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Quick facts for kids
Randy Moss

Moss in 2016

No. 84, 18, 81

Position:

Wide receiver

Personal information

Built-in:

(1977-02-13) Feb 13, 1977 (age 46)
Rand, West Virginia

Height:

6 ft 4 in (i.93 m)

Weight:

210 lb (95 kg)

Career information

High schoolhouse:

DuPont (Belle, West Virginia)

Higher:

Marshall (1996–1997)

NFL Draft:

1998 / Round: 1 / Pick: 21

Career history

Minnesota Vikings (1998–2004)
Oakland Raiders (2005–2006)
New England Patriots (2007–2010)
Minnesota Vikings (2010)
Tennessee Titans (2010)
San Francisco 49ers (2012)

Career highlights and awards

NFL Offensive Rookie of the Twelvemonth (1998)
NFL Comeback Thespian of the Year (2007)
4× Commencement-squad All-Pro (1998, 2000, 2003, 2007)
6× Pro Bowl (1998–2000, 2002, 2003, 2007)
5× NFL receiving touchdowns leader (1998, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2009)
NFL 2000s All-Decade Squad
NFL 100th Anniversary All-Time Squad
Minnesota Vikings Ring of Honor
l Greatest Vikings
New England Patriots All-2000s Team
New England Patriots All-Dynasty Team
PFWA All-Rookie Team (1998)
NCAA I-AA national champion (1996)
Fred Biletnikoff Honor (1997)
Consensus All-American (1997)
MAC Nigh Valuable Player (1997)
MAC Offensive Role player of the Year (1997)
Orange Bowl champion (1995)
Nearly receiving touchdowns in a flavor: 23
Most receiving touchdowns in a rookie season: 17

Career NFL statistics

Receptions:	982
Receiving yards:	15,292
Yards per reception:	15.six
Receiving touchdowns:	156
Player stats at NFL.com

Actor stats at PFR

Pro Football Hall of Fame

Randall Gene Moss (born February 13, 1977) is an American quondam professional football wide receiver who played 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. Widely regarded every bit ane of the greatest and nigh talented wide receivers of all time, he holds the NFL unmarried-season touchdown reception record (23 in 2007), as well equally the NFL single-season touchdown reception record for a rookie (17 in 1998). All-time, Moss ranks 2nd in career touchdown receptions as well as fourth in career receiving yards. Moss possessed much superior speed, size and leaping power over near of his defenders, often securing contested catches by physically overpowering them. The term "mossed", referring to this ability, became a mutual term in football game dictionary.

Moss played college football game for Marshall University, and twice earned All-America honors. A 6-time Pro Basin and four-time showtime-team All-Pro selection, Moss was drafted past the Minnesota Vikings in the first round of the 1998 NFL Draft, where he played for seven years before a merchandise in 2005 brought him to the Oakland Raiders. In 2007, Moss was traded to the New England Patriots, where he prepare the single-season record for touchdown receptions and helped lead the Patriots to a tape breaking xvi–0 regular season. In October 2010, Moss returned to the Vikings in a trade from the Patriots but was waived less than a calendar month later and then claimed by the Tennessee Titans. After sitting out the 2011 flavor, Moss signed a one-year contract with the San Francisco 49ers in 2012 before retiring following the season. He played in two Super Bowl games, XLII with the Patriots and XLVII with the 49ers, both losses. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2018, and is a fellow member of the NFL 2000s All-Decade Squad and the NFL 100th Anniversary All-Time Team.

Post-football, he began working for ESPN as a studio annotator for its Sunday NFL Countdown and Monday Dark Countdown programs.

Early years
Higher football game career
- Freshman (1995)
- Redshirt freshman season (1996)
- Sophomore flavor (1997)
- College statistics
- NCAA records
  - Division I-AA – regular season
  - Division I-AA – playoffs
Professional football career
- 1998 NFL Draft
- Minnesota Vikings
  - 1998 season
  - 1999 season
  - 2000 flavor
  - 2001 season
  - 2002 season
  - 2003 flavour
  - 2004 season
- Oakland Raiders
- New England Patriots
  - 2007 season
  - 2008 season
  - 2009 season
  - 2010 season
- Return to Minnesota
- Tennessee Titans
- Initial retirement and comeback
- San Francisco 49ers
NFL career statistics
- Regular flavour
NFL records
- Career highlights
Randy Moss Motorsports
Post-football career
Charity
Personal life
- Traffic incident
See also

Early on years

Moss was born in Rand, West Virginia. He attended DuPont High School, one of 2 schools that subsequently consolidated into Riverside High School, where he excelled in football, basketball, baseball, and track. Randy was also on the school's fence squad. On the football field, Moss led the DuPont Panthers to back-to-back state championships in 1992 and 1993. He was a star at wide receiver, but too played gratis safety, returned kickoffs and punts, and was the team's kicker and punter. In 1994, he was honored with the Harrison H. Kennedy Accolade every bit the W Virginia Football game Player of the Yr. Parade magazine named him to their annual All-American high school football team in 1995 and in 2009 named him one of the 50 greatest high schoolhouse football players of all time. At DuPont, he was a teammate of hereafter Chicago Bears linebacker Bobbie Howard.

In improver to playing football at DuPont, Moss was twice named Westward Virginia Player of the Twelvemonth in basketball (in 1994 when he was co-actor of the year and in 1995), where he was a teammate of hereafter NBA player Jason Williams. In his senior flavor of basketball, Moss averaged 30.two points, 13.vii rebounds, five.i steals, three.8 blocks, and 3.1 assists while shooting lx% from field; he scored a schoolhouse-record i,713 career points.

Equally a sophomore in 1992, at the age of fifteen, Moss joined the rail & field team and was the Due west Virginia state champion in the 100 and 200 meters with times of ten.94 seconds and 21.95 seconds, respectively. This was the only twelvemonth he competed on the school's track team, but he would later join the Marshall track team and lower his 200 m time to 21.15 seconds. He likewise played heart field for the baseball team.

