TJ Finley is a quarterback who has not played this season; the last season with a stat line was 2025, at Georgia State.
Finley operates within the system without forcing anything. Played for six head coaches across six seasons and five programs. One game to point at: 251 passing yards and 1 passing TD against Marshall — Week 12, 2025.
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
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. 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%).
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
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| 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 | 15 |
| 2024 | Western Kentucky | 11 | 20 | 1.8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2023 | Texas State | 78 | 81 | 1.0 | 5 | 24 |
| 2022 | Auburn | 17 | 33 | 1.9 | 1 | 18 |
| 2021 | Auburn | 20 | −36 | −1.8 | 1 | 16 |
| 2020 | LSU | 29 | 34 | 1.2 | 1 | 10 |
| Career | 183 | 81 | 0.4 | 8 | 24 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 7 games
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| 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@ No. 20 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 | 6.2 | — |
| Best by our grade | James Madison | L 7-14 · Graded great · Carried by the first quarter · 198 yds, 1 TD, 0 INT · Rush 3 for -21 · Sacked 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest by our grade | App State | L 20-41 · Graded rough · 91 yds, 0 TD, 1 INT · Rush 1 for -8 · Sacked 1 |
Pass Profile · True throw depth (charted plays)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 184 passing plays (115 completions) against the box score's 201 attempts (127 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
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 63.2% completion on 201 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
Head Coach
Dell McGee
Pass share
56.5%
472 pass / 363 run
Plays / game
69.6
12 games
Scheme: Pass-leaning.
Player standing · 2025
About as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
Played for five programs.
The role got bigger.
Coaching lineage · 2020–2025
6 coachesPlayed for 6 head coaches at 5 schools: Ed Orgeron, Bryan Harsin, Cadillac Williams, G.J. Kinne, Tyson Helton and Dell McGee.
Next stop · Transfer
Transferred to Incarnate Word
