Oregon freshman Dakorien Moore is one of the key college football newcomers to monitor this spring, and he quickly made an impression on his teammates and coaches in camp. The five-star signee and top-ranked wide receiver in the 2025 recruiting class has a chance to follow in the footsteps of last year’s standout freshmen — namely, Jeremiah Smith, Ryan Williams and Cam Coleman — and make a major impact in his first year in Eugene.
Moore was a member of 247Sports’ 2025 Freaks List and is one of the most athletic prospects in the nation’s freshman class. He boasted elite track times, eye-catching long jump metrics and remarkable production as high school wide receiver at Duncanville (Texas), and according to his teammates, that carried over to the college level.
“He’s a freak, for sure,” said Austin Novosad, who is in a competition with Dante Moore for the starting quarterback job. “I think he runs very explosive routes, goes up, high-points the ball. Does a good job. I think he’s going to make lots of plays for us in the years he’s here.”
Over his final two years of high school football, Moore posted no fewer than 1,460 yards and 18 touchdowns in a season. He was a four-year varsity standout for one of the top teams in Texas and exploded as a junior when he emerged as one of the premier pass-catching prospects on the recruiting trail.
“Very explosive,” fellow wide receiver Gary Bryant Jr. said. “He’s a young guy that came in here, already got the playbook down. Can play any position in the receiver room from X, Y, Z, A. Explosive receiver. Got good hands. Got good routes. Good size. I think the future’s bright for him, for sure.”
Moore debuted in the recruiting rankings in Aug. 2022 as the No. 8 overall player in his class. He never fell out of the top 10 and climbed as high as No. 4 one year ago. His decommitment from LSU and flip two months later to Oregon was a statement recruiting win for Dan Lanning and the Ducks, who secured the fifth-best haul in college football with Moore at the top of the class.
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“What sticks out to me is he’s a young, ascending player who’s very, very talented, and he wants to be great,” said wide receivers coach Ross Douglas. “The want-to and desire for him to be a good player is there. He’s a young player. He just has to get reps. He has to adjust to the speed of the game. High school, he steps on the field and every time, he’s better than every single body here. In college football, it might be the same way.
“But at the end of the day, now he just has to adjust to the speed of the game and get on the same page with all the quarterbacks and just continue to get reps. The only way you get better at playing football is by playing football. So he’s just doing that right now. He’s out there. He’s available. He’s doing everything he can to make sure he’s a good football player.”
