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Oregon QB Dante Moore reveals how Jets mattered in decision to return to college football

The theory was an easy one to speculate about: Dante Moore didn't want to play for the New York Jets.But is that true?"Not at all," Moore said in a new interview with The Athletic.It was at least somewhat surprising that Moore chose to return for another season as Oregon's quarterback rather than going to the NFL.The operating assumption is that the Las Vegas Raiders were settled on picking Fernando Mendoza with the No. 1 overall pick.If that remained true with Moore in the draft, then he would've been the most likely pick for the Jets at the No. 2 overall pick.The Jets, of course, haven't done great work with QBs.According to that story in The Athletic, though, Moore wasn't thinking about that.“Of course there was $50 million on the line, a lot to help support my family, but at the end of
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