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Do NFL teams need to see more in college from Moore?

Need? No. Prefer? Yeah, probably, especially as he’ll now likely be coming off a season-ending head injury.

Moore has started a combined 19 games for the Ducks over the past two seasons, which is plenty for NFL scouts to understand his skill set and the strengths/weaknesses he’d bring to an organization. He finished those 19 starts with 41 total touchdowns and plenty of highlights that elevated the talent around him.

Scouts like that Moore is a natural thrower of the football, with a rhythmic operation that helps him layer the ball or attack tight windows. I wanted to see him improve in 2026 when asked to negotiate pressure, but there won’t be a ton of tape to dissect — he played in just three-plus games before suffering that injury, and one of those was an 84-0 blowout win over Portland State.

Moore, 21, is still a young player, and it shows, especially when he feels the heat. — Dane Brugler, NFL Draft analyst

What would Moore’s draft stock be if he joins the 2027 class?

Right now, it is impossible to accurately gauge Moore’s draft status.

Had he declared last year, it’s generally believed he would have been a top-10 pick, likely at No. 2 to the New York Jets. But the concussion he’s dealing with and any subsequent recovery are now part of his evaluation.

Read the rest here for free: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7728358/2026/10/27/dante-moore-injury-nfl-draft-2027/?unlocked_article_code=1.L1E.CJ7-.Tg_O9AWMB16w&source=emp_shared_article&smid=url-share-ta

How did nobody see the disadvantage of four hour flights. Yeah, teams need to travel far to play in Oregon as well, but it's usually their only long trip of the season.

Imagining a college kid in spending an hour, getting to the airport, flying four hours and spending another hour getting to the stadium.

Do the same thing coming back and you got easily 12-14 hours of travel for almost every road game. Of course, the players are programed not to complain about it but it's a serous disadvantage. I know people say NFL teams do it all the time, but they're not supposed to be students as well.

At this point, get #11 out there for some serious game reps.

If we’re gonna suck the rest of the year, we may as well establish what we do or don’t have in the QB room.

We saw what DR can and can’t be.

We know Thomas isn’t the solution.

At this point, what’s the harm in seeing what he’s capable of?

8-4 is best case scenario either way. The bottom is horrendous, either way we won’t be even close to general expectations for the year so we may as well see if there’s anything positive to take from #11 or transfer portal it is.

I like Justin Herbert. Because he was in LA Chargers.

r/UofO 💚💛

The Ducks wasted their season because every button Lanning thought was the right one on offense — the new coordinator, the high-profile backup QB, the latest attempt to revamp the line — didn’t work.

It’s hard to say exactly how much of the offense’s failure is on Mehringer. We don’t even know how much play-calling he did in his final weeks on the job. (Lanning has been cagey about that.) But Mehringer was likely empowered to shape the offense to his liking, at least structurally, because Lanning’s background is on defense.

The Ducks’ struggles at the start of games might tell us something. On their first 15 plays of a given game, they are 129th in the country in EPA per play. These are the plays an offensive coordinator often scripts ahead of time, roughly two drives’ worth. Mehringer’s offense was pantsed time and again on these possessions. Oregon ranks a more palatable 54th in EPA per play on all other plays, suggesting the less the Ducks scripted, the better.

Of course, 54th in the country still isn’t good for a team with Oregon’s financial might. Moore played well in the season’s first three-plus games, with stats similar to last year’s. But much of that was inflated by an 84-0 romp over FCS Portland State. Moore had posted a negative EPA per dropback in a Week 2 loss at Oklahoma State and was in the second quarter against USC when he took that horrifying hit to the head.

When Moore went down, former five-star Nebraska QB Dylan Raiola sprang from the bench and delivered an all-time relief performance to beat USC. But as a head coach told Bruce Feldman a few weeks later, Raiola is much easier to prepare for when a defense has a full week to look at him. Raiola posted 23.5 extra points added on his dropbacks in that USC game, then minus-30.8 in three appearances (two starts) against UCLA, Nebraska and Illinois. Whatever it cost Oregon to bring in an experienced backup with a five-star recruiting pedigree, it didn’t turn out to be a good investment.

So what is lanning’s back up plan after firing the OC? He must have had something in mind before he made the move. Didn’t work so well for Pete Carrol when he fired Chip from the Raiders last year. Hope Lanning’s decision stems the losses and gets the team back to where they should be.

Not about this season, obviously. This one’s a bust.

Still, I see a lot of reasons for hope moving forward. Been feeling that way since the Mehringer firing. Here’s my thinking:

We’re still Oregon, which is to say we still have world-class facilities, world-class recruiters, and world-class money. One bad year doesn’t change that. We got rid of the worst offender of our offensive struggles, and I’m guessing there will be at least one more staffing change by the start of next year. Oregon OC is going to be one of the top coordinator jobs available in the entire sport, and we have a head start on our search. We may lose some guys to the portal, and we may lose some recruits, but it’s never been easier to retool, and the new OC may well bring some guys with him. Not saying we’re winning it all next year or anything, but I have a strong suspicion that next year will be night and day compared to this year.

Thoughts?

The moment a college football program starts believing it has all the answers is the moment it starts falling behind.

Bellotti recognized Oregon needed something different and brought in Chip Kelly, who arguably changed the sport. When the talent gap became apparent under Helfrich, Oregon turned to Taggart to elevate recruiting. Cristobal emphasized physicality and winning in the trenches. Lanning took recruiting, culture, and motivation to another level.

Each evolution came from understanding that what worked yesterday might not be enough tomorrow.
But complacency is the danger every successful program faces. We look inside our own building, see the talent, resources, and people we’ve assembled, and convince ourselves we’re doing everything right. We become so invested in our own system and results of the past that we stop recognizing what others are doing better.

NIL and the transfer portal have taught us that the best talent isn’t always on your roster. Why should coaching be any different? Sometimes the best ideas and brightest minds are outside your building.

And that’s where Lanning faces the defining test of his tenure. He’s proven he can recruit elite talent, build a culture, and motivate a program. But can he recognize when the very system he’s built has become the thing holding it back?

Firing Mehringer showed he’s willing to make a difficult personnel decision. But replacing a coach isn’t the same as rethinking a philosophy. Oregon’s struggles aren’t theoretical anymore. They’re showing up on the field, and only changing faces without changing ideas won’t solve them.

The question isn’t whether Lanning can build a successful program. He’s already demonstrated that. The question is whether he can challenge his own assumptions, look outside his circle, and reinvent the program before its decline becomes entrenched.

Oregon wasn’t built by following the rest of college football. It was built by forcing everyone else to catch up.
Lanning’s next great recruiting win may not be a five-star player. It may be the offensive mind willing to challenge everything Oregon thinks it knows. Because the greatest threat to Oregon’s future isn’t a lack of talent. It’s Lanning’s belief that the answers were already in the building.

85-57. Final exhibition game.

Currently watching the Saints/Steelers game and I can’t help but notice the time Shough has to go through his reads. Not saying Shough is a bad QB by any means or that Raiola is a good one, but a great o-line can make a decent QB look great and a great QB look bad. We all know Dante Moore is a great QB, we’ve seen it with our own eyes. But this year it looks as if he got worse somehow. I believe our the overall bad QB play and horrid play calling comes down to poor o-line play. Everything in your offense is dictated by the line. Pass plays that take time to develop and the creative running plays all need protection. We must focus all our resources this off season on a new o-line coach and recruits whether it be high school or the transfer portal. As always Sco Ducks! See you sickos on Halloween

It was not a completed pass for anyone who was wondering.