Levi Lewis

Senior quarterback for Louisiana. 2021: 2,917 passing yards, 20 TD, 4 INT.

QB · Louisiana · Sr. · #1

5′10″ · 184 lb · Baton Rouge, LA

CFB Index 47 · #72 of 126 QBsHigh confidenceAll-ConferenceLouisiana 2021 alumnus

Recruiting

3★

ATH recruit

No. 1822 nationally · Signed with Louisiana

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 quarterback for Louisiana. 2021: 2,917 passing yards, 20 TD, 4 INT.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Louisiana in 2017.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Five seasons at Louisiana, 9,230 passing yards — his college career is complete.

His career

Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.

20174 games

Signed with Louisiana3-star out of Scotlandville Magnet

202010 games

The role got bigger.

All-Sun Beltsecond

202113 games

All-Sun Beltsecond

Career arc

Recruit

★★★

#1822 national

CFB

College

Louisiana

2017–2021

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Trophy case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

6 honors · 1 category

🎖

ALL-SUN BELT · 2ND TEAM

All-Sun Belt 2nd team (2021)

Coaching lineage · 2017–2021

2 coaches

2017

Mark Hudspeth

Louisiana

2018–2021

Billy Napier

Louisiana

era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Mark Hudspeth → Billy Napier. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

2021 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2017Louisiana5-7HC: Mark Hudspeth · Run-leaning

2018Louisiana7-7HC: Billy Napier · Run-heavy

2019Louisiana11-3HC: Billy Napier · Run-leaning

2020Louisiana10-1HC: Billy Napier · Run-leaning

2021Louisiana13-1HC: Billy Napier · Run-leaning

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

47Rotational starter #72 of 126?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: interception rate (89th percentile). Strength: rush tds (80th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Interception rate#19 / 167 · 89th pct

1.0%

Explosive rate#58 / 167 · 66th pct

11.0%

Sack rate#76 / 167 · 55th pct

5.9%

Success rate#82 / 167 · 51st pct

46.8%

EPA / dropback#103 / 167 · 39th pct

0.23

Box-score rates (8)

Rush TDs#30 / 169 · 80th pct

Rush yards#35 / 169 · 80th pct

343

Pass yards#41 / 169 · 76th pct

2917

Interceptions#33 / 169 · 76th pct

Pass TDs#41 / 169 · 74th pct

Fumbles lost#23 / 159 · 68th pct

Yards / att#85 / 169 · 49th pct

7.5

Completion %#97 / 169 · 42nd pct

60.4%

Season trend

EPA / dropback— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Success rate— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Explosive rate— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Sack rate— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Interception rate— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

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

224/378 (59.3%) · 20 TD · 4 INT

378 of 391 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

7.3369 of 204 QBs

Sack rate

5.3%78 of 204 QBs

Rarely sacked (78 of 204 QBs) and still 69 of 204 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

53%of completions

119 comp4.7 yds avg2 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

29%of completions

64 comp14.1 yds avg5 TD

Deep

20+ yds

18%of completions

41 comp33.7 yds avg5 TD

Overall 59.3% completion on 378 attempts · 41 deep completions averaging 33.7 yds.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2021 season · 13 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home7g	230	1.3	7.8	0.4
Road6g	172	1.7	6.5	0.2

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-76g	218	1.3	7.2	0.3
Weeks 8+7g	192	1.6	7.2	0.3

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Michael Desormeaux

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

Awards

Player standing · 2021

All-Conference

Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

47 · #72 of 126 QBs

Three-star recruit. Now #72 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2021	Louisiana	236	391	60.4%	2,917	7.5	20	4	137.9	45	--	--
2020	Louisiana	176	295	59.7%	2,270	7.7	19	7	140.8	60	--	--
2019	Louisiana	243	377	64.5%	3,050	8.1	26	4	153.1	--	--	--
2018	Louisiana	40	62	64.5%	616	9.9	7	2	178.8	--	--	--
2017	Louisiana	28	54	51.9%	377	7.0	2	1	119.0	--	--	--
Career		723	1,179	61.3%	9,230	7.8	74	18	144.7	52	--	--

