Duval will be our go to guy in the Red Zone next year because of his height. I think he will come in next year better then he was his freshman year. With Floyd, Tate, Kamara, Walker, Goodman, and Shaq this will definitely be our most talented group. If we can just get our OL to do something it could be a special year!
You'd think he'd be our red-zone threat because of his height, but he can't catch the ball, so he definitely won't be our red-zone threat unless that changes. Another thing he doesn't do is attack the ball, the way Floyd and Tate do. Those guys are our red-zone threats. Michael Floyd has more than enough height and he makes plays on the ball better than any freshman I've seen play, and Tate simply has a hunger for the ball that let's you know that if you throw it up, either he's gonna get it or nobody is. With Duval, if it's not perfectly thrown, he let's it get picked (not intentionally of course, but he doesn't turn into a defensive back and knock the ball away), or it's incomplete.
I hate to sound like a sourpuss here, and he's a Domer so I root for him hard, but I just don't think he has that 'it' factor that I see from Tate and Floyd. And I say that because once he dropped a couple balls, and once Floyd took his spot, I didn't see any fire in him that showed that he wanted to compete to get his spot back. Instead, he regressed even further, dropped even more balls and saw the field even less. And when Floyd went down, where was Duval? Grimes caught more balls.
Duval was a stud in h.s., and he had a very good freshman year, so we know he has the talent, but he has to somehow get his mojo back if he wants to compete with all these studs ND has at his position. It starts right after the season, when he needs to get in shape and work on his hands. If he does that, then yes, he'll be able to be a red-zone threat, as well as a threat all over the field...
