Player Dossier

2021-2025

Illinois

Ethan Hampton

QB • 6'3" • 220 lbs • Elburn, IL, USA

Balanced quarterback profileVolume operator

Ethan Hampton is a balanced quarterback profile with 0 usage in the latest tracked season.

Usage / Role

22%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

35

Developing production for a quarterback

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Reliability

40

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

36

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Northern Illinois

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Northern Illinois • Illinois
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Western Illinois

Player Story

Ethan Hampton built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a quarterback from Elburn, IL wearing No. 10, spending time with Illinois and Northern Illinois. The clearest part of Ethan Hampton's career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2021 · Rating 0.8315

Aurora Christian Schools · Aurora, IL

Committed To
Northern Illinois
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

Ethan Hampton, QB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Northern Illinois. Ethan Hampton is a balanced quarterback profile with 0 usage in the latest tracked season.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Total offense
2,722
Passing yards
2,603
Rushing yards
119
Touchdowns
23

Quick Answers

Ethan Hampton quick answers

Latest team and position
Illinois · QB
Career Total Offense
2,722
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 6 entries · 23 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Northern Illinois
Top game
Western Illinois
Recruit profile
3-star · Aurora Christian Schools · Northern Illinois
High school pipeline
Aurora Christian Schools · 5 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 10 · Senior
2025 Total offense rank
27 total offense · QB 367th (top 89%) · Big Ten 129th (top 64%) · National 1,094th (top 68%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTotal OffensePass YdsRush YdsTDOverall
2021 PostseasonNorthern Illinois3000023.2
2021 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois31323-10023.2
2022 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois4792798-6749.3
2023 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois31531476235.5
2024 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois111,7371,6081291464.1
2025 Regular SeasonIllinois227270041.9

Related Context

Ethan Hampton played QB for Northern Illinois and Illinois. Across 5 tracked seasons, Ethan Hampton recorded 2,603 passing yards, 119 rushing yards, and 6 receiving yards. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Northern Illinois.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Northern Illinois paired 1,737 primary output with 60.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

2022 Regular Season role shape

pass-led usage with 55.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 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 Northern Illinois, Illinois.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Toledo

Loss shaped by high passing volume and turnover pressure. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2022 Regular Season · Northern Illinois

Games

4

Primary Metric / G

198

Efficiency

55.2

Usage

7.2

Consistency

80.6

Best Game by takeover score

Toledo

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Vanderbilt: 130. Kentucky: 202. Ball State: 175. Toledo: 285

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. Vanderbilt: 21 by 56.6. Kentucky: 26 by 69.3. Ball State: 33 by 50.1. Toledo: 54 by 44.7

Split Comparison

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

First Half166 · Games = 2 · -64 vs Second Half
Second Half230 · Games = 2 · +64 vs First Half

Game Log

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

4 games

Featured metric

Total Offense

Top game by takeover score

Toledo

Best efficiency game

69.3 vs Kentucky

Result
Sat 10/8vs ToledoL 32-52304928461.22444.7510.2006
Sat 10/1@ Ball StateL 38-44172919458.62150.14-19-4.8009
Sat 9/24@ KentuckyL 23-31132519652.01069.316606
Sat 9/17vs VanderbiltL 28-38121912463.22156.626307

Player Story

Ethan Hampton story

Ethan Hampton built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a quarterback from Elburn, IL wearing No. 10, spending time with Illinois and Northern Illinois. The clearest part of Ethan Hampton's career was his passing role: 2,603 passing yards, 21 touchdown passes, 414 attempts, and 119 rushing yards across 23 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2024 with Northern Illinois. 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 119 rushing yards, 6 receiving yards, and 1 tackle, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 23 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Illinois and Northern Illinois.

The arc is straightforward: Ethan Hampton 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

    Northern Illinois

    2021-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Illinois

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

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SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 PostseasonNorthern Illinois1339.818.5
2021 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois1339.818.50
2022 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois79255.27.2779
2023 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois15350.79.8-639
2024 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois1,73760.7111,584
2025 Regular SeasonIllinois2767.20-1,710

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Western Illinois

Week 1 · W 52-3

Win with 14 yards of offense and 100 efficiency.

14

Total Offense

100 takeover

14 total offense with 100 efficiency.

#2

vs Western Illinois

Week 1 · W 54-15

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Total Offense

65.9 takeover

Win with 336 yards of offense and 92.5 efficiency.

336 total offense with 92.5 efficiency.

#3

@ No. 1 Indiana

Week 4 · L 10-63 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

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Total Offense

63.6 takeover

Loss with 13 yards of offense and 34.3 efficiency.

13 total offense with 34.3 efficiency.

#4

@ Nebraska

Week 3 · L 11-35

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Total Offense

62.1 takeover

Loss with 50 yards of offense and 75.7 efficiency.

50 total offense with 75.7 efficiency.

#5

vs Western Michigan

Week 13 · L 21-42 · Conference game

13

Total Offense

60.3 takeover

Loss with 13 yards of offense and 39.8 efficiency.

13 total offense with 39.8 efficiency.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Northern Illinois

1,737 primary output · 60.7 efficiency · 11 usage

64.1

#2

2022 Regular Season · Northern Illinois

49.3

792 primary · 55.2 efficiency · 7.2 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Illinois

41.9

27 primary · 67.2 efficiency · 0 usage

Milestones

2

250+ passing yards

1

300+ total offense

1

3+ TD games

7

Above avg efficiency