Will Levis

Former quarterback at Kentucky. 2022: 2,406 passing yards, 19 TD, 10 INT.

QB · Kentucky · Sr. · #7

6′3″ · 232 lb · Madison, CT

CFB Index 54 · #54 of 140 QBsHigh confidenceTennessee — drafted 2023, Rd 2, Pick 2, #33 overall

Recruiting

3★

PRO recruit

No. 652 nationally · Signed with Penn State

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

Former quarterback at Kentucky. 2022: 2,406 passing yards, 19 TD, 10 INT.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Penn State in 2018.
Transferred from Penn State to Kentucky in 2021.
Drafted round 2 by the Tennessee in 2023.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Four seasons at Kentucky, 5,876 passing yards — drafted at #33 overall by Tennessee.

His career

Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.

2018

Signed with Penn State3-star out of Xavier

202112 games

Entered the portal

202211 games

All-SEC

2023

Drafted by Tennesseeround 2, pick 33

Career arc

Recruit

★★★

#652 national

CFB

College

2 teams

2019–2022

NFL

NFL Draft

R2 · #33

Tennessee · 2023

Featured in The Canon

#92

The 100 Best Players of the CFP Era

Coaching lineage · 2019–2022

1 coach

2019–2022

Mark Stoops

Kentucky

Played his entire career under Mark Stoops.

Where He Ended Up · NFL

TennesseeEntering 4th NFL season

#33Rd 2 · Pick 2

TennesseeEntering 4th NFL season

View college career stats ↓

2022 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2019Penn State11-2HC: James Franklin · Run-leaning

2020Penn State4-5HC: James Franklin · Run-leaning, fast tempo

2021Kentucky10-3HC: Mark Stoops · Run-leaning

2022Kentucky7-6HC: Mark Stoops · Run-leaning, slow tempo

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

54Rotational starter #54 of 140?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: yards / att (82nd percentile). Concern: sack rate (6th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

EPA / dropback#63 / 169 · 63rd pct

0.28

Explosive rate#72 / 169 · 58th pct

10.6%

Success rate#104 / 169 · 39th pct

44.1%

Interception rate#155 / 169 · 9th pct

3.8%

Sack rate#159 / 169 · 6th pct

10.9%

Box-score rates (8)

Yards / att#31 / 177 · 82nd pct

8.5

Completion %#36 / 177 · 80th pct

65.4%

Pass TDs#50 / 177 · 71st pct

Pass yards#71 / 177 · 60th pct

2406

Rush TDs#84 / 177 · 45th pct

Fumbles lost#83 / 169 · 38th pct

Interceptions#144 / 177 · 15th pct

Rush yards#168 / 177 · 5th pct

-103

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

51st → 63rd percentile

Success rate

81st → 39th percentile

Explosive rate

61st → 58th percentile

Sack rate

55th → 6th percentile

Interception rate

12th → 9th 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

182/277 (65.7%) · 19 TD · 10 INT

277 of 283 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

6.6975 of 206 QBs

Sack rate

10.7%189 of 206 QBs

Sacked on 10.7% of dropbacks (189 of 206) — and still 75 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

49%of completions

90 comp3.9 yds avg9 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

32%of completions

59 comp14.2 yds avg2 TD

Deep

20+ yds

18%of completions

33 comp36.4 yds avg5 TD

Overall 65.7% completion on 277 attempts · 33 deep completions averaging 36.4 yds.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2022 season · 11 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home7g	245	1.9	9.0	0.9
Road4g	172	1.5	7.5	1.0

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-76g	272	2.2	9.9	0.8
Weeks 8+5g	154	1.2	6.7	1.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Will Stein

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

Awards

Player standing · 2022

Impact starter

Producing measurably more than a replacement-level starter.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

54 · #54 of 140 QBs

Three-star recruit. Now #54 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2022	Kentucky	185	283	65.4%	2,406	8.5	19	10	151.9	53	--	--
2021	Kentucky	233	353	66.0%	2,826	8.0	24	13	148.3	60	--	--
2020	Penn State	33	55	60.0%	421	7.7	1	0	130.3	52	--	--
2019	Penn State	28	47	59.6%	223	4.7	2	2	105.0	--	--	--
Career		479	738	64.9%	5,876	8.0	46	25	145.6	57	--	--

