Last month’s NFL draft was a good-news, bad-news kind of weekend for Duke football.
On the plus side of the ledger, Daniel Jones was picked sixth by the New York Giants, While not a universally-acclaimed pick, it did make Jones Duke’s highest pick in the regular portion of the draft since Mike Junkin went fifth in 1987.
But Jones was the only former Blue Devil to hear his name called. Even two-time All-ACC linebacker Joe Giles-Harris was ignored.
Within hours of the end of the draft, we started hearing about free-agent signings. Giles-Harris signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars.