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Jersey Number 2
Blake Shapen
- Position:
- QB
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 210
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Shreveport, La.
- High School/Previous School:
- Evangel Christian Academy (Baylor)
Bio
Career Honors
2025 Panini Senior Bowl Top 300 Watch List
2025 Shrine Bowl 1000
2025 NFF Hampshire Honor Society
2024 SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll
2025 Reese's Senior Bowl Watchlist
2024 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award Watchlist
2024 East-West Shrine Bowl Top 1000 Watchlist
2022 Honorable Mention All-Big 12 (Coaches)
2022 First-Team Academic All-Big 12
2021 Big 12 Championship Most Outstanding Performer
Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll (4x)
Career Notes
Played in 31 career games with 27 starts … At Mississippi State he played in four games with four starts … Has started 25 consecutive games he has played in … Career starting record of 11-16 … Led Baylor to 2021 Big 12 Championship … Set Big 12 Championship & AT&T Stadium record with 17-straight completions … Following the 2024 season, he has thrown 6,548 yards and 44 touchdowns … Has completed 553 of his 860 passes … Chose to come back to Mississippi State in 2025 for final season.
2024 (Redshirt Senior Season)Â
Played in four games with four starts … Earned medical hardship waiver … Missed final eight games due to injury … Recorded his first passing and rushing touchdowns for MSU in the season opener against Eastern Kentucky … Extended streak of consecutive games with a passing touchdown to 15 (dates back to Nov. 19, 2022) … Ended his 2024 season with 974 passing yards (3rd in the SEC/28th in the FBS), 74 completion (4th in the SEC), 68% completion percentage (7th in the SEC/23rd in the FBS), 8 touchdown passes (3rd in the SEC/20th in the FBS), 1,010 yards of total offense (5th in the SEC), 12 explosive plays of greater that 20 yards (5th in the SEC), 3 explosive plays of greater than 50 yards (3rd in the SEC/tied for 6th in the FBS) … Eastern Kentucky (8/31): Went 15-for-20 on pass attempts for 247 yards … Had three passing TDs … Ran the ball seven times for 44 total yards and a touchdown … matched his career high in rushing yards … According to PFF, Shapen had a passing grade of 94.9 which was the best passing grade in all of FBS for week one … He had an overall offensive grade by PFF of 93.0 which ranked second nationally … Both grades were the highest of the collegiate career … Led the team in rushing ... at Arizona State (9/7): Completed 18 of 28 pass attempts for 268 yards and two touchdowns ... Threw an 80-yard touchdown pass to Kevin Coleman Jr., the longest completion of his career ... eclipsed the 6,000 career passing yards mark and the 40 career passing touchdowns threshold ... Toledo (9/14): Went 28 for 39 on pass attempts for 319 yards, two touchdowns and one interception ... His 319 yards are the most yards he has passed for in a game as a Bulldog and the fourth-most in his career ... His 319 passing yards were the 11th-most in week three ... Florida (9/21): Completed 13 of 21 pass attempts for 140 yards and a touchdown ... Suffered a season-ending injury in the third quarter and missed the remainder of the 2024 season.
2023 (Redshirt Junior Season – Baylor)
Played in 8 games with 8 starts … Threw for 2,188 yards on 184-of-298 passing with 13 touchdowns and three interceptions … Averaged 273.5 passings yards per game … Rushed 67 times for 29 yards and four TDs …  Completed 20 or more passes in each game this season … Had a touchdown pass in all eight games, including a career-high four at Kansas State … Named to the Senior Bowl Watch List and the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award Watch List … Texas State (9/2): Went 21-for-31 on pass attempts for 303 yards … Had two passing TDs and rushed for another TD … at UCF (9/30): Completed 61.8 percent (21-of-34) of his passes for 293 yards … Tallied one passing touchdown and a rushing TD … Texas Tech (10/7): Completed 22 passes for a season-best 324 yards … Threw for one touchdown, the sixth straight game with a TD pass … Completed a 71-yard pass in the game, a career-best … at Cincinnati (10/21): Completed 25 passes, the fourth game of the season with 20 or more completions … Had 316 passing yards, the second straight game and third game of the season, compiling over 300 passing yards … Had a passing and rushing touchdown … Iowa State (10/28): completed 24-of-41 passes for 239 yards and one touchdown … Houston (11/4): Completed a season-high and career-best 29 passes … Completed 78.4 of his passes … Threw for two touchdowns and rushed for 29 yards … at Kansas State (11/11): Tallied 22 completions, his seventh straight game with 20 or more completions … Passed for 253 yards … Set a career-high with four passing touchdowns … at TCU (11/18): Recorded a passing touchdown, the 11th straight game he had at least one passing TD … Completed 20-of-30 passes for 197 yards … Rushed for 42 yards and a TD.
