Bailey Zappe attends Western Kentucky University.
Bailey Zappe is an American football quarterback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League.
Zappe grew up in Victoria, Texas, and attended Victoria East High School. As a senior, he passed for 3,770 yards and 37 touchdowns, while rushing for 633 yards and scoring 15 touchdowns.
He was not heavily recruited and committed to playing college football at Houston Baptist, which was his only scholarship offer.
Zappe committed to transfer to Western Kentucky, following former HBU offensive coordinator Zach Kittley. Zappa’s top wide receiver at HBU, Jerreth Sterns, also transferred to WKU.
During the 2021 regular season, Zappe led the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) passing for 5,545 yards and throwing for 56 touchdowns.
Before the 2021 Boca Raton Bowl, he had thrown for nearly 1,100 yards more than the second-ranked FBS quarterback (Will Rogers of Mississippi State) and was within striking distance of the FBS records for passing yardage and touchdowns, set by B. J. Symons of Texas Tech in 2003 and Joe Burrow of LSU in 2019, respectively.
In the 2021 Boca Raton Bowl against the Appalachian State Mountaineers, he broke both records, finishing the season with 5,967 passing yards and 62 touchdowns.