 23-17

His career numbers, season by season

The story

Senior quarterback for New Mexico. 2025: 2,486 passing yards, 13 TD, 10 INT.

Signed as a 2-star recruit to Idaho in 2022.
Transferred from Idaho to New Mexico in 2025.
Lobos QB Jack Layne out for season (Aug 28) Reported

The full story, with sources

How he plays

Operates within the system without forcing anything.

Explosive rate: 87th percentile.

The full scouting read

Next upSat Sep 26 · 3:30 pm ETat New Mexico StateAggie Memorial StadiumNew Mexico by 11

Jack Layne

QB · New Mexico · Sr · #2

Operates within the system without forcing anything. Jack Layne arrived at New Mexico from Idaho. One game to point at: 344 pass yds, 1 rush TD against San José State — Week 6, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
portal record
game log

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	New Mexico	213	327	65.1%	2,486	7.6	13	10	136.0	41	--	--
Career		213	327	65.1%	2,486	7.6	13	10	136.0	41	--	--

Season	Team
2025	New Mexico	87	152	1.7	4	--
Career		87	152	1.7	4	--

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	L 17-34@ Michigan	31/47	208	1	3	4.4	55.1	3 INTs — rough day
Wk 2	W 32-22vs Idaho State	13/21	155	0	0	7.4	35.0
Wk 3	W 35-10@ UCLA	12/16	152	2	0	9.5	74.5
Wk 5	W 38-20vs New Mexico State	23/30	303	4	0	10.1	71.7	4 TD passes
Wk 6	L 28-35@ San José State	28/40	344	0	3	8.6	53.5	Season-high 344 yds · 3 INTs — rough day
Wk 7	L 25-41@ Boise State	7/17	115	1	2	6.8	20.3
Wk 8	W 24-22vs Nevada	14/22	138	0	0	6.3	27.4
Wk 9	W 33-14vs Utah State	17/22	183	1	0	8.3	64.0
Wk 10	W 40-35@ UNLV	17/22	342	3	1	15.5	70.0	3 TD passes
Wk 12	W 20-17vs Colorado State	13/25	226	0	0	9.0	73.9
Wk 13	W 20-3@ Air Force	10/15	105	0	0	7.0	59.0
Wk 14	W 23-17vs San Diego State	14/25	127	1	0	5.1	36.4
Bowl	L 17-20@ Minnesota	14/25	88	0	1	3.5	22.8
Total		213/327	2486	13	10	7.8	51.0

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2025

W 32–22

vs Idaho State

155 yds · 0 TD · 0 INT · QBR 35.0 · 4 rush yds (5 car) · 1 TD

With D. Bankston — 28 rush yds (6 car) · 1 TD · S. Humphrey — 141 rush yds (18 car) · 2 TD

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 10 · UNLV · 2&6 · Q2 · EPA +6.65Keagan Johnson 80 Yd pass from Jack Layne (Luke Drzewiecki Kick)
Week 10 · UNLV · 1&10 · Q2 · EPA +6.58Damon Bankston 84 Yd pass from Jack Layne (Luke Drzewiecki Kick)
Week 3 · UCLA · 3&11 · Q4 · EPA +5.47Jack Layne pass complete to Damon Bankston for 43 yds for a TD (Luke Drzewiecki KICK)
Week 3 · UCLA · 4&1 · Q2 · EPA -4.18Jack Layne run for no gain to the UCLA 3
Week 10 · UNLV · 3&6 · Q3 · EPA +4.09(12:17) Shotgun #2 J.Layne pass complete short left to #88 C.Keith caught at UNM47, for 45 yards to the UNLV24 (#7 J.Pope), 1ST DOWN
Week 12 · Colorado State · 2&21 · Q1 · EPA +3.97(03:52) Shotgun #2 J.Layne pass complete deep right to #0 Z.Smith caught at UNM48, for 43 yards to the CSU43, out of bounds at CSU43, 1ST DOWN
Week 10 · UNLV · 3&8 · Q1 · EPA +3.92Damon Bankston 30 Yd pass from Jack Layne (Luke Drzewiecki Kick)
Week 7 · Boise State · 3&7 · Q3 · EPA +3.92Jack Layne pass complete to Damon Bankston for 36 yds to the BOIS 36 for a 1ST down
Week 6 · San José State · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA -3.86Jack Layne pass intercepted Larry Turner-Gooden return for 9 yds to the SJSU 33
Week 12 · Colorado State · 4&3 · Q4 · EPA -3.84(00:19) Shotgun #2 J.Layne sacked for loss of 7 yards to the CSU19 (#11 J.Naborne), TURNOVER ON DOWNS

