Sawyer Smith: QB · Kentucky · #12.
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Sawyer Smith
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Played for two head coaches at two programs in three seasons: Neal Brown and Mark Stoops. One game to point at: 267 passing yards and 12 rushing yards against Florida — Week 3, 2019.
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
47.8% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 18.5% conversion-per-dropback — 54.5% 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
1 of the team's 28 inside-the-5 carries (3.6%).
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 · 9 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | W 38-17vs Eastern Michigan | 5/9 | 76 | 2 | 0 | 8.4 | 93.7 | |
| Wk 3 | L 21-29vs No. 9 Florida | 23/35 | 267 | 2 | 3 | 7.6 | 76.1 | Season-high 267 yds · 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 4 | L 13-28@ Mississippi State | 15/41 | 232 | 0 | 1 | 5.7 | 35.1 | |
| Wk 5 | L 7-24@ South Carolina | 11/32 | 90 | 0 | 1 | 2.8 | 3.6 | |
| Wk 9 | W 29-7vs Missouri | 1/1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9.0 | 99.2 | |
| Wk 11 | L 13-17vs Tennessee | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 12 | W 38-14@ Vanderbilt | 2/4 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | — | |
| Wk 13 | W 50-7vs UT Martin | 0/3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | — | |
 Bowl | W 37-30vs Virginia Tech | 0/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | — | |
| Total | 57/126 | 690 | 4 | 5 | 5.5 | — |
Week 3 · 2019
L 21-29
vs Florida
267 yds · 2 TD · 3 INT · QBR 76.1 · 12 rush yds (9 car) · 1 TD
With M. Duffy — 54.5 yards per punt · 2 punts · 63 long · L. Bowden Jr. — 7 rec · 70 yds
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 125 passing plays (57 completions) against the box score's 126 attempts (57 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
3.69185 of 205 QBsSack rate
6.0%104 of 205 QBsSacked on 6.0% of dropbacks (104 of 205) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (185 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 45.2% completion on 126 attempts · 13 deep completions averaging 26.5 yds.
Splits · Per-game
2019 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 70.4 | 0.8 | 6.2 | 0.6 |
| Road3g | 113 | 0.0 | 4.2 | 0.7 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 133 | 0.8 | 4.9 | 1.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 6.2 | 0.0 | 4.3 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mark Stoops
Pass share
31.3%
257 pass / 564 run
Plays / game
63.2
13 games
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2019
Fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
Three seasons, at Troy and Kentucky, 2,540 passing yards — the college career is complete.
A stat line in 28 games over three seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2016–2020
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 2 schools: Neal Brown and Mark Stoops.
