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Duke tight end Nicky Dalmolin returning for final year of eligibility

Duke tight end Nicky Dalmolin, who caught four touchdowns in 2022 and surpassed 100 receiving yards in each of the past three seasons, will be back for 2024.

Duke tight end Nicky Dalmolin will be back for the 2024 season, he announced through social media on Wednesday.

“Run it back!” Dalmolin wrote on the post.

Dalmolin, a four-year player for the Blue Devils, will exercise his additional year of eligibility from the COVID regulations in 2020. Across 41 career games played, the 6-foot-4 Georgia native hauled in 54 passes for 480 yards and five touchdowns.

Four of Dalmolin’s scores came during the 2022 season when he also set career highs with 21 receptions and 170 yards. The Blue Devils tight end caught multiple passes in eight of his 10 games that year.

As a senior in 2023, Dalmolin didn’t add to his touchdown total, but he did help a successful 2-point conversion. He finished with 10 receptions for 147 yards on the year.

Dalmolin will play alongside new quarterback Maalik Murphy in the first year of new head coach Manny Diaz.

Duke statistical leaders through four games

Does anyone on this list worry you?

There are few programs college football fans are buying more stock in right now than Duke. Maybe the only program that has turned more heads is the Deion Sanders-led Colorado. ESPN decided that there’s enough interest in the Blue Devils that the next episode of “College GameDay” will be broadcast from Durham. For once, people on Duke’s campus are excited and not about men’s basketball.

It is there that Notre Dame will play this weekend coming off the toughest of losses to Ohio State. The Irish will be facing a team trying to prove it’s for real and belongs with the best of college football. Plus, a raucous crowd at Wallace Wade Stadium likely will be waiting for them. Only they will be able to put a damper on the celebratory mood.

Here are the players who have gotten it done for the Blue Devils so far and will look to continue to do so against the Irish: