Through five games of the college football season, Duke receiver [autotag]Jordan Moore[/autotag] looks like a realistic candidate for the triple crown among ACC wideouts.
Moore has caught 28 passes for 420 yards and three touchdowns through Week 5, boosted by back-to-back 100-yard performances to start the season. Those numbers leave him third, second, and tied for seventh among conference wideouts in each category, and he’s narrowly behind the frontrunners in each statistic.
NC State’s Kevin Concepcion leads the ACC with 31 receptions, only three more than Moore, and Miami’s Xavier Restrepo has 422 yards, only two more than Moore. No player in the conference has more than five receiving touchdowns.
Moore caught four passes for 80 yards against the North Carolina Tar Heels last Saturday, highlighted by a spectacular catch that picked up 43 yards during Duke’s second touchdown drive. Even after an awkward landing on a jump ball against the Connecticut Huskies in Week 3 seemed to slow him down against Middle Tennessee, the senior still amassed 187 yards on 10 receptions over the past three games.
The last Blue Devils wideout who finished with 1,000 yards in a single season was Jamison Crowder, who did so for the third consecutive year in 2014. Moore’s current pace would give him 1,008 receiving yards by the end of the regular season.
Duke didn’t play Georgia Tech in 2023, but the last time Moore faced off against his Week 6 opponent, he caught three passes for 22 yards in his first season as a receiver.