Stephen Johnson: QB · Kentucky · #15.
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Stephen Johnson
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Two seasons in the Kentucky quarterback room to date. One game to point at: 298 passing yards and 44 rushing yards against Missouri — Week 6, 2017.
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
41.5% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 18.8% conversion-per-dropback — 47.1% 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
3 of the team's 25 inside-the-5 carries (12.0%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2017 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 24-17@ Southern Miss | 11/20 | 176 | 1 | 0 | 8.8 | 63.0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 27-16vs Eastern Kentucky | 15/22 | 224 | 1 | 0 | 10.2 | 93.5 | |
| Wk 3 | W 23-13@ South Carolina | 16/25 | 169 | 0 | 1 | 6.8 | 90.6 | |
| Wk 4 | L 27-28vs No. 20 Florida | 17/25 | 196 | 3 | 0 | 7.8 | 56.4 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | W 24-20vs Eastern Michigan | 18/27 | 175 | 2 | 0 | 6.5 | 38.5 | |
| Wk 6 | W 40-34vs Missouri | 22/36 | 298 | 2 | 1 | 8.3 | 67.5 | Season-high 298 yds |
| Wk 8 | L 7-45@ Mississippi State | 13/28 | 117 | 0 | 2 | 4.2 | 15.2 | |
| Wk 9 | W 29-26vs Tennessee | 6/15 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 3.1 | 85.9 | |
| Wk 10 | L 34-37vs Ole Miss | 19/24 | 204 | 1 | 0 | 8.5 | — | |
| Wk 11 | W 44-21@ Vanderbilt | 13/17 | 195 | 0 | 0 | 11.5 | 77.1 | |
| Wk 12 | L 13-42@ No. 7 Georgia | 12/22 | 138 | 0 | 0 | 6.3 | 27.0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 17-44vs Louisville | 8/19 | 110 | 0 | 0 | 5.8 | 30.0 | |
 Bowl | L 23-24vs No. 20 Northwestern | 19/36 | 257 | 0 | 2 | 7.1 | 45.9 | |
| Total | 189/316 | 2305 | 10 | 6 | 7.3 | — |
Week 4 · 2017
L 27-28
vs Florida
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 315 passing plays (188 completions) against the box score's 316 attempts (189 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.07103 of 205 QBsSack rate
7.9%153 of 205 QBsSacked on 7.9% of dropbacks (153 of 205) — and still 103 of 205 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 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 59.8% completion on 316 attempts · 35 deep completions averaging 29.0 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2017 baseline
No situation moves him more than 26 percentile points from his baseline.
Deltas are vs. this player’s own season baseline, never a league average. League sack rate by down is shown as context because sack attribution isn’t incompletion-denominated.
2 seasons under Mark Stoops — 14-12 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 179 | 1.3 | 7.2 | 0.1 |
| Road5g | 159 | 0.2 | 7.5 | 0.6 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 214 | 1.3 | 7.9 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 135 | 0.2 | 6.6 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mark Stoops
Pass share
40.7%
329 pass / 480 run
Plays / game
62.2
13 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2017
316 pass attempts, 103 carries and 1 catch in 13 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Kentucky, 4,342 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
