Randy Gene Moss
Randy Gene
Moss (born February 13, 1977) is a former American football player. He was a
player in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons with the Minnesota
Vikings, Oakland Raiders, New England Patriots, Tennessee Titans, and the San
Francisco 49ers. The most admired wide receiver in history along with Jerry
Rice, he holds the NFL single-season record for touchdown receptions (23 in
2007) as well as the NFL single-season record for touchdown reception for a
rookie (17 in 1998) and is ranked second on the NFL all-time regular season
touchdown reception list with 156. Moss was well-known for his skill in
securing contested catches and the word "mossed" has entered the
football lexicon. Post-football, he began working for ESPN as an analyst for
its studio Sunday NFL Countdown and Monday Night Countdown programs. Moss was
born in Rand, West Virginia. He was a student at DuPont High School. It was one
of two schools that later became Riverside High School. There Moss excelled in
football, basketball track, as well as other sports. Randy was also a part of
the school's debate club. Moss was a DuPont Panthers' football player who
helped them win back-to-back state championships, 1992 and 1993. His most
prominent position was wide receiver. But he also played free safety as well as
punted kickoffs and was the team's punter and kicker. In 1994, he was honored
with the Kennedy Award as the West Virginia Football Player of the Year. Parade
magazine named him to their All-American high-school football teams in 1995. In
2009 they named him one of the top 50 high-school footballers of all time.

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