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Quarterback, Southern Miss, 2007–⁠11

Austin Davis

Number: No. 12
Height: 6′2″
Hometown: Meridian, MS

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Austin Davis played quarterback at Southern Miss (2007–⁠11). He won the 2011 Burlsworth Trophy.

Best season: 3,496; Passing yards, 2011 (Southern Miss, 12–⁠2)
Best game: 461 yards; At Rice, week 8, 2008: No. 2 passing game in FBS that week

461passing yards, best game on fileat Rice, 2008 4touchdown passes, best game on filethree times; last vs. Houston, 2011 121rushing yards, best game on fileat Memphis, 2008 5rushing touchdowns, best game on filevs. UAB, 2008

Honors

2011Burlsworth Trophy

Team titles: Conference USA champions, 2011

Regional honors: Conerly Trophy 2011

Players of the year, conference and regional honors: Wikipedia’s lists (CC BY-SA), each linked from its honor.

Passing

Passing yards, season by season, with his team’s record

3,128

1,165

3,103

3,496

7–⁠67–⁠68–⁠512–⁠2AP 20

Season	Team	Cmp	Att	Pct	Yds	Y/A	TD	Int
2008*	Southern Miss	261	454	57.5	3,128	6.9	23	8
2009	Southern Miss	108	156	69.2	1,165	7.5	10	2
2010	Southern Miss	278	442	62.9	3,103	7.0	20	6
2011	Southern Miss	286	475	60.2	3,496	7.4	30	11
On file (2008–⁠11)		933	1,527	61.1	10,892	7.1	83	27

Rushing

Season	Team	Car	Yds	Avg	TD	Long
2008*	Southern Miss	155	508	3.3	9	70
2009	Southern Miss	50	63	1.3	2	16
2010	Southern Miss	145	452	3.1	10	29
2011	Southern Miss	110	352	3.2	4	35
On file (2008–⁠11)		460	1,375	3.0	25	70

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. * That team-season’s player lines are missing part of the team’s yards in our source, so these numbers may be short. Kickoff returns are in our source’s box scores from 2009; before that most are missing, so return totals from those years may leave them out.

Defense before 2016

Season	G	Solo	Ast	Tkl
2008	13	6	0	6
2009	6	5	1	6
2011	14	2	0	2
On file		13	1	14

Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources: cfbstats.com (Open Data Commons Attribution License), its game lines summed (G: the games he has a line in). A dash: the source has no number for it.

On the roster

Season	Team	No.	Pos	Ht
2008	Southern Miss	12	QB
2009	Southern Miss	12	QB
2010	Southern Miss	12	QB
2011	Southern Miss	12	QB	6′2″

As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.

Game by game

2011 Southern Miss 14 games, 3,496 passing yards, 30 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	Rush
Sep 3	vs.Louisiana Tech	W 19–⁠17	21	37	226	0	1	51
Sep 10	atMarshall	L 20–⁠26	25	49	309	2	3	−28
Sep 17	vs.SE Louisiana	W 52–⁠6	16	23	143	2	0	12
Sep 24	atVirginia	W 30–⁠24	27	41	313	3	0	2
Oct 1	vs.Rice	W 48–⁠24	21	33	284	3	2	39
Oct 8	atNavy	W 63–⁠35	21	23	283	3	0	75
Oct 22	vs.SMU	W 27–⁠3	27	37	266	1	1	31
Oct 29	atUTEP	W 31–⁠13	17	31	190	3	1	12
Nov 5	atEast Carolina	W 48–⁠28	16	24	133	1	0	23
Nov 12	vs.UCF	W 30–⁠29	26	48	364	2	0	10
Nov 17	atUAB	L 31–⁠34	20	29	264	2	1	32
Nov 26	vs.Memphis	W 44–⁠7	14	26	277	2	1	26
Dec 3	vs.Houston	W 49–⁠28	17	33	279	4	1	47
Dec 24 ✦	vs.Nevada	W 24–⁠17	18	41	165	2	0	20

2010 Southern Miss 13 games, 3,103 passing yards, 20 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	Rush
Sep 2	atSouth Carolina	L 13–⁠41	31	43	238	0	1	7
Sep 11	vs.Prairie View A&M	W 34–⁠7	11	18	178	1	1	27
Sep 17	vs.Kansas	W 31–⁠16	19	24	155	0	0	61
Sep 25	atLouisiana Tech	W 13–⁠12	22	38	233	1	1	69
Oct 2	vs.Marshall	W 41–⁠16	16	29	164	1	0	18
Oct 9	vs.East Carolina	L 43–⁠44	20	39	237	1	0	29
Oct 16	atMemphis	W 41–⁠19	19	30	275	3	0	34
Oct 30	vs.UAB	L 49–⁠50	30	48	388	2	2	6
Nov 6	atTulane	W 46–⁠30	18	35	102	1	0	40
Nov 13	atUCF	W 31–⁠21	21	34	264	4	0	41
Nov 20	vs.Houston	W 59–⁠41	24	31	293	2	0	111
Nov 26	atTulsa	L 50–⁠56	28	41	371	2	1	−7
Dec 21 ✦	vs.Louisville	L 28–⁠31	19	32	205	2	0	16

2009 Southern Miss 5 games, 1,165 passing yards, 10 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	Rush
Sep 5	vs.Alcorn State	W 52–⁠0	19	25	217	3	0	36
Sep 12	vs.UCF	W 26–⁠19	23	31	253	1	0	−4
Sep 19	vs.Virginia	W 37–⁠34	14	26	130	1	0	0
Sep 26	atKansas	L 28–⁠35	28	42	331	3	1	26
Oct 1	atUAB	L 17–⁠30	24	32	234	2	1	5

2008 Southern Miss 13 games, 3,128 passing yards, 23 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	Rush
Aug 30	vs.Louisiana	W 51–⁠21	14	21	206	2	1	63
Sep 6	atAuburn	L 13–⁠27	33	50	268	2	2	0
Sep 13	atArkansas State	W 27–⁠24	18	31	219	2	0	20
Sep 20	vs.Marshall	L 27–⁠34	27	49	308	1	1	45
Oct 4	vs.UTEP	L 37–⁠40	21	37	264	2	1	2
Oct 11	vs.Boise State	L 7–⁠24	15	34	160	0	1	25
Oct 18	atRice	L 40–⁠45	32	61	461	4	0	−15
Oct 25	atMemphis	L 30–⁠36	21	40	186	2	1	121
Nov 1	vs.UAB	W 70–⁠14	6	7	141	1	0	81
Nov 8	atUCF	W 17–⁠6	21	34	188	1	0	73
Nov 15	vs.East Carolina	W 21–⁠3	18	30	239	2	0	6
Nov 29	atSMU	W 28–⁠12	15	26	212	2	1	50
Dec 21 ✦	vs.Troy	W 30–⁠27	20	34	276	2	0	37

Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.

Before the draft

Played in the 2012 East–West Shrine Game (East team, lost 17–⁠24).

Drill	Combine 2012
Height	6′1⅝″
Weight	219 lb
Arm length	31¾″
Hand size	10⅜″
40-yard dash	4.76 s
10-yard split	1.63 s^W
Vertical jump	31″
Broad jump	9′1″
3-cone drill	6.73 s
20-yard shuttle	4.11 s

Unmarked: Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data); W: Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Rosters and honors: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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