Cal Football secures the transfer of NC State QB Ben Finley
A Grad Transfer with 3 years left to play
Jake Spavital has his second transfer QB to add to the QB room in NC State QB Ben Finley. Finley, a former scout team QB, was boosted up the depth chart at the end of last season following injuries to Devin Leary and MJ Morris.
Finley was a 3-star recruit coming out of High school in Arizona. He held offers from Arizona, ASU, Colorado State and Iowa State. Finley is listed at 6’3” and 200 pounds and finished last season with 741 yards, 3 TDs, 3 INTs, 52.8% completion on 123 attempts in 3 games. He’ll have 3 years of eligibility as a grad transfer.
Welcome to Berkeley Ben!
There were a few, but they went to programs with proven track records and good NIL programs. We aren't quite there yet. But I do like it when we pick up good players from good programs...we may need to coach them up, but they at least have talent.
I think he started because the actual starter was injured at Purdue. I think a lot of QB;s that don't get a chance to start at a bigger school go to smaller schools with the hopes of starting and getting game experience, with a goal of later transferring back to a bigger school that needs a QB with game experience. It's become clearer and clearer that without a really good QB a team won't go far, and many teams don't want to risk an unknown with out game experience. Wins are just too important.