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AJ Duffy

  • Award
    NEC/Atlantic Tomorrow's Office Offensive Player of the Week
  • Week Of
    11/10/2025
  • Sport
    Football
  • School
    New Haven
  • Year
    Junior
  • Position
    Quarterback
  • Hometown
    St. Augustine, FL
  • High School
    Rancho Verde (Florida State/San Diego)
Week 11 Stats: 15-of-26 completions, 311 passing yards, 3 passing touchdowns, 0 interceptions, 70 rushing yards, 12 rushes, 1 rushing touchdown
Duffy put an exclamation point on New Haven’s inaugural season as an NEC and NCAA Division I member by delivering a sensational performance against visiting Merrimack on Saturday. The junior quarterback orchestrated a second-half comeback that saw the Chargers bounce back from a 10-point halftime deficit to score a 41-31 victory over the Warriors. Opening the afternoon with the game’s first score, a one-yard scamper into the end zone, Duffy followed a Liam Quigley field goal with a 70-yard touchdown bomb to Jonathan Lawson to knot the score up at 24-all midway through the third quarter. That throw was the fourth-longest in the NEC this season. The Floridian continued to take control of the game and fuel the Chargers’ torrid scoring run in the fourth quarter. After Quigley kicked the go-ahead field goal just 15 seconds into the stanza, he threw touchdown passes of 37 and 60 yards to give his team a comfortable 41-24 lead with 5:04 left to play. With two weeks to go in the 2025 regular season campaign, Duffy, who racked up 311 passing yards and 70 rushing yards in the win, tops the league’s charts in several passing categories. He is first in touchdown throws (22), passing yards (2,347) and passing yards per game (234.7). In addition, Duffy is ranked among the nation’s top-15 in each of those three categories, with his 22 touchdown passes being the sixth-most. Duffy closed out his first season as an NEC signal caller with two NEC/Atlantic Tomorrow’s Office Offensive Player of the Week nods.