Dan Mahan

So second and nine, you're at your 15 now.

Clock is now your friend in terms of like, hey, we're just going to milk this because the next snap wasn't until the 58th second mark, and it was a three-yard run by Dan Mahan.

So now it's third and six, and now you're at your own 18.

You throw this ball right now.

Yeah.

I know, I, I didn't even think of it being a season high for passing yards, 'cause they threw the ball so well against William & Mary, and then I just, I don't think of the Dan Mahan of it.

Yeah.

Um...

I have absolutely no way to explain... game outside of UVA forgot that they were supposed to be playing this game.

It's not like Ashton Daniels' running ability is surprising.

Ashton Daniels is a starting quarterback at Florida State.

But you can't let the other quarterback score the amount of times that Ashton Daniels did.

He scored five times.

He's not Josh Allen.

I'll try to get through these quickly.

At 4-0 Duke, there are still questions about whether sixth-year San Jose State transfer Walker Egett or young backup Dan Mahan is good enough to get the Blue Devils through the more difficult games remaining on their schedule, maybe even including at Georgia Tech this week.

At 2-2 UNC, similar talk surrounds the sixth-year senior Wisconsin transfer Billy Edwards Jr., although he did elevate his game in the Tar Heels' competitive loss to number three Notre Dame last week.

At 2-2 East Carolina, the conversation centers on whether Miami Hurricanes transfer Emory Williams, who jumped over Mitch Griffiths on the Pirates' depth chart two weeks ago, can successfully build on his big number debut against NC Central now that ECU is entering eight straight games against the more competitive American Conference opponents.

We'll do our film fallout segment, though a little less to discuss in this William & Mary game.

Be a bit more focused on some of the people further down the depth chart, like Dan Mahan and his performance.

get into our pick segment, and then we'll do a bit of a review for the bye week as to what we think Duke's going to look like through the rest of this season.

Going back and looking at the schedule... and seeing what we expect these next several games to look like now that we've seen the rest of our schedule go out and compete.

Simmons takes a pretty nice hit there on about the three or four yard line and just takes that in stride too and waltzes right into the end zone.

This was a really fun play.

I mean, the announcers clearly didn't realize it, but I don't think a lot of other fans caught on that Dan Mahan had come onto the field.

I mean, at that point, it's 17-7.

Freshman running back C.J. Givers got into the end zone for the first time.

And then Dan Mahan, who was fantastic in his action, he threw his first three touchdowns of his collegiate career.

So a cool moment for those young guys.

But all around, Duke, again, it handled business.

That's impressive that they were able to do something like that and for as many players to play.

You mentioned C.J. Givers getting into the end zone for the first time.

Dan Mahan was throwing the football all over the yard.

We saw Brody Keefe come up with his first collegiate major playing time and an Insane touchdown catch right there in the left front corner of the end zone near the pylon, able to haul it in there.

Nobody's surprised by them beating up on William and Mary.

No, and good snaps, too, for Dan Mahan, who was 6 of 7 for 126 yards, three touchdowns in this game.

So getting their young second-year quarterback, who is not competitional, to get some reps and getting him some experience, where he's actually played a couple times in games this season, more as kind of that change-of-pace quarterback to run the football game.

But that's positive for them that he got some opportunities if something were to happen to Egan.