College football career

Moss'due south dream was to play for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish gaelic, but he also considered going to Ohio State, where his half-brother, Eric, had played offensive tackle. Former Notre Dame head motorbus Lou Holtz said "Randy Moss was the best high school football thespian I've ever seen." Florida State caput charabanc Bobby Bowden said "He was as skillful equally Deion Sanders. Deion's my measuring stick for athletic ability, and this kid was just a bigger Deion."

Later on originally signing a letter of intent to play college football with Notre Dame in 1995, Moss took function in a racially charged fight at his loftier school that left one person hospitalized. On March 23, 1995, Moss had backed a friend in a hallway fight confronting a white student who had allegedly used racist comments towards Randy'south friend. Moss was initially charged with a felony for kicking the pupil, but information technology was afterward reduced to a misdemeanor. On August 1, 1995, Moss pleaded guilty to ii counts of misdemeanor bombardment and was sentenced to 30 days behind bars at the South-Central Regional Jail in Charleston, West Virginia. He served iii days in jail starting that night and would be required to serve the remaining 27 days within the following 18 months, subsequently he completed his freshman year in higher. Moss was expelled from DuPont and completed his education at Cabell Alternative School.

Notre Dame after denied his enrollment application, but this did not end some other high-profile college football program from giving him a take a chance. Notre Dame officials suggested he attend Florida State due to the reputation of its coach, Bobby Bowden, for handling troubled players.

Freshman (1995)

Because of his signed letter of intent at Notre Dame, the NCAA considered him a transfer pupil to Florida State, so he had to redshirt the 1995 football season.

Redshirt freshman flavour (1996)

..... He served an additional 60 days in jail for the probation violation.

Ultimately, Moss transferred to Marshall University, almost an hour's drive from his home. Because Marshall was then a Sectionalization I-AA school, NCAA rules allowed him to transfer there without losing whatsoever further eligibility. In 1996, he gear up the NCAA Division I-AA records for the most games with a touchdown catch in a season (14), most consecutive games with a touchdown grab (xiii), most touchdown passes caught in a season (28 – tying Jerry Rice'southward 1984 record), and most receiving yards gained by a freshman in a flavour (one,709 on 78 catches), a record which still stands. Moss was also the leading beginning returner in Sectionalisation I-AA on the flavour, with 612 full yards and a 34.0-chiliad boilerplate. The 1996 Marshall Thundering Herd went undefeated and won the Division I-AA championship, with Moss having four touchdown receptions in the 1996 NCAA Segmentation I-AA Football Championship Game. Information technology was Marshall'due south last season earlier moving to Division I-A.

At the Southern Conference indoor rails championships, Moss ran the 200 meters in 21.15 seconds, missing the conference record by just .02 seconds. Although Moss had not raced competitively for four years, his time was one of the best in the country that year.

Sophomore flavor (1997)

In the 1997 flavor, Marshall's first in Division I-A, Moss and Quarterback Republic of chad Pennington were the centerpiece of an explosive criminal offense that led the Thundering Herd to the Mid-American Conference title. Moss caught 26 touchdown passes that season, at the time a Division I-A record, and was a kickoff-team All-American.

The start game of the flavor was at West Virginia Academy where Marshall lost. The 2d game of the season saw Moss pick up right where he left off in 1996. Facing Army, Moss caught v balls for 186 yards and two touchdowns. One touchdown went for 79 yards in which Pennington lobbed the ball downwards the left sideline. Moss leaped over an Army defender to snag the ball out of the air at the 40-yard line while the safe crashed into his teammate, knocking both men down. Moss galloped the last fifty yards untouched for the score. The other touchdown reception was his career-long of 90 yards that came on a short screen laissez passer on tertiary downwards. Moss caught the ball on the correct side of the field at his own eight-yard line, ran by 3 defenders in the middle of the field at the 15-grand line, hurdled ii defenders coming from both sides of the left hash marks at the 25-1000 line, and so raced past the last defender at the l-grand line before finally seeing daylight downward the left sideline.

A calendar week afterward, Moss posted his third career 200+ yard receiving game, against Kent State. Two weeks afterward that was his fourth and final 200+ yard game in college, recording 13 catches for 205 yards and a Marshall single-game tape of v touchdown receptions against Ball Country.

In the 1997 Ford Motor City Bowl confronting Ole Miss, Moss added his 26th touchdown of the season on Marshall'south starting time offensive play from scrimmage. He streaked down the right sideline and caught an 80-thousand touchdown pass from Pennington to necktie the score at vii–7. NCAA rules at the time did not let for statistics from bowl games to exist combined with regular-season stats, so the touchdown did not officially increase his flavor touchdown tape. The two teams traded the atomic number 82 several times in the fourth quarter before Ole Miss running dorsum Deuce McAllister scored on a 1-yard touchdown run with 31 seconds to play, giving them a 34–31 lead. Trying to pull out a last-2nd win, Pennington connected with Moss on a twoscore-yard laissez passer on the terminal play of the game, but he was stripped of the ball as time expired. Moss finished the game with 6 receptions for 173 yards.

Moss finished his career at Marshall having scored at least ane touchdown in all 28 games that he played. He won the Fred Biletnikoff Award as the season's outstanding receiver regardless of position, and was a finalist for the 1997 Heisman Bays (finishing 4th in the balloting, behind Ryan Leaf, Peyton Manning, and Charles Woodson, who won the award). A controversial comment was made past Randy Moss in 1997 at a anniversary at Marshall University where he was commenting in regards to the 1970 airplane crash that killed virtually their football team that the crash "was a tragedy, but it really wasn't nil big". Moss later claimed that the quotes were taken out of context. Nate Ruffin, who is a surviving member of the 1970 Football Squad, afterwards met with Randy Moss.

