Jaren
Hall.
Jaren
Hall.
BYU· 6'0"· 207 lb
"A rhythm-and-timing passer whose game was always going to live or die on structure: give him the play-action half-field read and he is precise, take it away and the arm has to carry more than it can."Pre-draft read
Compact rhythm passer who operated BYU's spread from under center and shotgun, working play-action and half-field reads. Quick, repeatable delivery with a clean over-the-top slot and an efficient front-side hitch; ball comes out on time on hitches, glances and the deep over. Ties his feet to his eyes on first-read concepts and layers the intermediate throw with touch rather than velocity.
Athletic enough to escape and push the ball down the field off the move. Not a designed-run centerpiece, but he converts scrambles and keeps play-action boots honest. Arm strength is adequate rather than special, so the signature is timing, anticipation and placement on the perimeter, not driving throws into tight windows outside the numbers.
Timing-based play-action passing game built on half-field reads, boots and rhythm throws to the intermediate middle.
Year 1: QB3 developing behind a veteran in a rhythm system. Ceiling: reliable QB2 who can win a two-game stretch without sinking the offense.
A vertical, seven-step iso-route offense that asks him to drive the far-hash out and hold up as a full-field isolation thrower behind a leaky line.
The offense has to protect the arm; take away the timing and the profile flattens quickly.
Jaren Hall 2022 Full Season Highlights | BYU QB
Full senior-season reel: rhythm throws, play-action boots and scramble conversions.
Jaren Hall 2021-22 BYU Highlights
Two-year starter compilation showing timing and placement on the perimeter.
Jaren Hall 2022 Midseason Highlights | BYU QB
Midseason cut-up of intermediate anticipation throws and pocket movement.
A four-year BYU quarterback and former Cougars outfielder, Hall projects as a timing-and-rhythm passer whose value is tied to structure. He is a decisive processor on defined reads, throws with anticipation into the intermediate middle, and moves well enough to extend a play without abandoning the design. The plan a team buys here is a developmental backup who can run a play-action, half-field passing game and protect the football.
The production backs it up. He started BYU's final two seasons, throwing for 2,583 yards and 20 touchdowns in 2021 and 3,171 yards with 31 touchdowns and six interceptions in 2022 across 12 games. He beat ranked opponents, played clean football in hostile spots, and earned captaincy twice. The flags are real: he turned 25 before the draft, missed most of 2020, split time with baseball early, and had multiple injury interruptions, including concussions, in a slight 6-0, 207-pound frame.
Boards had him as a Day 3 developmental quarterback — third-day range in most rooms, with the pro-day arm and the age holding him out of the QB4-QB5 tier. Minnesota's call in the fifth round was about the offense fitting the thrower: Kevin O'Connell's timing system asked for exactly the traits Hall already owned.
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Timing and anticipation
Throws hitches, glances and the deep over on rhythm, releasing before the break and letting receivers run into placement rather than waiting to see separation.
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Clean, repeatable delivery
Compact over-the-top motion with consistent slot and follow-through; the ball comes out the same way from the pocket and on the move.
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Pocket movement
Slides and climbs to buy the extra beat, keeping his eyes downfield instead of dropping them and bailing at the first sign of interior pressure.
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Ball security in structure
Six interceptions on 376 attempts as a senior; he takes the checkdown and lives to play the next down instead of forcing the hero throw.
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Perimeter placement
Puts the comeback and back-shoulder throw where only his receiver can play it, which is how he wins outside without elite arm strength.
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Arm strength ceiling
Adequate rather than driving; the deep out and the far hash comeback lose velocity and hang, and NFL closing speed will punish the late ones.
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Age and mileage
He turned 25 before the draft, which compresses the developmental runway teams normally grant a Day 3 quarterback with two years of starting tape.
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Durability
A slight frame with a 2020 season lost to injury and multiple in-season interruptions, so a season of hits is a legitimate open question.
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Full-field progressions
Best on defined half-field reads; when the first two options are taken away he hurries his feet and defaults to the scramble sooner than ideal.
| Yr | Team | G | Cmp | Att | Yds | TD | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | BYU | 7 | 31 | 46 | 420 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | BYU | 10 | 189 | 296 | 2583 | 20 | 5 |
| 2022 | BYU | 12 | 248 | 376 | 3171 | 31 | 6 |
| Career | — | 29 | 468 | 718 | 6174 | 52 | 11 |
Season lines verified on cfbstats (2021, 2022) and cross-checked against StatMuse; 2019 passing verified via StatMuse and BYU Athletics, which credit 420 yards and one touchdown across 2018-19. Hall appeared in two games in 2018 with no pass attempts and missed 2020, so neither season is listed. Career games (29) include those two 2018 appearances, which is why the listed season games sum to 27. Cougarstats lists 257-393-7 for 3,291 yards and 33 touchdowns in 2022; cfbstats and StatMuse agree on 248-376-6 for 3,171 and 31, and those are used here. 2019 rushing is not separable from the combined 2018-19 total (139 yards, 3 touchdowns), so it is left null.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Accurate timing thrower who bounces between QB2 jobs and starts a handful of games in emergencies.
Undersized rhythm passer who won inside a play-action system when the structure carried him.
Late-round passer whose spot starts arrive early and whose roster life is short.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Minnesota drafted him into the offense that best fit him, and the depth chart opened faster than anyone expected. Hall made his NFL debut in relief against Green Bay as a rookie, then started at Atlanta in Week 9 with Kirk Cousins on injured reserve — and lasted one quarter before a scramble hit gave him a concussion, opening the door for the newly acquired Joshua Dobbs. He started again in Week 17 against the Packers at U.S. Bank Stadium. That was effectively the career: three appearances, 13 completions on 20 attempts for 168 yards, no touchdowns and one interception. Minnesota moved on in 2024, Seattle signed him to the practice squad that September, and the Seahawks waived him in April 2025 once they drafted Jalen Milroe. He signed with the UFL's Birmingham Stallions in January 2026 and was released later that month, then announced his retirement in May 2026 at 28.
In hindsight the evaluation held up and the runway did not. The traits that made him draftable — timing, placement, poise in structure — showed on the small sample he got, but he never got a clean stretch of health or a stable roster spot to build on. Fifth-round quarterbacks are lottery tickets, and this one was cashed early: two starts and a concussion in the first of them. The age and injury flags in the report were the exact things that ended it.