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Two Duke football players make Phil Steele Preseason All-ACC team

The Phil Steele Preseason All-ACC teams were revealed on Wednesday, and two Blue Devils made the Second Team ahead of the 2024 season.

The Phil Steele Preseason All-ACC teams were revealed on Wednesday, and two Duke football stars made the Second Team.

Wide receiver Jordan Moore and linebacker Tre Freeman both made the preseason squad ahead of head coach [autotag]Manny Diaz[/autotag]’s debut season.

Moore led the Blue Devils with 835 yards and eight receiving touchdowns last season. He set a season-high with 117 yards against the Virginia Cavaliers and caught three touchdowns against the North Carolina Tar Heels.

He also put together another 100-yard game against Pittsburgh the week after the Virginia game. Across his last three regular-season games, Moore had 23 receptions for 311 yards and four touchdowns.

On the defensive side, Freeman ended the season with 106 total tackles, the first Duke defender to reach triple digits since Koby Quansah in 2019. He also created five tackles for loss, recorded an interception, and broke up three passes. 

After an offseason that saw Duke lose more than a half-dozen starters to the NFL and the transfer portal, no other Blue Devils made the preseason team.

Duke’s season begins on August 30 against Elon.

Projecting the five highest-rated Blue Devils in EA Sports’ College Football 25

With EA Sports College Football 25 on the horizon, here’s our ranking of who we think will be the five highest-rated Duke players in the game.

EA Sports has officially done it. They have successfully built the momentum for the latest installment in their beloved college football video game series. It’s been a long wait, but with the teaser trailer they dropped earlier in February and the confirmation early this week that every FBS team had opted in for the video game, it’s finally starting to feel real. The official reveal of the game will come in May.

According to ESPN, Thursday was also the first day that college football players could begin opting to participate in the video game. The report said players would receive $600 and a free game copy.With the momentum of this game hitting a fever pitch and the fact that we are getting closer to release, we decided to look at how Duke may look when the game is released.Without further ado, here’s a look at who we think will be the five highest-rated Blue Devils in the new game when it releases this summer.

Know your foe, Duke: Which Blue Devils could give Notre Dame problems

The Irish face off against a very good Duke team

For the second weekend in a row, [autotag]Notre Dame football[/autotag] will face off against another ranked team in [autotag]Duke[/autotag].

We know it’s a big game, ESPN College GameDay will be in attendance, as the Irish hit the road for this contest. Not many expected the Blue Devils to be undefeated and ranked to face Notre Dame when the season started, but here were are.

Duke has been surprisingly good on defense, their most points given up this season has been 14 to, check notes, Northwestern. The Mildcats won’t have nearly the firepower that the Irish bring, but holding Clemson down in the season opener was impressive.

Here are five Blue Devils that could give Notre Dame problems on Saturday evening.

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: