Which Duke football newcomers are making an immediate impact?

Look around Wallace Wade Stadium this fall and you’ll see plenty of new faces in Duke blue and white.

From transfers slotting into key roles and freshmen already flashing in camp, the Blue Devils ' roster looks different in Manny Diaz’s second season – and the impact is already being felt. Duke signed 28 newcomers in its 2025 recruiting class, which ranked No. 31 nationally in the 247Sports Composite, and added nine transfers. The Blue Devils also return 14 players from last year’s 9–4 team that made it to the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl in Diaz's first season at the helm.

"We feel really good about the entire class," Diaz said on Aug. 11. "... We feel good that for two years in a row, our hit rate, not just on the freshmen but on the transfers, it looks in the stands to be pretty good."