NFL Draft Profile: Sam Hartman, Quarterback, Wake Forest Demon Deacons
#10
Pos: QB
Ht: 6002
Wt: 208
40: 4.61
DOB: 7/29/1999
Hometown: Charlotte, NC
High School: Oceanside Collegiate
Eligibility: 2023
Sam Hartman
Wake Forest Demon Deacons
One-Liners
Undersized quarterback with a middling arm, Hartman relies on solid accuracy and a really good receiving corps to be a solid college quarterback but he lacks too many NFL traits.
Evaluation:
On film, Hartman displays impressive touch on his passes. He can hit a target coming over the middle of the field in stride with ease. Hartman understands when he needs to put more velocity on a pass or more touch. His ball placement for the most part was good. Hartman can hit his target in the numbers and even fit the ball into tight coverage. In terms of his athleticism, Hartman is an adequate athlete, who can pick up five to ten yards but nothing more. His overall presence on the field is very small. Hartman struggles to break tackles and looks small. His arm talent doesn’t help, as he lacks arm strength and velocity. It was difficult for him to throw the ball downfield, and he consistently forced receivers to come back to the football. When under pressure, Hartman can’t drive the football where he needs to. This leads to him just throwing the ball up for grabs, creating turnovers for the defense. For a player who’s game is built on being a game manager, who is accurate, Hartman threw the ball up aimlessly way too often. Right now, Hartman ceiling isn’t more than a potential backup. He doesn’t have upside and his skill set right now has a lot of holes. Hartman should be brought into a camp, but he will struggle to stick on a 53-man roster.
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Background:
Last year was one of Wake Forest’s best years of football, and Sam Hartman was one of the main reasons why. Hartman was a Manning Award Finalist in 2021. Over his years at Wake, Hartman is only about eight hundred yards away from ten thousand career passing yards and has the program record with seventy two career touchdown passes. During his high school career, he was a team captain, three star athlete, and the number twelve ranked pro style passer. As Hartman has improved every season, 2022 will be a major season for Hartman and his team.
Quotes:
"I mean, I think I've toned it down a little bit. Maybe freshman year I had a little bit more fire, a little more trash talk. I've learned if you trash talk people, they hit you harder, so I kind of – I've shied away from that. I'm more likely to make cordial conversation. You have many good conversations with guys out there. I think, yeah, you can see it, the intensity and the passion. I love the game. I love playing it. I really enjoy it. That's another part of this game is you can have fun doing it while also being successful. I like pushing our guys to be great and go good to great and go good to greater, or greatest. Whatever you want to say. I think if we have fun this year, I think we'll have a lot of success as well." -- Wake Forest QB Sam Hartman on his maturation
