List of Kentucky Wildcats starting quarterbacks

This is a year-by-year list of every Kentucky Wildcats football team quarterback and the years they participated on the Kentucky Wildcats football team.

Starting Quarterbacks

1933 to present

Babe Parilli

Tim Couch

The following players were the predominant quarterbacks for the Wildcats each season after the establishment of the Southeastern Conference.

Key

^*	Selected to the All-SEC team (First, Second, or Third team)
^†	Selected to an All-America team (First, Second, or Third team)
^‡	Won a postseason game (Bowl game)

Year	Player	Class	Games	Yards	TDs	INTs	Notes
2024	Brock Vandagriff
2023	Devin Leary
2022	Destin Wade
2022	Kaiya Sherron
2021–2022	Will Levis
2019	Lynn Bowden
2019	Sawyer Smith
2018–2020	Terry Wilson
2016–2017	Stephen Johnson
2016	Luke Wright
2015–2016	Drew Barker
2014	Patrick Towles	r-So.	12	2,718	14	9	–
2013	Jalen Whitlow	So.	8	1,033	5	5	–
	Max Smith	r-So.	4	1,276	9	1	–
2012	Jalen Whitlow	So.	7	801	3	2	–
	Max Smith	So.	4	975	8	4	–
	Morgan Newton	Sr.	1	73	1	3	–
2011	Morgan Newton	Jr.	8	793	8	7	–
	Max Smith	Fr.	4	819	4	4	–
	Matt Roark	Sr.	1	15	0	0	Normally a wide receiver, Roark started the season's final game at quarterback against Tennessee after both of the Wildcats' quarterbacks were out injured.[1]
2010	Mike Hartline	Sr.	12	3,178	23	9	–
	Morgan Newton	So.	1	265	0	0	–
2009	Morgan Newton	Fr.	8	706	6	3	–
	Mike Hartline	Jr.	5	806	6	7	–
2008	Mike Hartline^‡	So.	9	1,666	9	8	Won 2009 Liberty Bowl
	Randall Cobb	Fr.	4	542	2	5	–
2004–2007	Andre' Woodson*^‡	Sr.	13	3,709	40	11	Won 2007 Music City Bowl 2007 Second Team All-SEC
2001–2004	Shane Boyd			2,484
2000–2003	Jared Lorenzen			10,354	78	41
1999	Dusty Bonner
1996–1998	Tim Couch	Jr.	16	6,772	76	37	1999 NFL draft 1st Round, #1 Pick
1995–1996	Billy Jack Haskins
1994–1995	Jeff Speedy
1993–1994	Antonio O'Ferral
1991–1993	Pookie Jones
1990–1991	Brad Smith
1989–1990	Freddie Maggard
1988–1989	Glenn Fohr
1985–1987	Kevin Dooley
1984–1986	Bill Ransdell
1982	Doug Martin
1980–1983	Randy Jenkins
1979	Terry Henry
1978, 1980	Larry McCrimmon						Played in USFL
1976–1977	Derrick Ramsey
1974–1975	Cliff Hite
1973–1974	Mike Fanuzzi
1969–1971	Bernie Scruggs
1967–1968	Dave Bair
1966	Terry Beadles
1963–1965	Rick Norton						Played for NFL's Miami Dolphins.
1960–1962	Jerry Woolum
1960	Jerry Eisaman
1957–1959	Lowell Hughes
1956	Delmar Hughes
1953–1955	Bob Hardy
1952	Steve Meilinger
1949–1951	Babe Parilli
1946–1948	George Blanda						Blanda played 26 seasons of professional football, the most in the sport's history, and had scored more points than anyone in history at the time of his retirement.
1941–1942; 1946	Phil Cutchin
1940	Charles Jones Jr.
1938–1939	Joe Shepherd
1936–1937	Vincent Robinson
1934–1935	Norris McMillin
1933	Jack Jean

1922 to 1932

Carey Spicer on the basketball team.

The following players were the predominant quarterbacks for the Wildcats each season after the establishment of the Southern Conference until the establishment of the Southeastern Conference.

Name	Years Started	Notability	References
Ralph Kercheval	1932	All-Southern. He was chosen as the placekicker for an Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1920–1969 era.
Carey Spicer	1929–1931	Spicer and Gilb were brothers-in-law. Spicer was a two-time All-American basketball player.	[2]
Elmer Gilb	1928
Gayle Mohney	1925–1927	Mohney also played basketball.	[3]
Turner Gregg	1922–1924	Upset the Alabama team which had just beaten Penn in 1922. Beat Tennessee in 1924.	[4]

1896 to 1921 (incomplete)

Doc Rodes

The following players were the predominant quarterbacks for the Wildcats each season after the establishment of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association until the establishment of the Southern Conference.

Name	Years Started	Notability	References
Bobby Lavin	1919–1921	Also a guard on the 1921 SIAA champion basketball team, playing with Basil Hayden.
Craig Riddle	1917
Doc Rodes	1915–1916	All-Southern. Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin stated "If you would give me Doc Rodes, I would say he was a greater player than Curry." Rodes was a cousin of earlier Kentucky football player William "Red Doc" Rodes, often called William while Black Doc is called Doc. "Doc" also had two brothers play football at Kentucky: J. W. "Boots" Rodes and Pete Rodes.	[5]
Paul Hite	1914
Parks	1911–1914
Abe Roth	1912
Les Guyn	1911
Jake Gaiser	1910
Shelby Post	1908	He also played basketball. He was a great-great-grandson of Isaac Shelby.	[6]
Neville Stone	1906–1907
Presley Atkins	1904–1905
W. H. Grady	1903
Herman Scholtz	1901	Also a member of the "immortals". He once cross-dressed to attend a women's basketball game (women only in those days).
Roscoe Severs	1897	Captain of the 1898 "Immortals"

1891 to 1895 (incomplete)

Name	Years Started	Notability	References
Smith Alford	1895	Captain of the 1895 team.

References

1. "Kentucky ends 26-game skid vs. Tennessee, which will miss bowl". ESPN.com. Associated Press. November 26, 2011. Archived from the original on November 29, 2011. Retrieved August 19, 2015.
2. "UK Career Statistics and Bio for Carey Spicer". www.bigbluehistory.net.
3. "UK Career Statistics and Bio for Gayle Mohney". www.bigbluehistory.net.
4. "Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of "Couch to Yeast"". www.on3.com.
5. "UK Career Statistics and Bio for Doc Rodes". www.bigbluehistory.net.
6. "UK Career Statistics and Bio for Shelby Post". www.bigbluehistory.net.