ASU #20 Devon Moore
Running Back - RB
Height: 5-9 Weight: 200
Junior
Previous Affiliations
Cedar Ridge
Previous Experience
Mebane, N.C.
Fully recovered from the ankle injury that cost him all but slightly more than two games in 2008 ... like teammates Dominique McDuffie and Tony Robertson, since the injury occured prior to the fourth game of the season and since Moore had not previously redshirted in his career, he was able to apply for a medical redshirt from the NCAA, which allows him to retain the year of athletic eligibility ... recovered in time to participate in spring practices and emerged atop the depth chart at running back ... a versatile back that combines many different attributes and skills as a runner — most notably the ability to run both between the tackles and outside the tackle box with great effectiveness.
2008 : Held off challenges from Robert Welton and newcomer Devin Radford to emerge from fall camp as the starter at running back ... maintained that spot through the season’s first three games (was officially in the starting lineup for just two contests because ASU began the game with a five-receiver set in the season opener at LSU) ... sustained the season-ending ankle injury on a one-yard loss late in the first quarter of game No. 3 at James Madison ... finished the season with just 123 yards on 22 carries and two touchdowns ... also caught one pass for 19 yards in the season opener at LSU.
2007 : Saw action in all 15 games ... made three starts, two in two-back formations and one in place of an injured Richardson ... carried 95 times for 459 yards, the fourth-highest total on the team ... seven rushing touchdowns were good for third on the squad ... also caught 14 passes (seventh on team) for 171 yards (sixth) ... rushed 11 times for 38 yards and first touchdown of the season in home opener versus Lenoir-Rhyne ... carried 14 times for 68 yards, his second-highest total of the season, in win over Northern Arizona ... playing near his hometown, notched 97 total yards (62 rushing, 25 receiving, 10 kick return) and scored on a two-yard run in key win at Elon ... scored in back-to-back games against Georgia Southern and Furman ... registered 40 rushing yards, including a three-yard touchdown scamper, and 39 receiving yards in blowout win over archrival Western Carolina ... turned in perhaps ASU’s biggest offensive play of the season when he made a diving catch for a 20-yard gain on fouth-and-three in the waning moments of ASU’s first-round playoff matchup versus James Madison ... one play later, Armanti Edwards’ scored from five yards out to give the Mountaineers a 28-27 victory ... with Richardson hobbled by an ankle injury the following week, Moore turned in his first 100-yard rushing performance with 100 yards on 24 carries and a touchdown in a national quarterfinal win over Eastern Washington ... also caught three passes for 36 yards in the triumph over EWU ... scored on a career-long 46-yard gallop in the first quarter of ASU’s national title game victory over Delaware ... rounded out 707 all-purpose yardage total with six kickoff returns for 77 yards on the campaign.
2006: Served as the primary backup to Walter Payton Award finalist Kevin Richardson ... appeared in 14 games and made two starts in two-back sets versus Wofford and Georgia Southern ... posted best performance of the regular season with 50 yards on nine carries, including his first-career touchdown, in romp at Chattanooga ... his finest effort of the season came in the national semifinal victory over No. 5 Youngstown State, where he took some of the load off of an ailing Richardson by posting season highs with 14 carries for 86 yards and a score to help lead ASU to its second-straight national title game ... finished the season with 61 carries for 315 yards and two touchdowns.
High School : Ran for nearly 6,000 yards and 42 touchdowns during prep career ... had well over 1,000 rushing yards before suffering season-ending injury in eighth game of senior season ... had nearly 1,700 all-purpose yards as a freshman in 2002, Cedar Ridge’s first year ... ranked as one of North Carolina’s top prep running backs by Scout.com.
