Finn won the 2023 MAC MVP and 2022 MAC Championship with Toledo.
Roughly one year ago, Dequan Finn was the face of the Mid-American Conference.
Finn won the 2023 Vern Smith Leadership Award, which is the honor issued to the MAC’s annual MVP. The quarterback built a stellar résumé in five seasons at Toledo, winning a MAC championship and claiming back-to-back All-MAC honors.
Finn transferred to Baylor for the 2024 campaign, but after a brief stint in Big 12 country, the former MAC MVP is back in the conference where it all starter. He committed to Miami (OH) on Saturday — the program he faced in his last start at Toledo in the 2023 MAC Championship Game. Finn visited Miami on Saturday and signed in the same day, according to Pete Nakos of On3 Sports.
Finn will be a seventh-year senior in 2025 and he replaces a sixth-year senior in Brett Gabbert who served as Miami’s starter from 2019-24. He returns to the MAC ranked 41st in conference history in passing yards (7,083) and 25th in passing touchdowns (63). After spending the 2019 and 2020 seasons as a backup, Finn became a three-year starter for Toledo, qualifying for back-to-back MAC Championship Games in 2022 and 2023 and winning the 2022 title with the Rockets.
The dual-threat quarterback threw for 2,000 yards and 18 touchdowns and simultaneously rushed for 500 yards and seven touchdowns in all three years as the Toledo starter. The ever-consistent passer manufactured an impressive touchdown to interception ratio of 63 to 23 during his time as a Rocket.
Finn took his talents to Baylor after a successful 2023 season and started the first two games of the year. He suffered a shoulder injury in Week 2 at Utah which held him out until October. Finn briefly returned as a backup to Sawyer Robertson for the Oct. 19 win over Texas Tech, but he never saw the field again afterward. He applied for a medical hardship waiver to receive a seventh year of eligibility — earning additional redshirts in 2019 for a lack of playing time and in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Finn turns 24 in April and will be Miami’s second-straight 24-year old starting quarterback, following in the footsteps of Gabbert. The former Toledo star not only returns to the conference he once conquered, but he also suits up against his former team in 2025 at an undisclosed date in Oxford, OH.