Devin Leary: QB · Kentucky · #13.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Devin Leary
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Played for two head coaches across five seasons and two programs. All-ACC in 2022 made it three straight seasons on the honors list. A game that shows it: 372 passing yards and 21 rushing yards against Tennessee — Week 9, 2023.
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
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. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
1 of the team's 16 inside-the-5 carries (6.2%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 13 games
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| 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 No. 22 Florida | 9/19 | 69 | 1 | 0 | 3.6 | 40.9 | |
| Wk 6 | L 13-51@ No. 1 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 No. 21 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 No. 8 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@ No. 9 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 | 7.4 | — |
Week 9 · 2023
L 27-33
vs Tennessee
The plays that mattered most
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 357 passing plays (203 completions) against the box score's 371 attempts (209 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.5196 of 212 QBsSack rate
5.4%99 of 212 QBsRarely 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 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 56.3% completion on 371 attempts · 42 deep completions averaging 31.6 yds.
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.
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 · Per-game
2023 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 225 | 2.0 | 7.3 | 0.9 |
| 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
Head Coach
Mark Stoops
Pass share
53.0%
375 pass / 332 run
Plays / game
54.4
13 games
Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.
Player standing · 2023
371 pass attempts, 42 carries and 1 catch in 13 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Former four-star. Now #55 at the position.
How it ended
Five seasons, at NC State and Kentucky, 9,542 passing yards — drafted at #218 overall by the Baltimore Ravens.
A blue-chip recruit with honors.
The role got bigger.
Coaching lineage · 2019–2023
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 2 schools: Dave Doeren and Mark Stoops.
Next stop · NFL
Baltimore RavensEntering 3rd NFL season
Baltimore RavensEntering 3rd NFL season
