Player Dossier

2018-2023

Illinois

John Paddock

QB • 6'0" • 190 lbs • Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA

Balanced quarterback profileVolume operator

John Paddock is a balanced quarterback profile with 10 usage in the latest tracked season.

Usage / Role

26%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

41

Developing production for a quarterback

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Reliability

31

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

55

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2022 Regular Season · Ball State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
Ball State • Illinois
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Fordham

Player Story

John Paddock built his college career from 2018 through 2023 as a quarterback from Bloomfield Hills, MI wearing No. 4, spending time with Ball State and Illinois. The clearest part of John Paddock's career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2018 · Rating 0.8054

Bloomfield Hills · Bloomfield Hills, MI

Committed To
Ball State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2018

John Paddock, QB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2022 Regular Season · Ball State. John Paddock is a balanced quarterback profile with 10 usage in the latest tracked season.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Total offense
4,031
Passing yards
4,189
Touchdowns
27

Quick Answers

John Paddock quick answers

Latest team and position
Illinois · QB
Career Total Offense
4,031
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 6 entries · 22 games
Best season
2022 Regular Season · Ball State
Top game
Fordham
Recruit profile
3-star · Bloomfield Hills · Ball State
High school pipeline
Bloomfield Hills · 2 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 4 · Senior
2023 Total offense rank
1,239 total offense · QB 131st (top 33%) · Big Ten 15th (top 10%) · National 150th (top 10%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTotal OffensePass YdsRush YdsTDOverall
2018 Regular SeasonBall State13343-10043.7
2019 Regular SeasonBall State1550039.3
2020 Regular SeasonBall State00000-
2021 Regular SeasonBall State2123132-9043.5
2022 Regular SeasonBall State122,6312,715-841859.8
2023 Regular SeasonIllinois61,2391,294-55945.7

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2023Ball State to IllinoisG5/FCS to P486.1Nov 29, 2022

John Paddock played QB for Ball State and Illinois. Across 6 tracked seasons, John Paddock recorded 4,189 passing yards, -158 rushing yards, and 1 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2022 with Ball State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season

Ball State paired 2,631 primary output with 51.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

2023 Regular Season role shape

pass-led usage with 63.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2023 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Ball State, Illinois.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Indiana

Win with 499 yards of offense and 63.9 efficiency. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2023 Regular Season · Illinois

Games

6

Primary Metric / G

206.5

Efficiency

63.4

Usage

10

Consistency

49.9

Best Game by takeover score

Indiana

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Penn State: 109. Purdue: 24. Minnesota: 85. Indiana: 499. Iowa: 210. Northwestern: 312

Volume vs Efficiency

Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.

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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Penn State: 19 by 57.4. Purdue: 6 by 55.6. Minnesota: 3 by 100. Indiana: 39 by 63.9. Iowa: 49 by 46.2. Northwestern: 38 by 57.2

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins292 · Games = 2 · +128.3 vs Losses
Losses163.8 · Games = 4 · -128.3 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

6 games

Featured metric

Total Offense

Top game by takeover score

Indiana

Best efficiency game

100 vs Minnesota

Result
Sat 11/25vs Northwestern300-yard game · 3+ TDL 43-45243433470.63257.24-22-5.5000
Sat 11/18@ IowaL 13-15224721546.80046.22-5-2.5000
Sat 11/11vs Indiana300-yard game · 3+ TDW 48-45243650766.74163.93-8-2.7002
Sat 11/4@ MinnesotaW 27-263385100.010100
Sat 9/30@ PurdueL 19-44262433.30055.6
Sat 9/16vs Penn StateL 13-30101612962.51057.43-20-6.7001

Player Story

John Paddock story

John Paddock built his college career from 2018 through 2023 as a quarterback from Bloomfield Hills, MI wearing No. 4, spending time with Ball State and Illinois. The clearest part of John Paddock's career was his passing role: 4,189 passing yards, 27 touchdown passes, and 656 attempts across 22 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2022 with Ball State. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Quarterback careers are usually judged first by volume, efficiency, and scoring chances. His career also includes 1 tackle, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 22 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Ball State and Illinois.

The arc is straightforward: John Paddock moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    Ball State

    2018-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Illinois

    2023

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

201820192020202120222023
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2018 Regular SeasonBall State3360.85.7
2019 Regular SeasonBall State556.90-28
2020 Regular SeasonBall State0-5
2021 Regular SeasonBall State12364.64.9123
2022 Regular SeasonBall State2,63151.17.82,508
2023 Regular SeasonIllinois1,23963.410-1,392

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Fordham

Week 2 · W 57-29

Win with 5 yards of offense and 56.9 efficiency.

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Total Offense

78.5 takeover

5 total offense with 56.9 efficiency.

#2

@ Penn State

Week 2 · L 13-44

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Total Offense

76.4 takeover

Loss with 50 yards of offense and 84.3 efficiency.

50 total offense with 84.3 efficiency.

#3

vs Western Michigan

Week 2 · L 30-37 · Conference game

291

Total Offense

72.5 takeover

Loss with 291 yards of offense and 72.7 efficiency.

291 total offense with 72.7 efficiency.

#4

vs Indiana

Week 11 · W 48-45 · Conference game

499

Total Offense

61 takeover

Win with 499 yards of offense and 63.9 efficiency.

499 total offense with 63.9 efficiency.

#5

@ Minnesota

Week 10 · W 27-26 · Conference game

85

Total Offense

58.5 takeover

Win with 85 yards of offense and 100 efficiency.

85 total offense with 100 efficiency.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2022 Regular Season · Ball State

2,631 primary output · 51.1 efficiency · 7.8 usage

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#2

2023 Regular Season · Illinois

45.7

1,239 primary · 63.4 efficiency · 10 usage

#3

2018 Regular Season · Ball State

43.7

33 primary · 60.8 efficiency · 5.7 usage

Milestones

8

250+ passing yards

4

300+ total offense

4

3+ TD games

5

Above avg efficiency