{"id":443071,"date":"2026-08-25T14:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T14:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443071\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T14:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T14:40:11","slug":"san-jose-state-transfer-walker-eget-named-qb1-at-duke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443071\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose State transfer Walker Eget named QB1 at Duke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 25 (UPI) &#8212; San <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Jose_State\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Jose State\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jose State<\/a> transfer Walker Eget was named the starting quarterback at Duke, the Blue Devils announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Eget was granted an NCAA waiver for a sixth collegiate season and committed to the Blue Devils in February. He totaled 30 passing scores against 19 interceptions over the last two seasons for the Spartans.\n<\/p>\n<p>Eget was competing with redshirt freshman Dan Mahan for the right to replace departed starter Darian Mensah, who transferred to Miami. He completed 59% of his throws for 3,051 yards, 17 scores and nine interceptions over 11 appearances last season.<\/p>\n<p>He was <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/season\/2021-football\/recruitrankings\/?InstitutionGroup=HighSchool&amp;Position=QB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">247 Sports&#8217; No. 79<\/a> quarterback recruit in the class of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Devils will host the Tulane Green Wave in their regular season opener at 3:30 p.m. EDT Sept. 5 at Brooks Field at Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, N.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 25 (UPI) &#8212; San Jose State transfer Walker Eget was named the starting quarterback at Duke, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1321,175573,88,90,89,127],"class_list":["post-443071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-college-football","tag-jose-state","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}