Senior quarterback for Washington. 2025: 98 passing yards, 0 INT.
6′4″ · 220 lb · Carthage, TX
The numbers
passing yards · 2025
0 INT · 7.5 per attempt
Best game: 50 pass yds, 21 rush yds, vs UC Davis
Swing playSwung Tulane from 13% to 42% to win.Tulane at Houston · 27-24
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 quarterback for Washington. 2025: 98 passing yards, 0 INT.
Kai Horton
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Kai Horton has played for four head coaches across five seasons and two programs. The receipt on tape: 50 pass yds, 21 rush yds against UC Davis, Week 2, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
The snaps went the other way.
The role got bigger.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2021–2025
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Jimmy Lake, Kalen DeBoer, and Jedd Fisch. Multi-era developmental context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score percentiles
Elite: interceptions (99th percentile). Concern: pass yards (0th percentile).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 4 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 32.3 | 0.0 | 8.5 | 0.0 |
| Road1g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-72g | 30.0 | 0.0 | 6.7 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 19.0 | 0.0 | 6.4 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jedd Fisch
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2025
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Washington | 7 | 13 | 53.8% | 98 | 7.5 | 0 | 0 | 117.2 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Tulane | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | 9 | 9.0 | 0 | 0 | 175.6 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Tulane | 44 | 82 | 53.7% | 604 | 7.4 | 3 | 2 | 122.7 | 50 | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Tulane | 13 | 23 | 56.5% | 165 | 7.2 | 3 | 0 | 159.8 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Tulane | 8 | 19 | 42.1% | 88 | 4.6 | 0 | 3 | 49.4 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 73 | 138 | 52.9% | 964 | 7.0 | 6 | 5 | 118.7 | 50 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Washington | 8 | 9 | 1.1 | 2 | -- |
| 2024 | Tulane | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Tulane | 24 | -25 | -1.0 | 2 | -- |
| 2022 | Tulane | 6 | -20 | -3.3 | 0 | -- |
| 2021 | Tulane | 10 | -11 | -1.1 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 48 | -47 | -1.0 | 4 | -- |
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 4 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | W 70-10vs UC Davis | 3/5 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 10.0 | 92.5 | Season-high 50 yds |
| Wk 12 | W 49-13vs Purdue | 2/3 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 12.3 | 76.5 | |
| Wk 13 | W 48-14@ UCLA | 1/2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
| Bowl | W 38-10vs Boise State | 1/3 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 3.3 | 12.4 | |
| Total | 7/13 | 98 | 0 | 0 | 6.5 | 45.4 |
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
CFB Index positional classification
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
1 of the team's 26 inside-the-5 carries (3.8%).
2026 Outlook
Washington
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Quarterback · Washington
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Washington · Last season: 9-4 (AP #24) · Talent rank #24 · 2026 recruiting class #13
Player DNA
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
His 2023 production profile sits closest to Brandon Peters’s 2021 season.
Matches Brandon on
Differs from Brandon on
Through 3 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Davis Alexander’s path through Portland State.
Matches Davis on
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Michael Alaimo's junior season at Kent State (2023).
Matches Michael on
Differs from Michael on
Player DNA
Heisman Trajectory · 2025
Peaked at #120 this season.