2024 Football Roster
Roster
Josh Hoover
- Position:
- QB
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- 200
- Hometown:
- Heath, Texas
- High School:
- Rockwall-Heath High School
CAREER HONORS
- 2024 New Mexico Bowl Offensive Most Valuable Player
- 2024 Honorable-Mention All-Big 12
- 2024 Davey O’Brien QB Class of 2024
- 2024 Manning Award Star of the Week, vs. Texas Tech
- 2024 Manning Award Star of the Week, vs. Stanford
- 2023 Honorable-Mention Big 12 Offensive Freshman of the Year
- 2023 First-Team Academic All-Big 12
- 2023 Big 12 Co-Offensive Player of the Week, vs. BYU
- 2023 Shaun Alexander Award Freshman of the Week, vs. BYU
- 2023 Davey O’Brien Award Great 8, vs. BYU
- 2023 Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award Honorable Mention Player of the Week, vs. BYU
- 2023 Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award Honorable Mention Player of the Week, vs. Baylor
2024 | SOPHOMORE
Team Captain who set TCU's season passing record with 3,949 yards, breaking Trevone Boykin's 2014 mark of 3,901 ... his 66.5 completion percentage placed third at TCU, while his 27 touchdown passes tied Andy Dalton (2010) for fourth ... led the Big 12 while ranking fifth nationally with 61 completions of at least 20 yards ... ranks No. 1 in the FBS in that category for returning players in 2025 ... one of just four quarterbacks nationally to average 300 yards per game passing (303.8) and have a passer rating of at least 150 (151.1) ... also the lone one of those four to return in 2025 ... closed the season with 6,157 career yards passing, placing sixth on TCU's all-time list ... tied a career-high with four touchdown passes, set on three previous occasions, in the 34-3 New Mexico Bowl victory over Louisiana ... completed 12 straight passes in one stretch, tying for TCU's sixth-longest streak in a game ... started all 13 games to extend his streak to 19 in a row dating back to 2023 ... threw for a season-best 402 yards to go with four touchdowns while completing 35-of-52 attempts against UCF ... passed for multiple scores in nine of 13 contests ... topped 300 yards in six games ... had a nation's-best streak of 143 passes without an interception to start the season ... his 147 consecutive attempts without a pick, dating back to 2023, was second-longest in TCU history (154, Jeff Ballard, 2006) ... had a career-long 84-yard touchdown pass to Eric McAlister for the go-ahead score with 5:10 remaining in a 35-34 win over Texas Tech ... threw for three TDs and 344 yards in the game ... also passed for three touchdowns and 356 yards while completing 28-of-37 attempts in a 38-27 victory against Kansas at Arrowhead Stadium ... his 14 consecutive completions in the first half against LIU tied a TCU single-game record set by Ballard against San Diego State in 2006 ... the 14 straight completions also tied for second overall, behind only the 16 by Casey Pachall over the 2011-12 seasons ... completed 20-of-25 attempts for 267 yards and two touchdowns in the 45-0 win ... went 28-of-42 in the air for 353 yards and two TDs in a 34-27 season-opening win at Stanford ... ran for three scores on the season, including in victories at Stanford and Utah.
2023 | REDSHIRT FRESHMAN
Started the final six games of the season ... his first career start saw him complete 37-of-58 passes for 439 yards and four touchdowns in a 44-11 win over BYU ... became the first Power Five quarterback with 400 yards passing and four touchdowns in his first career start since 2019 (Anthony Gordon, Washington State, vs. New Mexico State) ... the 439 yards tied for 10th-most in a game at TCU and ranked 16th nationally for the season ... the 439 yards passing were also the most by a TCU quarterback in his first start since Chandler Morris threw for 461 in a 30-28 win over Baylor in 2021 ... the four touchdown passes were the best by a Horned Frog in his first start since Casey Pachall’s four at Baylor in 2011 ... the four TD tosses also marked the most by a Horned Frog versus an FBS opponent since Max Duggan had four at Oklahoma in 2021 ... the 37 completions and 58 attempts were the most by a TCU quarterback since Pachall was 40-of-58 passing against West Virginia in 2013 ... had a career-long 26-yard run on his lone carry in the BYU game ... completed 24-of-29 passes for 412 yards and two touchdowns in a 42-17 win over Baylor ... the 82.8 completion percentage ranked sixth for a game in TCU history ... the 412 yards passing made him the second Power Five quarterback (C.J. Stroud, Ohio State) since 2019 to throw for at least 400 yards in two of his opening five starts and the first from the Big 12 to accomplish the feat ... averaged 17.2 yards per completion, including an 81-yard touchdown pass to Jared Wiley for TCU’s longest pass play since Kenny Hill hit Jalen Reagor on a 93-yard scoring strike in the 2017 Alamo Bowl win over Stanford ... also had a 3-yard touchdown run for his first career rushing score ... it was set up two plays earlier with a 22-yard carry for the second-longest run of his career ... became the first TCU quarterback since at least 2005 with 300-plus yards passing in five of his first six career starts ... also one of just two FBS players in 2023 to do so ... closed the season by passing for four touchdowns while completing 32-of-58 attempts at Oklahoma ... added a 3-yard scoring run for TCU's first points of the game ... threw for 302 yards and two touchdowns while completing 24-of-36 attempts against Texas ... went 32-of-52 in the air for 353 yards at Texas Tech.
2022 | REDSHIRT
Saw his lone action of the season in the 59-17 win over Tarleton ... had a 2-yard completion on his only pass attempt.
HIGH SCHOOL
Rated by 247Sports as the No. 33 quarterback in the nation, No. 72 overall player in Texas and No. 539 in the country … three-star recruit … named the 2021 Landry Award winner, an honor given to the top high school football player from North Texas presented by CBS 11 and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes … concluded his prep career with 9,953 yards passing and 108 touchdowns with a 60.7 completion percentage (609-of-1,004) … added five rushing touchdowns … completed 63.7 percent (191-of-300) of his passes for 3,252 yards and 40 touchdowns as a senior … District 10-6A Offensive Most Valuable Player as a junior … first-team all-district as a sophomore … also lettered in baseball … his father, Alex Hoover, was a linebacker at Colorado State and in the NFL.
