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Name: Darian Mensah (Transfer from Tulane)
College: Duke
Number: 10
School Bio/Stats Link: HERE
Height: 6-3 Weight: 205
Position: Pos2:
Class/Draft Year: rSo/2028
40 Low: 4.80 40 Time: 4.88 40 High: 4.97
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Data Scout Notes: X-Future Day 2/Big Arm Pocket Passer/66%-22-6 as Starting rFr QB1 in 24 2024: NAC...12-09-24 Transfer from Tulane...2023: NAC
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Darian Mensah, Duke, Player News
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Darian Mensah reached a record-setting passing touchdown total for Duke as the Blue Devils stayed alive for a chance at an Atlantic Coast Conference championship by defeating Wake Forest 49-32 on Saturday. Duke (7-5, 6-2 ACC) can reach next week's ACC ti tle game if a couple of results in the conference fall its way later Saturday night. Mensah also ran for his first TD of the season. The transfer from Tulane finished the game 24-for-35 passing for 268 yards in the air. Anderson Castle and Nate Sheppard each had two touchdown runs and the Blue Devils never trailed in defeating Wake Forest (8-4, 4-4) for the fourth year in a row. Sahmir Hagans caught a touchdown pass and made an 80-yard kickoff return to set up the first points of the fourth quarter. Rob by Ashford threw for two touchdowns and 342 yards and ran for a touchdown and a two-point conversion, but Wake Forest's three-game winning streak ended. The Demon Deacons committed four turnovers - including a fumble at the Duke 18-yard line with 6:38 le ft and were hit with 97 yards worth of penalties. Duke, which used a fake field goal to set up the winning touchdown a week earlier at North Carolina, pulled off a successful fake punt with less than 10 minutes to go with punter Kade Reynoldson running f or a first down. The Blue Devils didn't score on the drive but chewed up an extra 2½ minutes while holding a 42-32 lead. Mensah's third-quarter touchdown pass to Hagans for 30 yards set the Duke single-season record with 27 before he added another in th e game's final minute. - Duke/AP College Football
(DS#7 QB) rSo/2028  QB Darian Mensah, Duke
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WEEK 10 ACC QUARTERBACK OF THE WEEK: Darian Mensah, R-So., QB, Duke (San Luis Obispo, California),...Led Duke to a 46-45 victory at Clemson to improve to 4-1 in ACC play...Marched the Blue Devils down the field for a 94-yard game-winning drive with a dec iding touchdown and two-point conversion with 40 seconds to play...In the game-winning march, Mensah completed six of eight passes for 83 yards and two third or fourth-down conversions...Helped Duke go five-for-five on fourth-down plays at Clemson with f our completions for firsts...Passed for 361 yards to lift his season total to 2,572, the most through a QB's first eight starts in Duke history and the second most by any Duke QB through the first eight games of a season.Threw three of his four to uchdown passes in the opening frame. The three scores are the most in a quarter by a Blue Devil since Daniel Jones in 2018...His performance helped Duke to its first win in Death Valley since 1980 and the first time the Blue Devils had consecutive victor ies against Clemson since 1969 and 1970...Helped the Blue Devils extend their road ACC winning streak to five games, the program's longest since 1961-63...Has not thrown an interception since the 3:28 mark of the second quarter at Tulane on September 13. The string of 209 consecutive passes without an interception is the longest in Duke history, the longest active streak in the ACC and the third longest active streak within the FBS. - ACC Football
(DS#7 QB) rSo/2028 QB Darian Mensah, Duke
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Duke coach Manny Diaz did not want to chance overtime at Clemson's Death Valley. His team made sure he wouldn't have to. Nate Sheppard had a 3-yard touchdown run with 40 seconds left and Duke followed with a two-point conversion from Darian Mensah to Sha mir Hagans to win at Clemson for the first time since 1980 with a 46-45 victory Saturday. "Going extra innings at Death Valley isn't really a good plan," Diaz said. Winning in regulation somewhere you hadn't in 45 years? "This is a major step for our pro gram," Diaz said. The Blue Devils (5-3, 4-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) trailed 45-38 and started the game-winning drive on their 6-yard line. Mensah led an 11-play drive in which he converted two fourth downs to set up Sheppard's TD run.There was no hesitation from Duke's Diaz who kept the offense on the field and Mensah quicky found Hagans for the decisive points. It was a quirky game of dramatic momentum swings. Duke looked unstoppable in gaining 199 yards in the first quarter to lead 21-7. But Clemson woke up with three straight TDs to lead 28-21. The Tigers looked in control again with six minutes left until Duke's final drive. "We just stayed poised and showed our confidence," Mensah said. It was another low moment in a terrible season for Clemson (3-5, 1-4), the defending ACC champions and a trendy pick to win Dabo Swinney's third national title. The Tigers have lost four home games for the first time since 1998. They're on pace for Swinney's worst season since 2010 when the Tigers were 6 -7 and the coach thought his time at the school was done. Instead, he won eight ACC titles and national championships after the 2016 and 2018 seasons. "I feel like I'm in 2010 all over again," Swinney said. After Duke took the final lead, the Tigers trie d a desperation, pass the ball to anyone open play as the clock ran out. When Duke finally stopped the play, the sidelines jumped into joyous celebration. After all, it had been more than four decades since the football Blue Devils had left Death Valley with a victory. - Duke/AP College Football
