Cannot iterate over List in Thymeleaf

I am getting an error when trying to display objects from a List in my controller. I am using the Spring Boot Framework.

Here is the error :

org.springframework.expression.spel.SpelEvaluationException: EL1007E: Property or field 'description' cannot be found on null

I am using Spring Boot 2.3.4. below is the dependency in the maven pom.xml file :

<parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>2.3.4.RELEASE</version>
        <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>

Here is my thymeleaf html view :

<tbody>
    <tr th:each="proj : ${projectList}">
        <td th:text="${proj.name}"/>
        <td th:text="${proj.stage}"/>
        <td th:text="${project.description}"/>
    </tr>
</tbody>

My Project @Entity works just fine :

@Entity
public class Project {

	@Id
	@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
	private int projectID;
	private String name;
	private String stage; //incomplete, not started, in progress
	private String description;
    ...
}

And here is the controller that is taking my Project data and attempting to add it to the model.

@Controller
public class HomeController {

	@Autowired
	iProjectRepo projRepo;

	@GetMapping("/")
	public String showHome(Model model) {
		List<Project> projects = projRepo.findAll();
		model.addAttribute("projectList",projects);
		return "home";
	}
}

The findAll() is returning a List<Project> instead of an Iterable because I changed it in the ProjectRepository extending CrudRepository

@Repository
public interface iProjectRepo extends CrudRepository<Project,Integer> {

	@Override
	List<Project> findAll();  //the findAll() by default returns an Iterable.  we override it and change the return type to be a list.
}

And finally, here is my project structure :

Change

th:text="${project.description}"/>

To

th:text="${proj.description}"/>