Player Dossier

2024-2025

Virginia

Daniel Kaelin

QB • 6'3" • 218 lbs • Elkhorn, NE, USA

Balanced quarterback profileVolume operator

Daniel Kaelin is a balanced quarterback profile with 8.1 usage in the latest tracked season.

Usage / Role

9%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

14

Developing production for a quarterback

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Reliability

4

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

25

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Virginia

2425

Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Nebraska • Virginia
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Wake Forest

Player Story

Daniel Kaelin built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a quarterback from Elkhorn, NE wearing No. 10, spending time with Nebraska and Virginia. The clearest part of Daniel Kaelin's career was his passing...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.8781

Bellevue West · Bellevue, NE

Committed To
Nebraska
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Daniel Kaelin, QB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Virginia. Daniel Kaelin is a balanced quarterback profile with 8.1 usage in the latest tracked season.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Total offense
411
Passing yards
339
Rushing yards
72
Touchdowns
1

Quick Answers

Daniel Kaelin quick answers

Latest team and position
Virginia · QB
Career Total Offense
411
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 5 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Virginia
Top game
Wake Forest
Recruit profile
3-star · Bellevue West · Nebraska
High school pipeline
Bellevue West · 12 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 10 · Sophomore
2025 Total offense rank
411 total offense · QB 203rd (top 49%) · ACC 52nd (top 25%) · National 409th (top 26%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTotal OffensePass YdsRush YdsTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonNebraska00000-
2025 Regular SeasonVirginia541133972153.2

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Virginia to NebraskaP4 to P484.7Jan 12, 2026
2025Nebraska to VirginiaP4 to P485.4Dec 15, 2024

Daniel Kaelin played QB for Nebraska and Virginia. Across 2 tracked seasons, Daniel Kaelin recorded 339 passing yards, 72 rushing yards, and 1 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Virginia.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Virginia paired 411 primary output with 69.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

pass-led usage with 69.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

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

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Nebraska, Virginia.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Wake Forest

Loss with 194 yards of offense and 72.3 efficiency. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Virginia

Games

5

Primary Metric / G

82.2

Efficiency

69.5

Usage

8.1

Consistency

25.3

Best Game by takeover score

Wake Forest

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Coastal Carolina: 28. William & Mary: 166. Stanford: 4. Wake Forest: 194. Virginia Tech: 19

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. Coastal Carolina: 10 by 44.4. William & Mary: 17 by 58.2. Stanford: 1 by 77.8. Wake Forest: 34 by 72.3. Virginia Tech: 2 by 95

Split Comparison

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

Wins54.3 · Games = 4 · -139.8 vs Losses
Losses194 · Games = 1 · +139.8 vs Wins

Game Log

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

5 games

Featured metric

Total Offense

Top game by takeover score

Wake Forest

Best efficiency game

95 vs Virginia Tech

Result
Sun 11/30vs Virginia TechW 27-7952199.50013
Sun 11/9vs Wake ForestL 9-16182814564.30072.36498.20054
Sat 9/20vs StanfordW 48-20114100.01077.8
Sat 9/13vs William & MaryW 55-1681416457.10158.2320.7004
Sat 8/30vs Coastal CarolinaW 48-7392633.30044.412202

Player Story

Daniel Kaelin story

Daniel Kaelin built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a quarterback from Elkhorn, NE wearing No. 10, spending time with Nebraska and Virginia. The clearest part of Daniel Kaelin's career was his passing role: 339 passing yards, 1 touchdown pass, 52 attempts, and 72 rushing yards across 5 career games in the available record. His career also includes 72 rushing yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives Daniel Kaelin's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Nebraska

    2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Virginia

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonNebraska0
2025 Regular SeasonVirginia41169.58.1411

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 52 Wake Forest

Week 11 · L 9-16 · Conference game

Loss with 194 yards of offense and 72.3 efficiency.

194

Total Offense

72.2 takeover

194 total offense with 72.3 efficiency.

#2

vs William & Mary

Week 3 · W 55-16

166

Total Offense

52.2 takeover

Win with 166 yards of offense and 58.2 efficiency.

166 total offense with 58.2 efficiency.

#3

vs No. 112 Stanford

Week 4 · W 48-20 · Conference game

4

Total Offense

39.9 takeover

Win with 4 yards of offense and 77.8 efficiency.

4 total offense with 77.8 efficiency.

#4

vs No. 105 Virginia Tech

Week 14 · W 27-7 · Conference game

19

Total Offense

38.1 takeover

Win with 19 yards of offense and 95 efficiency.

19 total offense with 95 efficiency.

#5

vs No. 121 Coastal Carolina

Week 1 · W 48-7

28

Total Offense

21.4 takeover

Win with 28 yards of offense and 44.4 efficiency.

28 total offense with 44.4 efficiency.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Virginia

411 primary output · 69.5 efficiency · 8.1 usage

53.2

#2

2024 Regular Season · Nebraska

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

250+ passing yards

0

300+ total offense

0

3+ TD games

3

Above avg efficiency