College statistics

Season	Team	GP	Receiving					Rushing					Kick returns					Punt returns
Season	Team	GP	Rec	Yds	Avg	Lng	TD	Att	Yds	Avg	Lng	TD	Ret	Yds	Avg	Lng	TD	Ret	Yds	Avg	Lng	TD
1995	Florida State	0	Did not play – Redshirt
1996	Marshall	15	78	one,709	21.ix	—	28	1	two	ii.0	two	0	18	612	34.0	88	0	—	—	—	—	—
1997	Marshall	13	96	1,820	19.0	-	26	2	29	14.five	32T	1	14	263	18.8	49	0	25	271	ten.eight	58	0
Total		28	174	3,529	20.3	90T	54	3	31	10.three	32T	1	32	875	27.three	88	0	25	271	10.8	58	0

Includes stats from the 1997 Motor Urban center Bowl against Ole Miss

NCAA records

Division I-AA – regular flavour

Nearly games with a touchdown reception in a flavor – 11 (1996)
Most consecutive games with a touchdown reception in a season – 11 (1996)
Most receiving yards gained past a freshman in a season – 1073 (1996)
Near touchdown receptions caught by a freshman in a season – 19 (1996 – record for all NCAA divisions)

Segmentation I-AA – playoffs

Most touchdown receptions in a single game – 4 (vs. Montana, December 21, 1996)
Nigh yards receiving in a single game – 288 (vs. Delaware, November 30, 1996)
About touchdown receptions in a tournament – 9 (4 games in 1996)
Most yards receiving in a tournament – 636 (four games in 1996)

Professional person football career

Pre-draft measurables
Height	Weight	Arm length	Hand size	xl-yard dash	Vertical jump	Wonderlic
6 ft 3 ⁵⁄₈ in (ane.92 m)	194 lb (88 kg)	34 in (0.86 one thousand)	9 ^v⁄₈ in (0.24 m)	4.25 s	47.0 in (1.nineteen m)	12
All values from 1998 Marshall Pro Solar day/private workout. Moss did not attend the 1998 NFL Combine.

1998 NFL Draft

Moss skipped his inferior and senior seasons at Marshall and entered the NFL Draft. He did not nourish the NFL Combine, opting instead for an private workout at Marshall's pro day. After the pro day was complete, Marshall head jitney Bob Pruett informed the media that Moss had ran ii 40 yard sprints which timed at four.24 and 4.28 by scouts' mitt timers. Moss also posted a vertical leap of 47 inches. Numerous teams had scouts on manus with many noting the piece of work-out was jaw dropping, with i Cowboys scout naming Moss the "virtually gifted prospect in football history".

During the 1998 NFL Typhoon, Moss, who was projected every bit a high first-round choice, was taken by the Minnesota Vikings with the 21st overall choice after a number of NFL clubs—even those in need of a WR—were concerned with Moss's well-documented legal problems. Earlier the draft Moss was quoted every bit saying teams that passed on him "volition regret information technology in one case they run into what kind of a histrion I am and what kind of guy I actually am." The squad most often cited for passing on Moss is the Dallas Cowboys. Moss grew up a Cowboys fan and wanted to play for the Cowboys. The Cowboys wanted Moss, but because of many off-field incidents of their own, squad owner and GM Jerry Jones did non experience the team could typhoon Moss. Moss felt that the Cowboys lied to him because they had told him they would draft him. On typhoon 24-hour interval, Dallas went and then far equally to have a scout in Charleston, West Virginia, the aforementioned town where Moss and his mother were watching the typhoon. Dallas star receiver Michael Irvin even called to repent to Moss, because Irvin'south ain off-field problems were a main reason Moss was not drafted by Dallas. After the draft, Moss fabricated a bespeak of beating the Cowboys whatever time he faced them, getting his outset opportunity to practice and so in Week thirteen of his rookie season. In a game held at Texas Stadium, Moss torched Dallas with a 163-chiliad, 3-receptions for 3-touchdowns performance.

Later on the draft, Moss signed a 4-year, $four.5 million contract that included an additional $four 1000000 in bonuses and incentives. As part of the deal, he received a $ii million signing bonus. Moss originally wore #eighteen in preparation camp (a number he would eventually habiliment for Oakland) just switched to the more than conventional #84 before the regular season began.

Minnesota Vikings

1998 season

In 1998, Moss helped the Vikings to become the number 1 rated offense always at the time, setting the single-flavour tape for scoring (later surpassed by the 2007 New England Patriots, a team that also featured Moss) with 556 points.

The Vikings opened the season with a 31–7 rout confronting the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Moss's first NFL game would also be his first multi-touchdown game as he recorded 4 receptions for 95 yards and two touchdowns. His first NFL reception came on the third play of the game on an 11-yard laissez passer from Brad Johnson. His first touchdown was a 48-yard acrobatic catch over defensive back Floyd Immature late in the outset quarter, in which Moss juggled the ball three times before securing it for the score. He added a 31-yard touchdown reception on the Vikings' showtime possession of the 2nd quarter to give the Vikings a 21–0 atomic number 82.

His first Monday Nighttime Football game came in Week 5 against the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field. He had 5 receptions for 190 yards and two touchdowns, including touchdown grabs of 52 yards and 44 yards, and two other receptions of 46 yards and 41 yards. He as well had a 75-yard touchdown catch on the Vikings' first possession of the game that was nullified due to an offensive belongings punishment.

Against the Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day, Moss finished with iii catches for 163 yards and iii touchdowns all for 50+ yards as the Vikings beat the Cowboys 46–36. Moss was the beginning rookie to score three touchdowns on Thanksgiving.

They finished with a 15–ane record and were poised to represent the NFC in Super Bowl XXXIII. However, the Atlanta Falcons stunned the Vikings by winning the NFC Championship Game 30–27 in overtime.

At the finish of the 1998 regular season, Moss was named a Pro Bowl starter and NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year for his rookie-tape 17 touchdown receptions and the third-highest receiving yardage (i,313) total.

1999 season

In 1999, Moss had another impressive flavor, catching 80 passes for one,413 yards and xi touchdowns, including a punt render for a touchdown. He went on to tape five receptions for 127 yards and a touchdown in the Vikings 27–ten NFC wildcard playoff win over the Dallas Cowboys. Minnesota lost in the bounded circular to the St. Louis Rams 49–37, despite Moss communicable nine passes for 188 yards and two touchdowns. ..... There was a stipulation that he would have to pay the difference in addition to whatever other fine if he had some other run-in with the league.

