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Justice Finkley

Senior defensive end for Kansas. 2025: 1 sack, 3 tackles for loss, 27 tackles.

DE · Kansas · Sr. · #15

6′2″ · 250 lb · Trussville, AL

CFB Index 33 · #309 of 420 edge rushersMedium confidenceReturning to Kansas for 2026

How he plays

Holds up snap after snap without a weakness to attack.

QB hurries: 92nd percentile.

The full scouting read

The numbers

sack · 2025

3 TFL · 27 tackles · 5 hurries

Best game: 1 sacks, 1 TFL, 2 tackles, at Iowa State

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 defensive end for Kansas. 2025: 1 sack, 3 tackles for loss, 27 tackles.

Signed as a 4-star recruit to Texas in 2022.
Transferred from Texas to Kansas in 2025.

His career, year by year

Justice Finkley

DE · Kansas · Sr · #15

Holds up snap after snap without a weakness to attack. Two head coaches in four seasons, at two different programs. One game to point at: 5 tackles, 1 TFL against UCF — Week 6, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
head-coach lineage
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2022Texas8-5HC: Steve Sarkisian · Run-leaning

2023Texas12-2HC: Steve Sarkisian · Balanced

2024Texas13-3HC: Steve Sarkisian · Balanced

2025Kansas5-7HC: Lance Leipold · Run-leaning

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

33Below cohort / limited sample #309 of 420?

Medium confidenceBounce-Back6 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: qb hurries (92nd percentile). Concern: passes defended (18th percentile).

Box-score production (6)

QB hurries#188 / 2975 · 92nd pct

Sacks#847 / 2975 · 63rd pct

1.0

Tackles for loss#1001 / 2975 · 63rd pct

3.0

Tackles#1543 / 2975 · 47th pct

Solo tackles#1622 / 2975 · 44th pct

Passes defended#1916 / 2975 · 18th pct

Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 11 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home7g	2.3	0.1	0.0	0.0
Road4g	2.8	0.6	0.2	0.0

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-77g	2.7	0.3	0.0	0.0
Weeks 8+4g	2.0	0.2	0.2	0.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Lance Leipold

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Part-time starter

Tackle volume for the position in part-time-starter range.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

33 · #309 of 420 edge rushers

Former four-star. Now #309 at the position.

2026 outlook

Outside shot for All-Big 12

Based on 2025: #13 of 22 Big 12 DEs

How the All-Big 12 estimate is computed

22% estimated, 95% confidence interval 19–25%. Base rate measured from players who finished at a comparable rank in their conference and came back the next season. It is an estimate from a small sample, not a forecast of this player.

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Kansas	27	13	3.0	1.0	--	--	--
2024	Texas	5	1	0.0	0.0	--	--	--
2023	Texas	14	8	3.0	2.0	--	--	--
2022	Texas	6	--	0.5	0.5	--	--	--
Career		52	22	6.5	3.5	--	--	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2025

W 46–7

vs Wagner

2 TOT

Dominant 39-point win at home against Wagner.

With J. Daniels — 280 yds · 4 TD · 1 INT · QBR 80.7 · 18 rush yds (3 car) · T. Nagy — 2 rec · 20 yds

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 11 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	TKL	SOLO	TFL	SACK	INT	Note
Wk 1	W 31-7vs Fresno State	0	0	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 1	W 46-7vs Wagner	2	0	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 2	L 31-42@ Missouri	3	1	0.5	0.0	—
Wk 4	W 41-10vs West Virginia	5	1	0.5	0.0	—	Season-high 5 tackles
Wk 5	L 34-37vs Cincinnati	3	1	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 6	W 27-20@ UCF	5	3	1.0	0.0	—
Wk 7	L 17-42@ Texas Tech	1	1	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 9	L 17-42vs Kansas State	4	2	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 10	W 38-21vs Oklahoma State	1	1	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 13	L 14-38@ Iowa State	2	2	1.0	1.0	—
Wk 14	L 21-31vs Utah	1	1	0.0	0.0	—
Total		27	13	3.0	1.0	—

How he plays

Play style

No single standout number, but nothing missing either — competent across the board.

CFB Index positional classification

Activity vs finishing · season enumeration

What the box score actually says

11 games

27Tackles

13Solo

3TFL

1Sacks

0Pass def.

0INT

27 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 3 TFL.

Week 131 sack

Counts only, never a rate — splash-event sample sizes this small (interceptions, pass breakups, TFL) are noise as a rate and signal only as a tally.

2026 Outlook

Kansas

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Defensive end · Kansas

Returning around him

2 Kansas players drafted to NFL
Transfer portal: +5 net (31 in / 26 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

Kansas · Last season: 5-7 · Talent rank #62 · 2026 recruiting class #61

DNA match

Player DNA

Versatile End

No single standout number, but nothing missing either — competent across the board.

EDGE

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Jamichael Rogers’s 2025 season.

Jamichael Rogers

92%match

UAB · 2025

Malin White

Buffalo · 2024

87%

Dennard Flowers

South Florida · 2025

85%

Gabe Hunter

Boise State · 2022

84%

Jamil Muhammad

Georgia State · 2022

82%

Matches Jamichael on

Class year

Height

Weight

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Dennard Flowers's senior season at South Florida (2025).

Dennard Flowers

94%match

South Florida · 2025

Cooper McDonald

San Diego State · 2023

88%

Jordan Thompson

Rutgers · 2025

87%

Trenilyas Tatum

Georgia Tech · 2024

85%

Ese Dubre

Stanford · 2025

85%

Matches Dennard on

Class year

Height

Sack rate

Player DNA

Players who play like Justice Finkley

Jamichael Rogers

UAB · 2025

92%

Dennard Flowers

South Florida · 2025

85%

Trey White

San Diego State · 2025

79%

Eric Phillips

Cincinnati · 2024

79%

Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology

Justice Finkley

20226 games

202511 games

2025 snapshot

Splits & context

Awards

Part-time starter

Career stats

Signature game

Game log

How he plays

DNA match

Versatile End

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