Junior quarterback for Incarnate Word. 2025: 1,244 passing yards, 6 TD, 7 INT.
6′7″ · 238 lb · Ponchatoula, LA
CFB Index
A single number blending on-field production (an EPA-based value lane) with box-score output for this player's position.
0-100, scaled within each position's own cohort — not directly comparable across positions.
The numbers
passing yards · 2025
6 TD · 7 INT · 6.2 per attempt
Swing playSwung Georgia State from 30% to 50% to win.Marshall at Georgia State · 30-18
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
3 quarterback for Incarnate Word. 2025: 1,244 passing yards, 6 TD, 7 INT.
How he plays
Operates within the system without forcing anything.
Sack rate: 49th percentile.
The full scouting readAura™ · Him Watch
-2aura tax
20th pctl our passing-value metric (wEPA) QBs · 160 qualified, n=14
— the discourse is fair.Buzz vs Tape
Every angle we can check here reads about where you'd expect this season.
TJ Finley
Operates within the system without forcing anything. TJ Finley has played for six head coaches across six seasons and five programs. One game to point at: 251 pass yds, 1 pass TD against Marshall — Week 12, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
6 programs, one constant: he played.
The role got bigger.
Career arc
Where He Ended Up · Transfer
Transferred to Incarnate Word
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Concern: explosive rate (15th percentile).
Real play-by-play efficiency
Season trend
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season. 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).
Pass Profile · True throw depth (charted plays)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Adjusted ANY/A
4.63170 of 206 QBsSack rate
4.7%102 of 206 QBsRarely sacked (102 of 206), but Adjusted ANY/A hasn't followed (170 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
Short · 0–9 air yds
Middle · 10–19 air yds
Deep · 20+ air yds
Overall 62.5% completion on 184 attempts · 33% completion on 9 deep attempts (20+ air yds).
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 7 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 178 | 0.6 | 6.4 | 1.2 |
| Road2g | 176 | 1.5 | 5.9 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 163 | 0.8 | 6.2 | 0.8 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 214 | 1.0 | 6.6 | 1.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 1 game in so far.
Player standing · 2025
Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.
| Season | Team | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Georgia State | 127 | 201 | 63.2% | 1,244 | 6.2 | 6 | 7 | 118.1 | 33 | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Western Kentucky | 48 | 75 | 64.0% | 490 | 6.5 | 1 | 2 | 117.9 | 37 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Texas State | 279 | 414 | 67.4% | 3,439 | 8.3 | 24 | 8 | 152.4 | 64 | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Auburn | 33 | 53 | 62.3% | 431 | 8.1 | 1 | 4 | 121.7 | 57 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Auburn | 70 | 128 | 54.7% | 827 | 6.5 | 6 | 1 | 122.9 | 35 | -- | -- |
| 2020 | LSU | 80 | 140 | 57.1% | 940 | 6.7 | 5 | 5 | 118.2 | 46 | -- | -- |
| Career | 637 | 1,011 | 63.0% | 7,371 | 7.3 | 43 | 27 | 132.9 | 50 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Georgia State | 28 | -51 | -1.8 | 0 | -- |
| 2024 | Western Kentucky | 11 | 20 | 1.8 | 0 | -- |
| 2023 | Texas State | 78 | 81 | 1.0 | 5 | -- |
| 2022 | Auburn | 17 | 33 | 1.9 | 1 | -- |
| 2021 | Auburn | 20 | -36 | -1.8 | 1 | -- |
| 2020 | LSU | 29 | 34 | 1.2 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 183 | 81 | 0.4 | 8 | -- |
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 7 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | L 16-38vs Memphis | 21/29 | 201 | 0 | 1 | 6.9 | 37.5 | |
| Wk 3 | W 37-21vs Murray State | 11/18 | 150 | 1 | 2 | 8.3 | 18.5 | |
| Wk 4 | L 21-70@ Vanderbilt | 22/35 | 176 | 2 | 0 | 5.0 | 54.3 | |
| Wk 6 | L 7-14vs James Madison | 19/28 | 198 | 1 | 0 | 7.1 | 50.7 | |
| Wk 7 | L 20-41vs App State | 13/26 | 91 | 0 | 1 | 3.5 | 15.5 | |
| Wk 11 | L 27-40@ Coastal Carolina | 16/26 | 177 | 1 | 1 | 6.8 | 44.5 | |
| Wk 12 | L 18-30vs Marshall | 25/39 | 251 | 1 | 2 | 6.4 | 31.1 | Season-high 251 yds |
| Total | 127/201 | 1244 | 6 | 7 | 6.3 | 36.0 |
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
CFB Index positional classification
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
58.3% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 17.9% conversion-per-dropback — 64.3% of completions land short of the sticks.
Where completions land is fact — whether incompletions were aimed deep is intent, not recorded here, so this card counts completions only. ~ our read: checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
2 of the team's 22 inside-the-5 carries (9.1%).
Player DNA
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Spencer Petras’s 2021 season.
Matches Spencer on
Differs from Spencer on
Through 6 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Zac Thomas’s path through App State.
Matches Zac on
Player DNA