Moss earned his second directly Pro Bowl appearance, and turned in a record-breaking performance. He had nine receptions for a Pro Bowl tape 212 yards and was given the game's Most Valuable Player award.

2000 season

The 2000 season featured second-year quarterback Daunte Culpepper leading the team. Culpepper had been the team's commencement-round draft pick in 1999; with a pick they received from the Redskins for quarterback Brad Johnson. He had been selected largely due to his extremely strong arm, which the team believed was perfectly suited for Moss'due south deep routes. The decision proved right. Culpepper was a rookie awareness, the Vikings started 7–0, and Moss was a leading MVP candidate. For the 2nd time in 3 seasons, Moss punished the Dallas Cowboys in Dallas on Thanksgiving Solar day, including a spectacular 2nd-half touchdown in which Moss caught the ball with his entire trunk out of premises, bated from his toes. The play would exist the characteristic shot in NFL commercials for years to come. Moss finished the season with a career-loftier one,437 yards and league-leading 15 touchdown catches. In doing so, he became the youngest and fastest actor to always take hold of over 3,000 yards and 45 touchdowns, earning him his 3rd consecutive trip to the Pro Bowl, and 2nd pick to the All Pro team. The Vikings would make it to the NFC Championship game, only to exist blown out 41–0 past the New York Giants.

2001 season

In the offseason, Moss and his agent Danté DiTrapano began negotiating a new contract with the Minnesota Vikings. He was scheduled to earn $3.5 1000000 in 2001. Simply Moss, who was entering the final twelvemonth of the rookie contract he signed in 1998, was seeking a long-term bargain that would brand him the highest-paid thespian in the NFL. His agent said, "Nosotros desire to interruption the tradition of quarterbacks being the highest-paid players." Ane option the Vikings had would be to apply the franchise tag after the season ended, only sources stated that Moss would request a merchandise if that happened considering information technology would still exist less than what he could command on the open marketplace.

Simply prior to the beginning of training camp in July, Vikings owner Cherry McCombs signed Moss to an eight-year, $75 million contract extension. The extension included a $10 1000000 signing bonus and another $8 meg in guarantees.

Despite finishing the season with x touchdowns and posting at least ane,000 receiving yards for the 4th consecutive season, Moss failed to make the Pro Bowl for the first time in his career.

2002 season

After replacing Dennis Green on an interim footing to end the 2001 season, Mike Tice was officially named head double-decker on January 10, 2002. I of the strategies the Vikings' first-year head coach came upward with was a formula to become Moss the brawl more than often. Coach Tice called information technology the Randy Ratio. It was an effort on the coaches part to throw 40% of the passes to Moss as a way to keep him involved in the offense more he had been in the 2001 season when he had stretches in games where he was being close out, and partly to use more game clock by sustaining long drives to give the Vikings defense a chance to residue. An banana omnibus would stand up on the sidelines during games and track how many times Moss had been thrown to, and then inform Tice of the percentages so that he is always enlightened of it. In the 2001 season, the Vikings record was iv–one when Moss had twoscore% of the passes thrown his direction, and 1–10 in other games.

The strategy was a response to the 'Randy Rules,' as Vikings receiver Chris Walsh called them. The Randy Rules, similar to the Jordan Rules, were a defensive strategy that teams employed when facing the Vikings to try and eliminate or reduce Randy's touch on on the game, and to foreclose Moss from beingness matched up one-on-i with defenders because of his ability to burn them deep or outjump them in single coverage. Opposing teams would routinely double embrace Moss with techniques such equally having a cornerback attempt to jam him at the line of scrimmage, having a corner defend underneath with a safety defending against the deep ball, having a zone defence scroll to Moss'south side of the field, and assigning "spies" to follow Moss everywhere he went.

Coach Tice discussed the strategy, explaining that Moss would exist running more brusque and intermediate routes and fewer deep patterns. In preparation camp, Moss worked specifically on 12 new routes that he had rarely run in his beginning 4 NFL seasons, such as crossing patterns over the center of the field and hook routes. Omnibus Tice said, "When we say Randy Ratio, everybody in the league thinks, 'OK, at present they're going to throw the brawl down the field to Randy more and more and more than.' That'due south so far from the truth. In fact, we'll probably throw the ball down the field to Randy this year even less."

The Randy Ratio did not last very long, as Tice scrapped the idea midway through the 2002 season. Randy Moss said "I didn't really intendance much about the Randy Ratio when information technology was brought upwardly. I but wanted to win." While Moss caught a career-loftier 106 passes, he also had a career-low 7 touchdown receptions, and the Vikings struggled to a 6–10 record. Tice suggested after the season that it was a mistake to inform opponents about his offensive gameplan, but that it was a tool "to motivate [Moss] and say he was the guy."

2003 flavor

Moss's fortunes took a better turn on the football field during the 2003 regular season, where he became the second wide receiver in NFL history (behind Jerry Rice in 1995) to play more than than 12 games (he played sixteen) while averaging over 100 yards and 1 touchdown per competition. He finished with 111 receptions for 1,632 yards and 17 touchdowns. All iii numbers either tied or became a new personal best for Moss. The Vikings finished the season 9–7. One of Moss's memorable highlights that yr was when he lateraled to Moe Williams for a terminal-2d touchdown during a home game against Denver.

In the offseason, he attended the Vikings strength and conditioning programme and added v pounds of muscle to his frame.

2004 season

Moss started the season strong catching 8 touchdowns in his start 5 games of the season. However, he sustained a hamstring injury to his correct leg confronting New Orleans in Week 6 that hampered him for the next five weeks. He played in Week 7 against Tennessee, just had no receptions in a game for the first time in his career. He also played the following week against the Giants, but over again recorded no receptions and was used mainly as a decoy. The injury somewhen sidelined him for iii direct weeks. He returned to the lineup in Calendar week 12 with a touchdown catch confronting the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Even though he finished the season with thirteen touchdowns in 13 games, he posted career lows in receptions (49) and receiving yards (767). 2004 was the get-go season in his career that he failed to reach the 1,000-yard mark.

