Kellen Moore
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Kellen Moore plays quarterback for the Boise State University Broncos in the NCAA college football tournament. The southpaw was well-known in the state of Washington as a record-breaking quarterback who established the state's single season completion, passing yards, and TD passes records, and the career completion and touchdown throws records. Unfortunately, his height and speed, or the lack thereof, deprived him of scholarship offers from the major collegiate football programs. But instead of letting the lack of attention eat him, Moore worked doubly hard to prove that his accuracy, intelligence, and decision-making skills are more than enough to earn him playing time and the starting job at one of the more promising programs in the nation.
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[edit] Personal Life
Kellen is the son of Kris and Tom Moore. He is in effect a third-generation football player, following the footsteps of his grandfather Bert (a rare 12-time letterwinner at Western Illinois in football, basketball and baseball, and a member of the school's hall of fame), and his dad Tom (who also played quarterback in junior college). But Tom and Kellen are not the only ones in the Moore household to play football as his younger brother Kirby also plays wide receiver and is now following Kellen's route from Prosser to BSU. He has decided to commit to Boise State in early September in hopes of rekindling the Moores' QB-WR tandem at Boise.
As a son of a coach who has been playing QB almost his entire football career, Kellen considers watching tapes and studing offenses/defenses as one of his past times. According to his godfather, family-friend and long-time high school and college coach Craig Beverlin, Kellen would ask for money during Christmas and birthdays to buy college and NFL game tapes.
[edit] High School
Moore studied high school at Prosser High in his hometown of Prosser, WA where he was a two-sport athlete competing and earning three letters each in both basketball and football. He played football under the tutelage of his father and for about a season and a half threw passes to his brother. Moore gained notoriety as a record-breaking quarterback at Prosser, and by the end of his high school football stint, the 6-foot, 187-pound playcaller had established five state high-school passing records. But his success did not come overnight because much like anyone else, he had to start from scratch and be someone else's back-up. As a freshman, he only made 9 pass attempts and completed four, tallying 56 yards and a touchdown with an interception. With extended playing time, Moore was able to improve his digits as a sophomore, now passing for 2,442 yards and 39 touchdowns on 58.1% completion (179-of-308) to go with 11 interceptions. During his junior year, Moore completed a state record 317 of his 479 pass attempts for a state record 4,600 yards and 66 touchdowns with only 15 interceptions to lead the Mustangs to a 13-1 record and a runner-up finish in the 2005 3A championship. His remarkable performance got him the nod as the Tri-City Herald All-Area MVP over Southridge High's Jason Munns and a selection to the first-team Class 3A All-State where he got picked over future Washington Husky Jake Locker.
During his senior season, Moore and the rest of the Mustangs were set to finally win the state title and they were on track to do so, with Moore playing like his usual prolific self, passing for 400-plus yards in a game twice (including a season-high 420 yards in the season opener) and more than 300 yards in 10 games. He also threw five or more touchdown passes in nine of the Mustangs’ games (threw 8 TDs once, seven TDs thrice, six scoring passes once, and five TDs four times) to lead Prosser to 12 straight wins and a trip to the state semifinals. Unfortunately, Prosser came up two-points short of Centralia, 35-37, in the semis despite Moore's 18-for-37, five-TD effort. Moore ended his senior year, completing 287-of-399 passes for 4,269 yards and a state record 67 touchdowns with only 7 interceptions, ending his 4-year career with a 65.9% pass completion rate (787-of-1195) for 11,367 yards and 173 touchdowns with 34 interceptions. His 787 completions and 173 TDs were both Washington state career records.
Among his post-season accolades in 2006 include the Washington Gatorade Player of the Year award, a third-straight first-team all-league recognition to go with the league's player of the year honors, his second of two Tri-City Herald Player of Year honors, the AP Player of Year award, the Yakima Valley Sports Award Male Athlete of Year, and a number of honors from the Seattle Times namely the Washington state Player of the Year, first-team all-state, and Division 2A MVP.
[edit] College
Inspite of what he has accomplished in high school, major collegiate schools were not lining up to recruit Moore primarily because of his height. Apart from BSU, the only other school that offered him a scholarship was Eastern Washington. Nonetheless, the four-star quarterback and the 26th best QB prospect according to Scout.com chose Boise State over EWU.
[edit] 2007
Redshirted.
[edit] 2008
During the spring, Moore competed with senior Bush Hamdan, sophomore Mike Coughlin, and junior Nick Lomax for the starting job. In just his first scrimmage, he already impressed on-lookers with a 10-of-14 completion for 114 yards and a touchdown pass with one scoring run. During the Blue-Orange game, he led all quarterbacks and completed 11-of-13 passes for 99 yards. Moore and Hamdan went toe-to-toe through spring and fall scrimmages but eventually, Moore got the edge mainly because of his youth and the possibility of starting for four years for Boise State while in the process improving his play each season. He was officially anointed as starter on the 20th of August. Winning the starting job made Moore the first left-hander to start for the Broncos at quarterback since former Borah High standout Bob Wheeler started a game in 1985 and the first freshman to start a BSU game since Bart Hendricks in 1997.
In his collegiate debut, Moore connected on 14 of his 19 passes for 274 yards and 2 touchdowns including an 80-yard touchdown strike to sophomore Titus Young to help the Broncos win the season-opener over Idaho State, 49-7. The following week against Bowling Green, he completed 18 of his 23 passes for 180 yards with 1 scoring run as BSU knocked down the Falcons, 20-7. At Autzen Stadium in his first road start, Moore completed 25-of-37 passes for 386 yards and three touchdowns as the Broncos collected their first win in 13 games over a BCS team on the road, upsetting 17th ranked Oregon, 37-32. For his efforts, Moore garnered his first collegiate accolades after the WAC named him as the Player of the Week to add to his Walter Camp Football Foundation National FBS Offensive Player of the Week honor and his ESPN Helmet Sticker.
[edit] Career Stats
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| Year | Cmp | Att | Yds | Cmp% | Ypa | Lng | TD | Int | Sack | Rat | Att | Yds | Avg | TD | Att/G | Yds/G |
| 2008 | ||||||||||||||||
[edit] Highlights
| Kellen Moore leads Boise State to a 37-32 upset win over No. 17 Oregon. |
[edit] Achievements
[edit] 2008
- ESPN Helmet Sticker (vs. Oregon)
- WAC Offensive Player of the Week (vs. Oregon)
- Walter Camp Football National Offensive Player of the Week (vs. Oregon)
