2012: Returning starting quarterback ... slated to start under center for the third consecutive season ... very experienced signal caller ... extremely knowledgeable of the Blue Devil offensive system ... post-season honors candidate ... professional prospect ... the most accurate passer in Duke history, holding the school career record for pass completion percentage (.634) ... aiming to become the first QB in school history to post three consecutive seasons with 2,500+ passing yards ... in 29 career games (23 starts), has completed 601-of-948 (.634) passes for 6,352 yards with 32 TDs and 30 INTs while rushing 115 times for minus-117 yards and eight TDs ... owns a career pass efficiency rating of 124.49 ... has played 1,579 career snaps ... has compiled 6,235 total offensive yards ... enters 2012 with streak of 24 consecutive games with 10+ pass completions — four games shy of the school record held by Thaddeus Lewis (28) ... owns eight career 300-yard passing games including a career-best 368-yard performance at Boston College in 2011 ... responsible for 40 career TDs (32 passing & 8 rushing) ... has posted a .700+ pass completion percentage in eight career games including a career-high and single-game school record .933 (28-30) mark at Navy in 2010 ... owns two of the top seven passing seasons in school history (3,131 yards in 2010 [3rd] & 2,891 yards in 2011 [7th]) ... has thrown for 150+ yards in 17 straight and 22 of the last 24 contests dating back to the start of the 2010 season ... enters the 2012 campaign with just one sub-.500 single-game completion percentage over the past 17 outings ... has led the ACC in completions per game in each of the past two seasons while ranking among the conference’s top three QBs in both passing yards and total offensive yards per game both years ... has three career games with two rushing TDs against Navy (2010), Virginia (2010) and Tulane (2011) ... ranks seventh on the ACC’s all-time chart for pass completion percentage (minimum 500 attempts), trailing only Virginia’s Matt Schaub (.670), Wake Forest’s Riley Skinner (.669), Maryland’s Scott Milanovich (.662), Florida State’s EJ Manuel (.661), Clemson’s Cullen Harper (.637) and N.C. State’s Philip Rivers (.635) ... ranks tied for 10th on the ACC’s career chart for 300-yard passing games and sits five games shy of second place on the list (Chris Weinke, Florida State [13]) and 10 games short of the all-time leader, N.C. State’s Philip Rivers (18) ... ranks 30th on the ACC’s all-time passing yardage chart, just behind Danny Kanell of Florida State (6,372) ... sits just 287 total offensive yards shy of cracking the ACC’s all-time top 30 list (No. 30 — Charlie Ward, Florida State [6,522]) ... stands 3,648 passing yards shy of becoming just the third player in ACC history (Philip Rivers, N.C. State [13,484] & Thaddeus Lewis, Duke [10,065]) and 76th player in NCAA history to throw for 10,000+ career yards ... is 100 pass completions away from 10th place on the ACC’s career list (No. 10 — Darian Durant, North Carolina [701]) ... is 295 pass attempts away from 10th place on the ACC’s all-time chart (No. 10 — Jamie Barnette, N.C. State [1,243]) ... on Duke’s career charts, ranks second in pass efficiency rating, tied for second in most TD passes of 50+ yards, tied for second in most games with 4+ TD passes (2), tied for third in most games with 30+ pass completions (4), fourth in most games with 20+ pass completions (15), tied for fourth in most 300-yard passing games, tied for fourth in most seasons with 2,000+ passing yards (2), fifth in passing yards, fifth in pass completions, fifth in pass attempts, fifth in average yards per passing attempt (6.74), fifth in most games with 1+ TD pass (20), fifth in TD-to-INT ratio (1.07-1), tied for fifth in most seasons with 10+ TD passes (2), tied for fifth in most 100-yard passing games (26), sixth in total offensive yards, sixth in TD passes, sixth in most 200-yard passing games (18), tied for sixth for most TD passes by a combination (10 with WR Conner Vernon), seventh in total offensive plays (1,063), seventh in most rushing TDs by a QB (8), tied for seventh in most seasons with 1,000+ passing yards (2) and tied for ninth in most starts by a QB ... holds school single-game records for pass completions (41 vs. Boston College, 2011) and pass completion percentage (.933 [28-30] vs. Navy, 2010) ... shares Duke single-game record for consecutive pass completions (16 vs. Navy, 2010; tied with D. Bryant vs. N.C. State, 2000) ... among active ACC players, ranks first in total offensive yards, first in passing yards, first in career 300-yard passing games, tied for first in career 300-yard total offensive yardage games (6), first in career 200-yard passing games, second in career pass completion percentage, second in total TD responsibility and tied for second in TD passes ... one of four QBs in Duke history to post a 3,000-yard passing season, joining Ben Bennett (1982-83), Anthony Dilweg (1988) and Lewis (2009), and could join Bennett as the only players to accomplish the feat twice ... aiming to become the seventh QB in Duke history to lead the team in passing yardage in three consecutive seasons, joining Leo Hart (1968-69-70), Mike Dunn (1976-77-78), Bennett (1980-81-82-83), Steve Slayden (1984-85-86-87), Spence Fischer (1992-93-94-95), and Lewis (2006-07-08-09) ... could become just the fourth QB in school history to throw for double figure TD totals in three straight campaigns, joining Slayden (1985-86-87), Fischer (1993-94-95) and Lewis (2006-07-08-09) ... owns five of the top 50 single-game passing yardage totals in Duke history, trailing only Dilweg (8), Bennett (7), Fischer (7), Lewis (7) and Dave Brown (6) ... has produced a career-long 70-yard pass twice — to Conner Vernon against Wake Forest in 2010 and to Juwan Thompson versus North Carolina in 2011 with both resulting in TDs ... has 15 career TD passes of 20+ yards ... career-best rush from scrimmage covered 37 yards for a TD against Virginia in 2011 ... best single-game rushing yardage total was a 28-yard performance on nine attempts in Duke’s win over Navy in 2010 ... has engineered three fourth quarter, game-winning scoring drives against Virginia (2010), Boston College (2011) and FIU (2011) ... two-time Academic All-ACC selection (2010-11) and the only QB in the conference to be named to the league’s all-academic unit in each of the past two years ... nominated for the 2012 AFCA Good Works Team ... two-year counselor at the Manning Passing Academy (2011-12) ... one of three Duke players enrolled in graduate school, joining Lee Butler and Brian Moore.
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