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Jaren Hall

Quarterback 3

Ht/Wt

205 lbs.

Class

Junior

Hometown

Spanish Fork,

Utah

Last School

Maple Mountain High School

Roster Years

2018-2022

Before BYU:

Earned Deseret News 4A Honorable Mention and Region 8 First Team in 2014 and 2015
Selected as Maple Mountain's 2015 Offensive Football Player of the Year
For his high school career, he had 5,109 passing yards and 52 touchdowns
Rated the No. 3 quarterback in Utah by Scout and Rivals ranked him the No. 20th dual threat quarterback in the nation in the 2016 class

Personal:

Parents are Kalin and Hollie Hall
Father, Kalin, played running back at BYU (1992-93)
Mother, Hollie Hamilton, was a gymnast at BYU (1993)
Brother, KJ, also played running back at BYU (2015-17)
Married to former Utah Valley soccer player Breanna McCarter (2014-18) and they have a baby daughter Jayda born in 2021
Also played on the BYU baseball team in 2019 and 2020 as an outfielder
Played in 27 games during the 2019 baseball season, including eight starts in the outfield
Hit .400 in five games, with three starts during the shortened 2020 COVID season
Played varsity basketball in high school
Served in the California Roseville mission

Mission

Roseville , California

BYU Hall of Fame

Freshman Year 2019

Played in seven games, including two starts at quarterback
Completed 31 of 46 passes for 420 yards and one touchdown
Added 139 rushing yards on 29 carries with three touchdowns
Completed 12 of 16 passes for 214 yards in the first half at Utah State while adding seven carries for 54 yards and two scores en route to a 42-14 win
Had a season-long run of 32 yards at USF
Posted a QB rating of 151.26

Sophmore Year 2021

Played in and started 10 games (8-2 record)
Finished the season 189 of 296 (64%) for 2,583 yards, 20 touchdowns to only five interceptions with an efficiency rating of 156.1.
Averaged 258 yards passing per game.
BYU's second-leading rusher with 62 carries for 307 net yards and three touchdowns, averaging five yards per carry.
Phil Steele All-Independent First Team
Pro Football Network Independent Quarterback of the Year
Pro Football Network First Team All-Independent Offense
Led BYU offense to...
- Scoring 33 points per game
- Averaging 452 yards of total offense per game
- Converting on 46% of third downs
- Scoring on 89% of red zone trips (49 of 55), 75% of which (41) were touchdowns.
Went 18-for-28, 198 yards passing and two touchdowns with five carries for 36 yards in 24-16 win over Arizona.
Led BYU to 26-17 win over No. 21 Utah with 149 yards passing for three touchdowns and eight carries for 92 yards on the ground.
Received Davey O'Brien Award's Great 8 recognition for performance versus Utah.
Tied a career-high with 214 yards passing for two touchdowns in a 27-17 win over No. 19 Arizona State.
Recorded first career 300-yard passing game versus Boise State
Named College Sports Madness Independent Offensive Player of the Week for his performance at Baylor – 22 of 31 for 342 yards passing and 25 yards rushing
Recorded a career high 349 yards and three touchdowns on 22-of-37 passing, while rushing for 42 yards and a touchdown on six carries in BYU's 66-49 win over Virginia.
With four passing touchdowns and one rushing in 59-14 win over Idaho State, became just the fourth quarterback in BYU history to pass for at least four touchdowns and rush for at least one in a single game.
- Others: Virgil Carter (vs. UTEP 1966), Steve Young (vs. Bowling Green 1983), Christian Stewart (vs. Savannah State 2014)