Duke’s incoming class should help the Blue Devils get quicker in a hurry.

The 40 times submitted by players or from various combines aren’t a very good way to compare speed, but the incoming group seems to have several players in the skilled positions with enough speed to make the Blue Devils quicker.

N.C. State’s class won’t win many national accolades, but Coach Tom O’Brien has won a lot of football games with similar players.

“Go back and look at his Boston College days,” said Mike Farrell, a rivals.com analyst. “He never had a recruiting class that really wowed a lot of people.

“But all those players did was win eight or nine games a year and win every bowl game they played.