Duke Football Offseason

[Bob Green]

Athlon has ranked the 130 projected starting quarterbacks for 2018:

https://athlonsports.com/college-foo...-rankings-2018

Here are the relevant names for Duke:

19. Josh Jackson, Virginia Tech (if he is eligible)
20. Kelly Bryant, Clemson
32. Charlie Brewer, Baylor
37. Clayton Thorson, Northwestern
38. Daniel Jones, Duke
39. Malik Rosier, Miami
40. TaQuon Marshall, Georgia Tech
62. Kenny Pickett, Pitt
65. Kendall Hinton, Wake Forest (suspended first three games of the season)
74. Chazz Surratt, North Carolina
98. Bryce Perkins, Virginia
105. Kelvin Hopkins, Army

[HereBeforeCoachK]

Athlon has ranked the 130 projected starting quarterbacks for 2018:

https://athlonsports.com/college-foo...-rankings-2018

Here are the relevant names for Duke:

19. Josh Jackson, Virginia Tech (if he is eligible)
20. Kelly Bryant, Clemson
32. Charlie Brewer, Baylor
37. Clayton Thorson, Northwestern
38. Daniel Jones, Duke
39. Malik Rosier, Miami
40. TaQuon Marshall, Georgia Tech
62. Kenny Pickett, Pitt
65. Kendall Hinton, Wake Forest (suspended first three games of the season)
74. Chazz Surratt, North Carolina
98. Bryce Perkins, Virginia
105. Kelvin Hopkins, Army

Well we need Daniel to be a lot better than 38th...and he will be if he can stay healthy, and if what TJ is saying about the new WR coach is true.

On the flip side, this should throw some cold water on those folks trying to put him into the NFL so soon....

[OldPhiKap]

Athlon has ranked the 130 projected starting quarterbacks for 2018:

https://athlonsports.com/college-foo...-rankings-2018

Here are the relevant names for Duke:

38. Daniel Jones, Duke
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74. Chazz Surratt, North Carolina

Heh.

[Devil in the Blue Dress]

Athlon has ranked the 130 projected starting quarterbacks for 2018:

https://athlonsports.com/college-foo...-rankings-2018

Here are the relevant names for Duke:

19. Josh Jackson, Virginia Tech (if he is eligible)
20. Kelly Bryant, Clemson
32. Charlie Brewer, Baylor
37. Clayton Thorson, Northwestern
38. Daniel Jones, Duke
39. Malik Rosier, Miami
40. TaQuon Marshall, Georgia Tech
62. Kenny Pickett, Pitt
65. Kendall Hinton, Wake Forest (suspended first three games of the season)
74. Chazz Surratt, North Carolina
98. Bryce Perkins, Virginia
105. Kelvin Hopkins, Army

How nice to see Daniel ranked well above one Chazz Surratt.

[PDDuke85]

How nice to see Daniel ranked well above one Chazz Surratt.

Go easy on Chazz. Some find it difficult to balance top flight D1 football with the rigors of stringent academics.

[Reilly]

Duke #17 QB room on this list:

https://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...e-2018-season/

[HereBeforeCoachK]

Go easy on Chazz. Some find it difficult to balance top flight D1 football with the rigors of stringent academics.

That gave me a chuckle. And it's interesting, since I don't know if we have DJ if Chazz doesn't de-commit. Perhaps some in the know around here can verify that or not.

That said, I would hope DJ would be much higher than 38th best in reality, and I would assume Surratt would be better than 74th in reality. I can't imagine Cut recruited him that hard if he wasn't better than 74ish material...

And to throw in a monkey wrench, I wondered last year during DJ's slump (injury caused apparently) what would've happened with Sirk still on the roster...

[Bob Green]

Duke #17 QB room on this list:

And 4th in the ACC behind Clemson, Florida State and N.C. State. Looking at OOC opponents, the list ranks Northwestern at #7 but Baylor doesn't make the cut.

[Bostondevil]

Have they announced when Homecoming is this year?

[Devil in the Blue Dress]

Have they announced when Homecoming is this year?

No, not yet.

[duke2x]

Have they announced when Homecoming is this year?

Don't book any tickets because my shot in the dark guess is UVA (10/20) over NCCU and UNC. Duke has disfavored night football games on Homecoming because it interferes with the soiree. The only counterargument is that UVA was the 2016 Homecoming game. UNC was down enough last year that they might make a good homecoming opponent.

My list of proposed game themes:

9/1 Army (Military Night)
9/22 NCCU (Employee Night)
9/29 VT (Accountant/MBA Day sponsored by Fuqua)
10/20 UVA (Homecoming)
11/10 UNC (Academic Integrity Day sponsored by Judi Board) **An important reminder this late in the semester when papers start becoming due.
11/24 Wake Forest (Methodist Day and Coastal Appreciation Day co-sponsored by Duke Divinity School and Duke Marine Lab)

Please August don't be late.

[duke2x]

Athlon has ranked the 130 projected starting quarterbacks for 2018:

https://athlonsports.com/college-foo...-rankings-2018

Here are the relevant names for Duke:

19. Josh Jackson, Virginia Tech (if he is eligible)
20. Kelly Bryant, Clemson
32. Charlie Brewer, Baylor
37. Clayton Thorson, Northwestern
38. Daniel Jones, Duke

I wonder how DJ likes being ranked behind a guy that tore his ACL during his bowl game.

[budwom]

Don't book any tickets because my shot in the dark guess is UVA (10/20) over NCCU and UNC. Duke has disfavored night football games on Homecoming because it interferes with the soiree. The only counterargument is that UVA was the 2016 Homecoming game. UNC was down enough last year that they might make a good homecoming opponent.

My list of proposed game themes:

9/1 Army (Military Night)
9/22 NCCU (Employee Night)
9/29 VT (Accountant/MBA Day sponsored by Fuqua)
10/20 UVA (Homecoming)
11/10 UNC (Academic Integrity Day sponsored by Judi Board) **An important reminder this late in the semester when papers start becoming due.
11/24 Wake Forest (Methodist Day and Coastal Appreciation Day co-sponsored by Duke Divinity School and Duke Marine Lab)

Please August don't be late.

good stuff, won't dare to miss MBA day! But regarding August not being late, you'd better get to the Army game a bit earlier than 9/1, it's August 31 now...

[Reilly]

@MattRHinton tweeted a list of the top 100 players in CFB. Mark Gilbert (#75) and Joe Giles-Harris (#76) made the list.

https://twitter.com/MattRHinton

[Devil in the Blue Dress]

Have they announced when Homecoming is this year?

The dates are Sept. 21-23. https://alumni.duke.edu/campus-events/homecoming

[4Gen]

Laken Tomlinson just signed an $18M three year extension with SF--a great Duke student and representative.

[Devil in the Blue Dress]

Laken Tomlinson just signed an $18M three year extension with SF--a great Duke student and representative.

Max McCaffrey is one of his teammates.

[OldPhiKap]

Laken Tomlinson just signed an $18M three year extension with SF--a great Duke student and representative.

Max McCaffrey is one of his teammates.

Great for both of them!

[4Gen]

Laken's goal is to be a physician, and the report is that he's got the smarts to do it. I hope he won't mind the pay cut.

[Devil in the Blue Dress]

Laken's goal is to be a physician, and the report is that he's got the smarts to do it. I hope he won't mind the pay cut.

Laken and his family came from Jamaica when he was a child to find a life in the Chicago area. He's both modest and bright. His lifelong goal is to improve health care in Jamaica. He knows some money is necessary to get along, but I don't believe that money is a prime motivator for him. I speak from firsthand knowledge, not from something I read or saw online.