Round 4, Pick #130 Miami Selects LB, Trey Moore, Texas

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Overview

Moore is a highly productive, 46-game starter with flexible NFL positioning. He’s undersized and lacks NFL length as an edge defender, but he’s a skilled, instinctive rusher with a robust set of approaches. He won’t burn the edges with pure speed but he compensates for that with a deep bag of moves. In limited snaps, Moore showed potential at off-ball linebacker, but questions persist about his pursuit speed and ability to cover in the NFL. Some teams might label him a “tweener,” but I see a versatile prospect whose competitiveness and feel for the game should allow him to translate no matter the position he plays.

Strengths

• Finished with 46 career starts between UTSA and Texas.
• Highly productive across the impact categories.
• Alters entry points and strings together smart hand attacks mid-rush.
• Instinctive inside and outside spin counters await tackles.
• Secondary rush is a consistent weapon for sack scooping.
• Flashed competence and upside as an off-ball linebacker.
• Adequate athleticism when asked to drop into space.
• Pursues to the sideline with sound leverage.

Weaknesses

• Lacks a threatening burst to the top of the rush.
• Hands are fast and active but lack sting.
• Edge-setting and block-shedding run hot and cold.
• Still developing timing and key recognition off the ball.
• Average change-of-direction quickness when it’s needed.
• Below-average pursuit speed and open-field fluidity.

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DENNIS ‘TREY’ MOORE JR

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THE SKINNY: Moore is something of a throwback in terms of his mentality and how he approaches the game

with an old school mindset balanced alongside a very 2026 way of doing things. He very much takes care of the

mental side of his game, supplemented by hydrotherapy workouts to keep pressure off his body and he

watches video of every practice to workout how he can get better. Moore is undersized and a bit of a tweener

but he could be used in multiple ways to make use of his skillset as both an on and off ball LB. He’s super fast in

a straight line, he has a decent bag of rush moves, and at UTSA and Texas he had 140 career pressures. A RB

and FS growing up, he moved up to DE and had eight sacks and three kick blocks as a senior. A zero star

recruit he committed to UTSA and spent two seasons there, with coaches praising his discipline, serious nature

and “almost military-like” preparation – an apt description for a player who long seemed headed to Army to play

Page 167his college ball. But he ended up with the Roadrunners, earning a single digit uniform in just his sophomore

campaign as the embodiment of the programme’s culture. He backed that up in 2023 with 14 sacks, including

three games of 3+ takedowns and winning the American Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Year

award. He jumped in the portal, committing to Texas over Alabama and although his sack total went down to

5.5 he was asked to do way more than before, especially against the run yet still flashing nice pass rush upside.

Moore has an explosive first step and a sound pass rush plan, able to set up tackles and there are some

workable traits. He’s twitchy, has a great two hand swipe, and some bend and cornering ability. There’s some

clear issues with size, arm length, power in his lower half and how he can set an edge, and he needs to use his

hands better and to work on stacking and shedding because he can be removed from plays with little fuss when

lineman get their hands on him. Moore is a full gas no brakes effort player who showed enough in minimal snaps

as an off ball LB to think he can contribute as a back up there and weigh in as a sub-package pass rusher and

special teamer. However, he has a 24.2% missed tackle rate in 2024 and 15.4% in 2025 which will need

significant improvement, and he’s mediocre as a coverage defender. Moore sat out spring of 2023 and much of

the summer recovering from a serious bone bruise on his left foot. A finalist for the academic Heisman, he’s a

mid to late day three pick.

SIZE: 6015, 243

CLASS: Senior

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Draft Profile: Bio

Marcus Davenport‘s school record for single-season tackles for loss at UTSA stood until Trey Moore broke it as a redshirt freshman in 2022 with 18, adding eight sacks and Freshman All-American recognition across 14 starts. Moore had earned District 27-6A Defensive Player of the Year honors at Smithson Valley High School in Spring Branch, Texas, signed with UTSA as a four-star recruit, and redshirted in 2021 before that breakout debut.

