Class Autopsy

Duke 2023 — what happened to every signee.

Duke’s 2023 class brought in 26 signees. 0 reached the NFL.

26
signees, National Signing Day 2023
0
reached the NFL.

The journey stack

One row per signee, ranked by signing-day national rank. Each chit is a stop; the line between them is a transfer. Open a row for the season-by-season record.

Peyton Jones
No.810 national · RB
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1 transferLiberty
Duke — 2023: 29.0, 2024: 38.0, 2025: 32.0
Liberty — no scored seasons on record
Kevin O'Connor
No.846 national · LB
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StayedNever transferred
Duke — 2023: unscored, 2024: 0.0, 2025: 0.0
Marquise Collins
No.874 national · RB
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1 transferUAB
Duke — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored
UAB — 2025: unscored
Grayson Loftis
No.882 national · QB
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1 transferCharlotte
Duke — 2023: 28.0, 2024: unscored
Charlotte — 2025: 14.0
Semaj Turner
No.903 national · DL
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StayedNever transferred
Duke — 2023: 0.0, 2024: unscored, 2025: 0.0
Terry Simmons
No.913 national · DL
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1 transferSouth Florida
Duke — 2023: unscored, 2024: 0.0, 2025: unscored
South Florida — no scored seasons on record
Moussa Kane
No.922 national · S
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1 transferUConn
Duke — 2023: 3.0, 2024: 0.0, 2025: 63.0
UConn — no scored seasons on record
Kimari Robinson
No.990 national · CB
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StayedNever transferred
Duke — 2023: 0.0, 2024: 32.0, 2025: 14.0
Quentin Ajiero
No.1002 national · CB
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PortalDestination unresolved
Duke — 2023: unscored
Entered the portal — destination not resolved in the source data; shown as unknown, not guessed.
Vance Bolyard
No.1062 national · TE
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1 transferTulane
Duke — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
Tulane — no scored seasons on record
Kendall Johnson
No.1142 national · LB
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StayedNever transferred
Duke — 2023: 8.0, 2024: 0.0, 2025: 41.0
DaShawn Stone
No.1173 national · S
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StayedNever transferred
Duke — 2023: 0.0, 2024: 46.0, 2025: 72.0
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The receipts

No recruiting service wrote a word here. The national rank was the promise; what happened next is the whole story.

Never made the league

“The No. 810 player in America.”

signed Duke → never drafted

Peak grade of 38 on our 0–100 scale.

The report card

Star power and cohesion are graded against all 297 qualifying classes, 2021–2023. NFL production and on-field value are graded against just the 107 other 2023 classes — a 2023 signee simply hasn’t had as many draft-eligible years as a 2021 signee, so those two dimensions compare like-for-like instead of penalizing recency. Overall GPA still ranks across all 297.

A
Star power
22 recruiting points
C
Cohesion
46% never transferred
C
NFL production
0 drafted, vs. 2023 peers
D
On-field value
mean peak grade 29.0, vs. 2023 peers

The class the draft ignored

NFL production, 2023 signing classes in Duke’s conference

Duke’s 0 draft picks against every other qualifying class its conference signed the same year.

drafted: 100%
3
drafted: 67%remaining: 33%
2
drafted: 67%remaining: 33%
2
remaining: 100%
0
Duke
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
Source CFB Index · player_recruiting_profiles + player_nfl_draft

The fine print

Other ways to read the same class.

Star-weighted retention
46%
Of the class’s combined star rating, this much stuck around.
Fed the conference
1
Transfers that landed at another program in Duke’s current conference.
Dropped a level
1
Signees whose portal move landed below FBS.
The quiet middle
12
Never transferred, never drafted, 3-star or below. The class nobody writes about.
Honors delivered
0
Signees who went on to earn All-America or a major national award.