Kyle Vantrease

Senior quarterback for Georgia Southern. 2022: 4,246 passing yards, 27 TD, 16 INT.

QB · Georgia Southern · Sr. · #6

6′2″ · 225 lb · Stow, OH

CFB Index 66 · #33 of 140 QBsHigh confidenceAll-ConferenceGeorgia Southern 2022 alumnus

Recruiting

3★

PRO recruit

No. 1886 nationally · Signed with Buffalo

Statement game578 yds · 4 TDvs James Madison (FBS) · W 45-38

Top 0.1% passing yards game since 2021.

What the hell do they tell Vantrease on a weekly basis? Do we think there's anything constructive that he's clearly ignoring or is the coaching "lol I dunno bro, looked open to mer/CFB game thread · ▲ 8His career numbers, season by season

The story

6 quarterback for Georgia Southern. 2022: 4,246 passing yards, 27 TD, 16 INT.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Buffalo in 2017.
Transferred from Buffalo to Georgia Southern in 2022.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Six seasons at Georgia Southern, 8,998 passing yards — his college career is complete.

His career

Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.

2017

Signed with Buffalo3-star out of Stow-Munroe Falls

202213 games

The role got bigger.

Entered the portal
All-Sun Beltthird

Career arc

Recruit

★★★

#1886 national

CFB

College

2 teams

2017–2022

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Trophy case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

6 honors · 1 category

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ALL-SUN BELT

All-Sun Belt mention (2022)

Coaching lineage · 2017–2022

4 coaches

2017

Tyson Summers

Georgia Southern

2018–2020

Chad Lunsford

Georgia Southern

era →

2021

Kevin Whitley

Georgia Southern

era →

2022

Clay Helton

Georgia Southern

era →

Played under 4 different head coaches: Tyson Summers, Chad Lunsford, Kevin Whitley, and Clay Helton. Multi-era developmental context.

2022 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2017Buffalo6-6HC: Lance Leipold · Balanced

2018Buffalo10-4HC: Lance Leipold · Run-leaning

2019Buffalo8-5HC: Lance Leipold · Run-heavy

2020Buffalo6-1HC: Lance Leipold · Run-heavy, fast tempo

2021Buffalo4-8HC: Maurice Linguist · Run-leaning

2022Georgia Southern6-7HC: Clay Helton · Pass-heavy, fast tempo

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

66Quality starter #33 of 140?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: sack rate (97th percentile). Strength: pass yards (97th percentile). Concern: interceptions (0th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Sack rate#5 / 169 · 97th pct

1.1%

Success rate#67 / 169 · 61st pct

47.7%

EPA / dropback#68 / 169 · 60th pct

0.27

Interception rate#87 / 169 · 49th pct

2.3%

Explosive rate#90 / 169 · 47th pct

9.5%

Box-score rates (8)

Pass yards#5 / 177 · 97th pct

4246

Pass TDs#18 / 177 · 89th pct

Rush TDs#67 / 177 · 58th pct

Completion %#85 / 177 · 52nd pct

61.4%

Yards / att#102 / 177 · 42nd pct

7.0

Rush yards#122 / 177 · 31st pct

Fumbles lost#127 / 169 · 18th pct

Interceptions#177 / 177 · 0th pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

47th → 60th percentile

Success rate

60th → 61st percentile

Explosive rate

40th → 47th percentile

Sack rate

88th → 97th percentile

Interception rate

48th → 49th 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

360/584 (61.6%) · 27 TD · 16 INT

584 of 603 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

6.5980 of 206 QBs

Sack rate

1.0%4 of 206 QBs

Rarely sacked (4 of 206 QBs) and still 80 of 206 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

59%of completions

212 comp5.0 yds avg8 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

26%of completions

92 comp13.9 yds avg6 TD

Deep

20+ yds

16%of completions

56 comp31.3 yds avg10 TD

Overall 61.6% completion on 584 attempts · 56 deep completions averaging 31.3 yds.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2022 season · 13 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home6g	354	2.7	7.3	0.8
Road7g	303	1.6	6.7	1.6

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-78g	358	2.4	7.2	1.6
Weeks 8+5g	277	1.6	6.5	0.6

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Clay Helton

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

Awards

Player standing · 2022

All-Conference

Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

66 · #33 of 140 QBs

Three-star recruit. Now #33 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2022	Georgia Southern	370	603	61.4%	4,246	7.0	27	16	130.0	63	--	--
2021	Buffalo	161	262	61.5%	1,861	7.1	8	6	126.6	54	--	--
2020	Buffalo	95	153	62.1%	1,323	8.6	7	3	145.9	67	--	--
2019	Buffalo	101	172	58.7%	1,193	6.9	8	2	130.0	--	--	--
2018	Buffalo	4	9	44.4%	20	2.2	0	0	63.1	--	--	--
2017	Buffalo	25	57	43.9%	355	6.2	2	2	100.7	--	--	--
Career		756	1,256	60.2%	8,998	7.2	52	29	129.4	62	--	--