Season	Team
2022	Kentucky	73	-103	-1.4	2	--
2021	Kentucky	107	376	3.5	9	--
2020	Penn State	82	260	3.2	3	--
2019	Penn State	50	223	4.5	3	--
Career		312	756	2.4	17	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 7 · 2022

W 27–17

vs Mississippi State

230 yds · 1 TD · 1 INT · QBR 91.3 · 7 rush yds (4 car)

With C. Rodriguez Jr. — 196 rush yds (30 car) · 2 TD · B. Brown — 7 rec · 62 yds

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 7 · Mississippi State · 4&2 · Q4 · EPA -9.20Will Levis pass intercepted for a TD Emmanuel Forbes return for 59 yds for a TD, (Massimo Biscardi KICK)
Week 4 · Northern Illinois · 3&10 · Q3 · EPA +7.02Will Levis pass complete to Barion Brown for 70 yds for a TD, (Matt Ruffolo KICK)
Week 4 · Northern Illinois · 3&8 · Q2 · EPA +6.89Will Levis pass complete to Tayvion Robinson for 69 yds for a TD, (Matt Ruffolo KICK)
Week 4 · Northern Illinois · 3&12 · Q4 · EPA +5.31Will Levis pass complete to Tayvion Robinson for 40 yds for a TD, (Matt Ruffolo KICK)
Week 3 · Youngstown State · 2&10 · Q4 · EPA +4.50Will Levis pass complete to DeMarcus Harris for 58 yds to the YngSt 3 for a 1ST down
Week 13 · Louisville · 2&7 · Q1 · EPA +4.30Will Levis pass complete to Josh Kattus for 70 yds to the Lvile 13 for a 1ST down
Week 2 · Florida · 1&10 · Q2 · EPA +4.28Will Levis pass complete to Dane Key for 55 yds for a TD, (Matt Ruffolo KICK)
Week 5 · Ole Miss · 3&2 · Q4 · EPA -4.17Will Levis run for a loss of 2 yards to the Miss 21 Will Levis fumbled, forced by Austin Keys, recovered by Miss AJ Finley
Week 9 · Tennessee · 3&7 · Q2 · EPA -4.01Will Levis pass intercepted Juwan Mitchell return for 48 yds to the Kent 45
Week 1 · Miami (OH) · 2&10 · Q2 · EPA +3.77Will Levis pass complete to Tayvion Robinson for 41 yds to the MiaOh 29 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2022 season · 11 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	W 37-13vs Miami (OH)	21/32	303	3	1	9.5	46.0	3 TD passes
Wk 2	W 26-16@ Florida	13/24	202	1	1	8.4	40.4
Wk 3	W 31-0vs Youngstown State	27/35	377	2	2	10.8	76.2	Season-high 377 yds
Wk 4	W 31-23vs Northern Illinois	18/26	303	4	0	11.7	89.2	4 TD passes
Wk 5	L 19-22@ Ole Miss	18/24	220	2	0	9.2	47.8
Wk 7	W 27-17vs Mississippi State	17/23	230	1	1	10.0	91.3
Wk 9	L 6-44@ Tennessee	16/27	98	0	3	3.6	16.4	3 INTs — rough day
Wk 10	W 21-17@ Missouri	13/19	170	3	0	8.9	70.1	3 TD passes
Wk 11	L 21-24vs Vanderbilt	11/23	109	0	1	4.7	15.5
Wk 12	L 6-16vs Georgia	20/31	206	1	1	6.6	86.8
Wk 13	W 26-13vs Louisville	11/19	188	2	0	9.9	75.3
Total		185/283	2406	19	10	8.5	59.5

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

69.0%Completion %

34.7%Conversion/dropback

41.4%Land short of sticks

1INTs

69.0% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 34.7% 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