Kyle Vantrease

Kyle Vantrease (born August 20) is an American football quarterback for the Georgia Southern Eagles.

Kyle Vantrease
Georgia Southern Eagles – No. 6
PositionQuarterback
ClassSixth year
Personal information
Born:August 20
Stow, Ohio
Height6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight225 lb (102 kg)
Career history
College
Bowl games
High schoolStow–Munroe (OH)
Career highlights and awards
  • Third-team All-Sun Belt (2022)

Early years

Vantrease attended Stow–Munroe Falls High School in Stow, Ohio.[1][2]

College football

Buffalo

Vantreaase began his college career at the University at Buffalo,[3][4] playing for the Bulls football team from 2017 to 2021.[2] He passed for 1,193 yards in 2019, 1,325 yards in 2020, and 1,861 yards in 2021.[5] In addition to playing quarterback, Vantrease served as Buffalo's primary punter for three games in the 2019 season after Buffalo's starting punter suffered a season-ending injury in the second game of the season.[6][2] In December 2021, he entered the NCAA transfer portal.[7]

Georgia Southern

In 2022, Vantrease transferred to Georgia Southern.[8] In his second game for Georgia Southern, he won Sunbelt Conference player of the week honors after passing for 409 yards and leading the team to a 45-42 upset victory over Nebraska.[9] On October 15, he completed 38 of 64 passes for a school-record 578 yards against James Madison.[10] Through games played on November 19, he ranked fourth among Division I FBS leaders with 3,512 passing yards.[11]

Statistics
Season Games Passing Rushing
GPRecordCompAttPctYardsAvgTDIntRateAttYardsAvgTD
Buffalo Bulls
2017 20–1255743.93556.222100.78-26-3.30
2018 30–04944.4202.20063.1144.00
2019 136–210117258.71,1936.982130.025642.66
2020 76–19615462.31,3268.673145.811383.54
2021 104–516126261.51,8617.186126.6311153.73
Georgia Southern Eagles
2022 136–737063061.44,2477.02716130.033341.03
Career4822−167571,25760.29,0027.25229129.41092292.116


References
  1. Jimmy Miller (August 26, 2016). "Expectations high for top recruits: Coach Nori says Kyle Vantrease, Michael Miranda lead by example". The Akron Beacon Journal. p. D6 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. Lenzi, Rachel (December 20, 2019). "'Courage and conviction': How Kyle Vantrease went to work to become UB's quarterback". The Buffalo News. Archived from the original on December 19, 2020. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
  3. Jack Goods (October 18, 2017). "UB may have to start true freshman at QB". The Buffalo News – via Newspapers.com.
  4. George M. Thomas (October 28, 2017). "Buffalo's quarterback is one poised freshman: Stow's Kyle Vantrease returns to play Akron, where he was recruited". The Akkron Beacon Journal – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Kyle Vantrease". UB Bulls. Retrieved October 16, 2022.
  6. Lenzi, Rachel (September 13, 2019). "UB's Kyle Vantrease makes quick change from quarterback to punter". The Buffalo News. Archived from the original on October 24, 2022. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
  7. "UB quarterback Kyle Vantrease to enter transfer portal". The Buffalo News. December 30, 2021.
  8. "Vantrease confident, aggressive, just like Georgia Southern". Savannah Morning News. September 26, 2022.
  9. "Vantrease Honored by Sun Belt Conference, Manning Award". Georgia Southern. September 12, 2022.
  10. "Kyle Vantrease leads Ga. Southern to upset over No. 25 JMU". Reuters.com. October 15, 2022.
  11. "College Football Player Passing Stats 2022". ESPN.com. Retrieved November 13, 2022.
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