{"id":896320,"date":"2026-10-27T12:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/896320\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T12:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:04:16","slug":"oregon-qb-dante-moore-wont-return-this-season-from-his-concussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/896320\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon QB Dante Moore won&#8217;t return this season from his concussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oregon quarterback Dante Moore, who entered the season as one of the top prospects in the 2027 draft, will not play again during the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Dan Lanning announced on Monday that Moore\u2019s concussion from last month <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/50293112\/oregon-ducks-qb-dante-moore-not-expected-return-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">will sideline him for the balance of the schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it was up to Dante in any shape, way, he would be out there playing for the guys,\u201d Lanning said. \u201cThis isn\u2019t a selfish decision on Dante\u2019s part, saying, \u2018I don\u2019t want to come back, the season doesn\u2019t look the way I want it to look.\u2019 That\u2019s not at all what this is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lanning said that Moore has not been cleared to return from the concussion suffered on September 26 against USC. After taking an illegal hit while sliding, Moore was taken to a local hospital by ambulance for evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe said before that this is a serious deal that he\u2019ll 100% be able to fully recover from, that hasn\u2019t changed,\u201d Lanning said. \u201cBut for him to be out there on the field for us, that\u2019s not going to happen. We\u2019d love to have Dante out there, he\u2019s still going to be a big part of this team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks entered the season ranked No. 2. They\u2019re now 4-3 and out of the top 25.<\/p>\n<p>Under the NCAA\u2019s new five-year rule, Moore can return to college football in 2027, delaying his entry to the draft until 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oregon quarterback Dante Moore, who entered the season as one of the top prospects in the 2027 draft,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-896320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}