Senior quarterback for Virginia Tech. 2019: 906 passing yards, 9 TD, 5 INT.
6′4″ · 220 lb · Overland Park, KS
The story
4 quarterback for Virginia Tech. 2019: 906 passing yards, 9 TD, 5 INT.
The record fills in as he plays.
His career, year by yearRyan Willis
Ryan Willis has played for two head coaches across four seasons and two programs. One game to point at: 344 pass yds, 13 rush yds against Boston College — Week 1, 2019.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at Virginia Tech, 6,152 passing yards — his college career is complete.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2015–2019
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Frank Beamer → Justin Fuente. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score percentiles
Concern: pass yards (20th percentile).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Splits · Per-game
2019 season · 5 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 140 | 1.2 | 10.0 | 0.5 |
| Road1g | 344 | 4.0 | 7.3 | 3.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 213 | 2.0 | 7.3 | 1.2 |
| Weeks 8+1g | 55.0 | 1.0 | 18.3 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
James Franklin
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2019
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Virginia Tech | 72 | 117 | 61.5% | 906 | 7.7 | 9 | 5 | 143.4 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2018 | Virginia Tech | 213 | 364 | 58.5% | 2,716 | 7.5 | 24 | 9 | 138.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2016 | Kansas | 72 | 117 | 61.5% | 811 | 6.9 | 3 | 7 | 116.3 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2015 | Kansas | 164 | 315 | 52.1% | 1,719 | 5.5 | 9 | 10 | 101.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 521 | 913 | 57.1% | 6,152 | 6.7 | 45 | 31 | 123.1 | -- | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Virginia Tech | 39 | 34 | 0.9 | 1 | -- |
| 2018 | Virginia Tech | 113 | 354 | 3.1 | 4 | -- |
| 2016 | Kansas | 38 | -8 | -0.2 | 1 | -- |
| 2015 | Kansas | 59 | -79 | -1.3 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 249 | 301 | 1.2 | 6 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 8 · 2019
W 43–41
55 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 60.9 · -13 rush yds (4 car)
Edged out North Carolina at home in a shootout.
With O. Bradburn — 49 AVG · 61 LONG · 6 NO · Q. Patterson — 54 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 69.7 · 122 rush yds (21 car) · 1 TD
Game log · Week-by-week
2019 season · 5 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 28-35@ Boston College | 29/47 | 344 | 4 | 3 | 7.3 | 59.3 | Season-high 344 yds · 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 2 | W 31-17vs Old Dominion | 16/28 | 272 | 2 | 0 | 9.7 | 87.6 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 3 | W 24-17vs Furman | 17/21 | 123 | 1 | 1 | 5.9 | 31.1 | |
| Wk 5 | L 10-45vs Duke | 7/18 | 112 | 1 | 1 | 6.2 | 26.7 | |
| Wk 8 | W 43-41vs North Carolina | 3/3 | 55 | 1 | 0 | 18.3 | 60.9 | |
| Total | 72/117 | 906 | 9 | 5 | 9.5 | 53.1 |
Final Heisman position · 2019
Ryan Willis finished 156th in our Heisman model, with a 0% chance of a finalist trip.