(DS#7 QB) rSo/2028 QB Darian Mensah, Duke
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Darian Mensah threw two touchdown passes to Cooper Barkate, Nate Sheppard ran for two more, and Duke scored 35 unanswered points in routing Syracuse 38-3 Saturday. Mensah, who now has 13 touchdown passes, was 22 of 28 for 268 yards. Sheppard had 168 yard s on 15 carries for the Blue Devils (3-2, 2-0 Atlantic Coast Conference), including scoring runs of 49 and 12 yards. Que'sean Brown and Sahmir Hagans had five catches each for 64 and 59 yards, respectively. Duke amassed 504 yards of total offense averagi ng nearly 8 yards per play. Syracuse (3-2, 1-1 ACC) quarterback Rickie Collins, making his first collegiate start replacing Steve Angeli, out for the season with a torn Achilles, was 24 of 37 for 229 yards. Johntay Cook had eight receptions for 84 yards but fumbled twice, one on a controversial play that shifted the game's momentum.Yasin Wllis ran for 63 yards. The game turned early in the second quarter with Syracuse trailing 10-3 and driving. Collins hit Cook on a 19-yard pass play to the Duke 39. The Blue Devils were called for targeting, but after a lengthy review, officials ruled Cook fumbled. The ball was recovered by Bradley Gompers and the Blue Devils scored just three plays later on a 34-yard strike from Mensah to Barkate, extending the margin to 17-3. Syracuse never threatened after that. Things looked promising at the start for Collins as he completed his first pass to Cook for 18 yards, but his next attempt was batted down. Collins completed his third pass to Cook but Duke safety Ca leb Weaver intercepted his next attempt and returned it 40 yards, setting up a 22-yard field goal by Todd Pelino. Syracuse tied the score at 3 on a 29-yard field goal by Tripp Woody, but then it was all Duke, who led 24-3 at the half. - Duke/AP College F ootball
(DS#7 QB) rSo/2028 QB Darian Mensah, Duke
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Darian Mensah threw three touchdown passes and Duke snapped a two-game losing streak, overcoming a 13-point deficit to beat N.C. State 45-33 on Saturday. The Blue Devils (2-2, 1-0 Atlantic Coast Conference opener) scored 21 points in less than four minut es of game time spanning the two halves to surge into the lead. Anderson Castle added three rushing touchdowns, including a clinching 66-yard dash on third down with 2:19 remaining. CJ Bailey tossed two touchdowns passes to Terrell Anderson but was inter cepted three times for N.C. State (3-1, 1-1). Hollywood Smothers rushed for 123 yards and one touchdown and Will Wilson had two 1-yard TD runs. Anderson picked up 166 yards on six catches.Mensah was 19-for-28 for 269 yards. Castle gained 92 rushin g yards on 12 attempts. NC State drove 99 yards to score on the second play of the second quarter on Bailey's 6-yard throw to Anderson and later extended the lead to 20-7. The big play came inside of two minutes in the first half when Duke linebacker Tre Freeman intercepted Bailey's fourth-down pass, returning it 67 yards to set up a go-ahead 1-yard touchdown run from Castle. - Duke/AP College Football
(DS#7 QB) rSo/2028 QB Darian Mensah, Duke
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Darian Mensah threw three second-half touchdown passes in his Duke debut and the Blue Devils broke free from a halftime tie to defeat Elon 45-17 in Thursday night's season opener. Mensah, a transfer from Tulane, finished 27-for-34 for 389 yards, includin g 11-for-11 in the second half. The Blue Devils posted the final 21 points after Elon closed within 24-17 in the opening minute of the fourth quarter. Elon's Landen Clark, a redshirt freshman in his first collegiate start, gained 61 yards on the ground w ith a touchdown. He also threw for 101 yards.Mensah connected on three passes to Cooper Barkate covering 73 yards on the first possession of the second half before hitting Sahmir Hagans for a 15-yard touchdown play. Barkate, a transfer from Harvar d, picked up 117 yards on five receptions. Hagans also caught a fourth-quarter touchdown pass. The Blue Devils broke it open on Que'Sean Brown's 78-yard punt return for a 38-17 edge. - Duke/AP College Football
(DS#7 QB) rSo/2028 QB Darian Mensah, Duke
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WEEK 2 AAC PLAYER OF THE WEEK HONORABLE MENTION: Darian Mensah, RFr., QB, Tulane,...Completed 19 of 29 passes for a career-high 342 yards and two touchdowns in a 34-27 loss to No. 16/17 Kansas State. - AAC Football
(DS#7 QB) rSo/2028 QB Darian Mensah, Duke
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