calling game<\/a>\u201d against Ohio State in 2023.<\/p>\nHowever, there was more to the story.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast year I came back against Nebraska and was still feeling pain or whatever. Before the Wisconsin game, I got, I want to say it was a cortisone injection, two days before the game,\u201d Moore said. \u201cI didn\u2019t practice that whole week and then I came in Saturday and I was like, \u2018I don\u2019t feel anything.\u2019 That\u2019s why I played like that (against Wisconsin). But then Sunday morning, everything just felt the same.\u201d<\/p>\n
The following week against USC, Moore tried to gut through it. He registered a season-high in tackles (four), but the Wolverines were blown out by the Trojans, 31-13, and Moore knew his season was over.<\/p>\n
Some assumed it would be the last we ever saw of him in a Michigan uniform. However, the two-time team captain was granted a sixth year of eligibility in January and received another knee surgery \u2014 his third total \u2014 that finally gave him hope of returning to 100 percent.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think now \u2014 I had a clean-up surgery in January,\u201d Moore said. \u201cWe was cleaning up scar tissue that was really bothering my knee, all the clicking and stuff, and that\u2019s gone. And right now, I\u2019m really back and returning to play. I\u2019m about to be back in practice here soon. I probably felt the best that I\u2019ve felt ever since I tore my ACL.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite a secondary overflowing with talent and experience, any room with Moore in it is better. Moore has as many interceptions in his career as Zeke Berry, Jyaire Hill and Mason Curtis combined. It\u2019s hard to find a player on par with his football IQ, and as the defense transitions to a new scheme, he becomes even more invaluable with his rare ability to process and communicate.<\/p>\n
Moore returns to Ann Arbor for his final collegiate season with 147 career tackles and seven interceptions to his name. He is also likely to become the only three-time team captain in Michigan history. And if Moore is truly back to pre-injury form, he will have an opportunity to be the best safety in the Big Ten, if not the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sixth-year Michigan safety Rod Moore met with the media on Wednesday afternoon to discuss a variety of topics,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,580,52888,46647,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-834438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-michigan-football","10":"tag-michigan-football-news","11":"tag-michigan-football-injuries","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116294462549645927","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834438","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=834438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}