2022 (Redshirt Sophomore Season – Baylor)
Played in 13 games with 13 starts ... Named Honorable Mention All-Big 12 by the league coaches … Tabbed First-Team Academic All-Big 12 … Threw for 2,709 yards on 233-of-368 passing with 18 TDs and 10 interceptions … Averaged 214.6 yards passing per game … Rushed 76 times for 96 yards and two TDs … Completed 63.3 percent of his passes, the fifth-best total in single-season program history … Also ranked ninth in program annals in passing yards in a season and 10th in completions … Had a 137.7 efficiency rating as a passer, just shy of cracking the top-12 in school single-season history … Had two games with 300+ yards passing … UAlbany (9/3): In his season debut, threw for 214 yards on 17-of-20 passing with two TDs, also rushing four times for 11 yards and a score … at BYU (9/10): Threw for 137 yards and a TD on 18-of-28 passing at No. 21 BYU … Texas State (9/17): Was 15-of-26 for a TD, while rushing for 42 yards and a TD on three carries … at Iowa State (9/24): Led a win at Iowa State, throwing for 238 yards and three TDs on 19-of-26 passing … Oklahoma State (10/1): Threw for a season-high 345 yards and two TDs on 28-of-40 passing with two interceptions vs. No. 7 Oklahoma State … at West Virginia (10/13): Was in the midst of a career game, throwing for 326 yards and two scores on 14-of-22 passing before suffering a concussion early in the third quarter … Kansas (10/22): Tossed 164 yards and a score on 17-of-26 passing, throwing two picks, in a win over Kansas … at Texas Tech (10/29): Was 19-of-30 for 211 yards and a score, while rushing 10 times for 30 yards in a 45-17 rout of Texas Tech in Lubbock … at Oklahoma (11/5): Threw for 132 yards on 14-of-23 passing with an interception in a win at Oklahoma … Kansas State (11/12): Had 203 yards passing on 22-of-38 in the air with two interceptions vs. No. 19 Kansas State … TCU (11/19):  Threw for 269 yards with a TD and an interception on 21-of-30 passing vs. No. 4 TCU, also rushing seven times for 20 yards … at Texas (11/25): Was 18-of-36 for 179 yards and two TDs, throwing one interception, in the regular-season finale at No. 23 Texas … vs. Air Force (12/22): Threw for 188 yards on 11-of-23 passing with two TDs in the Armed Forces Bowl vs. Air Force, a night that kicked off at 12 degrees with a significant wind in a game against the nation’s top statistical defense … Earned honorable mention weekly honors in week four by the Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award … Was on the Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award Watch List in the preseason.
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2021 (Redshirt Freshman Season – Baylor)
Saw action in six games with two starts ... Completed 62 of 86 passes for 596 yards and five touchdowns ... Set a Big 12 Championship and AT&T Stadium (college games) record with 17-straight completions in the first half vs. OSU In the Big 12 Championship Game ... Texas Southern (9/11):  Made collegiate debut vs. Texas Southern completing one pass for 7 yards ... at Kansas (9/18): Played but did not record a stat ... West Virginia (10/9): Completed both of his passes against West Virginia for 18 yards ... at Kansas State (11/20): Entered in relief of injured Gerry Bohanon at Kansas State where he completed 16 of 21 passes for 137 yards, he also rushed for a career-best 44 yards on 5 carries ... Texas Tech (11/27): Set career-highs by completing 20 of 34 passes for 254 yards and two touchdowns in his first-career start vs. Texas Tech ... vs. Oklahoma State (12/4): Set an AT&T Stadium collegiate record with 17-straight completions en route to going 23-28 for 180 yards and three touchdowns.
