Player Dossier

2025-2025

Oregon

Brandon Finney Jr.

DB • 6'2" • 203 lbs • Owings Mills, MD, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Brandon Finney Jr. shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 22.5 disruption score.

Usage / Role

48%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

90

Top-tier box-score impact for a defensive back

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Reliability

48

Useful contributor with volatile peaks

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Star Power

80

High-upside career profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Oregon

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
1
Program Path
Oregon
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Minnesota

Player Story

Brandon Finney Jr. built his college career in 2025 as a defensive back from Owings Mills, MD wearing No. 4, spending time with Oregon. The clearest part of Brandon Finney Jr.'s career was his defensive production:...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2025 · Rating 0.9799

McDonogh School · Owings Mills, MD

Committed To
Oregon
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2025

Brandon Finney Jr., DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Oregon. Brandon Finney Jr. shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 22.5 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
42
TFL
3
Sacks
1
Passes defended
7
Touchdowns
2

Quick Answers

Brandon Finney Jr. quick answers

Latest team and position
Oregon · DB
Career Tackles
42
Tracked sample
1 unique seasons · 2 entries · 14 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Oregon
Top game
Minnesota
Recruit profile
4-star · McDonogh School · Oregon
High school pipeline
McDonogh School · 28 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 4 · Freshman
2025 Tackles rank
42 tackles · DB 199th (top 21%) · Big Ten 101st (top 13%) · National 841st (top 14%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2025 PostseasonOregon14130.50--053.5
2025 Regular SeasonOregon14292.51-7253.5

Related Context

Brandon Finney Jr. played DB for Oregon. Across 1 tracked season, Brandon Finney Jr. recorded 42 tackles and 2 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Oregon.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Oregon paired 14 primary output with 22.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 22.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Minnesota

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Postseason · Oregon

Games

14

Havoc Plays / G

1

Efficiency

22.5

Usage

4.7

Consistency

52.4

Best Game by takeover score

Minnesota

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Indiana: 0. Texas Tech: 2. James Madison: 0.5. Montana State: 0. Oklahoma State: 0. Northwestern: 1. Oregon State: 0. Penn State: 0. Indiana: 3. Rutgers: 1. Iowa: 1. Minnesota: 3. USC: 1. Washington: 1.5

Volume vs Efficiency

Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.

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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Indiana: 2 by 8.3. Texas Tech: 6 by 45. James Madison: 5 by 25.8. Montana State: 2 by 8.3. Oklahoma State: 2 by 8.3. Northwestern: 1 by 14.2. Oregon State: 1 by 4.2. Penn State: 3 by 12.5. Indiana: 4 by 46.7. Rutgers: 2 by 18.3. Iowa: 4 by 26.7. Minnesota: 3 by 42.5. USC: 3 by 22.5. Washington: 4 by 31.7

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.9 · Games = 12 · -0.6 vs Losses
Losses1.5 · Games = 2 · +0.6 vs Wins

Game Log

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

14 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Minnesota

Best efficiency game

46.7 vs Indiana

Result
Sat 1/10@ IndianaL 22-5622000
Thu 1/1@ Texas TechSplash gameW 23-0640020
Sun 12/21vs James MadisonW 51-34520.5000
Sat 11/29@ WashingtonW 26-14420.5001
Sat 11/22vs USCW 42-2733001
Sat 11/15vs MinnesotaSplash gameW 42-1333111
Sat 11/8@ IowaW 18-1643100
Sat 10/18@ RutgersW 56-1021001
Sat 10/11vs IndianaSplash gameL 20-30440012
Sat 9/27@ Penn StateW 30-2431000
Sat 9/20vs Oregon StateW 41-710000
Sat 9/13@ NorthwesternW 34-1411001
Sat 9/6vs Oklahoma StateW 69-322000
Sat 8/30vs Montana StateW 59-1321000

Player Story

Brandon Finney Jr. story

Brandon Finney Jr. built his college career in 2025 as a defensive back from Owings Mills, MD wearing No. 4, spending time with Oregon. The clearest part of Brandon Finney Jr.'s career was his defensive production: 42 tackles, 3 tackles for loss, 1 sack, and 3 interceptions across 14 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2025 with Oregon. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Brandon Finney Jr.'s production has multiple signals. His career also includes 18 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 14 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Oregon.

The arc is straightforward: Brandon Finney Jr. moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

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    Oregon

    2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2025 PostseasonOregon1422.54.7
2025 Regular SeasonOregon1422.54.70

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 70 Minnesota

Week 12 · W 42-13 · Conference game

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

80 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 80 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 1 Indiana

Week 7 · L 20-30 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

3

Havoc Plays

75.6 takeover

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 75.6 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 3 Texas Tech

Week 1 · W 23-0 · Postseason · Ranked opponent

2

Havoc Plays

70.6 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 70.6 takeover score.

#4

@ No. 12 Iowa

Week 11 · W 18-16 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

1

Havoc Plays

44.2 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 44.2 takeover score.

#5

@ No. 13 Washington

Week 14 · W 26-14 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

1.5

Havoc Plays

41.7 takeover

Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 41.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · Oregon

14 primary output · 22.5 efficiency · 4.7 usage

53.5

#2

2025 Regular Season · Oregon

53.5

14 primary · 22.5 efficiency · 4.7 usage

Milestones

3

Impact games

3

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games