2024 TCU Football Season Recap: Quarterbacks

Redshirt sophomore Josh Hoover became TCU’s single-season record holder for passing yards.

TCU football concluded the 2024 season with a dominant 34-3 win over Louisiana at the New Mexico Bowl on Saturday afternoon. A major catalyst for the Horned Frogs was redshirt sophomore quarterback Josh Hoover, who threw for 252 yards and four touchdowns while setting a new TCU single-season record for passing yards with 3,949. It’s a significant achievement for Hoover, who returned this season for his second go-around as the starting quarterback and commanded an offense that averaged 33.6 points per game.

Hoover finished his redshirt sophomore season with 27 touchdowns and 11 interceptions while adding four rushing touchdowns on the ground. The 6-foot-2, 200-pounder from Heath, Texas shouldered the load for the TCU offense this season, ranking among the top players in college football in multiple statistical categories including pass attempts (471 – 7th), pass completions (313 – 4th), passing yards (3,949 – 4th), passing touchdowns (27 – 12th), quarterback rating (151.1 – 21st) and completion percentage (66.5% – 20th).

Hoover’s success didn’t come without mistakes, however. Hoover committed 17 turnovers this season and his six lost fumbles are tied with South Carolina’s LaNorris Sellers for the most among all players in college football. The 11 interceptions are also tied for the 17th-most. Hoover was stellar over his first three games of the season, throwing eight touchdown passes without an interception against Stanford, LIU and UCF. The turnovers soon reared their ugly head, though, as Hoover threw two interceptions in four of his next five games including TCU’s blowout loss against rival SMU in Dallas.

Turnovers aside, Hoover threw for at least 200 yards in all 13 games this season and showed that he’s QB1 for the foreseeable future. The redshirt sophomore raised his completion percentage by 3.4 percent from the 2023 season, where he threw for 2,206 yards and 15 touchdowns with nine interceptions in place of the injured Chandler Morris. An All-Big 12 Honorable Mention this season, Hoover has two years of eligibility remaining and he’ll look to take another step forward and become a premier college quarterback next season.

Hoover was one of three quarterbacks to take the field for the Horned Frogs in 2024. Former Vanderbilt transfer Ken Seals served as the No. 2 quarterback and saw very limited playing time, appearing in only five games and throwing for 97 yards with one touchdown. The Azle, Texas native spent four years with the Commodores before transferring to TCU and is listed as a junior on the TCU football roster, meaning he likely has one year left. Should Seals remain with the team for 2025, he’ll almost certainly remain in a backup role.

The third quarterback to earn snaps this season was true freshman and former four-star recruit Hauss Hejny. The former Aledo star, who won back-to-back state championships over his junior and senior seasons in high school, played in four games and rushed for 65 yards on 15 carries without completing a pass. Hejny opened the season as the No. 3 quarterback on the depth chart, but the freshman saw more meaningful snaps than Seals, earning snaps against Stanford, Kansas, Utah and Cincinnati. Hejny was one of the team’s top recruits in 2024 and looked to be the future at the quarterback position before he opted to enter the transfer portal earlier this month. Hejny has since signed with Oklahoma State.

Although Hejny has left the program, TCU will have reinforcements on the way. Despite losing former four-star recruit Ty Hawkins, who flipped his commitment from TCU to SMU during the summer, the Horned Frogs signed a state champion in Adam Schobel, who’s a 2025 four-star prospect from Columbus, Texas and the son of former TCU tight end Matt Schobel. Schobel, who flipped his commitment from Oklahoma State, is one of the top recruits of the 2025 class for the Horned Frogs, who signed 29 players for that class. TCU currently has two walk-ons, Hayden Parga and Jacob Porter, listed on the 2024 roster.