QB Dante Moore Return to Oregon, Passes on $50 Million Guaranteed NFL Money

[WinMinGophers!]

Good decision? Bad decision?

How much money did Dante Moore pass up to return to Oregon Ducks?

Oregon quarterback Dante Moore left a lot of moolah on the table in order to return for his junior season with the Ducks, but exactly how much?

duckswire.usatoday.com

With Dante Moore passing on the NFL Draft, a reset of the Jets’ QB search

How it affects the No. 2 pick, and looking at the veteran options across the NFL.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Tech Machine]

I think he needs another year anyway. He’s making a little scratch at Oregon, he’ll skim by alright.

 

[MNVCGUY]

I think he needs another year anyway. He’s making a little scratch at Oregon, he’ll skim by alright.

That is an awful lot of guaranteed money to walk away from, especially when you can't really improve your draft stock by coming back since he probably already would have been the #2 pick.

Obviously he will get paid at Oregon but it will be nothing close to what the #2 pick in the NFL draft gets.

As long as nothing catastrophic happens the NFL money is probably still there for him next year as well but this is a definite gamble on his part.

 

[gopherbadgerman]

Big gamble. I’ll give him credit for having the stones to come back though

 

[Gophers7NatTitlesBadgers0]

Maybe he's looking at the draft order and sees Raiders 1, Jets 2, and Cardinals 3 and decided it was best to wait a year for a better situation to present itself.

 

[DarthGopher]

He wants to protect Oregon from Dylan Raiola.

 

[kisarazu]

Maybe he's looking at the draft order and sees Raiders 1, Jets 2, and Cardinals 3 and decided it was best to wait a year for a better situation to present itself.

Jets 1, Raiders 2, Cardinals 3?

 

[FinnGopher]

That is an awful lot of guaranteed money to walk away from, especially when you can't really improve your draft stock by coming back since he probably already would have been the #2 pick.

Obviously he will get paid at Oregon but it will be nothing close to what the #2 pick in the NFL draft gets.

As long as nothing catastrophic happens the NFL money is probably still there for him next year as well but this is a definite gamble on his part.

It's all because of Koi...

 

[Gophers7NatTitlesBadgers0]

Jets 1, Raiders 2, Cardinals 3?

2026 NFL Draft order: Top 24 picks locked in after Wild Card Weekend

 

[kisarazu]

2026 NFL Draft order: Top 24 picks locked in after Wild Card Weekend

My joke was what the draft would look like in 2027. X-D

 

[Gophers7NatTitlesBadgers0]

My joke was what the draft would look like in 2027. X-D

True. However, these organizations might not be in the market for a QB in the 27 draft.

 

[holereader]

He wants to protect Oregon from Dylan Raiola.

Yes - what does this mean for Raiola? Not sure he thought he was gunna be #2 on the depth chart but what do I know?

 

[MNVCGUY]

Maybe he's looking at the draft order and sees Raiders 1, Jets 2, and Cardinals 3 and decided it was best to wait a year for a better situation to present itself.

I mean the teams at the top will almost always be a mess but kind of feels like he is really trying to avoid the Jets with this move since Mendoza is almost certainly headed to the Raiders at #1 overall.