Oregon quarterback Dante Moore forgoes NFL Draft as likely top selection to stay in school

Dante Moore is not going anywhere.

The Oregon backmost announced Wednesday that, contempt being successful enactment to beryllium taken No. 2 wide by the New York Jets aboriginal this year, helium volition enactment successful schoolhouse for 1 much year.

Moore said helium volition enactment enactment successful Oregon contempt prima backmost Dylan Raiola transferring there.

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Oregon backmost Dante Moore (5) passes against Indiana during the 2nd fractional of the Peach Bowl NCAA assemblage shot playoff semifinal successful Atlanta, Georgia, connected Jan. 9, 2026. (Brynn Anderson/AP Photo)

"I'll beryllium coming backmost to Oregon 1 much year," Moore told ESPN.

Moore changeable up the backmost imaginable database successful his archetypal afloat play with Oregon. He completed 71.2 percent of his passes for 3,565 yards, 30 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. 

He started astatine UCLA and saw clip successful 9 games, starting several, but helium transferred to Oregon earlier the 2024 play and backed up Dillon Gabriel that year.

Moore took implicit this past play and impressed, bringing the Ducks each the mode to the College Football Playoff semifinal past week, but they were walloped by No. 1 Indiana, 56-22.

Oregon backmost Dante Moore passes the shot to Oregon moving backmost Noah Whittington during the archetypal fractional of an NCAA assemblage shot crippled against Montana State, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025, successful Eugene, Oregon. (AP Photo/Lydia Ely)

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Moore figured to beryllium the 2nd prime down Fernando Mendoza, who won the Heisman Trophy and volition play for a nationalist title and 16-0 play adjacent week against No. 10 Miami. The Jets ain the 2nd prime and are surely successful backmost limbo aft starting Justin Fields, Tyrod Taylor and Brady Cook this season.

Trinidad Chambliss and Ty Simpson fig to beryllium disposable for the Jets, who besides ain the 16th and 33rd picks successful the draft.

The Jets aren't the lone ones affected, though. Considering Raiola, a erstwhile five-star recruit, conscionable transferred, it figures the newcomer whitethorn beryllium backing up Moore successful 2026.

Oregon Ducks backmost Dante Moore (5) passes for a 20-yard touchdown successful the 2nd 4th during the College Football Playoff archetypal circular crippled betwixt the Oregon Ducks and James Madison Dukes connected Dec. 20, 2025 astatine Autzen Stadium successful Eugene, Oregon. (Brian Murphy/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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Assuming Moore starts successful 2026, it volition beryllium the archetypal clip since earlier Bo Nix that Dan Lanning volition person the aforesaid starting backmost successful back-to-back seasons.

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