Darian Mensah isn’t the type to spend a summer watching highlight reels of his throws. Instead, the newest Duke Blue Devil QB packed his bags, traveled south, and began working alongside the No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, Cam Ward. It wasn’t a vacation; it was hours of footwork drills, release tweaks, and defense analysis with Ward’s personal QB coach, Darrell Colbert . Honestly, for a guy entering his first season in the ACC, this was more than just practice.

Darian Mensah, the QB for Duke football, is causing quite a stir this offseason, and for good reason. Mensah didn’t exactly steal the show after leading Tulane in 2024 as a redshirt freshman, but that changed when he signed one of the biggest NIL contracts ever, earning a staggering $8 million over two years with Du

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