#13

Devin Leary

Former quarterback at Kentucky. 2023: 2,746 passing yards, 25 TD, 12 INT.

QB · Kentucky · Sr. · #13

6′1″ · 217 lb · Sicklerville, NJ

CFB Index 52 · #55 of 140 QBsHigh confidenceBaltimore — drafted 2024, Rd 6, Pick 42, #218 overall

Recruiting

4★

PRO recruit

No. 372 nationally · Signed with NC State

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

Former quarterback at Kentucky. 2023: 2,746 passing yards, 25 TD, 12 INT.

Signed as a 4-star recruit to NC State in 2018.
Transferred from NC State to Kentucky in 2023.
Drafted round 6 by the Baltimore in 2024.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Five seasons at Kentucky, 9,542 passing yards — drafted at #218 overall by Baltimore.

His career

He arrived as a blue-chip recruit and played like one.

2018

Signed with NC State4-star out of Timber Creek

20226 games

All-ACC

202313 games

The role got bigger.

Entered the portal

2024

Drafted by Baltimoreround 6, pick 218

Career arc

Recruit

★★★★

#372 national

CFB

College

2 teams

2019–2023

NFL

NFL Draft

R6 · #218

Baltimore · 2024

Coaching lineage · 2019–2023

1 coach

2019–2023

Mark Stoops

Kentucky

Played his entire career under Mark Stoops.

Where He Ended Up · NFL

BaltimoreEntering 3rd NFL season

#218Rd 6 · Pick 42

BaltimoreEntering 3rd NFL season

View college career stats ↓

2023 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2019NC State4-8HC: Dave Doeren · Balanced

2020NC State8-4HC: Dave Doeren · Balanced

2021NC State9-3HC: Dave Doeren · Balanced

2022NC State8-5HC: Dave Doeren · Balanced

2023Kentucky7-6HC: Mark Stoops · Balanced, slow tempo

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

52Rotational starter #55 of 140?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: pass tds (89th percentile). Concern: interceptions (6th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Explosive rate#59 / 177 · 67th pct

11.5%

Interception rate#65 / 177 · 64th pct

0.3%

Sack rate#80 / 177 · 55th pct

5.4%

EPA / dropback#90 / 177 · 49th pct

0.26

Success rate#118 / 177 · 33rd pct

39.3%

Box-score rates (8)

Pass TDs#19 / 179 · 89th pct

Pass yards#47 / 179 · 74th pct

2746

Yards / att#75 / 179 · 56th pct

7.4

Fumbles lost#76 / 167 · 40th pct

Rush TDs#124 / 179 · 23rd pct

Completion %#143 / 179 · 20th pct

56.3%

Rush yards#165 / 179 · 8th pct

-60

Interceptions#167 / 179 · 6th pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

61st → 49th percentile

Success rate

56th → 33rd percentile

Explosive rate

55th → 67th percentile

Sack rate

79th → 55th percentile

Interception rate

42nd → 64th percentile

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season. Most bars are box-score rates; EPA / success-rate bars are computed from real play-by-play (offense only — no defensive EPA model exists yet).

Passing profile

Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)

Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from

203/357 (56.9%) · 25 TD · 12 INT

357 of 371 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

6.5196 of 212 QBs

Sack rate

5.4%99 of 212 QBs

Rarely sacked (99 of 212 QBs) and still 96 of 212 in Adjusted ANY/A.

Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.

Short

0–9 yds

49%of completions

99 comp4.4 yds avg11 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

31%of completions

62 comp13.5 yds avg2 TD

Deep

20+ yds

21%of completions

42 comp31.6 yds avg8 TD

Overall 56.9% completion on 357 attempts · 42 deep completions averaging 31.6 yds.

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2023 baseline

No situation moves him more than 33 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-27 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 3/119 (2.5%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 2

+2 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 6/112 (5.4%) · league sack rate 5.2% · ~our read

Down 3+

+33 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 9/92 (9.8%) · league sack rate 9.1% · ~our read

Deltas are vs. this player’s own season baseline, never a league average. League sack rate by down is shown as context because sack attribution isn’t incompletion-denominated.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2023 season · 13 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home8g	235	2.0	7.7	1.0
Road5g	173	1.8	6.7	0.8

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-78g	210	2.0	7.4	1.1
Weeks 8+5g	213	1.8	7.2	0.6

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Will Stein

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2023

Impact starter

Producing measurably more than a replacement-level starter.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

