Player Dossier

2023-2025

Penn State

Jaxon Smolik

QB • 6'1" • 213 lbs • Van Meter, IA, USA

Balanced quarterback profileVolume operator

Jaxon Smolik is a balanced quarterback profile with 8.7 usage in the latest tracked season.

Usage / Role

1%

Rotational offensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

1

Developing production for a quarterback

lowelite

Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

13

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Penn State

232425

Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Penn State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Iowa
3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8744

Dowling Catholic · West Des Moines, IA

Committed To
Penn State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Jaxon Smolik, QB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Penn State. Jaxon Smolik is a balanced quarterback profile with 8.7 usage in the latest tracked season.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Total offense
3
Rushing yards
3

Quick Answers

Jaxon Smolik quick answers

Latest team and position
Penn State · QB
Career Total Offense
3
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 1 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Penn State
Top game
Iowa
Recruit profile
3-star · Dowling Catholic · Penn State
High school pipeline
Dowling Catholic · 10 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 14 · Sophomore
2025 Total offense rank
3 total offense · QB 413th (top 100%) · Big Ten 191st (top 94%) · National 1,533rd (top 95%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTotal OffensePass YdsRush YdsTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonPenn State00000-
2024 Regular SeasonPenn State00000-
2025 Regular SeasonPenn State1303056.7

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Penn State to TempleP4 to G5/FCS25.2Jan 10, 2026

Jaxon Smolik played QB for Penn State. Across 3 tracked seasons, Jaxon Smolik recorded 3 rushing yards. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Penn State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Penn State paired 3 primary output with 7.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

pass-led usage with 7.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Iowa

Loss with 3 yards of offense and 7.5 efficiency. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Penn State

Games

1

Primary Metric / G

3

Efficiency

7.5

Usage

8.7

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Iowa

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All Games3 · Games = 1

Game Log

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1 games

Featured metric

Total Offense

Top game by takeover score

Iowa

Best efficiency game

7.5 vs Iowa

Result
Sat 10/18@ IowaL 24-257.5430.8003

Career Arc

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  1. 1

    Penn State

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonPenn State0
2024 Regular SeasonPenn State00
2025 Regular SeasonPenn State37.58.73

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 12 Iowa

Week 8 · L 24-25 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

Loss with 3 yards of offense and 7.5 efficiency.

3

Total Offense

42.3 takeover

3 total offense with 7.5 efficiency.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Penn State

3 primary output · 7.5 efficiency · 8.7 usage

56.7

#2

2023 Regular Season · Penn State

0 primary · efficiency · usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Penn State

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

250+ passing yards

0

300+ total offense

0

3+ TD games

0

Above avg efficiency