On Jan 9, 2005, the Minnesota Vikings played partition rival Green Bay Packers in an NFC wildcard playoff game. Moss finished the game with iv catches for 70 yards and ii touchdowns in the 31–17 win. After the second score, Moss trotted to the finish zone goalpost and feigned pulling downwards his pants to moon the Green Bay fans. NFL on Play a joke on announcer Joe Buck called it a "disgusting act." Moss was fined $ten,000 for his actions. Though the Vikings would win the game, they would lose in the next round of the playoffs to the Philadelphia Eagles, and Moss would be traded at the end of the season.

Oakland Raiders

Moss with the Raiders in 2006

On March 2, 2005, Moss was traded to the Oakland Raiders for linebacker Napoleon Harris and the Raiders' start (7th overall, which Minnesota parlayed into wide receiver Troy Williamson) and seventh-round picks in the NFL draft. Adding a player of Moss'south quotient generated optimism in Oakland, but the Raiders' poor play connected, while Moss suffered nagging injuries which limited his product. He surpassed the ane,000 mark on the final mean solar day of the 2005 flavour, finishing the yr with one,005 receiving yards on threescore catches. However, Moss but managed 553 yards on 42 assurance in 2006.

Moss was not happy in Oakland, and on November 14, 2006, when he was honored as a kick returner by having an award named later him, he responded to questions almost his dropped passes and lackluster try in several games. Moss said, "Perhaps because I'one thousand unhappy and I'one thousand not too much excited near what's going on, so, my concentration and focus level tend to go downwardly sometimes when I'1000 in a bad mood". Days subsequently, he reiterated his unhappiness with losing games and existence a fellow member of the Raiders on his weekly segment with Play a joke on Sports Radio, maxim, "I might desire to look forward to moving somewhere else next year to have another beginning and actually feel good about going out here and playing football".

New England Patriots

2007 flavour

Moss on the sidelines speaking with Tom Brady

There were rumors leading up to the 2007 NFL Draft that the Raiders were eager to office ways with Randy Moss through a trade. Outset-year Raiders head coach Lane Kiffin went so far as to contact their sectionalization rival Denver Broncos to "gauge interest", but the Patriots and Greenish Bay Packers were the two teams virtually interested in acquiring Moss. Packers QB Brett Favre, who once said, "At that place is no one in this league who puts fear in people more than Randy Moss," tried to persuade team direction to trade for him, but a deal that both sides could hold to did not get washed.

During the offset day of the NFL Draft, the Patriots and Raiders discussed the trade several times before reaching an understanding. Nib Belichick spoke with Moss for the first fourth dimension nearly the possibility of joining the Patriots at 2:thirty Sunday morning. Moss and then boarded a plane and arrived in Boston later that morning on April 29 and was required to pass a team administered physical. Once he was cleared by Patriots officials, the teams completed a trade that sent Randy Moss to New England for a fourth-round selection in the 2007 NFL Typhoon. The Patriots had acquired the draft pick the previous day from the San Francisco 49ers, and the Raiders selected John Bowie.

One of the conditions of the trade was that Randy Moss would accept to restructure his contract for salary cap reasons. Only hours before the Moss merchandise was completed, New England quarterback Tom Brady converted $five.28 million of his 2007 base salary into a signing bonus that was spread out over the remaining portion of his contract so that information technology could free upwards cap room. This enabled the Patriots to blot Moss's incoming contract under the salary cap. Moss had two years remaining on his current bargain and was scheduled to earn $nine.75 one thousand thousand in 2007 and $xi.25 meg in 2008. Once the Patriots had Moss on their roster, he rapidly agreed to a new i-year contract to supersede his old one. The new deal gave him a $500,000 signing bonus, a base salary of $2.five million, and the ability to earn an additional $1.75 million in incentives.

"I'chiliad still in awe that I'thou a part of this organization," Moss said, clearly thrilled to join a team that could fence for the Super Bowl and to work with Coach Belichick. "I think that he's the kind of coach that can motivate me. He has a proven runway tape."

In the first week of preparation military camp, during an xi-on-11 passing drill, Moss suffered a hamstring injury to his left leg. As a precaution, the injury prevented Moss from participating in any preseason games and he missed much of the remainder of military camp.

His offset action in a Patriots uniform came confronting the New York Jets in Week ane. He quickly quieted critics who claimed that his skills had deteriorated by hauling in 9 receptions for 181 yards, including a 51-yard touchdown pass in which he ran past iii Jets defenders.

On Nov 4, 2007, James Black, NFL Editor for Yahoo! Sports wrote, "Every week, in addition to out-leaping at to the lowest degree i defender for a touchdown, [Moss] keeps making incredible one-handed grabs that make you lot mutter, 'How the heck did he come up with that?'" Ii weeks later, he defenseless a career-high four touchdowns in a single game against Buffalo.

On Dec 29, the Patriots defeated the New York Giants 38–35, finishing their regular season with a perfect 16–0 record. Moss caught two touchdown passes for a full of 23, breaking the single-flavour record of 22 touchdown receptions previously set by Jerry Rice (in 12 games in the strike-shortened 1987 season). On the same play, Tom Brady broke Peyton Manning's single-season record set in 2004 with his 50th touchdown pass. Moss recorded 98 catches for 1,493 yards in 2007, the highest yardage total in Patriots franchise history and the third-highest total number of catches, after teammate Wes Welker's 112 catches that aforementioned season and Troy Brown's 101 in 2001. He as well earned his sixth Pro Bowl selection. His 2007 flavour featured touchdowns in 13 of 16 games (including 8 multi-touchdown games), nine 100-yard games, and vi touchdown receptions of 40 or more than yards.

