Randy Moss Trade Attempt

Lore & Background

Moss was born in Charleston, West Virginia. He attended DuPont High School, where he excelled in football, basketball, baseball, and track. He led the DuPont Panthers to back-to-back state championships in 1992 and 1993. In 1994, he was honored with the Harrison H. Kennedy Award as the West Virginia Football Player of the Year. 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 school football players of all time. Moss played college football for the Marshall Thundering Herd and earned Unanimous All-American honors in 1997.

Reader's Guide

Moss was selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the first round of the 1998 NFL draft, where he set the single-season record for touchdown receptions in a rookie season and was named NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year. In his first stint with the Vikings, Moss caught 90 touchdown receptions in his first seven seasons. He was traded in 2005 to the Oakland Raiders. In 2007, Moss was then traded to the New England Patriots, where he set the single-season record for total touchdown receptions.

That season, he helped lead the Patriots to a 16–0 regular season record and an appearance in Super Bowl XLII. In October 2010, Moss returned to the Vikings in a trade from the Patriots but was waived less than a month later and then claimed by the Tennessee Titans. After sitting out the 2011 season, Moss signed a one-year contract with the San Francisco 49ers in 2012, who would then appear in Super Bowl XLVII. Following the 2012 season, Moss retired.