Moore’s 2023 campaign at UTSA was even more productive. He racked up a school-record 14 sacks, 17.5 tackles for loss, and an interception across 12 starts, taking home AAC Defensive Player of the Year. He then transferred to Texas ahead of the 2024 season and started all 16 games for the Longhorns, finishing with 6.5 sacks and 10.5 tackles for loss while contributing nine tackles and three sacks across three College Football Playoff games.

In 2025, Moore’s role shifted. He played 12 games with fewer starts and increased coverage responsibility while still logging three sacks and 33 tackles. He declared for the NFL Draft following the regular season and impressed at the combine, finishing with the seventh-best athleticism score among edge defenders. Moore was also named Texas’ Spring 2025 Team Academic MVP.

Draft Profile: Bio

Marcus Davenport’s school record for single-season tackles for loss at UTSA stood until Trey Moore broke it as a redshirt freshman in 2022 with 18, adding eight sacks and Freshman All-American recognition across 14 starts. Moore had earned District 27-6A Defensive Player of the Year honors at Smithson Valley High School in Spring Branch, Texas, signed with UTSA as a four-star recruit, and redshirted in 2021 before that breakout debut.

Moore’s 2023 campaign at UTSA was even more productive. He racked up a school-record 14 sacks, 17.5 tackles for loss, and an interception across 12 starts, taking home AAC Defensive Player of the Year. He then transferred to Texas ahead of the 2024 season and started all 16 games for the Longhorns, finishing with 6.5 sacks and 10.5 tackles for loss while contributing nine tackles and three sacks across three College Football Playoff games.

In 2025, Moore’s role shifted. He played 12 games with fewer starts and increased coverage responsibility while still logging three sacks and 33 tackles. He declared for the NFL Draft following the regular season and impressed at the combine, finishing with the seventh-best athleticism score among edge defenders. Moore was also named Texas’ Spring 2025 Team Academic MVP.

Scouting Report: Weaknesses

• Gets swallowed up by bigger tackles at the point of attack; frame limits his anchor.
• Does not consistently threaten the edge with pure speed; tackles can sit and wait for him.
• Effort against the run is uneven; you see him washed out of his gap too often on tape.
• Looked lost in coverage during 2025 when Texas asked him to drop on nearly every third down.
• Lunges and overruns ball carriers in the open field; missed tackles spiked in 2024.
• Pass-rush wins came easier at UTSA; SEC tackles gave him more problems with length and power.
• Hands buzz but do not jolt; needs to generate more pop to control the point of attack.

Scouting Report: Summary

Moore fits best as a sub-package edge rusher in a 3-4 scheme, the kind of player you send after the quarterback on passing downs and maybe ask to carry a flat zone on occasion. He is not an every-down defender because bigger tackles can steer him, but his rush plan is advanced. On film, you see a guy who sets up his counter before the tackle commits, and his spin move is a genuine weapon. Texas also used him off the ball in 2025, lining him up in the box and the slot, which shows a coordinator trusted him enough to move him around.

The worry is whether his best tape came against overmatched competition. At UTSA, Moore was beating tackles before they finished their sets. Against SEC lines, the wins came harder and the rush creativity had to work against better length. The 2025 coverage tape is also a concern. When Texas expanded his role in space, he looked uncertain reading routes and slow to break on the ball. In 2024, limited coverage snaps went fine. More responsibility exposed the limitations.

Moore entered the combine as a projected late-round pick, and his testing quieted real concerns about his athletic ceiling. He posted the seventh-best athleticism score among edge defenders, and his shuttle was faster than several linebackers. For an undersized rusher, proving he moves that well in tight spaces matters. It does not erase what the tape showed against better competition, but it gives teams reason to bet on the rush skills translating. A creative defensive coordinator can find ways to put him in advantageous spots where his feel and effort show up early.