Season	Team
2022	Georgia Southern	33	34	1.0	3	--
2021	Buffalo	31	115	3.7	3	--
2020	Buffalo	11	38	3.5	4	--
2019	Buffalo	25	64	2.6	6	--
2018	Buffalo	1	4	4.0	0	--
2017	Buffalo	8	-26	-3.2	0	--
Career		109	229	2.1	16	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 7 · 2022

W 45–38

vs James Madison

578 yds · 4 TD · 1 INT · QBR 75.3 · -2 rush yds (1 car)

Edged out James Madison at home in a shootout.

With A. Beck II — 45 AVG · 4 IN 20 · 59 LONG · A. Jones — 7 rec · 164 yds · 2 TD

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 1 · Buffalo · 1&10 · Q3 · EPA +6.33Kyle Vantrease pass complete to Joshua Thompson for 79 yds for a TD (Kyle Vantrease pass to Jjay Mcafee for Two-Point Conversion)
Week 7 · James Madison · 1&10 · Q3 · EPA +6.08Kyle Vantrease pass complete to Amare Jones for 75 yds for a TD, (Alex Raynor KICK)
Week 1 · Morgan State · 1&20 · Q3 · EPA +4.78Kyle Vantrease pass complete to Khaleb Hood for 46 yds for a TD, (Alex Raynor KICK)
Week 1 · Buffalo · 4&7 · Q4 · EPA +4.36Kyle Vantrease pass complete to Beau Johnson for 42 yds to the Buff 19 for a 1ST down
Week 4 · Ball State · 2&10 · Q2 · EPA +3.84Kyle Vantrease pass complete to Derwin Burgess Jr. for 44 yds to the BalSt 26 for a 1ST down
Week 13 · App State · 2&9 · Q3 · EPA +3.79Kyle Vantrease pass complete to Jeremy Singleton for 42 yds to the AppSt 32 for a 1ST down
Week 6 · Georgia State · 3&16 · Q2 · EPA +3.63K.Vantrease pass complete to GSO 46. Catch made by D.Burgess at GSO 46. Gain of 16 yards. Tackled by GST at GST 38.
Week 7 · James Madison · 4&10 · Q4 · EPA +3.62Kyle Vantrease pass complete to Khaleb Hood for 14 yds to the JMads 33 for a 1ST down
Week 12 · Marshall · 2&5 · Q2 · EPA -3.62Kyle Vantrease run for a loss of 3 yards to the Marsh 43 Kyle Vantrease fumbled, recovered by Marsh Damion Barber
Week 11 · Louisiana · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA +3.62Kyle Vantrease pass complete to Joshua Thompson for 50 yds to the LaLaf 32 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2022 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 59-7vs Morgan State	29/46	367	4	1	8.0	46.8	4 TD passes
Wk 2	W 45-42@ Nebraska	37/56	409	1	2	7.3	80.4
Wk 3	L 21-35@ UAB	24/50	204	1	3	4.1	30.6	3 INTs — rough day
Wk 4	W 34-23vs Ball State	26/39	310	2	0	7.9	74.0	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 5	L 30-34@ Coastal Carolina	26/43	284	2	1	6.6	66.3
Wk 6	L 33-41@ Georgia State	30/49	357	3	4	7.3	55.2	3 TD passes · 4 INTs — rough day
Wk 7	W 45-38vs James Madison	38/64	578	4	1	9.0	75.3	Season-high 578 yds
Wk 8	W 28-23@ Old Dominion	22/27	192	1	0	7.1	75.0
Wk 10	L 31-38vs South Alabama	26/45	278	2	1	6.2	64.4
Wk 11	L 17-36@ Louisiana	28/49	325	1	0	6.6	56.8
Wk 12	L 10-23vs Marshall	22/39	205	1	1	5.3	39.3
Wk 13	W 51-48vs App State	34/51	385	3	1	7.5	77.4	3 TD passes
Bowl	L 21-23@ Buffalo	28/45	352	2	1	7.8	—
Total		370/603	4246	27	16	7.0	61.8

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

50.0%Completion %

28.8%Conversion/dropback

41.4%Land short of sticks

1INTs

50.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 28.8% conversion-per-dropback — 41.4% 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. ~ our read: checkdown by design