Duke’s Daniel Jones Gets Compared To Peyton Manning, Officially Enters The Pre-Draft Hype Cycle
Photo: Mark Brown (Getty) Duke quarterback Daniel Jones lit up the Temple Owls in the Independence Bowl today, throwing for 423 yards and five touchdowns while leading the Blue Devils to a 56-27 victory. Jones, who is exactly the kind of quarterback—a very tall white one—who tends to get football analysts and commentators in a lather, spent the afternoon doing just that. Throughout ESPN’s broadcast, announcers Mike Couzens and Kirk Morrison were utterly enamored of Jones’s height and his ability to exploit Temple’s blown coverages. At one point, Morrison got so excited that he broke out the...
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