Duquesne Dukes Fan Forum / Dukes #23 in Street & Smith's Pre-Season- A.J. All American & Top 5

**Posted by coffee** 5/22/2019 7:44 pm

Street and Smith's list the Dukes at #23 in their pre-season FCS Poll. This is the first I remember them being listed in any major pre-season poll other than just "receiving votes".

AJ Hines is listed as S&S All American and STATS Top 5 Names to Know!!!

This could be a very interesting year!

Last edited by coffee (5/26/2019 8:47 am)

**Posted by Face** 5/23/2019 7:31 am

Let’s GOOOOOO

Very excited for this upcoming season.

**Posted by Judge Jack McVay Jr** 5/25/2019 2:05 pm

Me too Face and this team loses Hari Fitz Istache etc but I think they will be good. Curious to see how they play against Youngstown State and I think it will be a game this year. Thanks for your posts Coffee and Face and AJ for the Heisman and if not the FCS version of it the Walter Peyton award! Haha

**Posted by coffee** 5/26/2019 8:51 am

Judge Jack McVay Jr wrote:
Me too Face and this team loses Hari Fitz Istache etc but I think they will be good. Curious to see how they play against Youngstown State and I think it will be a game this year. Thanks for your posts Coffee and Face and AJ for the Heisman and if not the FCS version of it the Walter Peyton award! Haha

AJ will need some to step up to replace the O-Line. That is always my fear when playing bigger teams.

Last year’s act will be hard to follow!

By the way, I always felt that the Dukes May have been able to hold out against FBS Hawaii better if AJ were playing last year. They were up big early and needed the running game to control the ball.

If he showed what he could do then, he’d have even more talk about this year.

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