QB Magazine Athlete Feature
Down six. Under two minutes. Ball on his own 21.
That was the situation Finn Maynard walked into at the 2025 FBU regionals against Connecticut, and the way he describes what happened next has the clipped confidence of someone who has replayed it a few hundred times.
“I dropped back and rolled out, then hit Edarwin Nunez on a fade route — 79-yard touchdown to tie the game.”
Seventy-nine yards, from his own end of the field, to erase a shutout with the season on the line. Most kids would take that as the story. For Maynard it was only the setup, because a tie isn’t a win.
“Then we went for the two-point conversion with one minute left, rolling left, hitting Juju on a speed out for the regional win.”
That drive sent his team through the Northeast region and into the FBU elite eight and national championship — a long way to travel for a sixth grader from Salisbury, Massachusetts.
The Class of 2032 quarterback at Immaculate Conception School has been playing for five years, and what pulls him to the position is the same thing that made that drive possible.
“I like competing and the pressure of controlling the offense.”
Pressure, specifically. Not the ball, not the spotlight — the pressure.
Ask him to define a great quarterback and you get a list rather than a philosophy, which is its own kind of answer: accuracy, decision-making, football IQ and understanding of the play, arm strength, physical toughness and the ability to absorb hits, mental toughness under pressure, mobility, leadership. It reads like a scouting sheet, and it’s clear he’s thought about where he sits on each line of it.
He’s honest about which one is currently lagging.
“My biggest challenge is making plays with my legs to extend the play. I’m overcoming it by training with R3vamp, focusing on speed and agility.”
Which explains the quarterback he watches. His favorite is Matt Stafford, and the admiration is specific — the longevity, the fact that he’s still competing at a high level, still making reads, and still able to extend a play with his legs. Maynard didn’t pick a highlight reel. He picked the exact skill he’s trying to add to his own game.
The people building him are Alex McLaughlin and Mike McCarthy at M2QB, and he credits them in both directions.
“Every week they pour more and more knowledge into me. They train me to be the best QB I can be. They build me up both physically and mentally.”
The goals come in two sizes. The near one is winning the CAYFL. The far one is bigger, and it isn’t only about him — he wants to win an FBU national championship and, in his words, put Massachusetts elite football back on the map.
Then there’s the horizon beyond that, which he lays out with an unusual amount of clarity for someone his age.
“Over the next six years I’m gonna be focused on my development. I’m going to continue to work on my skills with the hope of being one of the best QBs to ever come out of MA. My long-term goal is to get a full ride to go play football at a D1 program while earning a great education.”
He’s already proven he knows what to do with two minutes. Now he’s got six years.
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Why Upgrading Matters
Finn already has a QB Magazine profile, which puts him ahead of most kids his age. The record has a home.
The trouble is that a profile only works on someone who already knows to type his name.
Consider what’s sitting in there right now. A 79-yard touchdown from his own 21 with under two minutes left to erase a shutout. A two-point conversion a minute later to win a regional. A run through the Northeast region into the FBU elite eight and a national championship. Five years of football, weekly work with M2QB, speed and agility training at R3vamp. That’s a real résumé for a Class of 2032 quarterback — and almost nobody outside of Salisbury has any idea it exists.
Now look at what’s directly in front of him. His stated short-term goal is winning the CAYFL, and that season starts this fall. Every game of it is either documented and seen, or it’s a story his family tells each other. The same is true of the FBU run he’s chasing. A quarterback who upgrades in August has a fall that builds in public, week by week, in front of an audience already watching. A quarterback who waits until spring is asking people to care about a season that’s already finished.
That’s what the upgrade actually buys. A monthly custom graphic turns a name buried in a list into something a thumb slows down for — the 79-yard fade, the regional win, the elite eight. Feature articles give the numbers a story attached, one a year on Practice Squad, two on Starter, one every quarter on All-Pro. And weekly Instagram and X reposts carry it into a room his own account will never reach on its own. Finn’s followers are teammates, classmates, and family; they were at the game. The magazine’s audience is camp directors, trainers, and evaluators who follow it specifically because that’s where they go to find quarterbacks.
Massachusetts is the whole argument. Finn said it himself — he wants to be one of the best quarterbacks ever to come out of MA and put the state’s elite football back on the map. That is a real ambition and a real obstacle in the same sentence. Nobody scanning for quarterbacks starts in New England. Texas, Florida, Georgia, and California get looked at by default; Massachusetts gets looked at on purpose. A quarterback from Salisbury doesn’t get found by accident, which means being findable isn’t a nice-to-have for him the way it might be for a kid in Dallas. It’s the requirement.
The Starter tier is aimed straight at that problem. It includes consideration for the Top 50 QB Mag Watchlist and priority for the College Bus + Camps TOUR — the trip that puts athletes on college campuses, in front of college staffs, throwing, which is exactly the kind of exposure that’s hardest to get from the Northeast. It also cuts camp costs in half, and All-Pro covers them entirely. Finn is training year-round with two different programs already. Those checks are getting written regardless.
And then there’s the timeline, which he named better than we could.
“Over the next six years I’m gonna be focused on my development.”
Six years. That’s the single biggest asset he has, and it’s the one that quietly expires if nothing is built on it. Nobody gets found through one post. It happens when a name keeps surfacing, month after month, season after season, until “some 2032 out of Massachusetts” becomes that kid from Salisbury, said by people who have never met him. Six years of that compounding is a completely different thing than a junior scrambling to get noticed in eighteen months.
One last piece, and it has nothing to do with recruiting.
Finn wanted Alex McLaughlin and Mike McCarthy in this article — the guys who pour knowledge into him every week. He wanted Edarwin Nunez and Juju in it, the two teammates who caught the throws that won a region. Every article and every graphic becomes a permanent piece of that record. Not a clip that vanishes down a feed by Friday. Proof of what a kid was building, and who he thanked while he was building it.
He got two minutes against Connecticut and made them count.
He’s got a full season in front of him now. Same idea, longer clock.
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