Tennessee Titans | |
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Position: | Quarterback |
Personal information | |
Born: | Newton, Massachusetts, U.S. | June 27, 1999
Height: | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
Weight: | 229 lb (104 kg) |
Career information | |
High school: | Xavier (Middletown, Connecticut) |
College: |
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NFL Draft: | 2023 / Round: 2 / Pick: 33 |
Career history | |
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Roster status: | Unsigned draft pick |
Career NFL statistics | |
Player stats at NFL.com · PFR |
William Donovan Levis (LEV-is; born June 27, 1999) is an American football quarterback for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Penn State and Kentucky before being selected by the Titans in the second round of the 2023 NFL Draft.
Levis was born on June 27, 1999, in Newton, Massachusetts, and grew up in Madison, Connecticut. Later attending Xavier High School in Middletown, Connecticut.[1][2] He set school records as a senior for passing touchdowns with 27 and passing yards with 2,793. He committed to Penn State to play college football.[3]
Levis attended Penn State from 2018 to 2020. After redshirting his first year, he spent the next two as Sean Clifford's backup. He made his first career start against Rutgers in 2019, completing eight of 14 passes for 81 yards with one touchdown and one interception with 108 rushing yards.[4][5][6] Overall at Penn State, he completed 61 of 102 passes for 644 yards, three touchdowns and two interceptions. He also rushed for 473 yards and six touchdowns.
Levis transferred to the University of Kentucky in 2021,[7] after having graduated that May with a bachelor's degree in finance from Penn State's Smeal College of Business.[1] He was named the starter to open the season and in his first start threw for 367 yards and four touchdowns.[8][9][10] Levis started all 13 games for Kentucky, completing 233 of 353 passes for 2,827 yards and 24 touchdown passes while running for 376 yards and nine touchdowns on 107 rushes. Levis led the team to a victory over No. 15 Iowa in the 2022 Citrus Bowl.
Season | Games | Passing | Rushing | |||||||||||||
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GP | GS | Record | Cmp | Att | Pct | Yds | Avg | TD | Int | Rtg | Att | Yds | Avg | TD | ||
Penn State Nittany Lions | ||||||||||||||||
2018 | 0 | 0 | — | Redshirted | ||||||||||||
2019 | 6 | 1 | 1−0 | 28 | 47 | 59.6 | 223 | 4.7 | 2 | 2 | 105.0 | 51 | 213 | 4.2 | 3 | |
2020 | 8 | 1 | 0−1 | 33 | 55 | 60.0 | 421 | 7.7 | 1 | 0 | 130.3 | 82 | 260 | 3.2 | 3 | |
Kentucky Wildcats | ||||||||||||||||
2021 | 13 | 13 | 10−3 | 233 | 353 | 66.0 | 2,826 | 8.0 | 24 | 13 | 148.3 | 107 | 376 | 3.5 | 9 | |
2022 | 11 | 11 | 7−4 | 185 | 283 | 65.4 | 2,406 | 8.5 | 19 | 10 | 151.9 | 72 | -107 | -1.5 | 2 | |
Career[11] | 38 | 26 | 18−8 | 479 | 738 | 64.9 | 5,876 | 8.0 | 46 | 25 | 145.6 | 312 | 742 | 2.4 | 17 |
Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | Vertical jump | Broad jump | |||||||
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6 ft 3+7⁄8 in (1.93 m) |
229 lb (104 kg) |
32 in (0.81 m) |
10+5⁄8 in (0.27 m) |
34.0 in (0.86 m) |
10 ft 4 in (3.15 m) | |||||||
All values from the NFL Combine[12][13] |
Despite initially being projected as a first-round pick, Levis surprisingly fell in the draft. On April 27, 2023, The Tennessee Titans traded up to select Levis with the 33rd overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft.[14]
His sister Tanya played golf at Denison University, a NCAA Division III school in Ohio, while his mom, Beth Kelley, was a two-time All-American soccer player at Yale. His cousin Ricky played football at Yale, and his great-grandfather Alva Kelley was an All-American football player at Cornell University and later a head coach for three college teams. Levis graduated from Penn State's Smeal College of Business with a bachelor's degree in sports medicine, and a master's degree in ethnic studies from Kentucky's Gatton College of Business and Economics.[15]
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