Kai Locksley: QB · UTEP · #1.
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Kai Locksley
Extends plays on the move until something opens up. Two seasons in the UTEP quarterback room to date. One game to point at: 358 passing yards and 103 rushing yards against New Mexico State — Week 13, 2019.
Play style
Makes plays with feet when the pocket collapses. Efficiency still on the rise.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
47.8% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 28.0% conversion-per-dropback — 36.4% 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
8 of 11 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (72.7%). 3 of the team's 24 inside-the-5 carries (12.5%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2019 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | L 3-38@ Texas Tech | 3/7 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 4.7 | 38.5 | |
| Wk 4 | L 21-37vs Nevada | 2/6 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 1.7 | 3.4 | |
| Wk 5 | L 13-31@ Southern Miss | 8/15 | 109 | 0 | 0 | 7.3 | 80.8 | |
| Wk 6 | L 16-26vs UTSA | 2/8 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 5.1 | 7.1 | |
| Wk 8 | L 17-32@ Florida International | 7/12 | 117 | 1 | 0 | 9.8 | 81.7 | |
| Wk 9 | L 21-42vs Louisiana Tech | 17/30 | 227 | 1 | 0 | 7.6 | 47.0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 26-52@ North Texas | 17/29 | 119 | 0 | 0 | 4.1 | — | |
| Wk 11 | L 21-28vs Charlotte | 15/20 | 215 | 1 | 1 | 10.8 | — | |
| Wk 12 | L 10-37@ UAB | 0/4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | — | |
| Wk 13 | L 35-44@ New Mexico State | 24/38 | 358 | 2 | 1 | 9.4 | — | Season-high 358 yds |
| Wk 14 | L 16-30vs Rice | 8/12 | 100 | 1 | 0 | 8.3 | — | |
| Total | 103/181 | 1329 | 6 | 5 | 7.3 | — |
Week 9 · 2019
L 21-42
227 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 47.0 · 17 rush yds (10 car) · 1 TD
With M. Crawford — 30.3 yards per punt · 4 punts · 43 long · J. Fields — 52 rush yds (7 car)
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 180 passing plays (103 completions) against the box score's 181 attempts (103 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.22149 of 205 QBsSack rate
11.3%188 of 205 QBsSacked on 11.3% of dropbacks (188 of 205) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (149 of 205).
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 56.9% completion on 181 attempts · 22 deep completions averaging 27.9 yds.
2 seasons under Dana Dimel, all run-leaning offenses — 2-22 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2019 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 119 | 0.6 | 6.7 | 0.6 |
| Road6g | 123 | 0.5 | 5.9 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 48.2 | 0.0 | 4.7 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+7g | 162 | 0.9 | 7.1 | 0.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Dana Dimel
Pass share
43.2%
329 pass / 432 run
Plays / game
63.4
12 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2019
181 pass attempts and 126 carries in 11 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at UTEP, 2,266 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2015–2019
4 coachesPlayed for 4 head coaches at 2 schools: Charlie Strong, Sean Kugler, Mike Price and Dana Dimel.
