Duke football aims to slow down Texas A&M's arsenal of weapons

"It's pretty incredible when you look at his two-year totals and numbers that he's been able to put together," Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. "The other thing is he's exciting. He ad-libs. He's consistent. He plays really, really well every time he plays the game."

"He is a very unique challenge, to say the least," Cutcliffe said. "He's obviously surrounded by good players. They're extremely efficient offensively and well-coached. Then you throw in his ability to create. I've been doing this a long time. I don't think I've ever seen anybody ad-lib on the field better."

"Our last game we got to go up against somebody like [Evans], Kelvin Benjamin of Florida State," Blue Devil cornerback Ross Cockrell said. "They both have similar size, similar speed. But other than those two, I think it doesn't get much better than that in terms of size and speed and athleticism, it's the total combination."

"They've got an All-American at tackle and they've got outstanding people up front. They have the ability to run zone read, which means certainly the ball is going to go to the back," Cutcliffe said. "They can dictate power. They can dictate just giving the ball off on zones, stretch, and their backs all have great ability."

"I mean, they've got the right ingredients," Cutcliffe said. "They play in a league to where they're challenged every week in a huge way. So these are tested, experienced football players."

"We have to work hard on our contained rush and really change it up with different people spying and triggering at different times and certain type of blitzes that maybe, maybe, can predict which way he's going to go," Knowles said. "But it is so hard with him because he is so dynamic."