Ben Finley

#10 · QB · Sr. · Akron6′3″ · 200 lb · Phoenix, AZ

Ben Finley is a quarterback at Akron who has not played in Akron's 9 games this season; the last season with a stat line was 2025.

Where Finley comes from

Phoenix, AZHometown
About 1,750 miles from InfoCision StadiumDistance
On the Akron roster since 2024Roster

Where Finley fits

The consensus depth chart of May 27 lists Finley at QB, No. 1.

Akron lists 7 quarterbacks this season.

Akron quarterbacks with a game this season

Brayden Roggow9 games this season
Cibastian Broughton5 games this season
Semaj Beals2 games this season

Akron is 1-8. Next: vs Western Michigan, Tue Nov 10.

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Finley operates within the system without forcing anything. Played for three head coaches across six seasons and three programs. A game that shows it: 424 passing yards and 3 passing TD against Kent State — Week 12, 2025.

Where to follow

Career stats

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Season	Team
2025	Akron	186	362	51.4%	2,475	6.8	19	9	121.2	24
2024	Akron	211	387	54.5%	2,581	6.7	16	9	119.5	29
2023	California	54	94	57.4%	575	6.1	3	4	110.9	41
2022	NC State	65	123	52.8%	741	6.0	3	3	106.6	34
2021	NC State	5	9	55.6%	28	3.1	0	0	81.7	--
2020	NC State	13	20	65.0%	143	7.2	1	2	121.6	--
Career		534	995	53.7%	6,543	6.6	42	27	117.4	29

Season	Team
2025	Akron	69	130	1.9	2	40
2024	Akron	80	51	0.6	0	33
2023	California	12	8	0.7	0	6
2022	NC State	6	−8	−1.3	0	14
2021	NC State	2	7	3.5	0	6
2020	NC State	2	−9	−4.5	0	6
Career		171	179	1.0	2	40

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 11 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	L 0-10vs Wyoming	16/38	139	0	1	3.7	7.9
Wk 2	L 0-68@ Nebraska	7/21	54	0	0	2.6	36.2
Wk 3	L 28-31@ UAB	19/35	282	2	0	8.1	29.2	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 4	W 51-7vs Duquesne	13/23	219	2	1	9.5	22.7
Wk 6	W 28-22vs Central Michigan	18/29	252	3	1	8.7	66.6	3 TD passes
Wk 7	L 7-20vs Miami (OH)	21/39	211	1	1	5.4	30.7
Wk 8	L 28-42@ Ball State	22/40	291	3	2	7.3	24.4	3 TD passes
Wk 9	W 24-16@ Buffalo	17/32	230	2	1	7.2	65.5
Wk 11	W 44-10vs Massachusetts	12/20	197	2	0	9.9	85.7
Wk 12	L 35-42vs Kent State	32/59	424	3	1	7.2	20.6	Season-high 424 yds
Wk 13	W 19-16@ Bowling Green	9/26	176	1	1	6.8	16.8
Total		186/362	2475	19	9	6.8	—

Highs and lows

Only games with 20 or more plays count for best and lowest.
Best by our grade	Central Michigan	W 28-22 · Graded great · Carried by the third quarter · 252 yds, 3 TD, 1 INT · Rush 2 for -8 · The interception cost about 12 points of win chance · Sacked 1
Lowest by our grade	at Bowling Green	W 19-16 · Graded rough · 176 yds, 1 TD, 1 INT · Rush 12 for 58 · The interception cost about 13 points of win chance · Sacked 2
Best play	Kent State	Completion for 13 yards, touchdown, Q4 1:59 · Win chance 14% to 61%
Costliest play	at Buffalo	Fumble, Q3 0:52 · Win chance 59% to 28%

Passing profile

Pass Profile · True throw depth (charted plays)

Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from

186/362 (51.4%) · 19 TD · 9 INT

348 of 362 attempts matched to play-by-play

138 of 348 attempts charted for true throw depth

Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 348 passing plays (174 completions) against the box score's 362 attempts (186 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.

Adjusted ANY/A

5.94113 of 206 QBs

Sack rate

6.5%151 of 206 QBs

Sacked on 6.5% of dropbacks (151 of 206) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (113 of 206).

Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.