2020 (True Freshman Season – Baylor)
Did not play in any games ... Earned a redshirt.
High School
Prepped at Evangel Christian Academy in Shreveport, Louisiana for coach Byron Dawson … Led team to 6-5 record … First-Team All-District selection … Passed for 2,049 yards with 24 touchdowns and five interceptions … Added 324 rushing yards with five touchdowns … Four-star prospect according to ESPN … No. 16 player in Louisiana … No. 22 quarterback nationally … Rivals three-star recruit … No. 27 player in Louisiana … No. 21 dual-threat quarterback … 247 Sports’ No. 33 player in Louisiana and No. 31 pro-style quarterback … Ranked as the No. 4 player in Louisiana and No. 1 shortstop prospect in state … Selected to 2019 Under Armour All-America baseball game at Wrigley Field in Chicago … Chose Baylor over USC, UCLA and Arizona State.
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Personal
Son of Ken and Pam Shapen … Has two siblings, Vaughn and Kyle … Health, kinesiology and leisure studies major … Uncle, Hal Sutton, was a professional golfer with 15 all-time wins.
Social Media
X/Twitter – @BShapen
Instagram – bshape8Â
Career-Highs Entering 2025
Attempts: 45, at Kansas State (11/11/2023) *
Completions: 29, vs. Houston (11/4/2023) *
Passing Yards: 345, vs. Oklahoma State (Baylor, 10/1/2022)*
Passing Touchdowns: 4, vs. Kansas State (Baylor, 11/11/2023) *
Longest Pass: 80, at Arizona State (09/07/2024)
Rush Attempts: 12, vs. Florida (09/21/2024)
Rushing Yards: 44, 2x, last vs. Eastern Kentucky (08/31/2024)
Longest Rush: 35, vs. Texas State (Baylor, 9/17/2022) *
Rushing Touchdowns: 1, 8x, last vs. Florida (09/21/2024)
*Career-high set at Baylor
2025 Panini Senior Bowl Top 300 Watch List
2025 Shrine Bowl 1000
2025 NFF Hampshire Honor Society
2024 SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll
2025 Reese's Senior Bowl Watchlist
2024 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award Watchlist
2024 East-West Shrine Bowl Top 1000 Watchlist
2022 Honorable Mention All-Big 12 (Coaches)
2022 First-Team Academic All-Big 12
2021 Big 12 Championship Most Outstanding Performer
Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll (4x)
Career Notes
Played in 31 career games with 27 starts … At Mississippi State he played in four games with four starts … Has started 25 consecutive games he has played in … Career starting record of 11-16 … Led Baylor to 2021 Big 12 Championship … Set Big 12 Championship & AT&T Stadium record with 17-straight completions … Following the 2024 season, he has thrown 6,548 yards and 44 touchdowns … Has completed 553 of his 860 passes … Chose to come back to Mississippi State in 2025 for final season.
2024 (Redshirt Senior Season)Â
Played in four games with four starts … Earned medical hardship waiver … Missed final eight games due to injury … Recorded his first passing and rushing touchdowns for MSU in the season opener against Eastern Kentucky … Extended streak of consecutive games with a passing touchdown to 15 (dates back to Nov. 19, 2022) … Ended his 2024 season with 974 passing yards (3rd in the SEC/28th in the FBS), 74 completion (4th in the SEC), 68% completion percentage (7th in the SEC/23rd in the FBS), 8 touchdown passes (3rd in the SEC/20th in the FBS), 1,010 yards of total offense (5th in the SEC), 12 explosive plays of greater that 20 yards (5th in the SEC), 3 explosive plays of greater than 50 yards (3rd in the SEC/tied for 6th in the FBS) … Eastern Kentucky (8/31): Went 15-for-20 on pass attempts for 247 yards … Had three passing TDs … Ran the ball seven times for 44 total yards and a touchdown … matched his career high in rushing yards … According to PFF, Shapen had a passing grade of 94.9 which was the best passing grade in all of FBS for week one … He had an overall offensive grade by PFF of 93.0 which ranked second nationally … Both grades were the highest of the collegiate career … Led the team in rushing ... at Arizona State (9/7): Completed 18 of 28 pass attempts for 268 yards and two touchdowns ... Threw an 80-yard touchdown pass to Kevin Coleman Jr., the longest completion of his career ... eclipsed the 6,000 career passing yards mark and the 40 career passing touchdowns threshold ... Toledo (9/14): Went 28 for 39 on pass attempts for 319 yards, two touchdowns and one interception ... His 319 yards are the most yards he has passed for in a game as a Bulldog and the fourth-most in his career ... His 319 passing yards were the 11th-most in week three ... Florida (9/21): Completed 13 of 21 pass attempts for 140 yards and a touchdown ... Suffered a season-ending injury in the third quarter and missed the remainder of the 2024 season.
