2023 Duke Football Recruiting

[Bob Green]

Quarterback Grayson Loftis commits:

https://twitter.com/grayqb12/status/...412593152?s=21

[Acymetric]

Let's gooooo! Nice to get a QB on early.

[chrishoke]

That Georgia offer sure stands out.

[tommy]

Quarterback Grayson Loftis commits:

https://twitter.com/grayqb12/status/...412593152?s=21

Duke has done well with Graysons . . .

I'm sure others will have fun with the name Grayson being in any kind of Duke uniform. . .

[chrishoke]

He won a SC state championship this past season. https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/...011239893.html

[AustinDevil]

Seems like a real peach!

[CameronBornAndBred]

Copied from the thread that was started 3 years ago. Took out a couple redundancies.

Coach Elko lands his first QB, Grayson Loftis from Greer, SC.

https://n.rivals.com/content/prospec...-loftis-248795

https://247sports.com/player/grayson-loftis-46086670/

[hallcity]

That Georgia offer sure stands out.

Did Georgia want him as a QB?

[Indoor66]

Seems like a real peach!

Or Palmetto.

[dukelifer]

He won a SC state championship this past season. https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/...011239893.html

There is a highlight video out there. Kid has a nice arm and had to come back to win the game with under 4 min.

[CameronBornAndBred]

There is a highlight video out there. Kid has a nice arm and had to come back to win the game with under 4 min.

He ain't any good unless he can do it in 13 seconds.

[chrishoke]

Did Georgia want him as a QB?

Yes, as a pro style QB.

[jimsumner]

He ain't any good unless he can do it in 13 seconds.

Does he have Travis Kelce to throw to?

[jv001]

Does he have Travis Kelce to throw to?

Or Noah Gray

GoDuke!

[jimsumner]

Or Noah Gray

GoDuke!

If Kelce is as good a mentor as he is tight end then Noah Gray has it made.

[Heaven's Guardian]

Yes, as a pro style QB.

At one point, though he mentions in one of the articles interviewing him that a previous OC offered him and he didn't have a committable offer from the current staff.

Not that it matters to me - I trust the staff evaluation and am excited that we're looking to recruit QBs as passers first. It's always great to have a dual-threat QB, but our most successful teams in the Cutcliffe era had pass-first offenses.

[Acymetric]

At one point, though he mentions in one of the articles interviewing him that a previous OC offered him and he didn't have a committable offer from the current staff.

Not that it matters to me - I trust the staff evaluation and am excited that we're looking to recruit QBs as passers first. It's always great to have a dual-threat QB, but our most successful teams in the Cutcliffe era had pass-first offenses.

Do you have a link? Monken has been there two years now, so the previous OC would have been handing out a really early offer for that to be true.

[jimsumner]

At one point, though he mentions in one of the articles interviewing him that a previous OC offered him and he didn't have a committable offer from the current staff.

Not that it matters to me - I trust the staff evaluation and am excited that we're looking to recruit QBs as passers first. It's always great to have a dual-threat QB, but our most successful teams in the Cutcliffe era had pass-first offenses.

Boone, Connette and Sirk were the primary QBs of Cut's most successful teams and all three were dual-threat QBs. Daniel Jones was a very effective runner. The model began to fall apart after Jones left. Harris was a better runner than passer, Brice a mediocre passer and poor runner and Duke's offense was just a train wreck during Holmberg's year as a starter, so it's hard to adequately evaluate him, IMO. But the days of a Sean Renfree throwing darts while being totally ineffective as a runner are probably over. Most top college quarterbacks need to be able to throw and run these days and I'm pretty sure Elko isn't bringing in any quaterbacks who can't run.

[peloton]

I've got to say, I'm impressed by what I'm reading in regard to Grayson Loftis. Let's hope he ends up "signing on the dotted line" because it sure sounds like he has the physical talent as well as the desired personality traits you'd like to see in an effective QB.

But the days of a Sean Renfree throwing darts while being totally ineffective as a runner are probably over.

Jim, what I gather then is, Ben Bennett (God love him) also is not walking through that door.

[AustinDevil]

Or Palmetto.

I take it you’re not familiar with Gaffney.