“He could have transferred,” Elko acknowledged. “That’s what 90 percent of kids seem to want to do these days when these things don’t go exactly the way you write them up and that’s just kind of the world we live in now. But he didn’t. He jumped at the opportunity to help the team. He jumped at the opportunity to play wide receiver and he believed in what we were talking about.”
Moore said he just wanted to do what the team needed.
“I just want to make the best of it and I want to win, and if that helps the team win, that’s what I want to do.”
Moore showcased top-tier athleticism as a running quarterback and quickly was able to transfer that to his new position.
“You never know what it’s going to look like,” Elko said. “We were nervous the first day because you know you have this tremendous athlete and he’s going out at wide receiver and we’ve all seen that not translate. But it took us about three minutes to realize he was going to transition smooth and then you put in the fact that he’s such a tremendous character kid and he’s such a hard worker, that you just know he’s going to get better every time he goes out to practice and he obviously has a lot to work on and improve just from a technique standpoint.”
Burden adds some additional context.
“When you play quarterback you have the ball in your hands. You have to be able to handle bad snaps. He’s got good hands.”
What does Moore need to work on?
“Learn patience and learn the game,” Burden says. “Fine-tune the details and getting more physical, making contested catches and learning how to block.”
Calhoun was a high school quarterback before switching to wide receiver at Duke and he’s giving Moore the benefit of that experience.
“He’s just a natural athlete. I never had a doubt he could make that switch. We stay after practice later. He’s one of the hardest-working dudes I’ve ever met. So, anytime we have a chance to work late, we take it.”
Barely a month after starting that new position, Moore caught a 52-yard pass against Temple on the third play of the season. He had a toe-tap touchdown catch in the back of the end zone at Northwestern, and had 42 yards running after the catch among his 68 receiving yards (on seven catches) at Kansas.
So, yes, Duke may have a potential star on its hands at wide receiver.
And they’re treating him like one, lining him up all over the field, putting him in motion, using reverses and end-arounds and…
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