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2025New Mexico9-4HC: Jason Eck · Run-leaning

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

41Rotational starter #88 of 146?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: explosive rate (87th percentile). Concern: sack rate (16th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Explosive rate#25 / 183 · 87th pct

11.5%

Success rate#86 / 183 · 52nd pct

40.8%

EPA / dropback#90 / 183 · 51st pct

0.19

Interception rate#121 / 183 · 34th pct

2.7%

Sack rate#154 / 183 · 16th pct

7.8%

Box-score rates (8)

Completion %#54 / 183 · 70th pct

65.1%

Yards / att#57 / 183 · 68th pct

7.6

Fumbles lost#32 / 174 · 66th pct

Pass yards#63 / 183 · 66th pct

2486

Rush TDs#67 / 183 · 59th pct

Rush yards#83 / 183 · 55th pct

152

Pass TDs#80 / 183 · 55th pct

Interceptions#153 / 183 · 14th pct

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 · True throw depth (charted plays)

Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from

189/296 (63.9%) · 13 TD · 10 INT

296 of 327 attempts matched to play-by-play

105 of 296 attempts charted for true throw depth

Adjusted ANY/A

6.12102 of 206 QBs

Sack rate

7.1%166 of 206 QBs

Sacked on 7.1% of dropbacks (166 of 206) — and still 102 of 206 in Adjusted ANY/A.

Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.

Behind LOS · Negative air yds

18% of attempts (19)

95%comp

Air -2.3 · YAC 8.7 avg

Short · 0–9 air yds

46% of attempts (48)

58%comp1 INT

Air 3.9 · YAC 2.3 avg

Middle · 10–19 air yds

25% of attempts (26)

62%comp

Air 15.1 · YAC 5.9 avg

Deep · 20+ air yds

11% of attempts (12)

42%comp

Air 26.4 · YAC 3.4 avg

Overall 63.9% completion on 296 attempts · 42% completion on 12 deep attempts (20+ air yds).

Passer rating

Zeitgeist Passer Rating

2025 · our own passing-efficiency number, shown next to the 1979 formula it does not replace.

High confidence: 296 dropbacks

41Zeitgeist Passer Rating98th of 142 FBS QBs

136.0NCAA passer rating70th of 142 FBS QBs

ZPR ranks him 28 places lower than passer rating does: passer rating cannot see sacks, and he takes one on 7.1% of dropbacks.

Positive-play rate weight 24%

41.3%18th pct of FBS QBs

share of dropbacks that gained expected points · -1.3% schedule adj.

Yards per attempt weight 56%

7.2056th pct of FBS QBs

sacks excluded · -0.1 schedule adj.

Sack rate weight 21% (penalty)

8.0%14th pct of FBS QBs

the input passer rating cannot see · +0.9% schedule adj.

Opponent-adjusted; garbage time excluded (25 of 321 dropbacks dropped). 50 = FBS average; the number is pulled toward 50 when the sample is thin. How ZPR is built.

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2025 baseline

No situation moves him more than 43 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-24 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 12/118 (10.2%) · league sack rate 4.2% · ~our read

Down 2

-8 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 6/97 (6.2%) · league sack rate 4.5% · ~our read

Down 3+

+43 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 3/82 (3.7%) · league sack rate 7.8% · ~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

2025 season · 13 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home6g	189	1.0	7.7	0.0
Road7g	193	1.0	7.9	1.4

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-77g	195	1.1	7.2	1.3
Weeks 8+6g	187	0.8	8.5	0.2

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Jason Eck

Pass share

31.6%

62 pass / 134 run

Plays / game

65.3

3 games

Scheme: Run-heavy.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Impact starter

Producing measurably more than a replacement-level starter.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

41 · #88 of 146 QBs

Two-star recruit. Now #88 at the position.

2026 outlook

In the mix for All-Mountain West

Based on 2025: #8 of 14 Mountain West QBs

How the All-Mountain West estimate is computed

35% estimated, 95% confidence interval 31–38%. Base rate measured from players who finished at a comparable rank in their conference and came back the next season. It is an estimate from a small sample, not a forecast of this player.

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

60.0%Completion %

35.5%Conversion/dropback

38.9%Land short of sticks

1INTs

60.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 35.5% conversion-per-dropback — 38.9% 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

Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration

Who gets the tough yard

fact

2/27Inside-5 share

2 of the team's 27 inside-the-5 carries (7.4%).