Will Levis: QB · Kentucky · #7.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Will Levis
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Played for two head coaches across four seasons and two programs. The first career honor came in 2022: All-SEC. One game to point at: 377 passing yards and 7 rushing yards against Youngstown State — Week 3, 2022.
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
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. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
10 of 10 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (100.0%). 3 of the team's 15 inside-the-5 carries (20.0%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| 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 | 24 |
| 2021 | Kentucky | 107 | 376 | 3.5 | 9 | 33 |
| 2020 | Penn State | 82 | 260 | 3.2 | 3 | 14 |
| 2019 | Penn State | 50 | 223 | 4.5 | 3 | 49 |
| Career | 312 | 756 | 2.4 | 17 | 49 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2022 season · 11 games
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| 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@ No. 12 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@ No. 14 Ole Miss | 18/24 | 220 | 2 | 0 | 9.2 | 47.8 | |
| Wk 7 | W 27-17vs No. 16 Mississippi State | 17/23 | 230 | 1 | 1 | 10.0 | 91.3 | |
| Wk 9 | L 6-44@ No. 3 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 No. 1 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 | — |
Week 10 · 2022
W 21-17
at Missouri
170 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 70.1
A close one, won by 4 on the road.
With C. Goodfellow — 39.7 yards per punt · 6 punts · 2 inside the 20 · C. Rodriguez Jr. — 112 rush yds (29 car)
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 277 passing plays (182 completions) against the box score's 283 attempts (185 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.6975 of 206 QBsSack rate
10.7%189 of 206 QBsSacked 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 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 65.4% completion on 283 attempts · 33 deep completions averaging 36.4 yds.
Splits · Per-game
2022 season · 11 games
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
Head Coach
Mark Stoops
Pass share
43.6%
349 pass / 451 run
Plays / game
61.5
13 games
Scheme: Run-leaning, slow tempo.
Player standing · 2022
283 pass attempts and 73 carries in 11 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Three-star recruit. Now #54 at the position.
How it ended
Four seasons, at Penn State and Kentucky, 5,876 passing yards — drafted at #33 overall by the Tennessee Titans.
A stat line in 37 games over four seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2019–2022
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 2 schools: James Franklin and Mark Stoops.
Next stop · NFL
Tennessee TitansEntering 4th NFL season
Tennessee TitansEntering 4th NFL season