2023 (Redshirt Junior Season – Baylor)
Played in 8 games with 8 starts … Threw for 2,188 yards on 184-of-298 passing with 13 touchdowns and three interceptions … Averaged 273.5 passings yards per game … Rushed 67 times for 29 yards and four TDs …  Completed 20 or more passes in each game this season … Had a touchdown pass in all eight games, including a career-high four at Kansas State … Named to the Senior Bowl Watch List and the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award Watch List … Texas State (9/2): Went 21-for-31 on pass attempts for 303 yards … Had two passing TDs and rushed for another TD … at UCF (9/30): Completed 61.8 percent (21-of-34) of his passes for 293 yards … Tallied one passing touchdown and a rushing TD … Texas Tech (10/7): Completed 22 passes for a season-best 324 yards … Threw for one touchdown, the sixth straight game with a TD pass … Completed a 71-yard pass in the game, a career-best … at Cincinnati (10/21): Completed 25 passes, the fourth game of the season with 20 or more completions … Had 316 passing yards, the second straight game and third game of the season, compiling over 300 passing yards … Had a passing and rushing touchdown … Iowa State (10/28): completed 24-of-41 passes for 239 yards and one touchdown … Houston (11/4): Completed a season-high and career-best 29 passes … Completed 78.4 of his passes … Threw for two touchdowns and rushed for 29 yards … at Kansas State (11/11): Tallied 22 completions, his seventh straight game with 20 or more completions … Passed for 253 yards … Set a career-high with four passing touchdowns … at TCU (11/18): Recorded a passing touchdown, the 11th straight game he had at least one passing TD … Completed 20-of-30 passes for 197 yards … Rushed for 42 yards and a TD.
2022 (Redshirt Sophomore Season – Baylor)
Played in 13 games with 13 starts ... Named Honorable Mention All-Big 12 by the league coaches … Tabbed First-Team Academic All-Big 12 … Threw for 2,709 yards on 233-of-368 passing with 18 TDs and 10 interceptions … Averaged 214.6 yards passing per game … Rushed 76 times for 96 yards and two TDs … Completed 63.3 percent of his passes, the fifth-best total in single-season program history … Also ranked ninth in program annals in passing yards in a season and 10th in completions … Had a 137.7 efficiency rating as a passer, just shy of cracking the top-12 in school single-season history … Had two games with 300+ yards passing … UAlbany (9/3): In his season debut, threw for 214 yards on 17-of-20 passing with two TDs, also rushing four times for 11 yards and a score … at BYU (9/10): Threw for 137 yards and a TD on 18-of-28 passing at No. 21 BYU … Texas State (9/17): Was 15-of-26 for a TD, while rushing for 42 yards and a TD on three carries … at Iowa State (9/24): Led a win at Iowa State, throwing for 238 yards and three TDs on 19-of-26 passing … Oklahoma State (10/1): Threw for a season-high 345 yards and two TDs on 28-of-40 passing with two interceptions vs. No. 7 Oklahoma State … at West Virginia (10/13): Was in the midst of a career game, throwing for 326 yards and two scores on 14-of-22 passing before suffering a concussion early in the third quarter … Kansas (10/22): Tossed 164 yards and a score on 17-of-26 passing, throwing two picks, in a win over Kansas … at Texas Tech (10/29): Was 19-of-30 for 211 yards and a score, while rushing 10 times for 30 yards in a 45-17 rout of Texas Tech in Lubbock … at Oklahoma (11/5): Threw for 132 yards on 14-of-23 passing with an interception in a win at Oklahoma … Kansas State (11/12): Had 203 yards passing on 22-of-38 in the air with two interceptions vs. No. 19 Kansas State … TCU (11/19):  Threw for 269 yards with a TD and an interception on 21-of-30 passing vs. No. 4 TCU, also rushing seven times for 20 yards … at Texas (11/25): Was 18-of-36 for 179 yards and two TDs, throwing one interception, in the regular-season finale at No. 23 Texas … vs. Air Force (12/22): Threw for 188 yards on 11-of-23 passing with two TDs in the Armed Forces Bowl vs. Air Force, a night that kicked off at 12 degrees with a significant wind in a game against the nation’s top statistical defense … Earned honorable mention weekly honors in week four by the Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award … Was on the Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award Watch List in the preseason.
