How former 5-star QB Dante Moore got back to Oregon football after one season at UCLA

Dante Moore put himself back on Oregon’s radar with a phone call to Dan Lanning in December.

But the two didn’t talk football, at least not at first.

The former UCLA quarterback, who was once committed to Lanning and the Ducks, reached out to the Oregon coach soon after entering the transfer portal when the 2023 regular season ended.

“I called him, really just checking up on life,” Moore said Thursday. “My mom, sadly, she had breast cancer and I was playing through that throughout the season. She got diagnosed with it during spring ball last year, so really, the first couple things he asked me was checking in on my mother.”

Moore’s mother has improved. His own prospects for personal growth seem to be trending in that same direction as well.

Oregon quarterback Dante Moore works out with the Ducks during spring camp for the Oregon Ducks Thursday, March 14, 2024.

The road to Oregon hasn’t been the most straight forward for Moore, a former five-star recruit in the class of 2023 who was ranked as the nation’s No. 2 overall player by ESPN and No. 3 overall by 247Sports.

He was verbally committed to the Ducks throughout the fall of 2022 then flipped to the Bruins right before the start of the early signing period that December.

The Detroit native said his change of heart came after Oregon offensive coordinator Kenny Dillingham was named head coach at Arizona State in November 2022.

“As a quarterback, your OC needs to be your best friend,” said Moore, who added that he and Will Stein — Dillingham’s replacement at Oregon — did hastily attempt to build a relationship but ultimately he chose to sign with UCLA and play for coach Chip Kelly.

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Publish date : 2024-04-12 11:01:31

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