Last confirmed: Kentucky, 2020. No 2026 box-score games on record.
6′3″ · 221 lb · Cantonment, FL · Tate
Sawyer Smith: QB · Kentucky · #12.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Sawyer Smith
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Two head coaches in three seasons, at two different programs. 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 him 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 — his college career is complete.
His career
He has a stat line in 28 games over 3 seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2016–2020
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 2 schools: Neal Brown and Mark Stoops.
