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Position: | Wide receiver | ||||||||||||
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Date of birth: | September 19, 1951 | ||||||||||||
Place of birth: | Tallahassee, Florida | ||||||||||||
Height: | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||||||||||||
Weight: | 184 lb (83 kg) | ||||||||||||
Career information | |||||||||||||
High school: | Miami (FL) Edison | ||||||||||||
College: | Florida | ||||||||||||
NFL Draft: | 1974 / Round: 3 / Pick: 78 | ||||||||||||
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Player stats at PFR |
Games played: | 183 |
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Games started: | 124 |
Receptions: | 510 |
Receiving yards: | 7,546 |
Touchdowns: | 74 |
Player stats at NFL.com |
Nathaniel Moore (born September 19, 1951) is an American former college and professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for thirteen seasons during the 1970s and 1980s. Moore played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he played professionally for the Miami Dolphins of the NFL. He is best known as a favorite passing target of Dolphins quarterbacks Bob Griese and Dan Marino.
Moore was born in Tallahassee, Florida in 1951. He grew up in Miami, Florida and attended Miami Edison Senior High School and Miami-Dade Community College.
On the recommendation of his junior college football coach, Moore received an athletic scholarship to transfer from the University of Tennessee at Martin to the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he was a star running back for coach Doug Dickey's Florida Gators football team in 1972 and 1973. As a junior in 1972, Moore led the Gators with 145 rushes for 845 yards and nine rushing touchdowns, twenty-five receptions for 351 receiving yards and four touchdown catches, and 230 return yards, while earning first-team All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) and honorable mention All-American accolades.