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2021 (Redshirt Freshman Season – Baylor)
Saw action in six games with two starts ... Completed 62 of 86 passes for 596 yards and five touchdowns ... Set a Big 12 Championship and AT&T Stadium (college games) record with 17-straight completions in the first half vs. OSU In the Big 12 Championship Game ... Texas Southern (9/11):  Made collegiate debut vs. Texas Southern completing one pass for 7 yards ... at Kansas (9/18): Played but did not record a stat ... West Virginia (10/9): Completed both of his passes against West Virginia for 18 yards ... at Kansas State (11/20): Entered in relief of injured Gerry Bohanon at Kansas State where he completed 16 of 21 passes for 137 yards, he also rushed for a career-best 44 yards on 5 carries ... Texas Tech (11/27): Set career-highs by completing 20 of 34 passes for 254 yards and two touchdowns in his first-career start vs. Texas Tech ... vs. Oklahoma State (12/4): Set an AT&T Stadium collegiate record with 17-straight completions en route to going 23-28 for 180 yards and three touchdowns.
2020 (True Freshman Season – Baylor)
Did not play in any games ... Earned a redshirt.
High School
Prepped at Evangel Christian Academy in Shreveport, Louisiana for coach Byron Dawson … Led team to 6-5 record … First-Team All-District selection … Passed for 2,049 yards with 24 touchdowns and five interceptions … Added 324 rushing yards with five touchdowns … Four-star prospect according to ESPN … No. 16 player in Louisiana … No. 22 quarterback nationally … Rivals three-star recruit … No. 27 player in Louisiana … No. 21 dual-threat quarterback … 247 Sports’ No. 33 player in Louisiana and No. 31 pro-style quarterback … Ranked as the No. 4 player in Louisiana and No. 1 shortstop prospect in state … Selected to 2019 Under Armour All-America baseball game at Wrigley Field in Chicago … Chose Baylor over USC, UCLA and Arizona State.
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Personal
Son of Ken and Pam Shapen … Has two siblings, Vaughn and Kyle … Health, kinesiology and leisure studies major … Uncle, Hal Sutton, was a professional golfer with 15 all-time wins.
Social Media
X/Twitter – @BShapen
Instagram – bshape8Â
Career-Highs Entering 2025
Attempts: 45, at Kansas State (11/11/2023) *
Completions: 29, vs. Houston (11/4/2023) *
Passing Yards: 345, vs. Oklahoma State (Baylor, 10/1/2022)*
Passing Touchdowns: 4, vs. Kansas State (Baylor, 11/11/2023) *
Longest Pass: 80, at Arizona State (09/07/2024)
Rush Attempts: 12, vs. Florida (09/21/2024)
Rushing Yards: 44, 2x, last vs. Eastern Kentucky (08/31/2024)
Longest Rush: 35, vs. Texas State (Baylor, 9/17/2022) *
Rushing Touchdowns: 1, 8x, last vs. Florida (09/21/2024)
*Career-high set at Baylor
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