{"id":768563,"date":"2026-02-22T09:03:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T09:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/768563\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T09:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T09:03:21","slug":"nfl-wide-receiver-former-purdue-all-american-dies-at-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/768563\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL wide receiver, former Purdue All-American dies at 25"},"content":{"rendered":"

NFL wide receiver and former Purdue star Rondale Moore<\/a> has died at the age of 25, the Floyd County Coroner told local station WLKY on Saturday<\/p>\n

Fox 9\u2019s Ahmad Hicks reported <\/a>that New Albany Police Chief Todd Bailey said that Moore, who was on the Minnesota Vikings roster last season, was found dead in his garage from \u201ca suspected self-inflicted gunshot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moore burst onto the scene in 2018 as a stud freshman with the Boilermakers. The speedster had 114 receptions for 1,258 yards and 12 receiving touchdowns in addition to 21 rushes for 213 yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most legendary performance of his career came that year against Ohio State, where he had 12 receptions for 170 yards and two touchdowns in the 49-20 upset over the Buckeyes.<\/p>\n

Moore stayed with the Boilermakers for the next two seasons battling injuries before heading to the NFL, where he was a second-round pick by the Arizona Cardinals in the 2021 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n

Standing at 5-foot-7, he was sought after as a special YAC receiver. He spent the 2021 through 2023 with the Cardinals before being traded to the Falcons. <\/p>\n

In 2025, he signed with the Minnesota Vikings but suffered a season-ending knee injury in training camp that ended his season early. Moore was scheduled to be a free agent in March. <\/p>\n

Over his career, Moore had 1,201 yards on 135 receptions and four total touchdowns. <\/p>\n

An autopsy has been scheduled. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL wide receiver and former Purdue star Rondale Moore has died at the age of 25, the Floyd…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[7,6,8875,520,57,2360,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-768563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-nissan-stadium","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","13":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","14":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116113480667811361","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768563","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=768563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}