The Duke football team hits the field at Wallace Wade Stadium in three weeks for the season opener, but Blue Devils fans still don’t know whether Texas transfer [autotag]Maalik Murphy[/autotag] or sophomore [autotag]Grayson Loftis[/autotag] will start the season at quarterback.
Based on head coach Manny Diaz’s Friday appearance on ACC Network, fans shouldn’t expect a decision in the coming days.
Diaz spoke about his team’s quarterback battle during an episode of ACC Football Road Trip and said the team will scrimmage each of the next two weekends.
Ideally, a decision would be made after those two game situations, but Diaz only specified that the team would name a starter if it became clear.
The second of those two scrimmages would come the weekend of August 17-18, so the team would still get a full two weeks of practice before the first game against Elon. However, it sounds like Loftis and Murphy will make the decision come down to the wire.