Having played five games, Duke football isn’t quite halfway through its 2018 season. But with an open week, now seems like a good time to take stock of the season.
As a jumping-off point, I’m going to use the questions I posited back in August as reasons for caution. Not surprisingly, we have a lot of incompletes. But some trend lines are more encouraging than others.
1. Is there an ACC-level backup quarterback?
One of the questions, we hoped would remain hypothetical, turned very real in the second half of Duke’s win over Northwestern, in week two, when Daniel Jones went down with a collarbone injury.