Despite his tape-breaking 2007 season, Moss was relatively quiet in the playoffs, going ii sequent games without a touchdown for the first fourth dimension all season. Yet, in Super Bowl XLII, he scored the become-alee touchdown with 2:42 left in the fourth quarter on a half dozen-m pass from Tom Brady. The score was not enough for the heavily favored Patriots to end their merely undefeated season with a Super Basin win. Eli Manning drove the Giants down the field, connecting with Plaxico Burress for the game-winning touchdown and an upset over the Patriots. A deep throw from Brady on third & twenty on the Patriots terminal bulldoze to Moss fell just short and incomplete.

2008 season

Moss (with the Patriots) on the field prior to an away game confronting Oakland, 2008

On February 28, 2008, Moss became a free agent later the Patriots decided not to place the franchise tag on Moss. Although the Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles, and Greenish Bay Packers were rumored to have interest in Moss, he decided to return to the Patriots, signing a three-year, $27 1000000 deal on March three, 2008. The contract included a $12 1000000 signing bonus, and a full of $14.1 meg guaranteed.

The first game of the 2008 flavor saw Brady suffer a torn ACL in his left knee while attempting a laissez passer to Moss. The play occurred in the first half confronting the Kansas City Chiefs when safe Bernard Pollard pigeon at Brady's leg while in his throwing motion. Moss described what he saw on the play by saying "whatever time y'all see something like that, that looks foul, it looks dingy, information technology opens your eyes. So, me personally, it looked muddied." Matt Cassel replaced Brady for the balance of the season.

In 2008, Moss hauled in 69 catches for 1,008 yards and 11 touchdowns despite losing quarterback Tom Brady in the first game of the flavor.

2009 season

In the flavour opener of 2009, Moss caught a career-loftier 12 passes for 141 yards in a comeback 25–24 victory over the Bills. In Calendar week five confronting the Denver Broncos, Moss was placed deep in coverage on a Broncos Hail Mary attempt to end the get-go half, and intercepted Broncos quarterback Kyle Orton. In a snowy Week 6 game confronting the winless Tennessee Titans, Moss defenseless 3 touchdown passes from Tom Brady, two of them in the 2nd quarter as Brady set a record for near touchdown passes in a single quarter with 5. This was Moss'due south 34th multi-touchdown game, and his 8th game with three or more touchdowns.

During the Patriots' adieu week, Belichick stated that Moss "is the smartest receiver he's always been around." He compared Moss's ability to encounter the field and conceptualize plays to that of Tom Brady, and to Lawrence Taylor, who Belichick coached with the New York Giants. He said Moss not just knows what he's doing on a play, but what everybody else on the field is doing as well. "That'southward what makes them special. They just have a 6th, seventh sense", Belichick said. This sentiment was repeated when Moss was inducted into the Hall of Fame, every bit Belichick went farther to say he learned from Moss.

In Week 9 against the Miami Dolphins Moss added 6 catches for 147 yards and 1 touchdown. The touchdown reception was the 140th of his career, which moved him into a tie for 2d place with Terrell Owens.

The post-obit week, in a prime time Sunday dark matchup against the Indianapolis Colts, Moss had 179 yards and two touchdowns, including a 63-yard touchdown in the 2nd quarter that moved him ahead of Terrell Owens for sole possession of second place in career touchdown receptions. In the same game, he became but the 11th thespian in NFL history with 900+ receptions and the 7th role player to achieve fourteen,000+ career receiving yards.

He finished the season with 83 receptions for one,264 yards and an NFL-high 13 touchdowns. New England would lose the AFC Wild Card playoff to the Baltimore Ravens 33–14.

Randy Moss with the Patriots in 2009

2010 flavour

In the week leading up to the Patriots' 2010 season opener against the Cincinnati Bengals, Moss, who was entering the final twelvemonth of his contract told CBS Sports that he "did non feel wanted" in New England absent a contract extension offer. Moss would go on to catch 5 passes for 59 yards in Week 1. Afterwards the game, Moss told reporters that it would be his final season with the Patriots. The Boston Herald reported weeks later that Moss requested a trade following the game.

Moss had 2 receptions in Week 2 against the New York Jets, including a 34-yard touchdown that he caught one-handed after chirapsia All-Pro cornerback Darrelle Revis. The following week against the Buffalo Bills, Moss had two more than catches, both for touchdowns. His final game in New England came in Week 4 on Monday Nighttime Football against the Miami Dolphins; he did not record a catch in the game for the first fourth dimension in his Patriots career as a touchdown pass attempt off a fake spike bounced off his hands in the end zone.

Render to Minnesota

Two days afterward the Patriots' game against Miami, Moss was traded to the Minnesota Vikings, in substitution for the Vikings' third-round selection (after used to select quarterback Ryan Mallett) in the 2011 NFL Typhoon. The Patriots also sent a 2012 seventh-circular selection to the Vikings as part of the merchandise.

On Nov i, less than four weeks after being traded to Minnesota, Vikings head autobus Brad Childress told Vikings players in a team coming together that Moss was going to be waived by the team, ane day after he criticized Childress and teammates in a press conference following the Vikings' loss to the Patriots at Gillette Stadium. But before the press conference, Moss reportedly told squad owner Zygi Wilf that Childress was unfit to double-decker in the NFL and should exist fired. Wilf reportedly considered firing Childress and keeping Moss, but Moss was officially waived the next mean solar day, November 2. Childress was eventually fired on November 22.

Tennessee Titans

Moss was claimed off waivers by the Tennessee Titans, the only team to submit a claim, on Nov iii, 2010. Moss played eight games with the Titans, starting iv. He made six catches for lxxx yards and no touchdowns.

Moss finished the 2010 flavor with career lows in receptions (28) and receiving yards (393). The Titans stated that they did not plan to re-sign Moss for the 2011 season, and he became a free agent.

Initial retirement and comeback

On August 1, 2011, Moss's agent, Joel Segal, announced Moss's decision to retire from professional football.

On February 13, 2012, his 35th altogether, Moss announced that he was coming out of retirement and was ready to play once again. In a alive video chat with his fans via Ustream, Moss stated, "I wanna play football. Your boy is going to come back hither and play some football, then I'yard actually excited. I had some things I had to conform in my life."

