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|  Devon MooreNumber: 20 Class: Jr. Hometown: Mebane, N.C. High School: Cedar Ridge Height: 5-9 Weight: 200 Position: RB Birthdate: April 8, 1988 After a two-year apprenticeship under ASU’s all-time leading rusher, Kevin Richardson, Moore takes the reins as starting running back ... compares favorably to Richardson with impressive speed, strength, vision and ability to catch the ball out of the backfield. 2007: Saw action in all 15 games ... made three starts, two in two-back formations and one in place of an injured Richardson ... carried 95 times for 459 yards, the fourth-highest total on the team ... seven rushing touchdowns were good for third on the squad ... also caught 14 passes (seventh on team) for 171 yards (sixth) ... rushed 11 times for 38 yards and first touchdown of the season in home opener versus Lenoir-Rhyne ... carried 14 times for 68 yards, his second-highest total of the season, in win over Northern Arizona ... playing near his hometown, notched 97 total yards (62 rushing, 25 receiving, 10 kick return) and scored on a two-yard run in key win at Elon ... scored in back-to-back games against Georgia Southern and Furman ... registered 40 rushing yards, including a three-yard touchdown scamper, and 39 receiving yards in blowout win over archrival Western Carolina ... turned in perhaps ASU’s biggest offensive play of the season when he made a diving catch for a 20-yard gain on fouth-and-three in the waning moments of ASU’s first-round playoff matchup versus James Madison ... one play later, Armanti Edwards’ scored from five yards out to give the Mountaineers a 28-27 victory ... with Richardson hobbled by an ankle injury the following week, Moore turned in his first 100-yard rushing performance with 100 yards on 24 carries and a touchdown in a national quarterfinal win over Eastern Washington ... also caught three passes for 36 yards in the triumph over EWU ... scored on a career-long 46-yard gallop in the first quarter of ASU’s national title game victory over Delaware ... rounded out 707 all-purpose yardage total with six kickoff returns for 77 yards on the campaign. 2006: The primary backup to Walter Payton Award finalist Kevin Richardson ... appeared in 14 games and made two starts in two-back sets versus Wofford and Georgia Southern ... posted best performance of the regular season with 50 yards on nine carries, including his first-career touchdown, in romp at Chattanooga ... his finest effort of the season came in the national semifinal victory over No. 5 Youngstown State, where he took some of the load off of an ailing Richardson by posting season highs with 14 carries for 86 yards and a score to help lead ASU to its second-straight national title game ... finished the season with 61 carries for 315 yards and two touchdowns. High School: Ran for nearly 6,000 yards and 42 touchdowns during prep career ... had well over 1,000 rushing yards before suffering season-ending injury in eighth game of senior season ... had nearly 1,700 all-purpose yards as a freshman in 2002, Cedar Ridge’s first year ... ranked as one of North Carolina’s top prep running backs by Scout.com. Personal: Full name is Devon Myles Moore ... born April 8, 1988 (20 years old) ... son of Darlene and Myles Moore ... majoring in industrial design. | STANDINGS
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