Duke finished its last full week of August practice. Here's David Cutcliffe discussing the good and not so good of the week.
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00:00I think the receiving core is interesting, a lot of bodies, a lot of people.
00:07And a lot of progress has been made there.
00:09Trooper Taylor's done a great job with this group, and
00:11we've got some young people making plays and some older people making plays.
00:15Thought Damon Filial Johnson made a lot of great plays in the scrimmage.
00:20I tell you, Rocky Shelton has been really outstanding.
00:24He is the other starting linebacker now.
00:26We got a lot of young people working and making a lot of progress their game.
00:31And then John Taylor has picked up like what I thought he would do.
00:36And when Ben opted out, John's been outstanding.
00:41We've been able to put both John Taylor and
00:43Jackson Hubbard on scholarship moving forward.
00:45They've earned that.
00:47Nobody's giving them a thing.
00:49So a lot of exciting things about this team.
00:52Mateo's a bit banged up, but Dion and Jordan Waters ran the ball effectively well.
00:59We've got Mateo back, so that group has looked good.
01:03And in the kicking game, Charlie Hamm's been a little bit tight with muscles.
01:09So we've been careful with him, but he's off to a great start.
01:12Place kicking, where Mark Gilbert's been a little banged up.
01:14Lummi Young's been a little bit banged up.
01:16But no, both of those are upper body.
01:20And so they're fine.
01:24They have practiced, not missed a practice.
01:27We've just held them out of any live contact to this point.
01:32So there's nothing out there, knock on wood, right now,
01:37that I'm concerned about anything length of time as far as injury.