Player Dossier

2022-2025

Kansas

Justice Finkley

DE • 6'2" • 250 lbs • Trussville, AL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Justice Finkley shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 18.4 disruption score.

Usage / Role

34%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

45

Developing production for an edge defender

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Reliability

42

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

63

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Kansas

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Texas • Kansas
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: BYU

Player Story

Justice Finkley built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive end from Trussville, AL wearing No. 15, spending time with Kansas and Texas. The clearest part of Justice Finkley's career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2022 · Rating 0.9531

Hewitt-Trussville · Trussville, AL

Committed To
Texas
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2022

Justice Finkley, DE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Kansas. Justice Finkley shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 18.4 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
52
TFL
6.5
Sacks
3.5
QB hurries
11

Quick Answers

Justice Finkley quick answers

Latest team and position
Kansas · DE
Career Tackles
52
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 31 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Kansas
Top game
BYU
Recruit profile
4-star · Hewitt-Trussville · Texas
High school pipeline
Hewitt-Trussville · 36 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 15 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
27 tackles · DE 77th (top 28%) · Big 12 175th (top 24%) · National 1,588th (top 26%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2022 Regular SeasonTexas660.50.51-015.3
2023 PostseasonTexas93-0--050.6
2023 Regular SeasonTexas911324-050.6
2024 Regular SeasonTexas55-01-08.8
2025 Regular SeasonKansas1127315-057

Related Context

Justice Finkley played DE for Texas and Kansas. Across 4 tracked seasons, Justice Finkley recorded 52 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Kansas.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Kansas paired 9 primary output with 18.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 18.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Texas, Kansas.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Iowa State

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

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2025 Regular Season · Kansas

Games

11

Havoc Plays / G

0.8

Efficiency

18.4

Usage

5.6

Consistency

62.9

Best Game by takeover score

Iowa State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Wagner: 0. Fresno State: 1. Missouri: 0.5. West Virginia: 1.5. Cincinnati: 1. UCF: 1. Texas Tech: 1. Kansas State: 1. Oklahoma State: 0. Iowa State: 2. Utah: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Wagner: 2 by 8.3. Fresno State: 0 by 10. Missouri: 3 by 17.5. West Virginia: 5 by 35.8. Cincinnati: 3 by 22.5. UCF: 5 by 30.8. Texas Tech: 1 by 14.2. Kansas State: 4 by 26.7. Oklahoma State: 1 by 4.2. Iowa State: 2 by 28.3. Utah: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins0.7 · Games = 5 · -0.2 vs Losses
Losses0.9 · Games = 6 · +0.2 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

11 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Iowa State

Best efficiency game

35.8 vs West Virginia

Result
Fri 11/28vs UtahL 21-3111000
Sat 11/22@ Iowa StateSplash gameL 14-3822110
Sat 11/1vs Oklahoma StateW 38-2111000
Sat 10/25vs Kansas StateL 17-4242000
Sat 10/11@ Texas TechL 17-4211000
Sat 10/4@ UCFW 27-2053100
Sat 9/27vs CincinnatiL 34-3731000
Sat 9/20vs West VirginiaW 41-10510.5000
Sat 9/6@ MissouriL 31-42310.5000
Fri 8/29vs WagnerW 46-720000
Sat 8/23vs Fresno StateW 31-700000

Player Story

Justice Finkley story

Justice Finkley built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive end from Trussville, AL wearing No. 15, spending time with Kansas and Texas. The clearest part of Justice Finkley's career was his defensive production: 52 tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss, and 3.5 sacks across 31 career games in the available record. That gives Justice Finkley's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    Texas

    2022-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Kansas

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20222023202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonTexas27.52.4
2023 PostseasonTexas916.54.17
2023 Regular SeasonTexas916.54.10
2024 Regular SeasonTexas16.21.3-8
2025 Regular SeasonKansas918.45.68

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs BYU

Week 9 · W 35-6 · Conference game

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

76.1 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 76.1 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 33 Iowa State

Week 13 · L 14-38 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

71.4 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 71.4 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 93 West Virginia

Week 4 · W 41-10 · Conference game

1.5

Havoc Plays

64.2 takeover

Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 64.2 takeover score.

#4

@ Kansas

Week 12 · W 55-14 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

56.4 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 56.4 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 42 Kansas State

Week 9 · L 17-42 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

53.6 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 53.6 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Kansas

9 primary output · 18.4 efficiency · 5.6 usage

57

#2

2023 Postseason · Texas

50.6

9 primary · 16.5 efficiency · 4.1 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Texas

50.6

9 primary · 16.5 efficiency · 4.1 usage

Milestones

3

Impact games

4

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games