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2022 Football Roster

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14 Bailey Fisher

14 Bailey Fisher

  • Height:
    5-11
  • Weight:
    207
  • Class:
    Redshirt Senior
  • Hometown:
    Clayton, Ga.
  • High School:
    Rabun County HS

Summary

Biography

Preseason All-Big South Conference selection by the league’s head coaches and media at quarterback and punter … Also named preseason All-Big South by Phil Steele Football at both positions … Has passed for 6,982 yards and 52 touchdowns through 36 career games … Capable runner with 995 career rushing yards and 20 more scores … Has produced 7,977 yards of total offense … Ranks inside the top-20 national among FCS career active leaders in six different categories … Ranks second in total offensive plays per game.

2022 at Gardner-Webb: Fisher was a four-time Big South Offensive Player of the Week honoree, finalist for the Stats Perform FCS Walter Payton Offensive Player of the Year Award, GWU’s first Offensive Player of the Year honoree since 2016 and was a College Football Performance Award weekly Honorable Mention twice. He finished 240-of-369 for a league-best 65.0 completion percentage, with 2,923 passing yards (224.85 per game) and 19 touchdowns, rushing for 11.  Fisher averaged 244.23 yards of offense and had three 400-yard outings.  Fisher tied a Big South record with three consecutive games with 350+ yards of offense and tied a Big South single-game record with six touchdowns responsible for against Bryant, and as well as a then-record for most passing yards in a conference game with 408 at CSU.  Posted a league-best 17 total touchdowns against conference foes, along with a conference-best 179.19 efficiency rating in the league season.

2021 at Gardner-Webb: Earned honorable mention All-Big South honors from Phil Steele Football … Started all 11 games … Recorded the best TD-INT ratio for a GWU quarterback since 2002 Big South Player of the Year Jeremy Martin … Completed 206-of-345 passes for 2,311 yards and 18 touchdowns … Threw just five interceptions … Rushed 80 times for 187 yards and six touchdowns … Topped the 300-yard mark three times … Passed for a season-high 354 yards, going 31-for-48 and a touchdown in a narrow loss at No. 10 Kennesaw State (10/30) … Went 27-of-45 for 315 yards and three scores in a close loss at FBS Georgia Southern (9/4) in the season opener … Completed 25-of-51 passes for 345 yards and two scores in an overtime loss to Charleston Southern (11/13) … Ran for a season-high 68 yards on 12 carries in that game … Accounted for four touchdowns in wins over North Carolina A&T (11/20) and Lincoln (9/18) … Was 14-of-22 for 261 yards and two scores in the win over Western Carolina (9/25) … Also scored on the ground against the Catamounts … Also punted 11 times for 43.5 yards per attempt … Had four kicks longer than 50 yards, with a long of 59 yards vs. Campbell (10/9) … Pinned 54.5 percent of his attempts inside the 20-yard line.

2020-21 at Tennessee Tech: Was preseason All-OVC heading into the season … Saw action in just three games of the spring 2021 season as an injury shut his season down ... Finished the year with 367 passing yards and two touchdowns on 37-for-61 accuracy with three interceptions ... Rushed for one touchdown ... Completed 11-of-18 passes for 106 yards in the victory over Austin Peay (2/21/21), then left the game with an injury after completing four of six passes at Jacksonville State (2/28/21) ... Returned two games later and threw a season-high 230 yards on 22-of-37 passing at Eastern Illinois (3/21/21) before missing the remainder of the season.

2019 at Tennessee Tech: Earned second-team All-OVC honors at quarterback after rewriting the Tennessee Tech record books … Also named Hero Sports FCS Sophomore All-America … Won the prestigious Robert Hill Johnson Award from Tennessee Tech … Completed 231-of-375 passes for 2,643 yards and 21 touchdowns … Ran for 489 yards and 11 touchdowns on 166 carries … Set new school marks for single-season completions, attempts, yardage and passing touchdowns … Also set new single-season marks for combined touchdowns (32) and total offense (3,132) … Tossed a school-record six touchdown passes vs. Eastern Illinois … Ran for three touchdowns and passed for a career-best 415 yards in a thrilling win over Samford … Also rushed for three touchdowns vs. Western Illinois … Named OVC Offensive Player of the Week three times and STATS FCS National Offensive Player of the Week once (vs. Samford) … Was named honorable mention STATS FCS National Offensive Player of the Week three times.

2018 at Tennessee Tech: Named Ohio Valley Conference Freshman of the Year in first season under center … A finalist for the 2018 STATS FCS Jerry Rice Award … Started 10 games … Completed 139-of-268 passes for 1,681 yards and 11 touchdowns … Season performance is the best for a freshman quarterback in Tech history … Ran 106 times for 346 yards and two touchdowns … The 2,027 yards of total offense ranks as the best in program history for a true freshman … Passed for a season-high 383 yards and four touchdowns at Eastern Illinois.

High School: Starred at Rabun County (Ga.) High under Coach Lee Shaw … Finished career as one of Georgia’s most decorated passers, accumulating 9,383 yards and 113 touchdowns through the air for his career … Passing yardage ranks sixth all-time in state history and touchdown total ranks fourth … Ran for 3,075 yards and 57 touchdowns during his career … Registered 12,458 yards of total offense for his career … Went 36-4 as a starter and led team to a state title game appearance in 2017 … Named to the 2017 Touchdown Club of Atlanta All-Star Team … Named Blitz Sports Georgia Player of the Year three times as the best player in Northeast Georgia … A first-team Class 2A All-State selection twice … Named 2017 Georgia Class 2A Offensive State Player of the Year by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and was a first-team All-State choice … Passed for 3,341 yards and 43 touchdowns on 211-of-297 accuracy (71.0%) … Ran for 1,283 yards and 27 touchdowns that year as well, posting seven games with at least 100 yards rushing … Named Region 8-AA Player of the Year … A first-team Class 2A All-State choice in 2016 by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution after completing 166-of-239 passes for 2,671 yards and 26 touchdowns with only six interceptions … Added 1,001 yards rushing and 21 touchdown … Went a combined 22-3 as a starter in his first two seasons under center.

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  • 14

    2021Junior

    QB
    5'11" 207 lbs
    14
  • 14

    2022Redshirt Senior

    QB
    5'11" 207 lbs
    14