San Francisco 49ers

Randy Moss with the 49ers

On March 12, 2012, Moss signed a i-twelvemonth contract with the San Francisco 49ers for undisclosed fiscal terms later on a conditioning with the team'south caput jitney Jim Harbaugh. On September 9, 2012, Moss caught his 154th touchdown reception, and subsequently passed Terrell Owens for sole possession of 2nd on the all-fourth dimension receiving touchdown listing. After Alex Smith suffered a concussion against the St. Louis Rams in week 10, Colin Kaepernick took over as the squad's quarterback, and Moss had at to the lowest degree two receptions in each of the remaining five games of the regular season. He finished the flavor with 28 catches for 434 yards and iii touchdowns. Since the retirement of Terrell Owens at the cease of 2010, he had been the NFL's active leader in receiving yards. Moss would eventually go on to play in Super Bowl XLVII, where he had 2 receptions for 41 yards in a 34–31 loss to the Baltimore Ravens.

NFL career statistics

Legend
	NFL record
	Led the league
Assuming	Career high

Regular season

Yr	Team	Games		Receiving					Rushing					Returning					Passing							Fumbles
Yr	Team	GP	GS	Rec	Yards	Avg	Lng	TD	Att	Yds	Avg	Lng	TD	Ret	Yds	Avg	Lng	TD	Cmp	Att	Pct	Yds	TD	Int	Rtg	Fum	Lost
1998	MIN	16	11	69	1,313	19.0	61T	17	1	4	iv.0	4	0	1	0	0.0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	ii	1
1999	MIN	16	16	fourscore	1,413	17.vii	67T	11	4	43	10.8	15	0	17	162	9.5	64T	ane	1	i	100.0	27	1	0	158.3	three	3
2000	MIN	16	16	77	1,437	18.7	78T	xv	3	five	i.7	9	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2	0
2001	MIN	16	16	82	i,233	15.0	73T	10	3	38	12.seven	18	0	—	—	—	—	—	one	i	100.0	29	0	0	118.viii	0	0
2002	MIN	sixteen	16	106	1,347	12.vii	60	vii	6	51	eight.5	25	0	1	11	xi.0	xi	0	ane	iii	33.three	13	1	0	87.five	1	one
2003	MIN	16	16	111	1,632	14.7	72	17	vi	eighteen	3.0	11	0	1	22	22.0	22	0	0	one	0.0	0	0	0	39.6	1	1
2004	MIN	13	13	49	767	xv.7	82T	13	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	2	50.0	37	0	one	56.ii	1	1
2005	OAK	16	15	60	one,005	xvi.8	79	eight	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	0
2006	OAK	13	13	42	553	13.2	51	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	0
2007	NE	16	sixteen	98	1,493	fifteen.2	65T	23	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	0
2008	NE	16	sixteen	69	1,008	fourteen.6	76T	11	2	0	0.0	two	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3	2
2009	NE	sixteen	16	83	i,264	15.two	71T	13	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2	1
2010	NE	iv	iii	9	139	15.iv	35T	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	0
	MIN	4	4	thirteen	174	13.4	37T	two	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	0
	TEN	viii	4	6	lxxx	thirteen.three	26	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	0
2012	SF	16	2	28	434	fifteen.v	55	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	0
Career		218	193	982	15,292	15.6	82T	156	25	159	6.iv	25	0	xx	195	nine.8	64T	1	4	8	50.0	106	ii	1	95.8	sixteen	x

NFL records

Nigh touchdown receptions in a season – 23 (2007)
Most touchdown receptions past a rookie in a season – 17 (1998)
Most seasons with 17 or more touchdown receptions – 3 (1998, 2003, 2007)
About seasons with sixteen or more touchdown receptions – 3 (1998, 2003, 2007)
Most seasons with 11 or more touchdown receptions – 8 – tied with Jerry Rice
Nearly seasons with 10 or more than touchdown receptions – ix – tied with Jerry Rice
Most games in a season with at least two touchdown receptions – eight (2007)
One of 2 players to accept 1,600+ receiving yards and 16+ receiving touchdowns in a flavor (2003), the other existence Calvin Johnson (2011)
Most yards receiving in a Pro Bowl game – 212 (2000)
Most touchdowns scored in first 10 games with a new team – 16 (2007)
Most i,200+ yard receiving seasons to start a career – half dozen (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003)
Moss has averaged at to the lowest degree 1 receiving touchdown per game played in four unlike seasons: 1998 (17 TDs in 16 games), 2003 (17 in xvi), 2004 (thirteen in 13), and 2007 (23 in 16)
At the end of the 2008 season, Moss averaged 12.iii receiving TDs per season
4× 100+ one thousand games in his outset iv games with a new team in 2007
Youngest histrion in NFL history to record his 100th receiving touchdown (29 years and 235 days)
Youngest player in NFL history to record his 120th receiving touchdown (thirty years, 313 days)
Nigh receiving yards before 30th birthday – 10,700
About TD receptions before 30th altogether – 101
Youngest player to reach 6,000 career receiving yards (25 years and 270 days; later on cleaved by Mike Evans)
Fastest histrion to accomplish 5,000 career receiving yards – 59 games (bankrupt record of 61 games by Jerry Rice)
Youngest role player to reach 5,000 career receiving yards - 24 years 292 days
Highest career yards per catch boilerplate for any histrion with 900+ receptions – 15.6 yards per reception
Youngest player to have 3 touchdown receptions in a game (21 years, 286 days; later cleaved by Rob Gronkowski)
Nigh offensive touchdowns in first two seasons: 28 (Tied with Rob Gronkowski)

