{"id":764848,"date":"2026-05-01T01:23:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/764848\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T01:23:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:23:28","slug":"devin-moore-joins-cowboys-with-a-chip-on-his-shoulder-i-was-slept-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/764848\/","title":{"rendered":"Devin Moore joins Cowboys with a chip on his shoulder: &#8216;I was slept on&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To that point, Moore told the Cowboys, following the selection, that they just picked &#8220;the best corner in the draft&#8221; on Day 2, and that&#8217;s something he&#8217;s looking forward to new defensive coordinator Christian Parker putting to the test \u2014 a coach that demands both versatility and excellence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The main thing is versatility,&#8221; said Moore. &#8220;I can play man. I can play zone. I&#8217;m smart enough to know the whole secondary. I&#8217;m versatile and that was the main conversation [with Parker]. \u2026 The NFL is a very complicated game. You can&#8217;t run man the whole game and you can&#8217;t run zone the whole game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have to have players out there that can mix it up with both coverages, that can give the QB and offenses different looks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old native of Florida is also being reunited with his former Tallahassee teammate, linebacker Shemar James, who got the nod as the Cowboys&#8217; fifth-round pick one year ago. That brotherhood should serve Moore nicely, helping him to acclimate more quickly with James showing him the NFL ropes.<\/p>\n<p>Moore is coming off of his best collegiate season, and his healthiest, finishing with 11 games played and contributing 35 tackles, two interceptions and one sack to Florida&#8217;s efforts in 2025; and that&#8217;s the version Dallas is banking on seeing going forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just walking through the halls, I was blessed enough to see Shemar James, former Gator,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We came into [Florida] with the same recruiting class. Just seeing guys of that caliber and character around the building \u2014 it&#8217;s a blessing to be here.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To that point, Moore told the Cowboys, following the selection, that they just picked &#8220;the best corner in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":764849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,301068,222001,314100,1292,24192,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-764848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-devin-moore","11":"tag-featured-offseason-2026","12":"tag-featured-rookie-mini-camp","13":"tag-news-all-news","14":"tag-news-patrik-walker","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116496708886351279","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}