Blue Devils Add Two More Gridiron Prospects

It was a fruitful week for the Duke football staff as they received two verbal pledges from prospects in ACC country. Glenn Williams, an athlete from Maryland, and Kinney Rucker, a defensive stopper from the Blue Devils’ backyard in Durham.

Williams, a 5-foot-10, 180-pound running back/defensive back, from Archbishop Curley High School in Baltimore. As a rusher, he was fantastic last season, racking up 1,304 yards on the ground and 17 touchdowns. The speedster was clocked in the 40-yard dash by his high school coaches and tallied a 4.48 time. He’s equally as strong, too. He put up 225 pounds on the bench 16 times.

The Blue Devils will line up at as a defensive back and he could flirt with the special teams as a return man. He took three kickoffs to the house last year. As a defender, he made 44 tackles and picked off four passes. Williams also had a scholarship offer from Northwestern.

Rucker, a 6-foot-3, 255-pound defensive end/linebacker, won’t be traveling very far when he goes off to school. The Durham (N.C.) Jordan High School product decided to honor the first school that offered him and made an early pledge to Duke. He had interest from Michigan, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Virginia and Wake Forest.

Sources have called him a “freakish athlete”. Why? He had 72 tackles, 10 sacks and scored two defensive touchdowns. He is one of the top 20 players in the state of North Carolina and is the fourth in-state player to make a pledge to the Blue Devils. He is a versatile player with a bright future on the defensive side of the ball.