{"id":66611,"date":"2024-08-19T16:34:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T21:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/?p=66611"},"modified":"2024-08-19T16:34:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T21:34:01","slug":"baylor-names-dequan-finn-starting-quarterback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/baylor-names-dequan-finn-starting-quarterback\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor names Dequan Finn starting quarterback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/baylor-bears\/\">Baylor<\/a><\/strong> has named <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/dequan-finn-34584\/\">Dequan Finn<\/a><\/strong> its starting quarterback for its Week 1 matchup against <strong>Tarleton State<\/strong>, per On3\u2019s Pete Nakos. Finn transferred to Baylor this offseason after a standout 2023 campaign at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/toledo-rockets\/\">Toledo<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Finn led the Rockets to the MAC Championship Game this season, where Toledo fell to\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/miami-oh-redhawks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miami (OH)<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in a heated battle. Over the course of the 2023 campaign, he amassed 2,657 passing yards, 23 passing touchdowns and seven interceptions. In five seasons at Toledo, Finn accounted for 88 total touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>The now-former Toledo quarterback also added 563 rushing yards and 7 rushing touchdowns on 123 carries. On3 listed Finn as the No. 10 available quarterback in the transfer portal.<\/p>\n<p>Dequan Finn played high school football at Martin Luther King (MI), where he was a three-star prospect. He was the No. 1114 overall recruit in the 2019 cycle, according to the On3 Industry Ranking, a weighted average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/baylor-bears\/news\/baylor-names-dequan-finn-starting-quarterback\/\">Baylor names Dequan Finn starting quarterback<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/\">On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baylor has named Dequan Finn its starting quarterback for its Week 1 matchup against Tarleton&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66643,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66611\/revisions\/66643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}