Behind LOS · Negative air yds

6% of attempts (8)

50%comp

Air -1.2 · YAC 6.0 avg

Short · 0–9 air yds

41% of attempts (56)

48%comp

Air 4.2 · YAC 3.4 avg

Middle · 10–19 air yds

38% of attempts (53)

58%comp3 INT

Air 13.9 · YAC 2.1 avg

Deep · 20+ air yds

15% of attempts (21)

38%comp

Air 26.1 · YAC 13.4 avg

Overall 51.4% completion on 362 attempts · 38% completion on 21 deep attempts (20+ air yds).

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2025 baseline

No situation moves him more than 26 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-26 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 6/123 (4.9%) · league sack rate 4.2%

Down 2

+11 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 8/113 (7.1%) · league sack rate 4.5%

Down 3+

+19 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 11/99 (11.1%) · league sack rate 7.8%

Deltas are vs. this player’s own season baseline, never a league average. League sack rate by down is shown as context because sack attribution isn’t incompletion-denominated.

Teams and coaches

2020NC State8-4HC: Dave Doeren · Balanced

2021NC State9-3HC: Dave Doeren · Balanced

2022NC State8-5HC: Dave Doeren · Balanced

2023California6-7HC: Justin Wilcox · Run-leaning

2024Akron4-8HC: Joe Moorhead · Pass-leaning

2025Akron5-7HC: Joe Moorhead · Balanced

Our ratings

CFB Zeitgeist Score 25 (#132 of 146). Show the ratings

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles · 2025 season

25Below cohort / limited sample #132 of 146 · 2025?

13 metrics · season cumulative

2025 score: the 2026 sample is not big enough yet. The rows below are 2026 so far. Concern: success rate (21st percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Interception rate#83 / 183 · 55th pct

2.0%

Explosive rate#129 / 183 · 30th pct

7.8%

Sack rate#138 / 183 · 25th pct

6.7%

EPA / dropback#144 / 183 · 22nd pct

0.07

Success rate#145 / 183 · 21st pct

35.7%

Box-score rates (8)

Pass TDs#44 / 183 · 75th pct

Pass yards#64 / 183 · 65th pct

2475

Rush yards#89 / 183 · 52nd pct

130

Rush TDs#101 / 183 · 39th pct

Yards / att#110 / 183 · 38th pct

6.8

Interceptions#135 / 183 · 22nd pct

Fumbles lost#154 / 174 · 8th pct

Completion %#173 / 183 · 6th pct

51.4%

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

30th → 22nd percentile

Success rate

23rd → 21st percentile

Explosive rate

36th → 30th percentile

Sack rate

56th → 25th percentile

Interception rate

70th → 55th percentile

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps in 2025. Most bars are box-score rates; EPA / success-rate bars are computed from real play-by-play (offense only — no defensive EPA model exists yet).

Zeitgeist Passer Rating

2025 · our own passing-efficiency number, shown next to the 1979 formula it does not replace.

After 330 dropbacks

24Zeitgeist Passer Rating135th of 142 FBS QBs

NCAA passer rating 121.2 125th of 142 FBS QBs

Positive-play rate weight 24%

39.2%8th pct of FBS QBs

share of dropbacks that gained expected points · -0.5% schedule adj.

Yards per attempt weight 56%

6.1819th pct of FBS QBs

sacks excluded · -0.3 schedule adj.

Sack rate weight 21% (penalty)

7.6%18th pct of FBS QBs

the input passer rating cannot see · +0.1% schedule adj.

Opponent-adjusted; garbage time excluded (43 of 373 dropbacks dropped). 50 = FBS average; the number is pulled toward 50 when the sample is thin. How ZPR is built.

Splits

Home and road splits, scheme and staff

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 11 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home6g	240	1.8	7.4	0.8
Road5g	207	1.6	6.4	0.8

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-76g	193	1.3	6.3	0.7
Weeks 8+5g	264	2.2	7.7	1.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Joe Moorhead

Pass share

48.7%

402 pass / 423 run

Plays / game

68.8

12 games

Scheme: Balanced.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Impact starter

362 pass attempts and 69 carries in 11 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score

25 · #132 of 146 QBs · 2025

2026 outlook

In the mix for All-MAC

Based on 2025: #9 of 12 Mid-American QBs

How the All-MAC base rate is computed

A base rate for the rank, not a forecast of this player: 35% of returning players who ranked #4–10 at their position in their conference made an all-conference team the next season (95% confidence interval 31–38%).

Starter

Returning starter at quarterback for a 5-7 Akron team that went -3 in the portal.