{"id":870291,"date":"2026-04-19T23:39:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/870291\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T23:39:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:39:30","slug":"colts-cb-kenny-moore-ii-nearly-quit-nfls-broadcast-bootcamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/870291\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts CB Kenny Moore II nearly quit NFL’s broadcast bootcamp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kenny Moore II knows what it feels like to be nervous. The Indianapolis Colts\u2019 cornerback has played in the NFL for seven seasons. Running out of the tunnel for a game still gets the blood going. Nothing quite prepared him for the broadcast booth.<\/p>\n

Moore went through the NFL\u2019s Broadcasting and Media Bootcamp<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 the league\u2019s annual program for current and former players exploring life after football \u2014 and came away with a new appreciation for the people whose voices fill stadiums and living rooms every weekend.<\/p>\n

In a recent Facebook post,<\/a> Moore described wanting to quit halfway through the preparation phase, his head spinning from studying rosters, researching player and team storylines, sitting through production meetings, and walking through radio broadcast formats, all before anyone had even pointed a camera at him. When the actual tryout days arrived, with representatives from SiriusXM, CBS, Westwood One, NFL Network, and ESPN in the room providing real-time feedback after each session, Moore said the nerves hit him the way they did before his first NFL game.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I wanted to quit literally halfway through the prepping phase of it all from studying NFL rosters, player\/team headlines, production meetings, walking through radio broadcasts, and more,\u201d Moore wrote. \u201cMy head was spinning, but [I] endured through it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He made it through and came out the other side with something to say to anyone who watches or listens to sports.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease, please, please respect and appreciate the voices of those breaking down the games or drawing the pictures for you to understand it more,\u201d Moore continued. \u201cIt\u2019s a true art being the voice that brings everyone closer to tv\/radio.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

What makes the boot camp disorienting for players isn\u2019t the football knowledge. Moore has spent seven years studying film, breaking down tendencies, and absorbing information under pressure. The difference is that none of that translates when a producer is staring at you, and you blank on a player\u2019s name mid-sentence. There\u2019s no film room to retreat to, no walkthrough to slow things down. The preparation is relentless, the live conditions are unforgiving, and the mistakes happen in real time in front of people whose job it is to notice them. What the workshop offers is a controlled version of that, a room where you can lose your thread after a replay or stumble through a pronunciation and get immediate feedback instead of seeing an article on Awful Announcing.<\/p>\n

Moore is hardly the first active player to come out of the boot camp with a new appreciation for the craft. Jason Kelce attended the NFL\u2019s Broadcasting and Media Workshop in 2023, while he was still playing for the Eagles, and came away similarly humbled.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is all new territory for me. I have even more respect for it now,\u201d Kelce told the Associated Press at the time<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s very hard to do something live, reactive of stimulus that just happened and having something clever and meaningful to say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelce, of course, eventually retired and joined ESPN\u2019s Monday Night Countdown, where he\u2019s become one of the better desk analysts in football. The boot camp didn\u2019t hurt.<\/p>\n

Moore may end up taking a similar path, or he may never touch a microphone again outside of a locker room interview. He hasn\u2019t announced any broadcasting ambitions beyond the post, and maybe he never will pursue them. But something about a seven-year NFL veteran \u2014 someone who has played in hostile road environments, lined up against the best receivers in the world, and handled everything the game has thrown at him \u2014 saying the broadcast booth nearly broke him before he ever got on air is worth sitting with.<\/p>\n

The job looks easy from a couch. Moore found out it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a true art being the voice that brings everyone closer to tv\/radio,\u201d he said. \u201cA sports legend in its own lane.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kenny Moore II knows what it feels like to be nervous. The Indianapolis Colts\u2019 cornerback has played in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,7,2004,392,2381,10175,6,117958,26300],"class_list":{"0":"post-870291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-colts","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-indianapolis","11":"tag-indianapolis-colts","12":"tag-indianapoliscolts","13":"tag-kenny-moore-ii","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-nfl-broadcasting-bootcamp","16":"tag-nfl-media"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116434014359064401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870291","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=870291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}