{"id":678098,"date":"2026-01-15T02:25:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T02:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/678098\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T02:25:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T02:25:26","slug":"dante-moore-returning-to-oregon-for-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/678098\/","title":{"rendered":"Dante Moore returning to Oregon for 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It may or may not have an impact on the Arizona Cardinals decision with the third overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, but it without a doubt changes things for the Las Vegas Raiders and New York Jets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Oregon quarterback Dante Moore will not enter the NFL Draft, deciding instead to return to Oregon for another season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">What that does is make Fernando Mendoza the unquestionable top player in the 2026 NFL Draft at the quarterback position, and then makes Ty Simpson the next guy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So, does that take quarterback off the market for the Cardinals for the third overall pick?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It likely did anyways, but now with this being a lean class in terms of quarterbacks, the Cardinals will have to look at beefing up the trenches on either side in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Moore threw for 3,565 yards and 30 touchdowns with 10 interceptions, so there is definitely room for improvement for Moore and a chance to put himself in consideration for the top player in the class.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Good luck to Moore at Oregon in his senior year (as far as age and playing years).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It may or may not have an impact on the Arizona Cardinals decision with the third overall pick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2757,14996,2604,1327,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-678098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-arizona-cardinals-draft","11":"tag-arizona-cardinals-news","12":"tag-arizonacardinals","13":"tag-cardinals","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115896747658128789","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}