Career highlights

six× Pro Basin selection
four× Start-team All-Pro selection
NFL 2000s All-Decade Team
NFL 100th Anniversary All-Time Team
Minnesota Vikings Ring of Laurels
50 Greatest Vikings
New England Patriots All-2000s Team
New England Patriots All-Dynasty Team
2007 AFC Champion
2012 NFC Champion
Is 2d on the Minnesota Vikings all-time receiving touchdown list with 92. Cris Carter holds the record with 110 receiving scores
Is tied third with Ben Coates on the New England Patriots all-fourth dimension receiving touchdown list with fifty. Rob Gronkowski holds the record with 79 receiving scores, with Stanley Morgan in second with 67 receiving scores
Caught his 100th touchdown pass in 2006 confronting San Francisco, the 7th player to practice so
Almost receiving touchdowns in a single-flavour for the New England Patriots, with his NFL-record 23 in 2007
Holds the tape for most touchdowns in Minnesota Vikings playoff history with 9
10× 1,000+ chiliad receiving seasons – 2nd all-fourth dimension
64 career 100-yard games – 2nd all-time; most recent Nov 15, 2009
156 touchdown receptions – 2d all-time
73.6 receiving yards per game – 7th all-time
15,292 receiving yards – quaternary all-time
954 career receptions – 10th all-time
Has completed 4 of eight passes for 106 yards and ii touchdowns, with 1 interception, giving him a 95.eight passer rating
Only player to grab 90+ touchdown passes, return a punt for a touchdown, and throw 2 touchdown passes
Has played on two of the five highest-scoring teams (for a single flavour) in NFL history: 2007 Patriots (589 points) and the 1998 Vikings (556 points); both were the highest-scoring teams in NFL history thitherto
Had a career-high 12 receptions for 204 yards against the Chicago Bears, at Soldier Field, on November 14, 1999, in a 27–24 overtime win
Holds the Vikings record for nearly 100-g receiving games with 41
Has two touchdowns or more than in 39 different games (including iii in the postseason); most contempo September 26, 2010
Has two touchdown receptions or more than in 37 dissimilar games – (2d all-time)
Has iii touchdown receptions or more in 9 unlike games – (second all-time): at Dallas (November 26, 1998), a 46–36 victory; vs. Chicago (December 6, 1998), a 48–22 victory; at Detroit (October 1, 2000), a 31–24 victory; vs. New York Giants (November 19, 2001) a 28–16 victory; vs. San Francisco (September 28, 2003), a 35–7 victory; at Buffalo (November xviii, 2007), a 56–10 victory; at Miami (November 23, 2008), a 48–28 victory; vs. Tennessee (October 18, 2009), a 59–0 victory; vs. Jacksonville (December 27, 2009), a 35–7 victory
Caught a career-high 4 touchdowns at Buffalo (all in the showtime half) – November eighteen, 2007
Had an interception while playing defense in the terminal few seconds of the first half of the Patriots' game against the Denver Broncos on October 11, 2009
Has 4 career 2-point conversions

Randy Moss Motorsports

Principal page: Randy Moss Motorsports

On April 29, 2008, Moss announced the formation of Randy Moss Motorsports, an car racing team in the NASCAR Camping ground World Truck Series. In July 2008, Moss appear that he had bought a 50 per centum share in Morgan-Dollar Motorsports, with the team'south No. 46 entry switching to No. 81. The team was reportedly shut down in 2012.

Post-football career

Upon his release from the 49ers, Moss was hired as an annotator for Fox Sports 1's Fox Football Daily show. Moss was hired as an associate head coach and defensive coordinator at Victory Christian Heart High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, in June 2014, where his son was attending high school and playing football.

In July 2016, Moss joined ESPN as an analyst, appearing on Sunday NFL Countdown and Monday Night Countdown. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2018. In 2019, Moss was named to the National Football game League 100th Ceremony All-Time Team.

Charity

Moss has participated in, founded, and financed many charitable endeavors since joining the NFL, particularly aimed at helping children. Many times when talking almost his charity piece of work, he has said he just looks forrard to "seeing smiles." He has donated clothing and nutrient to needy families, given abroad free backpacks to Boston area school-children, and hosted autograph signings. He has also bussed children to amusement parks, NBA games, and fifty-fifty NFL games in which he has played.

On June 29, 2005, he hosted the Randy Moss Celebrity Clemency Invitational Bass Tournament. The tournament was a i-day event that paired celebrities and corporate sponsors with pro fishermen to raise coin for the Smile Network, which is a foundation that provides fiscal assist to children with treatable mouth issues, such as cleft palate. The tournaments motto is "fish for a smile."

In 2008, Moss formed the Links for Learning foundation, which was established to help children in his home state of Due west Virginia, and to build learning centers for the most needy student populations. In June, he and his erstwhile high school teammate Jason Williams hosted the foundations first annual charity golf tournament at the Sleepy Hollow Country Club in Hurricane, W Virginia. In March 2009, Moss's foundation made a donation that enabled the Women and Children'southward Hospital of Charleston, W Virginia to purchase a Starlight Children's Foundation 'Fun Eye' for their patients. The 'Fun Middle' is a portable bedside entertainment arrangement equipped with a Goggle box, DVD histrion, and 22 Nintendo Wii games.

Personal life

Moss's parents are Maxine Moss and Randy Pratt. Moss has little contact with his father. He has a sister named Lutisia and had a brother Eric, who had a short stint in the NFL every bit an offensive tackle with the Minnesota Vikings. Moss has v children: Lexi Adkins, Sydney, Senali, Thaddeus, and Montigo. Thaddeus is a tight end on the New England Patriots. Moss is too a Christian, attested by his NFL Hall of Fame Speech communication.

Traffic incident

On September 24, 2002, in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, Moss was driving and was preparing to brand an illegal turn. A traffic control officer, noticing what he was near to practise, stood in front of his vehicle and ordered him to end. Eyewitness accounts of the effect differ at this point, but Moss did not comply with the officeholder'southward order, and she was bumped past his vehicle and fell to the ground. ..... Moss pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor traffic violation and was ordered to pay a $1,200 fine and perform xl hours of community service. While the criminal charges were thus tending of, the civil lawsuit filed by the traffic control officeholder brought a substantial penalization fine "in the low to mid six figures". Moss claimed that the joint was not his, and that he had let friends use his automobile prior to the accident.

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List of NCAA major higher football yearly receiving leaders
List of NCAA major college football yearly scoring leaders

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