Season	Team
2021	Louisiana	100	343	3.4	5	--
2020	Louisiana	55	335	6.1	5	--
2019	Louisiana	69	195	2.8	3	--
2018	Louisiana	25	40	1.6	0	--
2017	Louisiana	37	175	4.7	1	--
Career		286	1,088	3.8	14	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2021

W 27–24

vs Nicholls

304 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 51.6 · 7 rush yds (5 car)

A wire-to-wire battle — won by 3 at home.

With R. Byrns — 44 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 54 LONG · C. Smith — 46 rush yds (11 car)

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 11 · Troy · 4&9 · Q3 · EPA +4.72Levi Lewis run for 27 yds for a TD, (Nate Snyder KICK)
Week 10 · Georgia State · 3&11 · Q2 · EPA +4.47Levi Lewis pass complete to Jalen Williams for 51 yds to the GeoSt 25 for a 1ST down
Week 14 · App State · 1&10 · Q2 · EPA +4.37Levi Lewis 56 Yd Run (Nate Snyder Kick)
Week 1 · Marshall · 3&13 · Q4 · EPA +4.29Levi Lewis pass complete to Michael Jefferson for 48 yds to the Marsh 12 for a 1ST down
Week 1 · Texas · 2&7 · Q4 · EPA -4.26Levi Lewis pass complete to Emani Bailey for 4 yds Emani Bailey fumbled, forced by Darion Dunn, recovered by Texas Jerrin Thompson
Week 7 · App State · 3&7 · Q2 · EPA -4.12Levi Lewis pass intercepted, touchback. Steven Jones Jr. return for no gain
Week 10 · Georgia State · 4&2 · Q2 · EPA -4.07Levi Lewis sacked by Jacorey Crawford for a loss of 7 yards to the GeoSt 13
Week 11 · Troy · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA +4.01Levi Lewis pass complete to Michael Jefferson for 52 yds for a TD, (Nate Snyder KICK)
Week 14 · App State · 3&7 · Q1 · EPA +3.88Levi Lewis pass complete to Peter LeBlanc for 35 yds to the AppSt 37 for a 1ST down
Week 1 · Marshall · 2&8 · Q4 · EPA +3.84Levi Lewis pass complete to Michael Jefferson for 54 yds to the Marsh 17 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2021 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	L 18-38@ Texas	28/40	282	1	0	7.1	61.5
Wk 2	W 27-24vs Nicholls	19/33	304	2	0	9.2	51.6	Season-high 304 yds
Wk 3	W 49-14vs Ohio	21/29	212	1	1	7.3	52.6
Wk 4	W 28-20@ Georgia Southern	17/28	249	3	0	8.9	67.9	3 TD passes
Wk 5	W 20-18@ South Alabama	9/20	49	0	0	2.5	34.8
Wk 7	W 41-13vs App State	15/25	209	1	1	8.4	85.9
Wk 8	W 28-27@ Arkansas State	11/20	122	0	1	6.1	15.3
Wk 9	W 45-0vs Texas State	22/32	228	3	0	7.1	56.8	3 TD passes
Wk 10	W 21-17vs Georgia State	19/34	287	1	1	8.4	54.5
Wk 11	W 35-21@ Troy	14/22	166	3	0	7.5	89.4	3 TD passes
Wk 12	W 42-14@ Liberty	14/25	166	3	0	6.6	67.4	3 TD passes
Wk 13	W 21-16vs UL Monroe	13/22	163	0	0	7.4	18.1
Wk 14	W 24-16vs App State	15/30	210	1	0	7.0	78.1
Total		217/360	2647	19	4	7.2	56.5

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

58.8%Completion %

23.3%Conversion/dropback

50.0%Land short of sticks

0INTs

58.8% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 23.3% conversion-per-dropback — 50.0% 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