Two Duke Blue Devils players opted out of the 2020 football season, coach David Cutcliffe announced. Back offensive guard Jacob Rimmer and long snapper Ben Wyatt will miss the season due to concern over COVID-19
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00:00 I want to mention this before I move on.
00:02 We do have two players that have made tough decisions that
00:07 just weren't comfortable with playing in the environment of this virus.
00:12 And we certainly support them in every way.
00:16 The two great young men, Jacob Remmer, an offensive lineman from Milan, Tennessee.
00:21 And then Ben Wyatt, our starting deep snapper from Charlotte,
00:27 that will be finishing school and doing the things they've got to do there.
00:31 And again, we support those types of decisions and all of them know that and
00:36 they will stay on scholarship until they finish their degrees this coming spring.
00:42 So, well, John Taylor has started for us in the field goal and
00:46 extra points now, the entire season a year ago.
00:50 He knows our entire operation in punt.
00:55 He can direct traffic out there.
00:57 He's talented, we're very, very fortunate.
01:00 I think Ben in fact knew that, that he wasn't just walking away and
01:05 leaving us high and dry.
01:06 And we've got a couple of young people that are here,
01:10 that are deep snappers and showing some promise.
01:14 So I always will also go through at some point during camp,
01:19 our squad if something happened, God forbid injury.
01:23 We'll have a few position players that are capable of doing it.
01:26 So always carry an emergency guy when we're on the road in that regard also,
01:32 but I feel good about John, really good about John.