{"id":770851,"date":"2026-02-23T10:19:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/770851\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:19:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:19:24","slug":"nfl-wide-receiver-was-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/770851\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Wide Receiver Was 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/rondale-moore\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rondale-moore\" data-tag=\"rondale-moore\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rondale Moore<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/nfl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nfl\" data-tag=\"nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL<\/a> wide receiver who played for Arizona, Atlanta and Minnesota, has died by apparent <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/suicide\/\" id=\"auto-tag_suicide\" data-tag=\"suicide\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suicide<\/a>. He was 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe athlete, who suffered season-ending knee injuries the past two seasons, was found dead on Saturday from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPolice in New Albany, Indiana, Moore\u2019s hometown, discovered the former Vikings player\u2019s body in the garage of a local property, the outlet <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/rondale-moore-death-minnesota-vikings-0b2a5755cc0687dc71070d56cad9dd62\">reported<\/a>. Police chief Todd Bailey said an investigation is underway, with Floyd County Coroner Matthew Tomlin performing an autopsy on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBorn June 9, 2000 in New Albany, Moore had a successful college football career at Purdue University, before he was recruited by the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/arizona-cardinals\/\" id=\"auto-tag_arizona-cardinals\" data-tag=\"arizona-cardinals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona Cardinals<\/a> during the second round of the 2021 NFL draft, playing three seasons of his four-year rookie contract before he was traded to the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/atlanta-falcons\/\" id=\"auto-tag_atlanta-falcons\" data-tag=\"atlanta-falcons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Falcons<\/a> for the 2024 season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMoore was placed on the injured reserved during a knee injury at training camp in March 2024, ending his time with the Falcons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAfter signing a one-year, $2 million contract with the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/minnesota-vikings\/\" id=\"auto-tag_minnesota-vikings\" data-tag=\"minnesota-vikings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Vikings<\/a> last year, Moore suffered another season-ending knee injury during a March 2025 preseason game against the Houston Texans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIf you or someone you know is struggling with difficult life circumstances or uncomfortable thoughts and emotions call or text 988 to reach the national Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rondale Moore, the NFL wide receiver who played for Arizona, Atlanta and Minnesota, has died by apparent suicide.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[390,254,7,259,6,8266,13615],"class_list":["post-770851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-football","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-nfl","tag-rondale-moore","tag-suicide"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116119441495929857","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770851","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=770851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}