Duke football coach Manny Diaz announced on Friday night that tight end [autotag]Nicky Dalmolin[/autotag] will miss the remainder of the 2024 season.
The first-year Blue Devils coach said after the team’s victory over the Florida State Seminoles that Dalmolin, a fifth-year Blue Devil, suffered a lower leg injury during practice in the middle of the week.
With Dalmolin already having played six games this season, his final year of eligibility, there’s a strong chance that the injury also ended his collegiate career.
Dalmolin surprised Duke football fans back in May when he announced he’d be returning for a fifth season. He’d finished each of the previous three years with at least 100 receiving yards, but he’d never ended a campaign with more than 170.
Through six games this fall, he was on track to shatter that personal best. He hauled in 11 passes for 167 yards over the first half of the season, including his first career 100-yard game against Middle Tennessee. Dalmolin caught two touchdowns in that game as well, another career first.
With fellow tight end Jeremiah Hasley also out for the year with an injury he suffered against Northwestern in Week 2, the Blue Devils turned to redshirt sophomore Jake Taylor as their primary tight end against FSU. He caught one of his three targets for one yard against the Seminoles.