Senior quarterback for Florida State. 2021: 775 passing yards, 3 TD, 6 INT.
5′11″ · 192 lb · Kapolei, HI
The story
4 quarterback for Florida State. 2021: 775 passing yards, 3 TD, 6 INT.
Fan claims · every quote verified verbatim
We had Bortles, Milton, and Gabriel in a 8 year span and our best QB since then was either JRP or Mikey Keene
Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Sep 12, 2026 · via CFB
McKenzie Milton
Operates within the system without forcing anything. McKenzie Milton has played for three head coaches across four seasons and two programs. The receipt on tape: 248 pass yds, 1 pass TD against Louisville, Week 4, 2021.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at Florida State, 9,458 passing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 4 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2016–2021
4 coachesPlayed under 4 different head coaches: Jimbo Fisher, Odell Haggins, Willie Taggart, and Mike Norvell. Multi-era developmental context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Concern: explosive rate (6th percentile).
Real play-by-play efficiency
Season trend
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).
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
3.30197 of 204 QBsSack rate
6.7%129 of 204 QBsSacked on 6.7% of dropbacks (129 of 204) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (197 of 204).
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 59.1% completion on 132 attempts · 8 deep completions averaging 23.9 yds.
Splits · Per-game
2021 season · 6 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 166 | 0.8 | 5.7 | 0.8 |
| Road2g | 56.5 | 0.0 | 2.2 | 1.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 137 | 0.5 | 6.2 | 1.0 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 114 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mike Norvell
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2021
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Florida State | 81 | 139 | 58.3% | 775 | 5.6 | 3 | 6 | 103.6 | 34 | -- | -- |
| 2018 | UCF | 171 | 289 | 59.2% | 2,663 | 9.2 | 25 | 6 | 161.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2017 | UCF | 265 | 395 | 67.1% | 4,037 | 10.2 | 37 | 9 | 179.3 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2016 | UCF | 194 | 336 | 57.7% | 1,983 | 5.9 | 10 | 7 | 113.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 711 | 1,159 | 61.3% | 9,458 | 8.2 | 75 | 28 | 146.4 | 34 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Florida State | 31 | -13 | -0.4 | 0 | -- |
| 2018 | UCF | 79 | 307 | 3.9 | 9 | -- |
| 2017 | UCF | 106 | 613 | 5.8 | 8 | -- |
| 2016 | UCF | 100 | 158 | 1.6 | 3 | -- |
| Career | 316 | 1,065 | 3.4 | 20 | -- |
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2021 season · 6 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 38-41vs Notre Dame | 5/7 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 6.9 | 74.7 | |
| Wk 2 | L 17-20vs Jacksonville State | 18/31 | 133 | 1 | 1 | 4.3 | 14.1 | |
| Wk 3 | L 14-35@ Wake Forest | 11/16 | 119 | 0 | 2 | 7.4 | 2.4 | |
| Wk 4 | L 23-31vs Louisville | 24/39 | 248 | 1 | 1 | 6.4 | 13.9 | Season-high 248 yds |
| Wk 10 | L 14-28vs NC State | 22/44 | 233 | 1 | 1 | 5.3 | 35.9 | |
| Wk 13 | L 21-24@ Florida | 1/2 | -6 | 0 | 1 | -3.0 | 0.0 | |
| Total | 81/139 | 775 | 3 | 6 | 4.5 | 23.5 |
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
CFB Index positional classification
Player DNA
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
His 2021 production profile sits closest to Chance Lovertich’s 2020 season.
Matches Chance on
Differs from Chance on
Through 1 college season, his career arc tracks closest to Trae Self’s path through Stephen F. Austin.
Matches Trae on
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Kadin Semonza's sophomore season at Ball State (2023).
Matches Kadin on
Differs from Kadin on
Player DNA