52 · #55 of 140 QBs

Former four-star. Now #55 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2023	Kentucky	209	371	56.3%	2,746	7.4	25	12	134.3	48	--	--
2022	NC State	118	193	61.1%	1,265	6.6	11	4	130.9	45	--	--
2021	NC State	283	431	65.7%	3,433	8.0	35	5	157.0	54	--	--
2020	NC State	65	109	59.6%	879	8.1	8	2	147.9	55	--	--
2019	NC State	101	210	48.1%	1,219	5.8	8	5	104.7	--	--	--
Career		776	1,314	59.1%	9,542	7.3	87	28	137.6	51	--	--

Season	Team
2023	Kentucky	42	-60	-1.4	1	--
2022	NC State	23	1	0.0	3	--
2021	NC State	54	-73	-1.4	2	--
2020	NC State	19	7	0.4	0	--
2019	NC State	40	46	1.1	0	--
Career		178	-79	-0.4	6	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2023

W 28–17

vs Eastern Kentucky

299 yds · 4 TD · 1 INT · QBR 33.7 · -12 rush yds (1 car)

With B. Brown — 34 rush yds (2 car) · W. Berry — 51 AVG · 3 IN 20 · 55 LONG

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 3 · Akron · 3&11 · Q3 · EPA +6.61Devin Leary pass complete to Ray Davis for 58 yds for a TD (Alex Raynor KICK)
Week 1 · Clemson · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA +4.76Barion Brown 60 Yd pass from Devin Leary (Alex Raynor Kick)
Week 3 · Akron · 3&22 · Q2 · EPA +4.71Devin Leary pass complete to Tayvion Robinson for 22 yds for a TD (Alex Raynor KICK)
Week 1 · Clemson · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA +4.61Devin Leary pass complete to Jordan Dingle for 72 yds to the CLEM 3 for a 1ST down
Week 4 · Vanderbilt · 2&10 · Q1 · EPA +4.41Devin Leary pass complete to Barion Brown for 55 yds to the VAN 2 for a 1ST down
Week 11 · Alabama · 4&2 · Q2 · EPA -4.00Devin Leary pass complete to Devin Leary for a loss of 4 yards to the ALA 13
Week 7 · Missouri · 4&7 · Q4 · EPA -3.79Devin Leary pass complete to Ray Davis for 4 yds to the MIZ 3
Week 2 · Eastern Kentucky · 3&10 · Q3 · EPA +3.67Devin Leary pass complete to Tayvion Robinson for 25 yds to the EKU 35 for a 1ST down
Week 10 · Mississippi State · 3&7 · Q3 · EPA +3.52Devin Leary pass complete to Tayvion Robinson for 28 yds to the MSST 44 for a 1ST down
Week 13 · Louisville · 1&10 · Q3 · EPA +3.46Devin Leary pass complete to Izayah Cummings for 55 yds to the LOU 20 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2023 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 44-14vs Ball State	18/31	241	1	1	7.8	45.1
Wk 2	W 28-17vs Eastern Kentucky	24/38	299	4	1	7.9	33.7	4 TD passes
Wk 3	W 35-3vs Akron	16/25	315	3	1	12.6	87.5	3 TD passes
Wk 4	W 45-28@ Vanderbilt	15/29	205	1	2	7.1	28.4
Wk 5	W 33-14vs Florida	9/19	69	1	0	3.6	40.9
Wk 6	L 13-51@ Georgia	10/26	128	2	0	4.9	61.8
Wk 7	L 21-38vs Missouri	14/27	120	2	2	4.4	49.2
Wk 9	L 27-33vs Tennessee	28/39	372	2	0	9.5	84.4	Season-high 372 yds
Wk 10	W 24-3@ Mississippi State	13/22	156	2	0	7.1	77.3
Wk 11	L 21-49vs Alabama	17/31	158	1	1	5.1	61.7
Wk 12	L 14-17@ South Carolina	17/34	171	1	1	5.0	44.0
Wk 13	W 38-31@ Louisville	12/22	206	3	1	9.4	85.4	3 TD passes
Bowl	L 35-38vs Clemson	16/28	306	2	2	10.9	84.5
Total		209/371	2746	25	12	7.3	60.3

How he plays

Play style

Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

47.3%Completion %

21.3%Conversion/dropback

50.0%Land short of sticks

1INTs

47.3% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 21.3% conversion-per-dropback — 50.0% of completions land short of the sticks.

Where completions land is fact — whether incompletions were aimed deep is intent, not recorded here, so this card counts completions only. ~ our read: checkdown by design

Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration

Who gets the tough yard

fact

1/16Inside-5 share

1 of the team's 16 inside-the-5 carries (6.2%).