Gevani McCoy
| Oregon State Beavers – No. 7 | |
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| Position | Quarterback |
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| Born: | Baldwin Hills, California, U.S. |
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Weight | 170 lb (77 kg) |
| Career history | |
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| High school | Lawndale (Lawndale, California) |
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Gevani McCoy is an American college football quarterback for the Oregon State Beavers. He previously played for the Idaho Vandals, winning the 2022 Jerry Rice Award.
Early life
[edit]McCoy grew up in Baldwin Hills, California, and initially attended Lakewood High School.[1] He passed for 830 yards and seven touchdowns as a sophomore.[2] McCoy passed for 1,569 yards and 14 touchdowns and rushed 117 times for 721 yards and 12 touchdowns during his junior season. He transferred to Lawndale High School before the start of his senior year.[3] McCoy committed to play college football at Idaho, which was his only scholarship offer, during his junior year of high school.[4][5]
College career
[edit]Idaho Vandals (2021–2023)
[edit]McCoy played in three games with the Idaho Vandals in 2021 before redshirting the season, throwing for 205 yards and a touchdown.[6] He was named the Vandals' starting quarterback going into his redshirt freshman season in 2022.[7] New head coach Jason Eck had initially considered moving McCoy to cornerback during offseason practices before deciding to keep him at quarterback.[8] McCoy completed 204 of 298 passes for 2,719 yards with 27 touchdown passes and seven interceptions and also rushed for three touchdowns.[9] He was named the Big Sky Conference Freshman of the Year, third-team All-Big Sky, and won the Jerry Rice Award as the most outstanding freshman in the Football Championship Subdivision.[10][11]
Oregon State Beavers (2024–present)
[edit]On December 21, 2023, McCoy announced that he would be transferring to Oregon State.[12]
Statistics
[edit]| Season | College | Games | Passing | Rushing | |||||||||||
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| GP | Record | Comp | Att | Pct | Yards | Avg | TD | Int | Rate | Att | Yards | Avg | TD | ||
| Idaho Vandals | |||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Idaho | 3 | 0–1 | 15 | 32 | 46.9 | 205 | 6.4 | 1 | 4 | 86.0 | 20 | 24 | 1.2 | 0 |
| 2022 | Idaho | 11 | 6–5 | 203 | 297 | 68.3 | 2,735 | 9.2 | 27 | 7 | 171.0 | 75 | 98 | 1.3 | 3 |
| 2023 | Idaho | 12 | 8–4 | 230 | 354 | 65.0 | 2,919 | 8.2 | 15 | 8 | 143.7 | 88 | 188 | 2.1 | 2 |
| Oregon State Beavers | |||||||||||||||
| 2024 | Oregon State | 2 | 2–0 | 25 | 36 | 69.4 | 295 | 8.2 | 2 | 0 | 156.6 | 3 | 4 | 0.8 | 0 |
| Career | 28 | 16−10 | 473 | 719 | 65.8 | 6,154 | 8.6 | 45 | 19 | 153.1 | 186 | 314 | 1.7 | 5 | |
References
[edit]- ^ "Lakewood's Gevani McCoy voted Southern California Boys Athlete of the Week". Orange County Register. October 5, 2019. Retrieved December 13, 2022.
- ^ Pixley, Trevan (November 23, 2022). "Idaho's McCoy Proving the naysayers wrong". Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Retrieved December 12, 2022.
- ^ "Lakewood coach Scott Meyer disappointed about transfer of All-CIF quarterback Gevani McCoy". Press Telegram. May 26, 2020. Retrieved December 12, 2022.
- ^ "UI gets commitment from L.A. quarterback". Lewiston Morning Tribune. July 20, 2020. Retrieved December 12, 2022.
- ^ Cefalu, Gianna (December 9, 2022). "Vandals QB Gevani McCoy Wins Jerry Rice Award". KLEWTV.com. Retrieved December 13, 2022.
- ^ "McCoy has that next-man-up mentality". Lewiston Morning Tribune. October 28, 2021. Retrieved December 12, 2022.
- ^ Harriman, Peter (September 29, 2022). "Idaho seeing dividends for taking shot on quarterback Gevani McCoy". The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved December 13, 2022.
- ^ "Vandal QB McCoy was nearly a corner". Coeur d'Alene Press. October 1, 2022. Retrieved December 13, 2022.
- ^ Pixley, Trevan (December 8, 2022). "He's the real McCoy". Lewiston Morning Tribune. Retrieved December 12, 2022.
- ^ "All-Big Sky football teams: Idaho's McCoy earns top freshman honor". Coeur d'Alene Press. November 24, 2022. Retrieved December 13, 2022.
- ^ Harriman, Peter (December 7, 2022). "Idaho quarterback Gevani McCoy wins Jerry Rice Award". The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved December 12, 2022.
- ^ "Former Idaho quarterback Gevani McCoy announces commitment to Oregon State". The Spokesman-Review. December 21, 2023. Retrieved December 21, 2023.